Einführungsveranstaltungen der Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Studienanfänger im SS 2018

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Manfred Krug, Christoph Houswitschka, Christa Jansohn, Christine Gerhardt, Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Dienstag, 03.04.2018:
Einführungsveranstaltung für Bachelor, alle Lehrämter, Bachelor-BWL-WiPäd: Raum U7/01.05, 12-13 Uhr

Mittwoch, 04.04.2018:
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF/NF: Raum U5/01.17, 18-20 Uhr

Donnerstag, 05.04.2018:
Einführungstutorium für alle Lehrämter: Raum U5/01.22, 12-14 Uhr
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF/NF: Raum U5/00.24, 16-18 Uhr

Bibliotheksführung für Master: 9.45-11 Uhr (Treffpunkt vor der Teilbibliothek 4)

Freitag, 06.04.2018:
Einführungsveranstaltungen für Masterstudiengänge:
Begrüßung: Raum U7/01.05, 9-10 Uhr
Facheinführung in English and American Studies: Raum U9/01.11, 10.30-11.30 Uhr
Einführung in UnivIS, FlexNow, Virtueller Campus: Raum U7/01.05, 13-15 Uhr

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

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 via FlexNow!: 08.03.2018 (10:00) - 08.06.2018 (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.

Frankenstein

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11, LU19/00.13

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): 08.03.2018 (10:00) - 08.06.2018 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Mary Shelley (1797 1851), the daughter of the radical writer William Godwin and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in the course of a writers contest among Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1814. Mary Shelley was not aware that she had created not just a classic of British literature, but a myth that would live on in literature, film and other media.
Victor Frankenstein is a young and ambitious scientist who assembles a creature from body parts. The creature turns against his creator. A lonesome and deplorable being ends up as an atrocious monster.
In the seminar we will discuss the original, its second 1831 edition, a collaborate effort of Mary Shelley and her husband, the dramatizations in the 19th century and some 20th-century filmings. Frankenstein will also be read in the context of the epic poem that inspired it, John Milton s Paradise Lost (1667) and some contemporary novels and films that continue its main argument, the flawed relationship between creator and creature.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, ed. by Marilyn Butler (Oxford World's Classics)
or
Frankenstein, ed. by J. Paul Hunter (Norton Critical Edition)

IMPORTANT: The edition you read MUST be that of the 1818 publication

History of the Novel I

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22
Einzeltermin am 27.6.2018, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale

MA English and American Studies

MA Berufliche Bildung

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.03.2018 (10:00) - 08.06.2018 (23:59))
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

How Criseyde became Cressida: From Middle English Chaucerian romance to Early Modern English Shakespearean drama

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Gabriele Knappe, Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien

Termine:

Do, 12:15 - 13:45, LU19/00.09
In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods (unless they have already participated in the Übung Methods and Theories in Linguistics ). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Mo, 16 April 2018, 8 10 h OR 10 12 h OR 12 14 h AND Thu, 19 April 2018, 10 16 h OR Fri, 20 April 2018, 8 14 h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 12 April at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=26997. You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 13 April.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

General organization

1. Modules:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Anglistik: Seminar (6 ECTS)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Anglistik: Übung (6 ECTS)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Vertiefungsmodul Anglistik: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
LA GY: Wahlpflichtmodul Englische Sprachwissenschaft bei Kombination mit dem Fach Russisch: Seminar (6 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Profile Module English Linguistics I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module English Linguistics I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Erweiterungsbereich, Master Module or Profile Module I or III English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Erweiterungsbereich, Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I Anglistik: Seminar (6 ECTS)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I Anglistik: Übung (1 ECTS)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul II Anglistik: Seminar (7 ECTS)
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul II Anglistik: Seminar (5 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)

2. Registration and Deregistration:
IMPORTANT On FlexNow! you can register at the Department of English Literature or the Department of English Linguistics, depending on where you would like to obtain credit points from this class.

Registration dates for students who would like to obtain their credit points in English Linguistics:
Registration via FlexNow from 19 March 2018, 10:00h, to 12 April 2018, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 19 March 2018, 10:00h, to 30 April 2018, 23:59h.

Registration dates for students who would like to obtain their credit points in English Literature:
Registration and deregistration via FlexNow from 08 March 2018, 10:00h, to 08 June 2018, 23:59h.

A limited number of places will be reserved for visiting students, students who have changed universities and students who need this class urgently as they are approaching the end of their studies. If the seminar is overbooked, the teachers will decide which students will be accepted.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
1 ECTS: regular active participation in class
2 ECTS: regular active participation in class + short oral presentation
4 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + short assignment of c. 2000 words
5/6/8 ECTS in MA English and American Studies Consolidation Module English Linguistics I/II/III: regular active participation in class + oral exam
5 ECTS MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies Intensivierungsmodul II: oral examination (30 minutes)
5 ECTS in other programmes or modules: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + assignment of c. 3000 words
6 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of c. 4000 words
6 ECTS BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul (Variante A): oral presentation (c. 30 minutes, ungraded) + written paper of c. 3000 to 4000 words
6 ECTS MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: oral presentation (c. 30 minutes, ungraded) + written paper of c. 3500 to 4500 words
6 ECTS in other programmes or modules: regular active particiption in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of c. 4000 words
7 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of c. 4000 to 5500 words
8 ECTS BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik Vertiefungsmodul: oral presentation (c. 30 minutes, ungraded) + seminar paper of 3500 to 4000 words
8 ECTS BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies Vertiefungsmodul: oral presentation (c. 30 minutes, ungraded) + seminar paper of c. 4000 to 5500 words
8 ECTS in other programmes or modules, Hauptseminar and visiting students: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500 to 6000 words

4. Language of instruction:
English

Inhalt:

Description:
Set against the backdrop of the Trojan War, the love story of Troilus and Criseyde was to become one of the favourite stories in medieval literature. It was adapted in French and Italian before it was tackled by Geoffrey Chaucer in the mid 1380s. This linguistic and literary masterpiece is the focus of attention in this seminar. We will discuss both the linguistic and the literary makeup of the text on the basis of close reading. Starting from there, we will also investigate central topics of medieval literature such as providence, fate and free will; human (courtly) love and divine love; friendship; and the role of women. On this basis, William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (c.1601) will be discussed with respect to the interplay of tradition and innovation, both in terms of literature and language. Other English adaptations of the story, such as Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (c.1470), will also be considered briefly.

Students can earn credits for either literary studies or linguistics, depending on their focus in the presentation in class and the seminar paper.

Before our first meeting, students are asked to familiarize themselves with the story as told by Chaucer in a modern-language translation, either in Modern English (Coghill 1971; Windeatt 1998) or Modern German (Obst / Schleburg 2000). Warning: Translations which are available on the internet are not necessarily reliable! The critical edition which we will use in class is The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson et al. (1987); the original text and other material will be made availabe on Virtueller Campus.

For those who are planning to choose Middle English in the written Staatsexamen: The first two books of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, together with ten of the Canterbury Tales, make up the corpus of texts on which the exam is based.

Also, Shakespeare's drama should become familiar to the students, at the latest in the course of the semester.

The Übung by Prof. Knappe which accompanies the seminar (Wednesday, 14:15-15:00) is designed to discuss linguistic project work and other assignments individually and/or in small groups. Individual arrangements will be made also, if necessary, concerning the time of the Übung. Therefore clashes with other courses scheduled for the same time slot as the Übung can be avoided.

In addition, for those who wish to study the Middle English language in more depth in order to fully appreciate the original texts, the seminar "Introducing Old and Middle English" (https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?__s=1113&dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/explor&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/explor&__e=1&sem=2018s&codeset=utf8) (taught by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Knappe) will be interesting. Guests are welcome!

On July 15-20 a study trip to Oxford and London will be organized for students with historical interests (cf. https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?__s=1113&dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/studyt&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/studyt&__e=1&sem=2018s&codeset=utf8). The number of places is limited. If you are interested in joining the trip, please write an email with a brief statement of your motivation to gabriele.knappe@uni-bamberg.de before February 13, 2018.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended reading:

• Coghill, Nevill (transl.) 1971. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

OR

• Windeatt, Barry (transl.) 1998. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde. A new translation. Oxford: University Press.

OR

• Obst, Wolfgang / Floran Schleburg (übers.). 2000. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus und Criseyde. Frankfurt: Insel.

AND ALSO:

• Bevington, David M. (ed.) 2015. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. Revised ed. London: Bloomsbury.
• Boitani, Piero (ed.) 1989. The European Tragedy of Troilus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Introduction.
• Horobin, Simon. 2013. Chaucer's Language. Second ed. Heidelberg: Winter, chapters 1-3.