British Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 17:30, U5/01.22

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): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 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 19. April 2022 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

This lecture offers a survey of the most important developments pertaining to the British novel as a literary genre that evolved in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It introduces important precursors and influences, the political and social framework of and conditions for the development of the genre as well as narrative modes and subgenres (e. g. realist, sentimental, picaresque, comic, speculative, utopian, early feminist, Jacobin, Anti-Jacobin, Gothic, epistolary, historical novels). In addition, the lecture discusses central subjects and motifs in the novels of the period (e. g. liberty/liberalism, nation state, empire, colonialism, subjectivity, sensibility, happiness) as well as important narrative styles (e. g. satire and parody). It explains the relevance of the representation of literary characters’ and narrators’ class backgrounds, national, ethnic and gender identities and sexual orientations for the formation of the genre. In the course of the lecture, close readings of influential novels from the period will be provided.

Empfohlene Literatur:

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Conceptions of Happiness in the British Novel

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 15.12.2022, Einzeltermin am 9.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/02.05
vom 27.10.2022 bis zum 9.2.2023

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)

NOT open as an Oberseminar
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar discusses the significance of different, historically situated philosophical, political and economic concepts of happiness as important hermeneutic frames, genre-shaping forces and thematic focuses in selected novels from the 18th to the 21st century. We will explore happiness as a narrative structure with specific forms of emplotment, narrative affects and temporalities and examine the ways in which literary texts raise the question of happiness as an individualist, social and political concept. Furthermore, we will problematize in how far the novels represent happiness and unhappiness as opposites or (as suggested by Sara Ahmed in The Promise of Happiness) as dialectically connected concepts and states/modes of being.

Empfohlene Literatur:

We will discuss the following texts (please buy or borrow):

Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Samuel Johnson: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
Mary Wollstonecraft: Maria: or, the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)
William Morris: News from Nowhere (or An Epoch of Rest) (1890)
J. M. Coetzee: Foe (1986)
Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)

All critical literature will be provided on virtual campus at the beginning of the term.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/01.11
vom 18.10.2022 bis zum 7.2.2023

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)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class 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.

Research Seminar and Thesis supervision (MA, BA, LA)

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 5

Termine:

Di, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/02.01

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 (Prof. Houswitschka)
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!: 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 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". Please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss your topic and make individual appointments. Do not us my office hours for this.

Shakespeare's The Tempest in Theory

Dozent/in:

Katrin Röder

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, 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)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 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)

open as an Oberseminar
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest (1610/11) has provoked enthusiastic response from a particularly broad spectrum of various schools of critical theory. We will investigate readings of the play from the perspectives of New Criticism, Deconstruction, Gender and Queer Studies, New Historicism, Postcolonial Theory, Ecocriticism and Posthumanist Theory and discuss the ways in which such different approaches provide new insights about the text. The seminar offers an introduction to and discussion of the critical theories listed above but it focuses on their practical application, investigating and evaluating the productivity of the specific reading practices and methodologies they offer.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy / borrow the Arden edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. All critical literature will be provided on virtual campus at the beginning of the term.