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 22.7.2022, 14:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 29.7.2022, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 11.10.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
ab 2.5.2022

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): 19.04.2022, 10:00 - 07.05.2022, 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!)

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

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

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Narrating Space

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.6.2022, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 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

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): 01.03.2022, 10:00 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Why should you select a seminar on space in narrative texts when the rise of social media, of transitory, ahistorical places like Starbucks cafés and airports, of globalization and the time-space-compression brought about by modern travel and the internet all point into one direction: the end of space?

Proponents of the so-called Spatial Turn have, since the mid-1980s, insisted on the relevance of space as a theoretical category beyond (postmodern) geography, in the humanities and the social sciences. Instead of giving in to the disappearance of space, they have called for its re-definition: Space is a social construction relevant to [ ] the production of cultural phenomena (Warf/Arias 2009, 1). Spaces are performative, processual and multi-dimensional structures. They are political and ideological: producers of space decide who may belong and not belong; spaces reflect conceptions of self and other.

Up until the Spatial Turn, space had traditionally been a neglected category in narrative theory. Narratologists conceived of it as a mere backdrop to plot, prioritising time over space . If narrative is defined as a sequence of events, where events are changes of states which are brought about or endured by individual existents, then it is indispensable to note, however, that these existents have bodies that both occupy space and are situated in space (Ryan/Foote/Azaryahu 2016, 16). Cognitive narratology grants space an essential part [in] the mental act of narrative world (re)construction, since the imagination can only picture objects that present spatial extension (ibid.) Since the expansion of structuralist narratology into an array of postclassical and especially contextualist narratologies, scholarly interest in the narrativisation of space has been unbroken and has profited from the spatial concepts of, for example, Postcolonial, Refugee, Tourism and Gender Studies.

This seminar offers a survey of narratological approaches to the analysis of narrative space spanning from the work of Jurij Lotman to Marie-Laure Ryan. Students will be introduced to the spatial theories of Michel Foucault, Henry Lefebvre, Edward Soja as well as those developed within Gender, Postcolonial and Tourism Studies. The primary texts we will cover in class span a variety of genres, themes and narrative/narrated spaces: We will be interested in Charles Dickens s as well as post-7/7 London, the Yorkshire moors, the Africa of Mary Kingsley and Henry Morton Stanley, in borders and border-crossings, in houses which spread a feeling of at-homeness and labyrinthine Gothic houses preventing in its inhabitants any such feelings. We will travel to Cold-War Berlin and to the Caribbean, investigate the unnatural, i. e. physically impossible, spaces of postmodern and postcolonial writing and follow refugees through magic doors around the globe.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory reading:

Students need to read the following texts:
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910)
Gabriel Josipovici, Second Person Looking Out (1977), Mobius the Stripper (1974; short stories will be made available on VC)
Ian McEwan, The Innocent (1990)
Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching (2009)
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (2017)

Excerpts from the following texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus:
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837-9)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878)
Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (1897)
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley s Lover (1928)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone (1997)
John Lanchester, Capital (2012)
Ali Smith, Autumn (2016)

Supervision tutorial for BA theses in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59

Inhalt:

This supervision tutorial is specifically designed to prepare students for their Bachelor's thesis 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.

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
ab 2.5.2022

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.