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Introduction to the Study of Literatures in EnglishPD Dr. Susanne Reichl WS 2010/11

Course materials

• Reader (copy-studio, Schwarzspanierstraße 10)• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte• Hamlet by William Shakespeare(Oxford World's Classics)•(Facultas bookshop, Campus Hof 1)

Literary Reading – your history so far

• What have you read?• How do you read literature?• Why do you read literature?

Introduction to the Study of Literatures in

English

Introduction to the Study of Literatures in

English

Teaching Methodology

Literatures in EnglishLanguage

Cultural Studies Linguistics

Literatures in English

anthropology

history

philosophy

art histo

ry

languages

comparative

literatures

sociology

drama studies

How do we read?Don't read this if you're stupid

Why can you read this?

My copmuter inlcudes all these miskates.

After an excellent meal in the best restaurant in town, George asked the --------for the ------------- and got out his --------------.

We read what we know

• Letter and word recognition• Structured knowledge: schemata, frames

and scripts• Reading what we know is faster than

reading what we don‘t know

How do we read?A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys. Over the main entrance the words CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State‘s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

How do we read?

Input from the text

Knowledge

Reading strategies

Individual styles/preferences

Language abilities

Jonathan Iwegbu counted himself extraordinarily lucky.Establishing a purpose for

reading

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright in the forest of the night

How do we read literature?How do YOU read literature?

How do we read?

Understanding

Knowledge

PURPOSE

How do YOU read literature?Individual reader factorsC

ontext

Belief systems

Sonnet XCIV.

Sonnett 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Sonnett 18