20th-Century British Poetry

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 20.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:

• Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
• Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

• Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

• Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar will guide you through the fascinating variety of poetry in the 20th century. We will begin with T.S. Eliot and modernism, talk about the political poetry in the 1930s (Auden, Spender, MacNeice), and continue with Robert Conquest’s New Lines introducing us to poets of the 1950s. The diversity of British poetry is difficult to categorise. There are individual poets such as Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, and Geoffrey Hill. Some poets gained a reputation as representatives of the bygone rural England (John Betjeman). Others might be read as poets of a particular region such as Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid or Jackie Kay for Scotland or Dylan Thomas and R.S Thomas for Wales, and John Harris and D.M. Thomas for Cornwall. Recent poets include ethnic minorities and immigrants, i.e. diasporic poetry or women poets such as Emily Berry, Alice Oswald or Clare Pollard. Reading these poets in class, you will learn a lot about the changing poetic language in the twentieth century, but also about history and politics, society and culture in the United Kingdom throughout a troubled century.

Einführungsveranstaltungen der Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Studienanfänger im SS 2017

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

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

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Dienstag, 18.04.2017:
Einführungsveranstaltung für Bachelor / alle Lehrämter / Bachelor-BWL-WiPäd: Raum U7/01.05, 12-13 Uhr

Mittwoch, 19.04.2017:
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF / NF: Raum U5/01.17, 18-20 Uhr

Donnerstag, 20.04.2017:
Einführungstutorium für alle Lehrämter: Raum U5/01.22, 12-14 Uhr
Einführungstutorium Bachelor HF/NF: Raum U5/00.24, 16-18 Uhr

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

Freitag, 21.04.2017:
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, Virtuellen Campus und Onlinedienste: Raum U7/01.05, 13-15 Uhr

Ersatztermin Jewish British Culture

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4

Termine:

Zeit n.V., U5/01.22

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

• BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow!: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.

In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.

The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.

Jewish-British Culture

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 25.4.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 2.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 9.5.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 11.7.2017, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
ab dem 16.5.2017 findet die Vorlesung immer in Raum U5/02.22 statt

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in cultural studies in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• MA English and American Studies

• MA Wirtschaftspädagogik

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

• ERASMUS or visiting students

Hauptfach Jüdische Studien: B/H 2b, B/H 3, A/H 1a, A/H 1b
Großes Nebenfach Jüdische Studien (45 ECTS): A/N-45 1, V/N-45 1a
Kleines Nebenfach Jüdische Studien (30 ECTS): A/N-30 1, V/N-30 1a
Großes Nebenfach Judaistik (45 ETCS): Aufbaumodul 1, Vertiefungsbereich 1
Kleines Nebenfach Judaistik (30 ECTS): Aufbaumodul 1, Vertiefungsbereich 1

(De)Registration:
via FlexNow (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture will offer you a survey to many centuries of Jewish life in Great Britain. Jews arrived with the Norman conquerors in the 11th century. They were driven out of England under Edward I in the 13th century to return under puritan rule in the 17th century. Eighteenth-century enlightenment and Victorian middle class culture brought about the assimilation of many Jews. When hundred thousands of Ashkenazi arrived from Eastern Europe around the turn of the 19th century, the London East End and other cities in England became centres of Jewish culture. A generation later or two, they were gentrified and moved to the suburbs. The Nazis and German occupation of Europe brought a new wave of Jewish refugees to the UK from the Continent. The lecture will not only talk about immigration and the thriving Jewish communities, its literature and its cultural and scientific achievements, but also about anti-semitism and the trials of the diaspora . The lecture informs you about Jewish synagogues, the London Jewish Museum, and forms of Holocaust Memory in the Imperial War Museum and the materials published by the Department for Education.

Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room U5/00.24. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

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John Milton's Paradise Lost

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 19.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:

• Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
• Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

• Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

• Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we read one of the most significant epics written in English literature and beyond, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). Written in the tradition of Homer and Vergil, the puritan writer John Milton took on the entire tradition of Western epic literature writing a Christian epic. In his provocative and amazingly imaginative work, he tells the story of “man’s first disobedience” and wants to "justify the ways of God to men." He turns biblical characters into heroes, an attempt that works best with Satan. Does this make Paradise Lost a failure turning the whole Christian narrative upside down? Milton’s position in the literature of the restoration period speaks for itself. As a supporter of parliamentary, puritan rule under Cromwell, Milton was not a friend of the restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II. In spite of all this, he was acknowledged as a national poet. He influenced generations of writers all over Europe and was translated in many languages. Over the course of twelve books John Milton wrote an epic poem depicting the struggle between God and Satan taking place across hell, heaven, and earth.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended text: The edition of Oxford World's Classics (2008) edited by Stephen Orgel.
We will also use the annotated online version at Dartmouth
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).

The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.

Preparatory meeting field trip to Dorset

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Exkursion

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 4.5.2017, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/00.24