Everything I have to study for my FIRST EXAM (Literature Student)

In this video, I'm going to talk about everything I have to study for my first exam in literature and comparative literature. Hope you enjoy :-)
00:00 What I have to study
00:54 Important disclaimer
Literature
04:08 Literary History
10:45 Genres
15:23 Social History of Literature
20:13 What is Literature?
24:09 Literary Canons
29:12 Lyrik, Drama, Epik
Comparative Literature
33:10 Comparative Literature
34:06 What is Comparative Literature?
39:23 Reception
43:29 Intertextuality
46:15 Autobiography and Auto-fiction
48:06 Don Quixote
Study playlist:
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[@kenclary2364]

As a life-long reader for over 50 years, I have constantly struggled with what to read to maximize my reading journey. I see that there is no clear answer to the problem. The number of reading paths is quite numerous and overwhelming. If I narrowed my reading list down to one path, I would invariably crossover. My journey through literature is bee-like, landing on the books that attract me, tasting different genres, looking for connections. Your summary of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in a previous video helped me to choose to read it. It opened a door to another world.

[@tj-wn8ye]

Superbly done. Astonishing that you can manage this so fluently in a 2nd language. I had professors who weren’t as coherent in their own language!

[@strange.lucidity]

Oh thank you for saying that ❤ That means a lot!

[@seasider2164]

Thank you for this. I found it really interesting, I am thinking of studying literature as a mature student and this has given me an insight into the breadth of the topic. Good luck with your exams.

[@strange.lucidity]

That's wonderful ❤ And thank you!

[@Michael-zh6sp]

By the time you see this, you will have flown past your first exam. I know you have done well. This outline is fantastic and a great overview of what you are studying. Honestly, I am surprised at the breath of study, so this very helpful and interesting. Your love and enjoyment of literature is contagious. I look forward to continuing with you on your journey. Thank you, and I wish you all the best!

[@strange.lucidity]

Thank you so much. Your comment really lighted me up 🌟

[@richarddelanet]

I am thinking of taking a course in literature. It's not really my area but that is one of my reasons to jump at the opportunity. Plus of course I will meet all sorts of like minded people which is never wrong; well that is what I was thinking (lazy Sunday thinking) until you talked about being 28 and not mixing ordinarily with the regular student. And I am older than 28 as well ! I had also thought my age means lived experience which might therefore mean the generic student might naturally think I might have things to say, and at least from perspective.

[@fisheyes101bob3]

Excited for the translation vid!

[@strange.lucidity]

Yey!

[@simon.voggeneder]

Thanks for another superb video. This was close to you holding a lecture on the topic yourself. They say the best way to learn something is to teach it to others, which I feel you did here. With the passion you bring to the material I could see you teach it to students in the future, if that‘s something that interests you. We need people that ignite the love of literature in others, who open up this rich world to those who did not yet consider plunging in. I hope your exam went well, but with preparation like this I am pretty confident you did a good job.

[@strange.lucidity]

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏

[@carlosrojas8175]

Thnks for you video. Que apruebes todos tus exámenes!

[@strange.lucidity]

Thank you ❤

[@simonondrussek5291]

Thank you very much for this content and videos you are making, it helps me to better understand what to expect from studying literature. Thank you! And by the way good luck with your exams tomorrow

[@strange.lucidity]

That's lovely to hear and thank you ❤

[@caroleaful]

Viel Glück für die Steop morgen! 🤗 Du schaffst das. 👍

[@strange.lucidity]

Oh Danke! ❤

[@claraceva7732]

I love your videos! I relate so much with you, I started Literature at uni when i was 18 but I quit after Covid. Then I found a job as a social educator with people with intellectual disabilities (sorry don't know the name in English, i'm spanish). And now, your videos and the idea of Erasmus and becoming a teacher have helped me be excited to return at uni and continue my studies. I have some uestions for you: how old are you? And do you still work? Thanks so much!

[@strange.lucidity]

All that is lovely to hear!! I'm 28 and I don't work at the moment, no. I mean I do youtube, you could consider that work but other than that I get paid to study for my degree. Austria is great in that regard. All the best to you! ❤

[@limeparticle]

Good luck! I’ve been doing comparative literature in Finland and the first-year syllabus seems to be almost identical to yours.

[@strange.lucidity]

Oh cool. Would be interesting to keep comparing!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

I hope you course goes well and enhances your love of literature.

[@strange.lucidity]

Thank you 🙂 So far it does!

[@yonathanmeza6931]

Wonderful ❤🎉🎉

[@strange.lucidity]

🙂

[@AntonyNorthcutt]

Love your channel, I'm so grateful for all your advice. Just wondering if you use any form of dictionary to help you through the books?

[@strange.lucidity]

Hi thanks for your kind comment :-) Do you mean books in general or specific books?

[@AntonyNorthcutt]

resources to help one understand the text more fully, the literary terms etc@@strange.lucidity

[@couranbell]

I love your videos so much, just keep going please!!❤ Hugs from Ukraine💙💛

[@filipsmit5497]

Best of luck tomorrow - but I guess, it is going to be a walk in a park, since you have prepared so well! On the topic of translating book titles: there is “True at first light” from Hemingway. I’ve never been able to come up with a good translation in Dutch which is as short and delivers the same punch. So most curious if you could dwell on translating in a next episode.

[@strange.lucidity]

Thank you ❤ it went well! Interesting! In German it's "Die Wahrheit im Morgenlicht" .... but it's so long. Maybe a less literal translation could work. What do you think he's trying to say with the line? And how would you express that in Dutch without necessary having the words light and morning in there...?

[@filipsmit5497]

@@strange.lucidity Thanks for replying. The official Dutch translation is the same as the German one, “De waarheid in het ochtendlicht”. So lame. Your question is thought provoking. I will give it a shot. The story is about an obsessively quarreling couple intend on hunting and eventually killing a lion on an early morning during their safari. The death of the animal is a clear moment of truth (a life or death kind of a truth) and also brings the couple’s constant bickering to a close. Not using ‘light’ and ‘morning’, I guess “Haunted Clarity” may do. It sheds light on how the death of the lion (as a moment of truth) haunts the hunters. Problem is, I cannot translate “Haunted Clarity” in Dutch very well. So I’m still at square one - ha! ha!

[@strange.lucidity]

Haha! Love it. Gejaagde helderheid!? Het jagen van de klaarheid?😅 @@filipsmit5497

[@strange.lucidity]

Dutch is just so weird here...

[@filipsmit5497]

@@strange.lucidity It’s good fun to play around with a title, even when we get tangled up in Dutch. I believe we want to have something like “flash of insight” but more confrontational, more upsetting, because it’s a flash of insight into an uncomfortable truth which co-occurs with the moment that a promise carried by the faint light of an early morning switches into a harsh light over that grim scene somewhere in the wide expanse of the African planes. But how to condense all these images into a catching title? Maybe “A Shock of Clarity” or “Dawn of Disquiet” or “Soon Before Our Eyes”? Any thoughts? Can you come up with something in German or English? Honestly, “True at first light” is mesmerizing in that it captures so much at once. It’s also poetical in an unsentimental way. Btw, turns out that Hemingway had not conceived this title. It was a manscript without a title which was published posthumously under that brilliant title - possibly brewed up by the publisher. Pretty awesome. What is your favorite book title, or a book title that defies translation?

[@weenyboyscott6222]

I must say, if you were my study companion, I would feel most at ease going into this exam.

[@weenyboyscott6222]

When will you get your exam results?

[@weenyboyscott6222]

Hi! It's Scott again!! Can I task you with something please? Can you ask around your Professor/s of their, or your very own, top recommendation of an English biography of Cervantes please? Thanks

[@susandevine3907]

How do you think the exam went? Anything unexpected on it?

[@strange.lucidity]

Hi it all went fine! I have my results already :-) I found the exam to be very fair. It was very doable if you love literature and you studied. We mostly had to apply concepts to pieces of text. Was a mix of all kinds of questions and multiple choice.

[@robertmueller2023]

Mother and her office mate Cheryl would be very proud. I never even thought about writing or literature until the internet was invented in 2002. Beginner's luck?

[@jontyslade101]

Maus was not the first 'serious' graphic novel/comic text; see Raymond Briggs' "When the Wind Blows" (1982) or Will Eisner's "A Contract with God" (1978). Academics love to say 'such and such' was the first to do this, that or the other, when actually it's just a load of baloney. One could even mention the satirical engravings and paintings/illustration of the 18th century, ie William Hogarth as an early example of proto-comics (some of which employed speech bubbles) that shocked the audience and broke illustrative conventions.

[@PedroHenrique-ei2nv]

The thing about "serious" comics is that you can always claim an earlier example. "Serious" comics are pretty much as old as comics itself.

[@robertmueller2023]

I think that that school has a $21M tuition fee. Am I right, DoJ?

[@strange.lucidity]

I'm not sure exactly what that is. Explain?

[@TheMassacreOfTheBanuQurayzahQu]

​@@strange.lucidity I think he is a bot account.

[@weenyboyscott6222]

Good Luck, although you need it not: you'll be tickety-boo!