How to Read: Methods of Analysis and Interpretation in Literary and Cultural
Stephan Karschay
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This course is aimed at students in their first year of the MA programme and it should be taken together with the foundational seminar ‘How to Read’ (17 390) taught by Prof. Schülting. In our class, students will refresh knowledge gained during their BA studies and consolidate the topics introduced in the associated foundational seminar. Each session will be dedicated to a different reading paradigm or methodological concept. Students will practice how to transfer the skills acquired in the foundational seminar to further examples (from fiction, poetry, drama, film, the visual arts etc.) and engage in close readings of methodological and theoretical texts. All participants are required to purchase a copy of Ali Smith’s novel How to Be Both (2014), one of the set texts in Prof. Schülting’s seminar. Additional primary material and theoretical and methodological course readings will be made available on Blackboard. This class will also dedicate part of its schedule to the principles of good academic practice. Students will rehearse basic research techniques such as creating research overviews and annotated bibliographies, writing academic abstracts, excerpting and condensing academic articles, citing and referencing sources and preparing oral and multimedia presentations.
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Regular and active participation, reading of all texts discussed, written and oral coursework. The first weeks of the course also count towards regular attendance. The parallel attendance of Prof. Schülting’s foundational seminar ‘How to Read’ (17 390) is strongly recommended.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
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