Prof. Dr. Ingo Berensmeyer
Vorschläge für Prüfungsthemen – gültig ab 2014
N.B. Für den literaturwissenschaftlichen Teil einer mündl. oder schriftlichen Prüfung benötigen
Sie DREI Themen (z.B. einen Autor, eine Epoche, eine Gattung), die sich thematisch möglichst
wenig überschneiden sollten. Wenn Sie sich also z.B. für Shakespeare als Autor entscheiden,
können Sie die Renaissance nicht als Epochenthema nehmen. Mindestens eines der Themen
muss aus der Zeit vor 1800 stammen. Der Besuch mindestens einer Lehrveranstaltung von Prof.
Berensmeyer wird dringend empfohlen!
ALLGEMEINE EMPFEHLUNGEN zur Prüfungsvorbereitung:
- eine britische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, z.B. Poplawski, Hg., English Literature in
Context (Cambridge UP, 2008) und Seeber, Hg. Englische Literaturgeschichte (Metzler); für
amerikanistische Themen Zapf, Hg., Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (Metzler).
- eine Anthologie, in der Sie sich einen Überblick über die Primärliteratur einer Epoche
verschaffen können, z.B. die Norton Anthology of English Literature bzw. Norton Anth. of
American Literature; noch detaillierter sind die Blackwell Anthologies (z.B. Renaissance Drama)
- eine Übersicht über neuere Literaturtheorien und Methoden, z.B. Berensmeyer, Literary Theory
(Klett, 2009)
- für Shakespeare u. Renaissance das Shakespeare Handbuch (Hg. Ina Schabert) und der Norton
Shakespeare (Hg. Greenblatt)
- für ein Lyrikthema: Furniss/Bath, Reading Poetry (Longman)
- für ein Dramenthema: Pfister, Das Drama; Baumbach/Nünning, Introd. to the Study of Plays and
Drama
- für ein Autorenthema: der jeweilige Beitrag im Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(DNB), online über die UB-Datenbanken zugänglich
Fürs Lehramt: Bei der mündlichen Prüfung werden alle drei gewählten Themen geprüft. Bei der
schriftlichen Prüfung sortiert das Prüfungsamt im Vorfeld eine Frage aus; Sie wählen von zwei
verbleibenden Fragen eine aus und bearbeiten in der Klausur nur diese eine Frage.
THEMENVORSCHLÄGE (Lektürelisten s.u.)
AUTOREN (alphab.)
Vor 1800
Aphra Behn
Geoffrey Chaucer
Daniel Defoe
John Donne
John Dryden
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Swift
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Nach 1800
Jane Austen
John Banville
Julian Barnes
Samuel Beckett
William Blake
A S Byatt
Angela Carter
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Kazuo Ishiguro
Henry James
James Joyce
Ian McEwan
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Iain Sinclair
Will Self
Wallace Stevens
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
EPOCHEN (chronolog.)
Vor 1800
Medieval literature
The English Renaissance
Restoration literature
Early modern women writers
18th-century literature
Nach 1800:
Romanticism
Victorianism
Early 20th century / Modernism
Postwar Britain
English Postmodernism
GATTUNGEN (chronolog.)
Vor 1800
Elizabethan prose fiction
Renaissance poetry
Renaissance tragedy
Shakespeare's major tragedies
Shakespeare's major comedies
Shakespeare's histories
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Shakespeare's problem plays
Metaphysical poetry
Sentimental fiction / novel of sensibility
18th-century novels
18th-century poetry
Gothic fiction
Nach 1800
Romantic poetry
Victorian sensation fiction
Victorian social-problem novels
Victorian poetry
Fictions of colonial anxiety c. 1900
Modernist novels
Modernist poetry
Modern Irish drama
Contemporary English novels
Contemporary Irish poetry
Jewish American fiction
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LEKTÜRELISTEN
I. AUTOREN (alphab.)
VOR 1800
Aphra Behn
1. Oroonoko (Norton Critical ed.)
2. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
3. The Rover
4. Poetry: "The Disappointment"
Biography/Context: DNB; Janet Todd, Aphra Behn; Cambridge Companion to Restoration Comedy; Berensmeyer,
Angles of Contingency
Geoffrey Chaucer
1. Selection from The Canterbury Tales (Gen. Prologue, Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale, Nun's
Priest's Tale, Pardoner's Tale)
2. Troilus and Criseyde
3. The House of Fame
Texts/Contexts: The Riverside Chaucer; Companion to Chaucer; Companion to Medieval English Literature;
Solopova/Lee: Key Concepts in Medieval English Literature
Daniel Defoe
1. A Journal of the Plague Year
2. Robinson Crusoe
3. Moll Flanders
4. The True-Born Englishman
5. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
6. An Essay upon Projects
Biography/Context: DNB; Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe; Hammond/Regan: Making the Novel
John Donne
1. Songs and Sonnets
2. Holy Sonnets
3. The First Anniversary
4. sel. from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
5. Death's Duell
Texts: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (Modern Library ed.)
Biography/Context: DNB; Cambridge Companion to John Donne
John Dryden
1. Astraea Redux
2. Annus Mirabilis
3. All for Love
4. Absalom and Achitophel
5. Don Sebastian or King Arthur
6. Discourse concerning ... Satire
7. Essay of Dramatick Poesy
Biography/Context: DNB; James Winn, John Dryden and His World; Cambridge Companion to John Dryden;
Berensmeyer, Angles of Contingency
John Milton:
1. Comus
2. Areopagitica
3. Of Education
4. Paradise Lost
5. Samson Agonistes
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6. Poetry: L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Lycidas, sonnet 18 On the Late Massacre in Piemont, sonnet 19 When I
Consider ..., sonnet 23 Methought I Saw...
Biography/Context: Barbara K. Lewalski, Milton: A Critical Biography; Thomas Corns, A Companion to Milton
(Blackwell); Cambridge Companion to Milton; Berensmeyer, Angles of Contingency
William Shakespeare
1. Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream or Twelfth Night
2. Histories: Richard III, Richard II
3. Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet or King Lear or Macbeth or Othello
4. Romance: The Winter's Tale or The Tempest
5. Poetry: Venus and Adonis, Sonnets: 1,2, 3, 15, 18, 20, 73, 85, 94, 116, 121, 129, 130
Recommended edition: The Norton Shakespeare
Biography/Context: The Norton Shakespeare; Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare; Schabert: Shakespeare-Handbuch;
Berensmeyer: Hamlet
Sir Philip Sidney
1. The Lady of May
2. Astrophil and Stella
3. The Old Arcadia
4. The Defence of Poesy
Biography/Context: DNB; Worden, The Sound of Virtue
Edmund Spenser
1. The Shepheardes Calendar
2. Amoretti
2. Epithalamion
3. The Faerie Queene (bk. 1 & 2)
Biography/Context: DNB; Oxford Handbook to Spenser; Hadfield, Edmund Spenser
Laurence Sterne
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
2. Sentimental Journey
Context: Iser, Sterne: Tristram Shandy; Keymer, Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne; Berensmeyer,
"Empfndsamkeit als Medienkonflikt"; Todd, Sensibility
Jonathan Swift
1. A Description of the Morning
2. The Description of a City Shower
3. The Lady's Dressing Room
4. A Modest Proposal
5. Gulliver's Travels
6. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
7. A Tale of a Tub
Biography/Context: Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
NACH 1800
Jane Austen:
NB: Ein Bestseller-Thema, aber Vorsicht: Filme Gucken genügt nicht! Hier empfiehlt sich die Wahl eines
Schwerpunkts, z.B. "money and marriage", "reading and writing" oder "tradition and modernity".
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Mansfield Park
4. Emma
5. Northanger Abbey
6. Persuasion
Biography/Context: Jane Austen in Context, ed. Janet Todd; Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen; Duckworth: The
Improvement of the Estate; Knox-Shaw, Jane Austen and the Enlightenment; Cohn, "Transparent Minds" in McKeon,
Theory of the Novel (Johns Hopkins UP)
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J. G. Ballard
1. The Atrocity Exhibition
2. Crash
3. High-Rise
4. Empire of the Sun
one or two more novels, e.g. The Drowned World
Biography/Context: Baxter, J. G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination; Baxter, Ballard: Contemporary Critical
Perspectives; Gasiorek, J. G. Ballard
John Banville:
1. Birchwood
2. Kepler
3. The Newton Letter
4. The Book of Evidence
5. Athena
6. (Benjamin Black:) Christine Falls
Criticism: Imhof, John Banville; Berensmeyer, John Banville; Kenny, John Banville: Visions and Revisions
Samuel Beckett:
1. Plays: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Play
2. Film and TV: Film (available online), Eh Joe, Quadrat I + II (Suhrkamp DVD)
3. Prose: More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Company, Ill Seen Ill Said,
Worstwart Ho, Stirrings Still
4. Theory: Proust, Three Dialogues, "Dante Bruno Vico Joyce", "German Letter of 1937"
Biography/Context: James Knowlson, Damned to Fame; Cambridge Companion to Beckett; Childs, Modernism
William Blake
Major poems (Norton Critical Edition of Blake's Poetry and Designs)
Biography/Context: DNB; Cambridge Companion; Stevens, Romanticism
A S Byatt:
1. The Virgin in the Garden
2. Still Life
3. Possession
4. Angels and Insects
5. The Biographer's Tale
6. The Children's Book
Bio/Context: Richard Todd, A. S. Byatt (Writers and their Work) Hadley/Tredell: The Fiction of A. S. Byatt (Palgrave)
Angela Carter:
1. The Magic Toyshop
2. The Passion of New Eve
3. The Sadeian Woman
4. The Bloody Chamber
5. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
6. Nights at the Circus
Bio/Context: Sage, Angela Carter (Writers and their Work); Stoddart: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
(Routledge)
Charles Dickens
1. Oliver Twist
2. Hard Times
3. David Copperfield
4. Bleak House or Great Expectations
5. Our Mutual Friend
Biography/Context: P. Ackroyd, Dickens; Cambridge Companion to Dickens; Andrews, Dickens and His Performing
Selves
George Eliot
1. Silas Marner
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2. The Mill on the Floss
3. Middlemarch
4. Selected Essays (e.g. "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists")
5. Contexts: Nünning, Der engl. Roman des 19. Jhs.; Dennis, The Victorian Novel; Cambridge Companion to George
Eliot
Kazuo Ishiguro:
1. A Pale View of Hills
2. An Artist of the Floating World
3. The Remains of the Day
4. The Unconsoled
5. When We Were Orphans
6. Never Let Me Go
Criticism: Cynthia Wong, Kazuo Ishiguro (Writers and their Work); Bickley, Contemporary Fiction; Nünning, Der
engl. Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts
Henry James:
1. The Portrait of a Lady
2. What Maisie Knew
3. The Ambassadors
4. The Golden Bowl
5. Short fiction: The Private Life, The Figure in the Carpet, In the Cage, The Turn of the Screw
Biography/Context: Cambridge Companion to Henry James; Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies
James Joyce:
1. Dubliners
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Ulysses
4. Finnegans Wake (extracts)
Biography/Context: Ellmann, James Joyce; Cambridge Companion to James Joyce; Attridge, Semicolonial Joyce;
Childs, Modernism
Ian McEwan:
1. The Cement Garden
2. Saturday
3. Amsterdam
4. Enduring Love
5. Atonement
6. On Chesil Beach
Criticism: Peter Childs, The Fiction of Ian McEwan (Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism); Lynn Wells, Ian
McEwan; Nünning, Der englische Roman des 20.Jahrhunderts; Bickley, Contemporary Fiction
Herman Melville:
1. Typee
2. Moby-Dick
3. Pierre, or the Ambiguities
4. "Hawthorne and His Mosses"
5. Shorter Fiction: Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd
Biography/Context: Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work; Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe:
1. Berenicë
2. Ligeia
3. The Fall of the House of Usher
4. William Wilson
5. The Man of the Crowd
6. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
7. The Masque of the Red Death
8. The Tell-Tale Heart
9. The Purloined Letter
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10. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
11. Poetry: "The Raven", "The City in the Sea", "The Sleeper", "To One in Paradise"
12. Essay: "Philosophy of Composition"
Biography/Context: Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe; Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe
Will Self
1. My Idea of Fun
2. The Quantity Theory of Insanity
3. Great Apes
4. How the Dead Live
5. Dorian
6. Umbrella
Context: Grabes, Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Postmoderne; Nünning, Der englische Roman des 20.
Jahrhunderts
Iain Sinclair:
1. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
2. Conductors of Chaos (poetry)
3. Lights out for the Territory
4. London Orbital
5. Ghost Milk
Biography/Context: Sheppard, Iain Sinclair; Baker, Iain Sinclair; Murray, Recalling London; Bond: City Visions
Wallace Stevens
Selections from the Collected Poems, Plays and Prose (Library of America ed.), e.g. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird, The Idea of Order at Key West, The Supreme Fiction, Poems of our Climate, The Necessary Angel
Context: The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1. In Memoriam
2. Idylls of the King
3. Selected shorter poems (e.g. The Kraken, Ulysses, Mariana, Tithonus, Tears Idle Tears, Crossing the Bar, The
Charge of the Light Brigade, The Lotus-Eaters, The Lady of Shalott)
Biography/Contexts: Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart; Francis: Tennyson: A Collection of Critical Essays
Oscar Wilde:
1. Prose: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, The Portrait
of Mr W. H.; De Profundis
2. Plays: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, Salomé
3. Poetry: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
4. Essays: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks
Edition: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Collins 1994
Biography/Context: R. Ellman, Oscar Wilde; Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
1. Mrs Dalloway
2. To the Lighthouse
3. The Waves
4. Orlando
5. Between the Acts
6. A Room of One's Own
7. Selected Essays, e.g. "On Reading", "Modern Fiction", "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown"
Goldman: The Cambridge Introd. to VW; Roe/Sellers: Cambridge Companion to VW; Childs, Modernism
William Wordsworth
Major poems, e.g. The Prelude, Tintern Abbey, Westminster Bridge, Idiot Boy, Daffodils
Biography/Context: DNB; Cambridge Companion; Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology, Reinfandt: Englische Romantik
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EPOCHEN (chronolog.)
Vor 1800
Medieval literature
1. Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
2. Chaucer, sel. from Canterbury Tales (e.g. Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale), Troilus and Criseyde
3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Texts in The Norton Anthology of English Literature (vol. A, The Middle Ages); Treharne, ed. Old and Middle
English (Blackwell); Michell: An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England; Magennis, The Cambridge
Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature; Solopova/Lee: Key Concepts in Medieval Literature; Solopova/Lee: The
Keys of Middle-Earth; King, Medieval Literature 1300-1500
The English Renaissance
1. Poetry
Thomas Wyatt, "The long love", "Whoso list to hunt",
Henry Howard (Surrey), "Love, that doth reign", "So cruel prison"
Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender
Sidney: Astrophil and Stella
Marlowe: Hero and Leander
Shakespeare: Sonnets 1,2, 3, 15, 18, 20, 73, 85, 94, 116, 121, 129, 130
John Donne: The Canonization, Elegy 19
Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter
Aemilia Lanyer: The Description of Cookham
2. Drama
Shakespeare: The Tempest
3. Prose
More: Utopia
Sidney: The Defence of Poesie
Contexts: Hattaway, A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture; Hattaway, Renaissance and
Reformations; Hadfield, The English Renaissance
Restoration literature
1. Poetry:
Dryden: Astraea Redux; Absalom and Achitophel
Milton, Paradise Lost (extracts)
Rochester: Satire against Reason and Mankind; Upon Nothing; The Imperfect Enjoyment
Katherine Philips: Orinda to Lucasia
Aphra Behn: The Disappointment
2. Drama:
Tuke: The Adventures of Five Hours
Wycherley: The Country Wife
Behn: The Rover
Congreve: The Way of the World
3. Prose:
Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesy
Samuel Pepys: Diary (extracts)
Hobbes, Leviathan (introduction and part II ch. 17)
Sources: Restoration Drama, ed. Womersley (Blackwell); Restoration Literature, ed. Paul Hammond (Oxford
Classics); Contexts: Parry, The Seventeenth-Century (Longman)
Early modern women writers
1. Isabella Whitney: The Copy of a Letter; A Sweet Nosegay
2. Elizabeth I: The Doubt of Future Foes; On Monsieur's Departure
3. Mary Sidney Herbert, selection from the Psalms
4. Mary Wroth, selection from Urania; Pamphilia to Amphilantus
5. Rachel Speght, A Muzzle for Melastomus
6. Aemilia Lanyer, Description of Cookham; sel. from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
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7. Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam
8. Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World
9. Katherine Philips: Orinda to Lucasia
10. Aphra Behn: Love-Letters from a Nobleman to His Sister (vol. 1); The Rover; Oroonoko; The Disappointment
18th-century literature
1. Poetry:
Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man
J. Swift, Description of the Morning, Description of a City Shower, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
Gray, Elegy in a Country Church-yard, Ode on a Distant Prospect
Finch, Nocturnal Reverie
Cowper, The Task
Thomson, The Seasons
2. Drama:
Congreve: The Way of the World
Lillo: The London Merchant
Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Sheridan: The Rivals, The School for Scandal
3. Prose:
Johnson, Rasselas
Richardson, Pamela
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Sources: Nünning, Englische Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Nach 1800
Romanticism
NB: Hier empfiehlt sich die Wahl eines Schwerpunkts, z.B. Natur u. Subjektivität ODER Literatur und Politik
1. Poetry
Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience; London
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; The Idiot Boy; A slumber did my spirit seal; Ode: Intimations of Immortality
3. Charlotte Smith: Beachy Head
4. Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Dejection: An Ode
5. Shelley: Ozymandias; Mont Blanc: Ode to the West Wind; A Defence of Poetry
6. Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn
7. Byron: The Giaour
Prose:
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; On the Sublime and Beautiful
Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Shelley, Frankenstein
William Godwin: Caleb Williams
Scott, Waverley
Sources: Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu (Blackwell); contexts: Reinfandt, Englische Romantik; Stevens,
Romanticism
Victorianism
Poetry:
1. Christina Rossetti: Spring Quiet; Winter, My Secret
2. Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
3. Tennyson: Ulysses; Tears, Idle Tears; The Charge of the Light Brigade
4. Browning: Porphyria's Lover; My Last Duchess; The Bishop Orders His Tomb
5. Meredith: Modern Love (selection)
Prose:
1. Ch. Brontë, Jane Eyre
2. Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
3. Gaskell, North and South
4. Dickens, Bleak House or Great Expecations
5. Eliot, Middlemarch
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6. Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure
Contexts: Nünning, Der engl. Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts; Dennis, The Victorian Novel
Early 20th century / Modernism
Prose:
1. James, The Ambassadors
2. Dorothy Richardson, Pilgrimage (1 novel in the series)
3. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; The Waves; essay:"Modern Fiction"
4. Joyce: Ulysses
5. Beckett: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable (choose one)
Poetry:
1. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; Among School Children; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
2. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land; Four Quartets
3. Pound: "I Gather the Limbs of Osiris" (essay); In a Station of the Metro
4. Stevens: Idea of Order at Key West, The Poems of Our Climate
5. Auden: Musée des Beaux Arts; In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Contexts: Peter Childs, Modernism (Routledge); Smart, Modernism and After (Cambridge)
Postwar Britain
1. David Lean: Brief Encounter (film)
2. J.B. Priestley: An Inspector Calls
3. Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
4. Philip Larkin: sel. poems (e.g. The Whitsun Weddings)
5. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
6. Ian Fleming: From Russia with Love
7. Irish Murdoch: Under the Net or The Bell
Kynaston, Austerity Britain; Sinfield: Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain; Cockin/Morrison: The PostWar British Literature Handbook; Davies/Sinfield: British Culture of the Post-War
English Postmodernism
1. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
2. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
3. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
4. B.S. Johnson: Christy Malry's Own Double Entry
5. J.G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition
6. Sinclair (ed.): Conductors of Chaos
Brinton: Contemporary Poetry; Grabes, Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Moderne und Postmoderne;
Nünning, Der englische Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts
GATTUNGEN
Vor 1800
Elizabethan prose fiction:
1. George Gascoigne, The Adventures of Master F. J.
2. John Lyly, Euphues
3. Robert Greene, Pandosto
4. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
5. Thomas Deloney, Jack of Newbury
6. Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia
Edition: 1-5 in An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, ed. Paul Salzman (Oxford Classics); nr 6 also Oxford
Classics; Contexts: Sidney, Defence of Poesy
Renaissance poetry
1. John Skelton, "The Bowge of Court", "The Book of Philip Sparrow"
2. Thomas Wyatt, "The long love", "Whoso list to hunt", "They flee from me"
3. Henry Howard (Surrey), "Love, that doth reign", "So cruel prison"
4. Elizabeth I, "The doubt of future foes", "On Monsieur's Departure"
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5. Spenser: The Shepheardes Calender, Amoretti, Epithalamion
6. Sidney: Astrophil and Stella; Defence of Poesie
7. Marlowe: Hero and Leander
8. Shakespeare: Sonnets 1,2, 3, 15, 18, 20, 73, 85, 94, 116, 121, 129, 130
9. John Donne: The Flea, The Canonization, Elegy 19
10. Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
11. Aemilia Lanyer: The Description of Cookham
12. Ben Jonson: To Penshurst
Renaissance tragedy
1. Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
2. Arden of Faversham
3. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
4. Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear
5. Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
6. Carey: The Tragedy of Mariam
Edition: Renaissance Drama, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (Blackwell); Norton Shakespeare; use separate edition for Carey
Shakespeare's major tragedies
1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Julius Caesar
3. Hamlet
4. Othello
5. King Lear
6. Macbeth
7. Antony and Cleopatra
8. Coriolanus
Janette Dillon, Cambridge Intro. to Shakespeare's Tragedies
Shakespeare's major comedies
1. Two Gentlemen of Verona
2. Taming of the Shrew
3. Love's Labour's Lost
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream
5. Much Ado about Nothing
6. As You Like it
7. Twelfth Night
Cambridge Introd. to Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare's histories
1. Henry VI (1, 2, 3)
2. Richard III
3. Richard II
4. Henry IV (1, 2)
5. Henry V
Iser, Genesis und Geltung: Shakespeares Historien
Shakespeare's problem plays
1. Troilus and Cressida
2. All's Well that Ends Well
3. Measure for Measure
4. The Merchant of Venice
Tillyard, Shakespeare's Problem Plays
Metaphysical poetry:
1. John Donne: The Flea, The Canonization, Air and Angels, Love's Alchemy, The Ecstasy, Elegy 19, Holy Sonnets,
Good Friday 1613, Hymn to God My God in My Sickness
2. George Herbert: Redemption, Easter Wings, Jordan (1), The Collar
3. Henry Vaughan: The World, They Are All Gone into the World of Light, Cock-Crowing
4. Richard Crashaw: I Am the Door, On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord, In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God
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5. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, The Mower Against Gardens, An Horatian Ode, Upon Appleton House
Sentimental fiction / novel of sensibility
1. Adam Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments
2. Sarah Fielding: David Simple
3. Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling
4. Sterne: A Sentimental Journey
5. Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
6. Smollett: The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
7. Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Todd, Sensibility: An Introduction; Berensmeyer, "Empfindsamkeit als Medienkonflikt" (Aufsatz)
18th-century novels:
1. Haywood: Fantomina
2. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
3. Richardson: Pamela
4. Fielding: Shamela, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
5. Smollett: The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
6. Johnson: Rasselas
Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel; Hammond/Regan, Making the Novel
18th-century poetry:
1. Anne Finch: A Nocturnal Reverie
2. Pope: The Rape of the Lock
3. Swift: Description of a City Shower; The Lady's Dressing Room
4. Lady Wortley Montague: The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift ...
5. James Thomson: The Seasons
6. William Collins: Ode to Evening
7. Thomas Gray: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College; Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat; Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard
8. Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village
Sources: Nünning, Engl. Lit. des 18. Jhs.
Gothic fiction:
1. Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. Lewis, The Monk
3. Radcliffe, The Italian OR The Mysteries of Udolpho
4. Austen, Northanger Abbey
5. Shelley, Frankenstein
6. Stoker, Dracula
Sources: Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction ; Botting, Gothic
Nach 1800
Romantic poetry
1. Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
2. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; The Idiot Boy; A slumber did my spirit seal; Ode: Intimations of Immortality
3. Charlotte Smith: Beachy Head
4. Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Dejection: An Ode
5. Shelley: Ozymandias; Mont Blanc: Ode to the West Wind; A Defence of Poetry
6. Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn
7. Byron: The Giaour
Sources: Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. Duncan Wu (Blackwell); contexts: Reinfandt, Englische Romantik; Stevens,
Romanticism
19th-century novels:
1. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
2. Ch. Brontë, Jane Eyre
3. E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights
4. Thackery, Vanity Fair
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5. Dickens, Bleak House
6. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
7. Eliot, Middlemarch
8. Hardy, Jude the Obscure or Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sources: Dennis, The Victorian Novel; Nünning, Der engl. Roman des 19. Jh.s
Victorian sensation fiction
1. Anon.: The String of Pearls [Sweeney Todd]
2. Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover"
3. Ch. Brontë: Jane Eyre
4. Collins: The Woman in White
4. Braddon: Lady Audley's Secret
5. Wood: East Lynne
Context: Radford, Victorian Sensation Fiction
Victorian social-problem novels
1. Dickens, Hard Times
2. Gaskell, North and South
3. Disraeli, Sybil
4. Kingsley, Alton Locke
5. Eliot, Felix Holt
6. Carlyle, "Chartism"
7. The Communist Manifesto
Context: Norton critical edition of North and South; Josephine M. Guy, The Victorian Social-Problem Novel
Victorian poetry
1. Christina Rossetti: Spring Quiet; Winter, My Secret; Goblin Market
2. Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
3. Tennyson: The Kraken; Ulysses; Tears, Idle Tears; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Crossing the Bar; selections
from In Memoriam
4. Browning: Porphyria's Lover; My Last Duchess; The Bishop Orders His Tomb; Fra Lippo Lippi
5. Meredith: Modern Love (selection)
6. Arnold: Dover Beach
7. Hopkins: The Windhover; Pied Beauty; Binsey Poplars; Inversnaid
Fictions of colonial anxiety c. 1900
1. Stoker: Dracula
2. Marsh: The Beetle
3. Kipling: Kim
4. Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Context: Said, Culture and Imperialism; Döring, Postcolonial Literature; postcolonial theory chapter in Berensmeyer,
Literary Theory; Arata, "The Occidental Tourist"
Modernist novels
1. James, The Ambassadors
2. Ford, The Good Soldier
3. Dorothy Richardson, Pilgrimage (1 novel in the series)
4. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse; The Waves; essay:"Modern Fiction"
5. May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriet Frean
5. Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist; Ulysses
7. Beckett: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable
Contexts: Peter Childs, Modernism (Routledge)
Modernist poetry
1. Vorticist Manifesto
2. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium; Among School Children; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
3. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land; Four Quartets
4. Pound: "I Gather the Limbs of Osiris"
5. Stevens: Idea of Order at Key West, The Poems of Our Climate
6. Stevie Smith: Our Bog is Dood; Not Waving but Drowning
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7. Auden: Musée des Beaux Arts; In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Modern Irish drama
1. Yeats/Gregory: Kathleen Ni Houlihan
2. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
3. O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock
4. Behan: The Quare Fellow
5. Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape
6. Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come; Translations
7. McDonagh: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
(all texts, except nr. 7, contained in Modern Irish Drama, ed. Harrington, Norton Critical Edition)
Contemporary English novels
1. Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
2. Levy: Small Island
3. Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
4. McEwan: Saturday
5. Self: Umbrella
6. Mantel: Bring up the Bodies
7. Lanchester: Capital
Brinton, Contemporary Poetry; Bickley, Contemporary Fiction; Nünning, Der englische Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts
Contemporary Irish poetry
1. Patrick Kavanagh: Irish Poets Open Your Eyes
2. Thomas Kinsella: Wormwood, The Route of the Táin
3. John Montague: A Lost Tradition; A Grafted Tongue
4. Seamus Heaney: Digging; Bogland; Punishment; Casualty; Act of Union
5. Derek Mahon: A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
6. Paul Durcan: Backside to the Wind; Before the Celtic Yoke; The Supper at Emmaus
7. Eavan Boland: Mise Eire; In Her Own Image; "Anorexic"; "Listen. This is the Noise of Myth"
8. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill: Féar Suaithinseach (Marvellous Grass), Geasa (The Bond)
9. Paul Muldoon: Why Brownlee Left; Gathering Mushrooms; Aisling; Paul Klee: They're Biting; The Mudroom
Jewish American fiction
1. Henry Roth: Call it Sleep
2. Philip Roth: The Ghost Writer
3. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
4. Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5. Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
6. Dara Horn: The World to Come
7. Michael Chabon, The Final Solution
Contexts: Chametzky/Felstiner: Jewish American Literature (introd.), Codde, The Jewish American Novel; Kramer:
Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature; Wade, Jewish American Literature Since 1945; LaCapra,
Representing the Holocaust + Writing History, Writing Trauma; Whitehead, Trauma Fiction
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