19th-Century Women's Fiction

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

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
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.03.2023, 10:00-23.04.2023, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

The 19th century is often said to be the Golden Age of the novel and it has seen authors who are still household names today, such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. In particular, as Elaine Showalter writes, “it seemed that the nineteenth century was the Age of the Female Novelist” (Showalter 1977). This course is thus going to look specifically at 19th-century female writers whose works have proven to be timeless reader favourites. By quantitatively reading and discussing novels from the whole century, we try to compare themes and key elements of the 19th-century female novel, ranging from the Romantic period to the late Victorian era. We will discover romance plots alongside social condition novels alongside sensational crime stories. In all, as diverse as women’s fiction from the 19th century is, there are surprisingly many common denominators among the novels and we are going to discuss as many of them as we can. So be prepared to read and read more.
Participants should be advised that this is a very reading intensive class covering six long novels over the course of 14 weeks.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading: (in reading order)

Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey. 1818.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. 1847.
Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South. 1854/55.
George Eliot. Adam Bede. 1859.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret. 1862.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1885/86

Alice in Wonderland as a Literary Phenomenon

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2023, 8:00 - 17:30, LU19/00.11

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)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Inhalt:

In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published a book about a girl called Alice, who follows a white rabbit through a rabbit hole into a strange land inhabited by even stranger creatures. She meets the Cheshire Cat, changes her own size by eating and drinking, attends the weirdest tea party and curiouser and curiouser stands trial for allegedly stealing the Queen's tarts.

Even this very reduced description of the plot of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is most likely familiar to most Anglophone readers. More than 150 years after the book was published, Alice has moved beyond the pages of her own two books (Through the Looking Glass followed Alice in Wonderland four years later). She as well as many of the Wonderland characters has become a literary phenomenon and Carroll's novel has inspired artists, musicians and novelists ever since. This course looks at several literary Alice in Wonderland adaptations (in the broadest sense), tracing how and to what effect the novel has been used by later generations. To show what Alice has contributed to (not only) English literary history, this course will work with several primary texts and excerpts of primary texts alongside a wide array of literary theory, including intertextuality, frame theory, parody and satire theory, feminism, otherness, and queer studies.

Participants are advised to have read both of Carroll's texts by the beginning of the course. For more obligatory reading see below.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

The following full texts will be covered in class:

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1865.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. 1871.
Dawson, Juno. Wonderland. 2020.
Henry, Christina. Alice. 2015.

Excerpts from the following texts will be provided on the VC:

Bache, Louise Franklin. Gladys in Grammarland. 1897.
Bangs, John Kendrick. Excerpts from Clara in Blunderland. 1902.
Saki (Hector Hugo Monroe). Excerpts from The Westminster Alice. 1902.
Young, Lucien. Excerpts from Alice in Brexitland. 2017.

Australian Literature

Dozent/in:

Nora Pleßke

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar introduces students to a history of Australian literature, its phases, changes, and developments from first imaginations to the twenty-first century by analysing novels, plays, short stories, poems, and non-fictional writing. Exploring the multifariousness of Australian literature oscillating between metropolitan accommodation and postcolonial resistance, students will identify overtly Australian subject matters, e.g. concepts of convictism, colonialism, pastoralism, mateship, endurance, loneliness, renewal, self-discovery, egalitarianism, etc., and question these constructions of a national literature in the light of an imagery, which is more urban, modern, and transnational.

By the first session, you should have read:
Meyer, Therese-Marie. “Australia.” English Literatures across the Globe: A Companion. Ed. Lars Eckstein. Fink, 2007. 178-200.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Texts covered in class, for example, include:

Tench, Watkin. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. 1789.
Clarke, Marcus. For the Term of His Natural Life. 1874.
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. 1901.
Lawler, Ray. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. 1957.
Carey, Peter. The True History of the Kelly Gang. 2000.
Wright, Alexis. Carpentaria. 2006.

Relevant excerpts and shorter texts will be provided on the VC.

Further suggested reading:

Huggan, Graham. Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism. Oxford UP, 2004.
Webby, Elizabeth. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature. Cambridge UP, 2000.

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Amelie Biersack, Alicia Drefs

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 17.4.2023, Einzeltermin am 11.5.2023, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 17.6.2023, 11:00 - 18:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 18.6.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 29.6.2023, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 2.7.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, U7/01.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

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

Inhalt:

This summer semester, we are going to work on several short plays which we will perform at the end of the semester. The genres of those plays will be mixed, so there will be something for everyone! You do not need any prior knowledge of acting to participate, nor do not need to be a student of English everyone is welcome to join. If you are interested in drama but prefer not to act, we will find a spot for you in our backstage team, which will centre around costume, hair and makeup design, as well as social media and advertising. Feel free to simply drop by in the first session!

The class will take place in person on Mondays and Thursdays at 8 p.m in room U7/01.05. It is no problem if you can only make one of the weekly dates. If you would like to participate in the Drama Group, please write an email to buedg.englit@uni-bamberg.de for further information. We will then add you to our team on MS Teams and look forward to meeting you in the first week of the semester! Directors: Amelie Biersack and Alicia Drefs

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 19.6.2023, 14:15 - 15:45, U2/01.33
Einzeltermin am 21.7.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 11.10.2023, 11:00 - 12:30, U2/02.27

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

WICHTIG: Dieser Kurs wird voraussichtlich in Präsenz unterrichtet. Ggf. notewendige kurzfristige Änderungen werden hier bekannt gegeben.

IMPORTANT: This course is planned as an in-person course. If necessary changes occur at short notice, we will publish these changes here.

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

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.04.2023, 10:00 - 23.04.2023, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen zwei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Termin A finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin B 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 Literary Studies" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies A" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Dieses Tutorium wird von derselben Dozentin unterrichtet wie die Introduction selbst.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul 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 predominantly English literary history.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introductions taught by members of the English Literature section use literary examples from a primarily British context, and those taught by members of the American Studies section use primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you specialize in English or American literature, and you don t have to take your later courses in the same area.

The following applies only to students whose Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft contains both the Introduction to Literary Studies and a lecture:
The final written exam of this Introduction to Literary Studies is also the module exam for the Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft. The exam will contain questions about both the content of the Introduction and the lecture (free choice: English or American Literature lecture). Students, therefore, are advised to take the introductory class either after attending the lecture OR in the same semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

Introduction to Neoclassicism

Angaben:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

During the mid seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, artists turned to classical texts and form in search of inspiration and creativity. The literature of the period, its drama, poetry as well as prose, sought not only to delight but to instruct its reader by extolling classical virtues such as restraint and order, simplicity, accuracy and logic. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the Neoclassical movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key neoclassical texts. In order to do so, the course will first frame Neoclassicism, that is to say, we shall study the movement in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with preceding and succeeding movements, for instance, the Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Neoclassicism, from both an artistic and literary stand point but also a philosophical one. The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Neoclassicist poetry, the prose of, for instance, Defoe and Swift and the multifaceted theatre of the period, with the examples of Comedy of Manners and Sentimental Comedy as prominent genres.

Empfohlene Literatur:

to be read PRIOR to the semester begin:

Dryden, John. Marriage à-la-Mode (1673).
Pope, Alexander. "The Rape of the Lock" (1675).
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe (1719).

to be read DURING the semester:

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders (1722).
Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews (1742).

MORE will be added at the first session

Joseph Conrad

Dozent/in:

Nora Pleßke

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, KR14/00.06

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)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Inhalt:

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born in a predominantly Polish part of the Ukraine and only became a British subject in 1886. At the age of twenty-one, despite not having any command of English, Conrad had joined the British Merchant Marine. Throughout his career at sea, he spent much time in the colonised areas of the world; his most frequent travels brought him to the Far East, India, and Australia.

Conrad was personally affected by European politics of the nineteenth century and his writing reflects the historical-political context of his time especially that of Imperial Britain, Napoleonic France, the Russian revolutions, and the Polish question. Conrad stands at the intersection of two cultural periods: Victorianism and Modernism and his texts are a combination of nineteenth and twentieth century preoccupations. A major part of his writing consists of maritime adventure stories interspersed with pessimism and scepticism but also ironic wit.

In this seminar, students will be introduced to the œuvre of this exceptional author. We will focus on and discuss three classics by Joseph Conrad in depth from various critical angles: Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and The Secret Agent (1907). We will analyse Conrad’s writing for the display of pre-modernist techniques and styles as well as elucidate topics such as colonialism, symbolism, nature, heroism, the London novel, degeneration, terrorism, and materiality. A further part of the seminar will deal with the influence of Conrad on contemporary, especially postcolonial, literature and the various adaptations of his works, e.g. Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979).

Participants are expected to have read Heart of Darkness by the second session.

Empfohlene Literatur:

You must have copies of these editions of the novels in the first session:
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1902. Ed. Paul B. Armstrong. Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton, 2016. [ISBN: ‎ 978-0393264869]
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. 1900. Ed. Thomas C. Moser. Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton, 1996. [ISBN: ‎ 978-0393963359]
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. 1907. Ed. Richard Niland. Norton Critical Edition. W.W. Norton, 2016. [ISBN: 978-0393937442]

Further texts covered in class include:
Almayer’s Folly. 1895.
The ‘Nigger’ of the Narcissus. 1897.
“An Outpost of Progress.” 1898.
“Youth.” 1902.
“Typhoon.” 1903.
Nostromo. 1904.
Under Western Eyes. 1911.
“The Secret Sharer.” 1912.
The Shadow-Line. 1917.
Victory. 1915.

Excerpts and further critical literature will be provided on the VC.

Further suggested introductory reading:
Peters, John G. The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2006.
Stape, J.H., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1996.
Stape, J.H., ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2014.

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.4.2023, 11:30 - 12:30, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 30.5.2023, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 1.7.2023, 9:00 - 17:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) in literature (Focus on English literature)

Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.03.2023, 10:00 - 23.04.2023, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" (students in teachers training) who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" (state exams) in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.

Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The course will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.

Scotland's Urban Heritage

Dozent/in:

Nora Pleßke

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Nachhaltigkeit

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02
Einzeltermin am 11.5.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/02.06

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)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Inhalt:

This seminar intends to reflect on Scotland s cultural heritage as an important national asset with a focus on cities. Instead of the country s natural heritage, which is often favoured in analyses of Scotland s past, we will assess its particularly urban heritage. After a first, general overview of Scotland s eight major cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Perth, Stirling, and Dunfermline), we will explore various approaches to urban heritage in cultural memory studies and urban theory. In the following sessions, we will then focus on particular aspects of urban heritage in Scottish cities pertaining to architecture and monuments, industrial heritage and regeneration, art and cultural industries, literature and film as well as public memory.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Exemplary literary sources:
Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)
James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Walter Scott, Waverley, or, Tis Sixty Years Since (1814)
Isabella Bird, Notes on Old Edinburgh (1869)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes (1878)
Alasdair Gray, Lanark (1981)
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things (1992)
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993)
Ian Rankin, The Falls (2001)

Set texts will be announced in the first session.
Shorter texts will be provided on the VC.

Suggested background reading:
Dennison, Elizabeth P. The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation. Edinburgh UP, 2018.
MacCrone, David, Angela Morris, and Richard Kiely. Scotland the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage. Edinburgh UP, 1995.

An extensive "Semesterapparat" on the topic will be set up in the university library.

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 19:30, U2/00.26

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.

Inhalt:

William Shakespeare's works are well known, 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 per semester, 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 sign up via e-mail to the lecturer to get access to Teams.
For more information on the Shakespeare Reading Group, please also see here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/extracurriculare-aktivitaeten/shakespeare-reading-group/

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice. (first play to be read)
William Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida. (second play to be read)

Supervision tutorial for BA theses and Zulassungsarbeiten in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
Lehramt GY (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Zulassungsarbeit)
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow!: 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59

Inhalt:

This supervision tutorial is specifically designed to prepare students for their Bachelor's thesis or Zulassungsarbeit (teaching degrees) in English Literature. The course covers legal requirements (registering the thesis), formal aspects (style sheet, etc.), discusses structural aspects and requirements of a final paper, and gives students the opportuntiy to discuss their individual papers with a lecturer and fellow students.

Supervision tutorial for BA theses, MA theses and Zulassungsarbeiten

Dozent/in:

Nora Pleßke

Angaben:

Übung

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U11/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Thesis (2 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow!: 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing for or working on a final thesis in English or American Literature. 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 individual consultations and occasional plenary sessions. In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss more general topics, how to use theory, how to build an argument and also formal aspects and criteria of a thesis. 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 Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Dozent/in:

Beatrix Hesse

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Webinar
Einzeltermin am 21.7.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature 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

Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 - 23.04.2023, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)
Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B per E-Mail bis 06. April 2023 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

3. Participation:
To attend the lecture please follow this link to the class on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aKr7qcl5neeJtIuQL-D9k25jQpeg8gJ3iNwHk881_gLY1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=c2cf5231-056b-42bf-b509-33451e46e5e0&tenantId=4f18ddfc-c31f-4597-afda-fa5a760bf3cf

The English Gothic Novel of the 18th Century

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS und Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

When Horace Walpole “invented” the Gothic novel in 1764, little did he know what would happen to the new style of writing he introduced with his novella The Castle of Otranto. While the book itself was moderately successful in its own time, it sparked a genre that would take around 25 years to full develop and then dominate the literary scene for another 25 years. Haunted castles, gloomy mountains, oppressed heroines and brooding villains, banditti, ghosts, demons and dark aesthetics were “the rage” in the late 18th century and fascinated thousands of readers – and have continues to fascinate millions more. The excesses of the Gothic novel shock, provoke, and thrill contemporary and modern readers alike while they at the same time often cross into the (unwittingly) ridiculous. The Gothic novel has fascinated readers and (much late) scholars alike and Gothic has meanwhile become more than a genre.

This course specifically looks at the English Gothic novel of the long eighteenth century, starting with the universally acknowledged first Gothic text, The Castle of Otranto. We will study some of the most iconic and best-studied Gothic novels of the so called “first wave” of the 18th-century Gothic novel. Over the course of the semester, we will have a look at “female” and “male” Gothic, settings, aesthetics and further generic markers of the Gothic with the help of the primary reading. We will conclude the semester by looking at the Gothic Parody, a derivative genre of the Gothic novel with excerpts provide on the VC.

Students should be advised that this course will be very reading intensive as the primary sources tend to be rather long.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
The following full texts must be prepared by the third week of the semester:

Beckford, William. Vathek. 1786.
Lewis, M.G. The Monk. 1796.
Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. 1794.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. 2nd edition.

Excerpts from these texts will be provided on the VC over the course of the semester:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1818.
Beckford, William. Azemia. 2nd edition. 1798
Burke, Edmund. On the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757.

Secondary literature will be provided via the VC.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mi, 11:00 - 13:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Open for Master students in English and American Studies with Bamberg as their home university including the Joint Programme (including visiting students within the Joint Programme).
This tutorial is coordinated through the VC course "Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies", see here: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=42647, and will be held entirely online via MS Teams.

Tutorium zu Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:15 - 13:45, U2/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Susan Brähler.
To take this course, students need not sign up separately via FlexNow!.

Inhalt:

WCIHTIG: Wie die Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) wird auch das dazugehörige Tutorium voraussichtlich in Präsenz unterrichtet. Das Tutorium beginnt erst in der zweiten Semesterwoche. Die Zugangsdaten zum VC-Kurs des Tutoriums werden im VC-Kurs der Introduction (A) veröffentlicht.
IMPORTANT: Like the course Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) this course is planned as an in-person course. The tutorial starts in the second week of term. The access information for the VC course for this tutorial will be published on the VC course for Introduction (A).

This optional tutorial accompanies the seminar Introduction to English and American Studies (A) and it focuses on practical training in using the terminology discussed in the seminar. Students will be given the opportunity to practice writing mock-exam essays. Overall, the tutorial provides the practice to the Introduction's theory and we highly recommend students take both courses to adequately prepare for the exam, their future studies in literary studies and (eventually) their state exams.

Empfohlene Literatur:

In addition to the course book by Michael Meyer and the primary texts read in the "Introduction" class, this course will work with material published on the Virtual Campus.

Workshop Academic Research

Dozent/in:

Amelie Biersack

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 8.7.2023, 10:00 - 18:00, U5/02.17

Inhalt:

This tutorial will cover the topic of how to write a term paper in English Literature. You will learn about the structure, research, and processes that are of importance in writing a good term paper – through alternating parts of input and exercise. We will, for example, cover plagiarism, how to write a thesis, the bibliography section, and more. This course is aimed at both Master and Bachelor / teacher's degree students, and we especially recommended it if you have not written a term paper at Bamberg University before.