Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Tekst- og litteraturhistorie i de engelsksprogede lande Session One: Introduction

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Introduction  The third semester course and the exam (moving on from first and second semesters)  The course Web page  The Study Regulations  On (con)text

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies The Course Web Page  ervisningsmappe/txtoglitthistideengelskspr oland10/programme10.htm

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies The Course: Modulet ”Tekst- og litteraturhistorie i de engelsksprogede lande”   Modulets placering: 2. og 3. semester.   Modulets omfang: 5 ECTS-point.   Modulet omfatter: introduktion til den britiske, amerikanske og postkoloniale tekst- og litteraturhistorie. tekstanalyse og tekstanalytiske metoder litteraturvidenskabelige metoder.   Tilrettelæggelse:   Modulet tilrettelægges som et kursusforløb over 2. og 3. semester, hvor den studerende udarbejder skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige oplæg. På 2. semester indgår kurset endvidere i modulet Tekstanalyse.

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies   Mål: Når modulet er afsluttet, skal den studerende kunne demonstrere:   Viden Litteraturhistorisk grundviden Forståelse af forskellige genrers og teksttypers karakteristika Forståelse af teksters periodetilhørsforhold.   Færdigheder Færdighed i tekstanalytiske metoder med særlig vægt på tema-, forløbs- og udsigelsesanalyse og analyse af retoriske virkemidler Færdighed i at analysere enkelttekster med særlig vægt på stilistiske/tematiske periodespecifikke træk.   Kompetencer Evne til at reflektere over, hvordan tekster fungerer kommunikativt og udsigelsesmæssigt Evne til at reflektere over forholdet mellem tekster og deres kulturelle forankring.

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies The Exam   En ekstern skriftlig prøve på engelsk i: Tekst- og litteraturhistorie i de engelsksprogede lande (Literary History in the English-Speaking World)). Prøven har form af en bunden skriftlig hjemmeopgave. Hjemmeopgaven må højst være på 6 sider.   Bedømmelsesform: En karakter efter 7-trinsskalaen.   Omfang: 5 ECTS-point.   Besvarelsen skal demonstrere de læringsmål, som er angivet i modulbeskrivelsen ovenfor.   Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der med henblik på opnåelse af karakteren 12 blive lagt vægt på, at den studerende demonstrerer en udtømmende opfyldelse af fagets mål med ingen eller få uvæsentlige mangler.

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On Context  Why is context important for the production of meaning?  Context and point  Is there more than one context?  How do we decide which is the correct one?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Tony Harrison, ”A Cold Coming” (1991)  I saw the charred Iraqi lean towards me from the bomb-blasted screen  His windscreen wiper like a pen ready to write down thoughts for men,  His windscreen wiper like a quill he’s reaching for to make his will.  I saw the charred Iraqi lean like someone made of plasticine  As though he’d stopped to ask the way and this is what I heard him say:  ”Don’t be afraid I’ve picked on you for this exclusive interview  Isn’t it your sort of poet’s task to find words for this frightening mask?  […]

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the ”Highway of Death” Photo © 1991 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies JRR Tolkien The Two Towers (1954)  […] Aragorn and Gimli slept fitfully, and whenever they awoke they saw Legolas standing beside them, or walking to and fro, singing softly to himself in his own tongue […] So the night passed. Together they watched the dawn grow slowly in the sky, now bare and cloudless, until at last the sunrise came. […] Ahead and eastward they saw the windy uplands of the Wold of Rohan that they had already glimpsed many days ago from the Great River. North-westward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. Out of the forest the Entwash flowed to meet them, its stream now swift and narrow, and its banks deepcloven. (Ch. Two. The Riders of Rohan)

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On Context  Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.  Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On (con)text ”Futility”  Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.  Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On (con)text  Wilfred Owen, ”Futility”  Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.  Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On (con)text  Wilfred Owen ( ), ”Futility”  Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.  Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On (con)text  Wilfred Owen ( ), ”Futility” (May 1918)  Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know.  Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies On Context  The circumstances surrounding the production of a text are important for our understanding of that text.  A text informs us of the circumstances surrounding its production.

Jens Kirk Dept. of Culture and Global Studies William Wordsworth  "Expostulation and Reply” (1798)  "The Tables Turned" (1798)  Enlightenment and Romanticism