An interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare: Language pedagogy, linguistics, literary and cultural studies

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Manfred Krug, Isolde Schmidt, Pascal Fischer, Nicole K. Konopka, Beatrix Hesse

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 17.1.2017, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Beginn: erste Semesterwoche. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die erste Sitzung von 8:30-11:30 Uhr stattfindet. Die Sitzung am 24.01.2017 entfällt. In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods in the computer pool U5/02.23 (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: Mon, 24 October 2016, 8-10h OR 10-12h OR 12-14h AND Thu, 27 October 2016, 8-14h OR Fri, 28 October 2016, 8-14h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 20 October at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=18361 . You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 21 October.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Anmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 20.10.16, 23:59h.
Abmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 30.10.16, 23:59h.

Die Anmeldung für die Lehrveranstaltung erfolgt für alle Studierenden über den Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft.
Die Prüfungsanmeldung erfolgt später im jeweils gewählten Teilbereich.
Nähere Informationen erhalten Sie in der ersten Seminarsitzung.

Modulanbindungen:
Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist für alle Lehramtsstudierenden der Anglistik/Amerikanistik sowie MA-Studierende geeignet. Studierende können wählen, in welcher der beteiligten Teildisziplinen sie Punkte für ein Modul einbringen bzw. ein Modul absolvieren wollen. Darüber hinaus kann die Lehrveranstaltung auch im Rahmen des neuen KulturPLUS-Moduls belegt werden.

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Sprachwissenschaft

1. Modules:

-LA GY modularisiert: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Restricted Electives in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul II Anglistik: Seminar (7 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Sprachwissenschaft
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)

For students transferring to the University of Bamberg, for Erasmus students and for those who need the credit to register for their upcoming final exams a few places will be reserved. If the course is fully booked please contact the lecturer personally.

2. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
regular active participation in class + oral presentation + termpaper (4500-6000 words)

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Didaktik

1. Modulzugehörigkeit:
-Lehramt GS; MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
-Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
-BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
-MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
-Bachelor BWL Studienschwerpunkt BIMA: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Bachelor Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Leistungsnachweis:
regelmäßige Anwesenheit und intensive Mitarbeit; Referat und Hausarbeit

Informationen für Studierende der anglistischen und amerikanistischen Kulturwissenschaft

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies:
-Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS) Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS) Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation
term-paper according to the style-sheet

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Kultur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft -B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS) -LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS); Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS); Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS); Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies ; Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

-6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
-8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de!

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Literatur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen

-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
-LA neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Profilmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Mastermodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Vertiefungsmodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Profilmodul I oder II Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow
Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de!

Informationen für Studierende der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft

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)

Bedingung für Leistungsnachweis:
Hausarbeit
Im Consolidation Module: Mündliche Prüfung

Inhalt:

course description
Shakespeare and his works are often discussed in seminars but usually with a focus on either a literary-cultural or a linguistic perspective.
In this seminar we will take a different approach. Collaborating across the various disciplines of our department, we will look at Shakespeare and his works from different perspectives, thus not only presenting a multifaceted approach to Shakespeare but also hopefully - providing the basis for future teachers to successfully teach Shakespeare at school.
In the linguistic part of the seminar, we will see that around 1600 the English language was in a state of flux and underwent some of its most radical structural changes. More often than not, parallels between Shakespeare's language and present-day German can be revealed. We will discuss all levels of linguistic organization, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. Overall, this should help future teachers of English (as well as their prospective students) to better understand not only the grammars of the two languages but also the underlying reasons for mistakes commonly made by speakers whose first language is German.
The next class will introduce classic approaches to Shakespeare s plays from the perspective of literary studies. Taking Macbeth as our prime example, we will study Shakespeare s use of historical and literary sources and of stylistic devices, particularly metaphor, metre and the juxtaposition of dialogue and soliloquy.

From a British Cultural Studies perspective the seminar will first position Shakespeare s plays in the context of the popular culture, folk traditions, and festivities of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. In a second step, we will look at Shakespeare comics as a popular medium of our own time that can profitably be used in the classroom.
From an American Cultural Studies perspective we will focus on what happens when Shakespeare s plays not only are turned into movies, but American high school movies. Taking The Taming of the Shrew/Ten Things I Hate about You (1999) and Othello/O (2001) as our prime examples, we will study the adaptation process and find out how the alterations can be utilized for the EFL classroom.
From the perspective of Language Pedagogy we will discuss the question of whether Shakespeare should or should not be dealt with at school and the challenges that go along with teaching Shakespeare in the EFL classroom. We will also look at various approaches of how to teach Shakespeare and critically discuss them.

additional information:
Students attending this class can choose whether they want to earn credits in literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics or language pedagogy or for the newly established KulturPLUS module. They must be willing to do regular reading assignments and give a short presentation (including a handout, typically to be prepared in co-operation with another student). In their term papers, students may wish to check hypotheses from the literature by working with Shakespearean texts (inter alia, the complete works of Shakespeare in electronic, machine-readable form).

Empfohlene Literatur:

required texts:

before the beginning of the class:
Macbeth (Arden Edition)
Hamlet (Arden Edition)

during the semester:
Othello (Norton Critical Edition)

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Jacques Schiltz, Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mo, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 8.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 15.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 22.1.2017, 10:00 - 20:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 26.1.2017, 18:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 27.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 28.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 29.1.2017, 16:00 - 23:00, U7/01.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

• Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)

Contemporary British Jewish Literature

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2016, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.11

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): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The seminar tries to trace issues of identity and belonging in various texts and films by Jewish British writers and film makers. In British society ever since World War II, it has been class more than anything else that made it difficult for Jews to define an identity of their own; either they were excluded or they assimilated into society.

In this seminar we will discuss a variety of perspectives that shape Jewish identity in Great Britain. The immigration from Eastern European countries in the early twentieth century, exiles who had either escaped or survived the Shoah, the foundation of the State of Israel, the legacy of the Shoah, the Palestinian conflict, old and new forms of anti-Semitism.

We will read, discuss and include a number of texts and films. The list below is more than we can actually do in one semester. So please understand it as a list of suggestions and let me know at your earliest convenience whether you are interested in any specific text for your presentation/paper. The texts marked with # are for smaller presentations, i.e. for students who do not want to write a term paper, but just participate.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Israel Zangwill: Children of the Ghetto (1892) (essay)#
George Mikes: How to be an Alien (1946) (essay)#
Marghanita Laski: The Little Boy Lost (1949)
Bernice Rubens: Set on Edge (1960); I, Dreyfus (1999) (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Birthday in London (1963) (short story)#
Muriel Spark: The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) (novel)
Clive Sinclair: Wingate Football Club (1979), Bed Bugs (1982) (short story)#
Michelene Wandor: Return to Sender (1986), Song of the Jewish Princess (1989) (short story)#
Anita Brookner: Latecomers (1988); A Family Romance (1993) (novel)
Elena Lappin: Noa and Noah (1998) (short story)#
Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times (2000) (novel)
Tamar Yellin: Kafka in Bronteland (short stories) (2005); The Genizah at the House of Shepher (2004) (novel)
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience (2006); The Lessons (2010) (novel)
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question (2010) (novel)
Natasha Solomons: Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman (2010); The Novel in the Viola (2011)

Julia Pascal: The Holocaust Trilogy (1995) (play)
Ronald Harwood: Taking Sides (1995) (play and film adaptation)
Harold Pinter: Ashes to Ashes (2006) (play)
Karen Gershon: A Tempered Wind (1992/2009) (autobiography)
Kindertransport, Before and After. Sixty Poems 1980-2007, ed. by Lotte Kramer (2007) (poetry)
Jack Rosenthal: The Evacuees (1975) (film) Stephen Poliakoff: Glorious 39 (2009) (film) Gollancz, Victor. The Case of Adolf Eichmann (1961) (essay/pamphlet)

Creative Writing with Analysis

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Chiara Manghi, Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Module Allocation

All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

An- und Abmeldung/(De)Registration:

via FlexNow 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to Chiara Manghi.

Inhalt:

Please read John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman by the second session.

Empfohlene Literatur:

John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 13.2.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/Übung für Examenskanditaten) or an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• MA Berufliche Bildung

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams or who are interested in detailed analyses of exam questions covering the whole of British literature from the Renaissance until today are very welcome, too.

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!: 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

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.

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.10. – 23.01.2017

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!)

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

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.10. – 23.01.2017

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!)

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25
ab 26.10.2016

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): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

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.

N.N.

Dozent/in:

N.N.

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

PhD-Colloquium

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Kolloquium, 1 SWS

Termine:

Di, 20:00 - 22:00, U11/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Begins in week 2, held every other week

Pre-Raphaelite Literature and Art in Victorian Britain

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• 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)
• 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 Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
• Consolidation Module British and American Culture 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)
• 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)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

“In 1872, W. H. Mallock published a mock-literary cookbook for aspiring poets. One ‘recipe’ was entitled ‘How to Write a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem’. Among the recommended ingredients were: ‘obsolete and unintelligible’ words, ‘a perfectly vacant atmosphere’, ‘three damozels, dressed in straight nightgowns’, ‘a stone wall’, ‘trees and flowers’, as well as stars, aureoles and lilies. ‘When you have arranged all these objects rightly,’ the recipe continued, ‘take a cast of them in the softest part of your brain, and pour in your word-composition.’” Dinah Roe introduces her anthology of writings of The Pre-Raphaelits from Rossetti to Ruskin (2010) with this entertaining summary of a contemporary critic. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its peak in the 1860s and 1870s. Pre-Raphaelite poetry was influenced by Romanticism, but developed independent ideas, forms and focuses. This movement tried to escape the industrialised world and concentrated on idealistic themes such as romantic love and poetic imagination. It finally became utterly divorced from reality when it emphasized art for art’s sake.

We will discuss the works of poetry and art categorised as belonging to Pre-Raphaelitism and try to establish an understanding that goes beyond the contemporary criticism of rejecting it as naive rather conceptualising it as a counter-culture opposing Victorian earnestness and realism.

Pre-Raphaelite poets include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, William Bell Scott, William Allingham, Arthur O’Shaughnessy and John Payne. Painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, James Collinson and Frederic Stephens, and others opposed the aesthetics of the London’s Royal Academy of Arts founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1848. In a period of revolutions, the movement remained astonishingly apolitical with the exception of William Morris and Swinburne.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase Dinah Roe’s anthology. Additional texts will be made available.

Rivers in Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / 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 / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: 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 and culture 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): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class we will explore rivers in poetry, fiction, music, movies, mythology and folklore.
We will analyze the river as a generic, universal entity, present in countless songs and poems, but also specific rivers, focusing on the Thames and the Mississippi (but without forgetting the tributaries of the Thames in Rivers of London, the Spoon River and its cemetery and poems, the Sand Creek and its role in history).

This class is open for students of both literary and cultural studies, and both as a reading tutorial (Uebung) and as a seminar.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading List:

Novels:
Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat
Ben Aaronovitch. Rivers of London
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpts)
Norman Maclean. A River Runs Through It
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness

Please read Three Men in a Boat by the second session.

Poems (selection):
Richard Hugo. "The Towns We Know and Leave Behind, The Rivers We Carry With Us"
Carol Ann Duffy. "River"
Langston Hughes. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Songs (selection):
Carly Simon. "Let the River Run"
Fabrizio De Andrè. "Fiume Sand Creek"
Emeli Sandé. "River"

More tba in class

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.05
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2016, 18:00 - 21:00, MG1/02.05
Einzeltermin am 14.2.2017, Einzeltermin am 17.2.2017, 12:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

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. Cymbeline.
William Shakespeare. King Henry IV, part I.

To Divert and Entertain, to Instruct and Improve: The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 26.1.2017, 10:00 - 12:00, KR14/00.06

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) 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): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

[T]o divert and entertain, and at the same time to instruct and improve the minds. This is what Samuel Richardson famously defines in the poetological Preface to his epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) as one of the core objectives of the histories, lives and journals that we have come to identify as novels. Entertainment and instruction are core elements of 18th-century novel writing and will also be crucial to this seminar on the 18th-century novel: students will learn about 18th-century thought and (literary) culture and discuss some of the most entertaining novels of the English literary canon.

The 18th century is often considered as the moment at which modern literary culture begins and also sees the emergence of the novel as we have come to know it. We will thus set out to trace the origins of the novel and learn how the first novelists defined this new genre (novel vs. romance; truth and virtue; individualism and authenticity). After these preliminaries, we will gain a glimpse of the enormous diversity of 18th-century novel writing both with respect to different sub-genres and with respect to its development over the course of the century. We will not only focus on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, the authors most associated with the rise of the novel ever since Ian Watt s groundbreaking study of the same title (1957), but also consider novels by now canonized women writers such as Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood.

Students will study the Puritanism and Empiricism of Daniel Defoe s adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), Samuel Richardson s psychological realism in Pamela (1740), Henry Fielding s parodies of the sentimental novel (Shamela 1741, Joseph Andrews 1742) and explore the possibilities of authorial narration in Tom Jones (1749). We will study Eliza Haywood s amatory novel Love in Excess (1719) and Frances Burney s novel of development Evelina (1778) for the ways in which they construct a female subjectivity. Jonathan Swift s satire Gulliver s Travels (1726), Laurence Sterne s experimental novel Tristram Shandy (1759-67), Oliver Goldsmith s sentimental novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and Horace Walpole s Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1765) will complete our overview of 18th-century novel writing.

Hopefully, in the course of the semester, students will come to disagree with Samuel Johnson who decried [t]these books as being written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle with minds unfurnished with ideas (The Rambler, 31 March 1750) and will appreciate them as still being worthy of in-depth study.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719) [excerpts only]
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels (1726) [excerpts only]
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) [excerpts only]
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones 1749) [excerpts only of all three novels]
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Frances Burney, Evelina (1778) [excerpts only]
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67), A Sentimental Journey (1768) [excerpts only]
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Students need to buy copies of Robinson Crusoe, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Castle of Otranto.
Excerpts of all other novels listed above will be made available on the Virtual Campus. Please get in touch with your lecturer to get hold of the password.

Recommended Reading:
London, April. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.
McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.
Nixon, Cheryl L., ed. Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel 1688-1815. Peterborough: Broadview P, 2008.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. New York: Blackwell, 1986.
Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. 1957. 2nd. ed. Berkeley: U California P, 2001.

True Crime Fiction

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/01.18

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
ERASMUS or visiting students: Seminar: max. 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading tutorial (Übung)
All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literature and culture in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• ERASMUS or visiting students

M.A. Literatur und Medien: Profilmodul: Übung (Referat + Essay, 4 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration Via FlexNow! 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)
ERASMUS and visiting students: Please contact lecturer if you wish to attend the class.

Inhalt:

Crime fiction is one of the most popular genres in literature and film and most readers are familiar with fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple. However, many crime novels or films are based on actual crimes or actual detectives, often without explicitly stating so. Or did you know that Wilkie Collins’ in The Moonstone, one of the first ever crime novels in English, some of the elements of the story are actually based on a real crime, even on a murder?
Besides fictional stories including real elements, there is the whole genre of true crime fiction, stories of real crimes told in an entertaining way. Just like fiction, true crime fiction, as the name already implies, makes use of narrative strategies and literary elements since, after all, they still tell a story. But what are the differences between fictitious stories and factual stories told with the same narrative strategies? Are there any differences? And how does that work for film? Are there differences in the depiction of real and fictitious crimes? All of these questions are going to be examined in this class and we are going to discuss literature of various kinds, film and documentaries, and other texts.
Please be aware that you need to read several texts throughout the semester!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading list:
To read/watch before the seminar starts:
Kate Summerscale. Murder at Road Hill House. 2008.
Mary Belloc Lowndes. The Lodger. 1913.
Carol Ann Davis. Children Who Kill. 2014.

To read/watch during the semester:
Truman Capote. In Cold Blood. 1965.
Capote. Directed by Bennet Miller. 2005.
Heavenly Creatures. Directed by Peter Jackson. 1994.
Catch Me If You Can. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 2002.
The Great Train Robbery. Directed by Julian Jarrold and James Strong. 2013.

More films/excerpts may be added during the semester!

Tutorial for international MA students [TU]

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Lisa Schädlich, N.N.

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 12.10.2016, 10:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 14.10.2016, 12:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 4.11.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U5/02.23
Einzeltermin am 27.1.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, MG2/00.10

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/02.01

Tutorium zu "Introduction to English and American Literature A"

Dozent/in:

Hedwig Hardi

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, WE5/02.004

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Dr. Susan Brähler

Tutorium zu "Introduction to English and American Literature B"

Dozent/in:

Hedwig Hardi

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Mi, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/02.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies B taught by Alexander Debney

Writing Politics: Literary Modernism 1919 - 1939

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U11/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

ERASMUS or visiting students: max. 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)
guest auditors please contact lecturer:
alexander-stefan.debney@stud.uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

The ‘Great War’, a conflict which at the time had no parallel in human history in terms of bloodshed, ripped into the fabric of European civilisation and shook its traditional foundations to the core. In its wake, many new – and often radical – ideas regarding the organisation of society gained ever more proponents. Literature saw a burst of creative energy, but also underwent radical changes in form and content. Though its roots can be pinpointed well before 1914, literary modernism gained its most decisive influence with the First World War. From this time onward, the conflict haunted the imaginations of writers and readers alike, until being overshadowed by the looming possibility of a second conflagration, perhaps to be even more terrible than the first.

This course will examine the connections between literary modernism and the turbulent politics of the time, with an emphasis on the inter-war period, 1919 - 1939. Political thought will be analysed in the works of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, May Sinclair, Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, among others.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:
To be read by the second session:

D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo

Additional reading will be made available via the VC