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20th-Century British Poetry -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 20.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
- freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
- Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
- Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
- Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
- Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- This seminar will guide you through the fascinating variety of poetry in the 20th century. We will begin with T.S. Eliot and modernism, talk about the political poetry in the 1930s (Auden, Spender, MacNeice), and continue with Robert Conquest’s New Lines introducing us to poets of the 1950s. The diversity of British poetry is difficult to categorise. There are individual poets such as Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, and Geoffrey Hill. Some poets gained a reputation as representatives of the bygone rural England (John Betjeman). Others might be read as poets of a particular region such as Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid or Jackie Kay for Scotland or Dylan Thomas and R.S Thomas for Wales, and John Harris and D.M. Thomas for Cornwall. Recent poets include ethnic minorities and immigrants, i.e. diasporic poetry or women poets such as Emily Berry, Alice Oswald or Clare Pollard.
Reading these poets in class, you will learn a lot about the changing poetic language in the twentieth century, but also about history and politics, society and culture in the United Kingdom throughout a troubled century.
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A Woman's Road to Mount Olympus: The Journey of the Modern Heroine -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/01.30
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In 1949, Joseph Campbell described, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the path (or rather cycle) through which every hero has to go in order to succeed in their journey. His work approaches heroification from a mythological and masculine perspective. Throughout this course, however, we will be looking at his model from a modern and feminine angle. How does the process of becoming a hero differ between men and women? How do concepts of masculinity and femininity play a role within the same heroine? With such questions in mind, we will discuss the construction and development of some female protagonists in Modern and Contemporary Literature. For instance, we have Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre or Jane Austen s Lizzy Bennet whose impact on readers and society of their respective times has paved and opened way for the creation of Suzanne Collin s Katniss Everdeen, Veronica Roth s Beatrice Prior and even Wonder Woman in the twentieth and early twenty-first Century. In this class, we will analyze the gradual changes that have happened in the portrayal of a few female characters in literature, the various degrees of masculinity and femininity in their behavior (androgyny), how their fashion influences (positive or negatively) their image, their journey to become heroines and the impact of their image in the eduction of young and adult female audiences.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read until the beginning of the semester:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre (1847)
To read during the semester:
Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games-trilogy (2008-2010)
William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman (1941-2017)
Veronica Roth. Divergent-trilogy (2011-2013)
More material to be added in class.
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Bamberg University English Drama Group -
- Dozent/in:
- N.N.
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 26.4.2017, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module:
- Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
- Inhalt:
- Join the Bamberg University English Drama Group for our summer production. The course is open to students of all semesters and affiliations.
Auditions will be held in the first week of lectures on Monday, the 24th, and Wednesday, the 26th of April. We'll meet in the lecture hall of U7 at 8PM. Please prepare any short monologue, scene or performance (in English!) ranging anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes. If cannot make it to either of these dates, do not hestitate to contact me (marie-theres.schmidt@stud.uni-bamberg.de) and we'll figure out an alternative audition.
Newcomers are welcome and if you want to help us out with costumes, music, stage design, etc. do let us know.
Very much looking forward to a semester full of fun, drama and creativity with you!
NOTE that there will be no Thursday session in the first week.
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
- BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
- MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
- Inhalt:
- This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.
In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.
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From World War II to Brexit: The Continent in Recent British Literature [The Continent in Recent British Literature] -
- Dozent/in:
- Susan Brähler
- Angaben:
- Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- The year 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement that effectively gave birth to what became the European Union. In her 2002 essay “The Writer at Home in Europe”, award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel was still confident that young British citizens “are pro-European, without having to think about it. The European Community is one of the givens of their world.” In a more recent Spiegel interview, however, she has come to deplore Britain’s “retreat into insularity” (2014). On 23 June 2016, the day of the EU membership referendum, she and other British artists and intellectuals who had supported the pro-EU campaign, had to face up to the fact that the UK would, after 44 years of membership, withdraw from the European Union.
Before this background, this class sets out to investigate the relationship between the UK and the Continent as it has been imagined in recent British literature. We will deal with definitions of Europe as a historical, geographical, political as well as cultural entity, with conceptions of European identity as well as national identities (Englishness, Britishness), British exceptionalism and the link between space and identity. After these preliminaries, we will turn to novels and films which explore what it meant to be English/British at the end of WW II (The English Patient) as well as in Cold-War-Europe (The Innocent). We will trace the “clichéification of Europe” (Annan) in Tim Parks’s Europa and find out what it means to be black and British and European in Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists. The section “Europe goes UK” investigates predominantly Eastern European immigrants’ perspectives on British society (The Road Home; Eastern Promises; Once). And last but not least, students will explore how British comedians and satirists have responded to the Brexit campaign and referendum.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992): Bloomsbury 2004.
Ian McEwan, The Innocent (1990): Vintage 1998.
Tim Parks, Europa (1998): Vintage 1998.
Bernardine Evaristo, Soul Tourists (2005): Penguin 2005.
Rose Tremain, The Road Home (2007): Vintage 2008.
Films: Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007); Once (Carney, 2006)
Students should have read at least The English Patient and The Innocent by the beginning of the semester. Please make sure you buy the editions listed above so we all refer to the same page numbers! The two DVDs can be borrowed from my office.
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Introduction to English and American Literature (A) -
- Dozent/in:
- Susan Brähler
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
- Termine:
- Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 24.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 14.6.2017, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/02.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.
3. Tutorials:
Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:
a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature A" (Hedwig Hardi) zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)
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Introduction to English and American Literature (B) -
- Dozent/in:
- Alexander Debney
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
- Termine:
- Di, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.
3. Tutorials:
Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:
a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature B" (Hedwig Hardi) zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)
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Jewish-British Culture -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 25.4.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 2.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 9.5.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 11.7.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
ab dem 16.5.2017 findet die Vorlesung immer in Raum U5/02.22 statt
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in cultural studies in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
- ERASMUS or visiting students
Hauptfach Jüdische Studien: B/H 2b, B/H 3, A/H 1a, A/H 1b
Großes Nebenfach Jüdische Studien (45 ECTS): A/N-45 1, V/N-45 1a
Kleines Nebenfach Jüdische Studien (30 ECTS): A/N-30 1, V/N-30 1a
Großes Nebenfach Judaistik (45 ETCS): Aufbaumodul 1, Vertiefungsbereich 1
Kleines Nebenfach Judaistik (30 ECTS): Aufbaumodul 1, Vertiefungsbereich 1
(De)Registration:
via FlexNow (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- This lecture will offer you a survey to many centuries of Jewish life in Great Britain. Jews arrived with the Norman conquerors in the 11th century. They were driven out of England under Edward I in the 13th century to return under puritan rule in the 17th century. Eighteenth-century enlightenment and Victorian middle class culture brought about the assimilation of many Jews. When hundred thousands of Ashkenazi arrived from Eastern Europe around the turn of the 19th century, the London East End and other cities in England became centres of Jewish culture. A generation later or two, they were gentrified and moved to the suburbs. The Nazis and German occupation of Europe brought a new wave of Jewish refugees to the UK from the Continent.
The lecture will not only talk about immigration and the thriving Jewish communities, its literature and its cultural and scientific achievements, but also about anti-semitism and the trials of the diaspora . The lecture informs you about Jewish synagogues, the London Jewish Museum, and forms of Holocaust Memory in the Imperial War Museum and the materials published by the Department for Education.
Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room U5/00.24. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- tba
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John Milton's Paradise Lost -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 19.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
- freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
- Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
- Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
- Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
- Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar we read one of the most significant epics written in English literature and beyond, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). Written in the tradition of Homer and Vergil, the puritan writer John Milton took on the entire tradition of Western epic literature writing a Christian epic. In his provocative and amazingly imaginative work, he tells the story of “man’s first disobedience” and wants to "justify the ways of God to men." He turns biblical characters into heroes, an attempt that works best with Satan. Does this make Paradise Lost a failure turning the whole Christian narrative upside down? Milton’s position in the literature of the restoration period speaks for itself. As a supporter of parliamentary, puritan rule under Cromwell, Milton was not a friend of the restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II. In spite of all this, he was acknowledged as a national poet. He influenced generations of writers all over Europe and was translated in many languages. Over the course of twelve books John Milton wrote an epic poem depicting the struggle between God and Satan taking place across hell, heaven, and earth.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Recommended text: The edition of Oxford World's Classics (2008) edited by Stephen Orgel.
We will also use the annotated online version at Dartmouth
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christoph Houswitschka, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s.
We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).
The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.
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Literary Dorset -
- Dozent/in:
- Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 7.7.2017, 14:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
ab 4.5.2017
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Please note: This course only starts in week 2
In this class we will read texts which explore very specific locations in Dorset in different times and contexts, with unforgettable female characters that go from Victorian - but at the same time very contemporary- heroine Sarah Woodruff, John Fowles' infamous French lieutenant's woman, to Elise Landau, the protagonist of The Novel in the Viola, who, in order to escape from persecution in Vienna during WWII becomes a parlour maid in Dorset, forced to leave behind her family and a completely different life.
John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman is one of the first novels, or maybe even the precursor of the very popular literary phenomenon known as Neo-Victorianism (which includes texts and various forms of art where the Victorian era is seen through the eyes of contemporary authors) as well as a prime example for postmodern literature and historiographic metafiction. The town of Lyme Regis and the Cobb of the Nineteenth Century are crucial to the plot of the novel and the act of walking freely around town is one of the actions that represent Sarah Woodruff s transgression.
Mary Anning, the first woman paleontologist (and the one who sells seashells on the seashore ), whose life story is told in Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures, also lived in Lyme and found fossils along the Jurassic Coast that have changed history and made it possible for Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell to develop and prove their theories of evolution.
Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola (The House at Tyneford in the American edition) is set in Tyneford, based on the existing ghost town of Tyneham, a village which was requisitioned by the British army during the Second World War and never given back to its inhabitants.
Dorset's landscape, unique atmosphere and inhabitants constitute the common denominator for novels and authors which are otherwise profoundly different from each other.
Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room tba. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman
Tracy Chevalier Remarkable Creatures
Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola
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Medievalism in Film -
- Dozent/in:
- Richard Utz
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 9.6.2017, 13:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 10.6.2017, 10:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 16.6.2017, 13:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 23.6.2017, 16:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) and Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) and Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American CultureI-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American CultureI-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registriation via FlexNow: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
- Inhalt:
- Medievalism, the ongoing reinvention of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times, has become a major area of scholarship over the last three decades. At the heart of this scholarship has been the investigation of the vast number of cinematic representations of medieval culture from the 1922 silent Robin Hood through the soon-to-be-released King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017). From the vast harvest of medieval-themed movies (Kevin J. Harty counted as many as 900 in his 2006 The Reel Middle Ages) we will select, view, and discuss some classics as well as some lesser known examples to explore how 20th- and 21st-century screen writers, directors, studios, and actors have represented the medieval past. To inhabit our topic swiftly, we will familiarize ourselves with the critical terminology and methodologies of medievalism studies by reading Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, ed. Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017 [paperback]). Students will have an opportunity to review some recent medievalist movies and produce research papers that, if of high quality, may be considered by external reviewers for publication in Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com) and other outlets published under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Emery, Elizabeth and Richard Utz, eds. Medievalism: Key Critical Terms. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017. Paperback.
Movies
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Excalibur (1981)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Timeline (2003)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
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Romance and Reality: The Making of the English Novel 1800-1850 -
- Dozent/in:
- Simon Edwards
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 23.6.2017, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.6.2017, 10:00 - 18:00, U11/00.16
Einzeltermin am 25.6.2017, 10:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- While the novels of both Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters have acquired cult status in our own times, not least thanks to immensely popular TV and film adaptations, in their own time it was the historical fiction of Walter Scott, ‘The Wizard of the North’, that enjoyed an even greater standing.
As with Austen and the Brontes this was in part through adaptation for stage drama and opera. All of his novels were thus transformed, not merely in Britain but throughout Europe and America. While Scott is no longer widely read this course aims to examine one of his historical novels alongside those of Austen and Bronte. Austen and Scott expressed a mutual regard for each other’s work, though widely different in scope and emphasis. Yet they also share the qualities that are foundational for the work of their great successors in the 19c novel. They combine stories of passionate and frustrated love with closely observed and realised social settings, whereby romance is always held in check by reality. Our perception of what constitutes ‘character’ in the novel is radically shaped by these novelists. Likewise the novel’s attentiveness to matters of social class. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is inconceivable without the example of both Scott and Austen. But we might also argue that without Scott there would be no Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Hardy, Henry James. Equally no Balzac, Fenimore Cooper, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy.
The novels to be read and studied are:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)
NB. For students who are unfamiliar with the work of Scott they should begin reading The Bride of Lammermoor at chapter 2. Scott’s novels always contained a good deal of prefatory material which we can examine later in class. They should also prepare themselves for encountering (not insurmountable) Scottish dialect spoken by some of the characters. Most modern editions have a helpful glossary. The story is in fact spell-binding, testimony for which is provided by the three operatic versions, of which the best known is Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Shakespeare Reading Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Termine:
- Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 13.6.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 20.6.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
ab 4.5.2017
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.
Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.
You need not register for this course, just come along in the first session and bring a copy of the plays.
- Inhalt:
- William Shakespeare's works are well know, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare, one comedy and one tragedy, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on.
If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and comfortable shoes.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
William Shakespeare. Anthony and Cleopatra.
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The Poetry of WWI -
- Dozent/in:
- Alexander Debney
- Angaben:
- Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6
- Termine:
- Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
ERASMUS or visiting students: Seminar: max. 6 ECTS
Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
BSc. BWL
MA WiPäd
ERASMUS and visiting students: Please contact lecturer if you wish to attend the class.
2. (De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: Please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- The First World War marks one of the most decisive events in modern history. Initially, it elicited great enthusiasm and even war fervour, with millions enlisting all over Europe. As the early delusions of a quick victory, of being in the enemy capital 'by Christmas', had subsided, the full horror of full-scale industrialised warfare became apparent. The rupture it created within societies profoundly shaped the European psyche, to this very day.
This course tracks the many facets and outlooks on the conflagration in British poetry of the First World War. The list of authors covered includes Robert Service, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, among others.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Required reading:
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology. Tim Kendall (ed.).
Additional reading will be made available via the VC
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Thomas Hardy -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.06
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- One of the most prolific writers of the Victorian Era, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is still regarded as a major influence on English literature. His novels, set in the fictional county of Wessex in Southern England, explore fundamentally human drives and experiences. At the core of Hardy’s realist fiction, we find people – their relationships, joys and sorrows – any many of his characters are still household names today, such as Tess Durbeyfield, Jude Fawley or Bathsheba Everdene. Hardy’s writing contributed enormously to the development of the realist novel and his books often expose Victorian hypocrisy and meaningless morality or religious conventions. Infidelity, illicit love, illegitimate motherhood, questionable courtship, and social ostracism are set before a backdrop of seemingly pastoral Wessex. The social fabric of his fictional towns and their inhabitants is laid open and the reader can see behind the façade of the Victorian small town.
This course will look at some of Hardy’s novels, a few stories and a few poems by discussing and analysing themes and topics in his works. While most of the novels will have to be read before the beginning of the semester, some additions to the course material will be made during the semester and via the VC course.
Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons’ The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room U5/00.24. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read before the semester:
Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
Thomas Hardy. Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
Thomas Hardy. Wessex Tales (1888) – excerpts to be announced in class
Exemplary poetry to be announced in class
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Writing Workshop with George Ellenbogen: Personal Writing/Self Revelation -
- Dozent/in:
- George Ellenbogen
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 5.5.2017, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 6.5.2017, 10:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 7.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
BSc. BWL
MA WiPäd
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Course Description
In PERSONAL WRITING/SELF REVELATION, which will be conducted as a one week compact seminar, students will explore the means by which writers use their own experience—real and imagined—to fashion memoirs, personal essays, and poems that reveal themselves and touch their readers. The course will address, among other topics, the establishing of a persona, the use of place, real and imaginary settlings, the role of detail, and beginnings and endings. Students will also produce their own writing in classes and read to one another in small groups.
Before the first class, students will have read the texts, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen and Teaching Arabs, Writing Self by Evelyn Shakir. Passages of George Orwell’s essays will be assigned later.
Course Teacher:
The course will be taught by memoirist and poet, George Ellenbogen. A professor of Creative Writing at Bentley University in Massachusetts, he has taught this course previously in Germany, and is awaiting the publication of the German edition of both his and Shakir’s memoir.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- The reading (synopses):
A Stone in My Shoe: Poet George Ellenbogen’s memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journeys from Franz Joseph’s Austro-Hungarian empire and Poland to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood—a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers—sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces—the markers of his parents’ navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal—extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Evelyn Shakir's witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming she felt in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, where she taught American literature to university students. She effortlessly combines personal anecdote with cultural, political, and historical background, and is incapable of stereotyped thinking: one of the book's many pleasures is the diversity she finds among the people she encounters in the Middle East, including not only students, but cab drivers, storekeepers, and the guys who make the spinach pies at the bakery down the street from her apartment. As Shakir explores her own identity, she leads the reader to an appreciation of the richness and complexity of being Arab American (or any mixed heritage) in an increasingly small world.
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