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Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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Bamberg University English Drama Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Nadine Panjas
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 9.2.2019, 13:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module:
- Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
- Inhalt:
- Join the Bamberg University English Drama Group for our winter workshop. If you're interested in drama and acting and would like to try out some of that yourself, it's you we're looking for. Everybody can join, you need not have any previous drama experience. If you are interested, just come along on Monday, 15 October 2018.
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Shakespeare Reading Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Termine:
- Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 11.2.2019, 8:00 - 16:00, 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. Taming of the Shrew.
William Shakespeare. Henry V.
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Exam Preparation English Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.1.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) on 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. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
- 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 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 range of topics (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.) will depend on the participants' interest. (Before the beginning of the semester, I will invite all participants to take part in a poll in order to find out which topics ["Körbe"] they want to prepare for their "Staatsexamen.")
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 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: 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!: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
- Inhalt:
- This course is addressed to students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in English Literature, be it "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses. The course consists of individual sessions for which you must register with Professor Houswitschka via e-mail. 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 your supervisor. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christoph Houswitschka, Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
- 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)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(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.
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Literary Twins -
- Dozent/in:
- Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
This class can also be taken for Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (Hauptfach und Nebenfach)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018(10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Literature is full of twins: evil twins, twins who impersonate each other, twins in showbusiness. Readers (and theatregoers) through the centuries are still inevitably fascinated, confused and dazzled. Anglophone literature is no exception.
In this class we will first gather a brief and basic overview of notorious twins from Greek and Roman mythology - such as Romolus and Remus, Castor and Pollux - then we will move on to England. We will read one of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring twins, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, where playing with the double goes along with playing with gender roles.
We will then work on Angela Carter’s last novel Wise Children, about identical twin sisters and performers Dora and Nora Chance, where magical realism is accompanied by constant Shakespearean references.
The last full text we will read is Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, a story with gothic elements about secret twin(s) and storytelling, with intertextual references to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
The aim of this class is to become able to recognize and analyze major features and recurring themes in the literary representation of twinhood. We will try to answer questions such as: Is twinhood a game of exclusion? How is twinhood represented in literature throughout time and in different genres?
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Please acquire a copy of the books we are going to read in class as soon as possible.
William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale.
Angela Carter. Wise Children.
more primary texts tba in class
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Masterclass Personal Writing/Self Revelation with George Ellenbogen -
- Dozent/in:
- George Ellenbogen
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 7.12.2018, 14:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 8.12.2018, Einzeltermin am 9.12.2018, 9:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module allocation
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in the MA English and American Studies (including Joint Degree) or with English as "Erweiterungsbereich" in any other MA programmes.
2. Registration
Please contact the department of English Literature if you want to attend this class (kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de)
- Inhalt:
- This class is designed specifically for master students in English and American Studies who wish to broaden their studies under the tutelage of a renowned author. In this class, you will learn about life writing and the intricacies of creative writing on a master's level.
More information tba.
Course Description
In PERSONAL WRITING/SELF REVELATION, which will be conducted as a one week compact seminar, students will explore the means by which writers use their own experience—real and imagined—to fashion memoirs, personal essays, and poems that reveal themselves and touch their readers. The course will address, among other topics, the establishing of a persona, the use of place, real and imaginary settlings, the role of detail, and beginnings and endings. Students will also produce their own writing in classes and read to one another in small groups.
Before the first class, students will have read the texts, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen and Teaching Arabs, Writing Self by Evelyn Shakir. Passages of George Orwell’s essays will be assigned later.
Course Teacher:
The course will be taught by memoirist and poet, George Ellenbogen. A professor of Creative Writing at Bentley University in Massachusetts, he has taught this course previously in Germany, and is awaiting the publication of the German edition of both his and Shakir’s memoir.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- The reading (synopses):
A Stone in My Shoe: Poet George Ellenbogen’s memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journeys from Franz Joseph’s Austro-Hungarian empire and Poland to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood—a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers—sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces—the markers of his parents’ navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal—extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Evelyn Shakir's witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming she felt in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, where she taught American literature to university students. She effortlessly combines personal anecdote with cultural, political, and historical background, and is incapable of stereotyped thinking: one of the book's many pleasures is the diversity she finds among the people she encounters in the Middle East, including not only students, but cab drivers, storekeepers, and the guys who make the spinach pies at the bakery down the street from her apartment. As Shakir explores her own identity, she leads the reader to an appreciation of the richness and complexity of being Arab American (or any mixed heritage) in an increasingly small world.
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Masterclass: Power, Judgement & Controversy: Male-Manufactured Women in Dystopia and Fantasy -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Übung/Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:00 - 20:00, U2/02.30
Einzeltermin am 1.12.2018, 8:00 - 18:00, U2/02.30
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- This class is an addendum to Igor Baldoino's class "Power, Judgement & Controversy" taught on Mondays. It is specifically designed for MA EAS students. Registration for the masterclass is only possible through registration for "Power, Judgement & Controversy".
If you have any questions, contact Igor Baldoino
- Inhalt:
- see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"
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Power, Judgement & Controversy: The Minefield separating a Legendary Heroine from her Holy Grail -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 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 Kultur
wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies 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): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- For millennia, men have been the protagonists of their own heroic
stories. Stories written by men, mainly for men. Women had no place
in an epic or heroic tale, at least not one that could put them in equal
terms with their male counterparts. They were reduced to “damsels in
distress”, supernatural guides, the hero’s reward, or in some cases
the villain.
In his studies of myths, Joseph Campbell concluded that: “In the
whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is
realise that she’s the place that people are trying to get to”. Although
this may be true regarding that specific niche, literary history has
shown women move forward to centre stage. Since circa late Romanticism
to Postmodern Literature and our present day, female characters
have been given a path and a voice, but remained limited by the
constraints of their respective times, or the nightmares of a dystopian
future.
This course aims to analyse the depiction of women in dystopian literature
and fantasy and will pay special attention to the following aspects
of each work: (gendered) language and women’s orality; identity
in contrast with “purpose”; sex, sexuality and the body; sister-,
mother-, and womanhood; and power.
Furthermore, we will use two (or more) stages of Campbell’s model
(The Hero with a Thousand Faces), namely the Call for Adventure
and the Road of Trials in order to examine what restrain(s)(ed)
women from heroism and the obstacles set throughout their journeys.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read prior to beginning of semester:
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christina Dalcher. Vox.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.
To read during the semester:
Naomi Alderman. The Power.
J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings (Éowyn).
More material to be added in class
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Visions of Egypt in the British Imagination -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:30 - 10:00, LU19/00.13
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft/ Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Plus: all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary and cultural studies in:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 - 10.01.2019
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Ancient Egypt has long held a special place in Western imagination. The tales of Gods, Pharaohs, war and pyramids have captivated European readers even before Napoleon s 1798-1801 campaign in Egypt, which unearthed archaeological sensations and decisively fed Egyptomania all over Europe. Ancient Egypt, it seems, provides an interesting form of the Other for the Europe. Its exoticism, occultism and overwhelming architecture still continue to fascinate visitors and readers today. For Great Britain, Egypt provided a double locus for the Other with Ancient Egypt and Colonial Egypt. British travellers and writers capitalised on the allure of the exotic while viewing the country and its inhabitants through the lens of colonialism.
This class will explore the British imagination of Colonial and Ancient Egypt through British literature and culture, such as architecture and art, feeding off the vision of Egypt from the 18th to the 20th century. To do so, this class will use Edward Said s theory of Orientalism to position Egyptomania in the British imagination. In addition, we will also have a look at a variety of literary forms, ranging from crime novels to dime novels, to examine why Egypt has been so enthralling to British audiences.
Since this class covers both literary and cultural studies, students are asked to prepare the books indicated below and watch the films in preparation before the semester starts. Further texts, excerpts or films can be added throughout the semester and will be announced on the VC class.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Books:
Louisa May Alcott. "Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse." 1869.
Agatha Christie. Death on the Nile. 1937.
Barbara Erskine. Whispers in the Sand. 2000.
Elizabeth Peters. Crocodile on the Sandbank. 1975
Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Ozymandias." 1818.
more novels and excerpts tba
Films:
Death on the Nile, dir. by John Guillermin. 1978.
The Mummy, dir. by Stephen Sommers. 1999.
Cairo Time, dir. by Ruba Nadda. 2009.
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American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben:
- Vorlesung, ECTS: 2, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Fr, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS); Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung (2 oder 4 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (2 oder 4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt neu GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS); Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft); Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft)
MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree: Master Module English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS); Profile Modules English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS); Consolidation Modules English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module oder Profile Module I English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS)
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Vorlesung
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
2. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course)
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This lecture provides an overview of American literary history from the 1880s until today, focusing on the characteristic features of realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism.
For each of these periods, the thematic, formal and stylistic elements of a wide range of novels, plays, short stories, poems, and essays will be discussed in the broader context of the United States' cultural and intellectual history. In order to understand how different groups of Americans have imagined their culture at specific moments in time, we will analyze texts that address the diversity of American experiences in terms of race, class, gender, region, and political conviction. We will also explore how literary texts have critically engaged with the past and with other cultures, charting new directions for the relationship between literature and culture. Overall, we will investigate to which degree processes of modernization and the ideal of democratization can be understood as one of American literature's major driving forces.
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American Women’s Poetry/American Women in Poetry -
- Dozent/in:
- Lorena Bickert
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 9.11.2018, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 10.11.2018, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 23.11.2018, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2018, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/02.17
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
- Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):
- Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
- Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
- Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:
- Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
- Master-Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft I oder II: Übung (2 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:
- Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GY:
- Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
- Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/12): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Übung
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Studium Generale: NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
- Inhalt:
- This practical reading course serves as an introduction to views on/by American women during the early stages of the so-called New World (late 17th century – mid 19th century). As the American nation was trying to define an identity of its own, women, but also men, began to speak up for gender equality, emphasizing the various roles of women in American culture. Poetry played a crucial, if not leading, role in these multi-voiced literary debates.
Thus, this class will cover a selection of feminist texts from the 18th and 19th centuries as a basis for understanding women's situation at the time but will mostly focus on images of women presented in American poetry. We will discuss feminist visions by Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller as well as poems about and/or by American women. Our poetry readings will include works by Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson, as well as by Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, amongst many others.
Therefore, this class not only offers an in-depth discussion of selected views by and of American women but also serves as a compact course and starting point for those students who, in the "Staatsexamen", are interested in extending their reading of early American literature as a focal point for the literature exam.
Texts and Poems to read beforehand:
Text excerpts with explanatory commentaries:
- Abigail Adams, "Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution" (pp. 2-4)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (pp. 5-16)
- Margaret Fuller, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (pp. 62-71)
- Seneca Falls Convention 1848, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (pp.76-82)
- Frederick Douglass, “Editorial from The North Star” (pp. 83-85)
- Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (pp. 93-95)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self" (pp. 157-159)
Poems:
17th/18th century:
- Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband", "The Prologue", “The Author to Her Book”, “A Letter to Her Husband”
- Phillis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “Letter to Samson Occom”
- Edward Taylor: "Huswifery", “Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children”
19th century female poets:
- Phoebe Cary: “Do you Blame Her?”, “The Hunter and the Doe”, “The Rose”, “Disenchanted”
- Emily Dickinson: "The Soul Selects Her Own Society", "She Rose to His Requirement", “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”, “I Started Early – Took my Dog”, “This is my Letter to the World”, “They Shut me up in Prose”, “Publication is the Auction”, “A Bird Came down the Walk”, “I Cannot Live with You”, “One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” please consult the Emily Dickinson Archive online for digital versions of the poems
- Charlotte Forten Grimké: “The Slave”, “My Country”, “An Appeal to Woman”
- Francis Ellen Watkins Harper: “Bury Me in a Free Land”, “Double Standard”, Bible Defense of Slavery”, “Learning to Read”
- Julia Ward Howe: "Battle Hymn of the Republic", “The Wedding”, “The Rough Sketch”, “The Tea-Party”, “Save the old South!”, “Woman”
- Frances Anne Butler Kemble: “Sonnet” (1844) [There’s not a fibre in my trembling frame], “Sonnet” (1859) [What is my lady like? thou fain would’st know – ]
- Emma Lazarus: “Echoes”, “The New Colossus”
- Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: “The Wraith of the Rose”, “The Lady’s Mistake”, “The Lily’s Decision”
- Lydia Huntley Sigourney: “To a Shred of Linen”, “The Cherokee Mother”, “Indian Names”, “The Western Emigrant”
- Cecilia Thaxter: “Alone”, “Submission”, “S.E.”, “Two Sonnets”
19th century male poets:
- Walt Whitman: "A Woman Waits for Me", "Respondez!", “I Sing the Body Electric”, “Poem of Women”, “Beautiful Women”, “Song of Myself” (sections: 5-8, 11, 15, 19, 21, 24, 33, 44) please consult the Whitman Archive online for digital versions of the poems
- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven", “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, “For Annie”
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: “When Malindy Sings”, “A Negro Love Song”, “Night of Love”
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Required Texts:
Schneir, Miriam (ed.). Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. Vintage Books, 1994. Please order the book in time! You can order very affordable copies online, but it will take several weeks.
Poems:
- 17/18th century, 19th century male poets: please go to [poetryfoundation.org] to read and print out the poems; also read the introductory texts to the respective poets available on this website
- 19th century female poets: these poems will be made available as PDFs on the Virtual Campus before the beginning of the term; please bring a printed version of the poems to class
- Dickinson and Whitman: please read and print out these poems from the respective online archives and read the poet introductions on [poetryfoundation.org]
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Exam Preparation North-American Literature (Repetitorium) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
Alle Module einschließlich einer Examensübung / Übung für Examenskandidaten oder einer verpflichtenden Leseübung in folgenden Studienrichtungen:
- LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- MA Berufliche Bildung
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
- Studium Generale (NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik / Amerikanistik!)
- Joint Degree
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This course is designed specifically for students of all teaching degrees ("Lehrämter") who prepare for the 3-hour written "Staatsexamen" in American Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other final exams - oral or written - are very welcome, too.
The "Repetitorum" is a class designed to assist students in their preparations for the final written exam. The class, however, does NOT substitute each student s individual study time! During class, students will receive immediate feedback about their level of preparation for the final exam. The most important aim of this class, however, is to provide participants with a platform to discuss complex issues, rather than particular details of one certain topic. Once again: the class aims to assist students in their preparations, but it does NOT replace independent study!
The class participants themselves choose the topics for this semester during the first session.
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung -
- Dozent/in:
- Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
- BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul I und II: Betreuungsübung Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
- MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
- Joint Degree: Free Electives (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Betreuungsübung: Präsentation
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This course is designed for students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in American literature or culture, be it a “Magisterarbeit,” “Zulassungsarbeit,” “BA-Arbeit” or Master’s thesis. It offers continuous support during the process of preparing or writing the thesis, and provides an opportunity to share parts of it with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions; the syllabus and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus.
In the plenary sessions, we will discuss general criteria and formal aspects of a thesis – such as possible topics and research questions, theoretical approaches, and structural issues. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you will discuss the argument and structure of your thesis with me. For students who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies in the BA, MA and new teacher training programs, this course provides the “Betreuungsübung.”
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From Topic to Thesis to Final Paper: A Preparatory Course -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
How to Write a Term Paper
- B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)
- Lehramtsstudiengänge Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)
Betreuungsübung
- B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit): VERTIEFUNGSmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Betreuungsübung für 2 ECTS >>> Bitte kontaktieren Sie vorher unbedingt die Dozentin zwecks Themenabsprache!), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft
- B.A. Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung für 2 ECTS), wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
- Betreuungsübung: Präsentation
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This course aims to assist students in the Basismodul in writing their first term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. We will discuss general formal aspects and content related criteria of an academic paper, such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Primarily, however, we will practice how to choose a topic, how to develop a coherent structure, how to involve theoretical frameworks, and how to adhere to the MLA citation rules. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that are suitable for the list of references of your paper. Students have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where they will receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.
This course is also addressed at students in the Vertiefungsmodul who are preparing or working at a BA-thesis in American Literature or Culture. Therefore, this course provides the guidance sessions for the BA thesis (Betreuungsübung) for students in the BA programs who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies. It assists students in the preparation of their final paper, and gives them an opportunity to discuss their work with other students. BA-candidates will present parts of their final paper, offering it for discussion and feedback. If you are planning to attend this class, make sure that the instructor will also be your thesis advisor. Please contact Ms. Konopka well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.
Please note that this is a practical training course and not a lecture! You are expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Erste Sitzung: Montag, 15. Oktober 2018!
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- 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. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar, we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. Our reading will be chosen from the key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and post-structuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo-)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory.
The course is intended to assist students in both finding their 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).
This class is based not only on the reading, but also the in depth analysis of theoretical writing. Therefore, students are expected to prepare diligently for each session by (1) reading the assigned text(s), (2) studying each text's background/context, and (3) establishing some basic understanding of the theory discussed in the respective text before coming to class! Only then will it be possible for us to engage in critical discussion during our sessions. In sum, it is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend all sessions and contribute to class discussions. Your input is mandatory and will be welcome!
A course reader will be available for students of this class after the first session, when the reading list has been agreed upon.
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Seminare im Basismodul (Einführungen)
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Introduction to English and American Literature (B) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Frühstudium
- Termine:
- Mi, 8:00 - 10:00, U2/01.33
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung in die Englische Literaturwissenschaft (2 oder 6 ECTS)
- BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS)
- Lehramt GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- Lehramt RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- Lehramt GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- BSc BWL Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturrwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, tutorial, and final written exam
- 2 ECTS (nur BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 09. – 19. Oktober 2018
- Anmeldung zur Prüfung (registration for the exam): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
- Abmeldung von der Prüfung (de-registration from the exam): 10. Dezember 2018 – 07. Februar 2019
WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow dieses Semester ausnahmsweise bei der Anglistischen und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Fischer), die Termine B und C bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on 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 American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.
Please note that the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session!
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010.
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Introduction to English and American Literature (C) -
- Dozent/in:
- Mareike Spychala
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 17.10.2018, Einzeltermin am 5.12.2018, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.11
Einzeltermin am 31.1.2019, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18
ab 17.10.2018
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung in die Englische Literaturwissenschaft (2 oder 6 ECTS)
- BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS)
- Lehramt GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- Lehramt RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- Lehramt GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
- BSc BWL Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturrwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, tutorial, and final written exam
- 2 ECTS (nur BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 09. 19. Oktober 2018
- Anmeldung zur Prüfung (registration for the exam): 10. Dezember 2018 26. Januar 2019
- Abmeldung von der Prüfung (de-registration from the exam): 10. Dezember 2018 07. Februar 2019
WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow dieses Semester ausnahmsweise bei der Anglistischen und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Fischer), die Termine B und C bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on 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 American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.
Please note that the first session will take place on Wednesday, October 17, from 18:00 to 20:00 in room LU19/00.11. The first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session!
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010.
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Introduction to English and American Literature (A) -
- Dozent/in:
- Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
- Termine:
- Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/00.25
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 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
• BSc. BWL
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 9 until October 19, 2018
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Nachholklausur:
Dienstag, 9.4.2019: ab 11:00 Uhr; OK8/02.04
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Seminare im Aufbaumodul (inklusive Ergänzungsmodul)
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Power, Judgement & Controversy: The Minefield separating a Legendary Heroine from her Holy Grail -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 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 Kultur
wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies 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): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- For millennia, men have been the protagonists of their own heroic
stories. Stories written by men, mainly for men. Women had no place
in an epic or heroic tale, at least not one that could put them in equal
terms with their male counterparts. They were reduced to “damsels in
distress”, supernatural guides, the hero’s reward, or in some cases
the villain.
In his studies of myths, Joseph Campbell concluded that: “In the
whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is
realise that she’s the place that people are trying to get to”. Although
this may be true regarding that specific niche, literary history has
shown women move forward to centre stage. Since circa late Romanticism
to Postmodern Literature and our present day, female characters
have been given a path and a voice, but remained limited by the
constraints of their respective times, or the nightmares of a dystopian
future.
This course aims to analyse the depiction of women in dystopian literature
and fantasy and will pay special attention to the following aspects
of each work: (gendered) language and women’s orality; identity
in contrast with “purpose”; sex, sexuality and the body; sister-,
mother-, and womanhood; and power.
Furthermore, we will use two (or more) stages of Campbell’s model
(The Hero with a Thousand Faces), namely the Call for Adventure
and the Road of Trials in order to examine what restrain(s)(ed)
women from heroism and the obstacles set throughout their journeys.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read prior to beginning of semester:
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christina Dalcher. Vox.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.
To read during the semester:
Naomi Alderman. The Power.
J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings (Éowyn).
More material to be added in class
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Visions of Egypt in the British Imagination -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:30 - 10:00, LU19/00.13
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft/ Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Plus: all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary and cultural studies in:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 - 10.01.2019
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Ancient Egypt has long held a special place in Western imagination. The tales of Gods, Pharaohs, war and pyramids have captivated European readers even before Napoleon s 1798-1801 campaign in Egypt, which unearthed archaeological sensations and decisively fed Egyptomania all over Europe. Ancient Egypt, it seems, provides an interesting form of the Other for the Europe. Its exoticism, occultism and overwhelming architecture still continue to fascinate visitors and readers today. For Great Britain, Egypt provided a double locus for the Other with Ancient Egypt and Colonial Egypt. British travellers and writers capitalised on the allure of the exotic while viewing the country and its inhabitants through the lens of colonialism.
This class will explore the British imagination of Colonial and Ancient Egypt through British literature and culture, such as architecture and art, feeding off the vision of Egypt from the 18th to the 20th century. To do so, this class will use Edward Said s theory of Orientalism to position Egyptomania in the British imagination. In addition, we will also have a look at a variety of literary forms, ranging from crime novels to dime novels, to examine why Egypt has been so enthralling to British audiences.
Since this class covers both literary and cultural studies, students are asked to prepare the books indicated below and watch the films in preparation before the semester starts. Further texts, excerpts or films can be added throughout the semester and will be announced on the VC class.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Books:
Louisa May Alcott. "Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse." 1869.
Agatha Christie. Death on the Nile. 1937.
Barbara Erskine. Whispers in the Sand. 2000.
Elizabeth Peters. Crocodile on the Sandbank. 1975
Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Ozymandias." 1818.
more novels and excerpts tba
Films:
Death on the Nile, dir. by John Guillermin. 1978.
The Mummy, dir. by Stephen Sommers. 1999.
Cairo Time, dir. by Ruba Nadda. 2009.
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In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar, ECTS: 6, Dies ist ein reines Online-Seminar. Anmeldung erfolgt über die VHB!
- Termine:
- Der Kurs findet ausschließlich virtuell statt. Er steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
- Lehramt Englisch: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation (individual tasks and group work)
- term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: October 1 - November 1, 2018 (via vhb website!)
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung: December 10, 2018 - January 25, 2019 (via email to the instructor)
Die Lehrveranstaltung ist als Online-Kurs konzipiert. Sie steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern [ https://www.vhb.org/startseite ] Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.
- Zum Online-Kurs auf dem Virtuellen Campus im Wintersemester 2018/19: tba
- Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: tba
- Inhalt:
- This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.
Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
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PS (Neo)Gothic: Literature, Architecture, Youth Culture -
- Dozent/in:
- Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
- Termine:
- Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, OK8/02.04
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS:
Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
LA neu GY:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft; Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
LA neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch):
Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch):
Wahlpflichtmodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom:
Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation (30 minutes)
- term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 24 until October 19, 2018
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
- Inhalt:
- Gothic literature forms an important genre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. After discussing some examples from the “Graveyard School” of poetry, this seminar turns to prose, focusing on such landmark novels as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk (1796) as well as on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). In its search for the meaning of the word Gothic, the course will, however, not only consider literature, but also neo-Gothic architecture of that time and it will examine the relationship between Gothic tendencies in these forms of art. A particular emphasis will be put on the political and religious contexts of the phenomenon. In a further step, it will be asked what the connections to today’s Goth youth culture are.
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PS From the Great Depression to the Atomic Age: American Culture in the 1930s and 40s -
- Dozent/in:
- Marc Seeliger
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
- Termine:
- Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS:
Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
LA neu GY:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft; Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
LA neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch):
Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch):
Wahlpflichtmodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom:
Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation (30 minutes)
- term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 24 until October 19, 2018
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
- Inhalt:
- The era between the Great Depression after 1929 and the postwar years of the Truman presidency saw fundamental changes in American politics, society and culture. The end of isolationism, the New Deal, the “golden age” of radio and the introduction of television and atomic energy are some of the major aspects dealt with in this course. We will take a specific look at how authors, journalists, movie and documentary makers covered and interpreted the stock market crash of 1929, the depression with its unprecedented mass unemployment and poverty, internal mass migration, radical movements on the left and right, the war, the atomic bomb and its consequences as well as the early stages of the cold war and other issues and developments. Examples will include the works of John Steinbeck (We will read Grapes of Wrath in full), Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, Dorothea Lange, John Ford, William Wyler and others.
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Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul und für Module des MA English and American Studies
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Antisemitism in English and American Literature and Culture -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christoph Houswitschka, Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.05
- 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)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: 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)
BA-Hauptfach Jüdische Studien:
B/H 2a+b (Einführung in die jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
A/H 1a+1b+1 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/H 1 (Jüdische Literatur, Kunst und Kultur)
BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 45:
A/N-45 1+2 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/N-45 2a+3a (Sprache und Literatur)
BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 30:
A/N-30 1+2 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- While Britain and the United States have contributed greatly to the promotion of liberal ideals like justice, tolerance and equality, one should not ignore the ugly underbelly of narrow-mindedness, prejudice and bigotry that has also existed. That anti-Semitism has proved to be one of the most enduring and baneful forms of hostility can partly be attributed to its ability to transform – “like a virus, it mutates,” as Jonathan Sacks, the former Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the UK, put it in a speech in the House of Commons on September 13, 2018.
This advanced seminar in literary and cultural studies will look at many of the mutations of the disease from the early modern period until today. Christian anti-Judaism did not only decry the Jewish religion as callous and legalistic, but accused its followers of blindness, stubbornness and clannishness. Ultimately, Jews were blamed for the death of Christ. Racial forms of anti-Semitism, which developed in the course of the 19th century, elaborated on these ancient prejudices, hallucinating about unsavory Jewish character traits, filthy bodies and licentious practices. The irrational character of anti-Jewish racism is nowhere better illustrated than in the grand conspiracies Jews were suspected of scheming.
Drawing upon a plethora of texts and phenomena, the seminar will elucidate these elements in their historical contexts. Questions addressed in the seminar include, but are not limited to, the following: How is the issue of Jewishness and anti-Semitism negotiated in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice? In what way did nineteenth-century physiognomic theories reflect anti-Semitic ideas? To what extent does Charles Dickens' character Fagin in Oliver Twist epitomize anti-Semitic stereotypes? What was the impact of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on early-twentieth century attitudes towards the Jews? What role did Henry Ford play in the promotion of anti-Semitism in the US? Who followed Nazi ideology in Britain and the US in the 1930s and ‘40s? What Jewish institutions combatted anti-Semitism in America? How has anti-Semitism been portrayed by Jewish-American authors? What are the connections between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism? What is the debate about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism all about?
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- tba
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Put the kettle on! Tea and other hot drinks in British culture and literature from the seventeenth century to the present. -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Heyl
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8
- Termine:
- Blockveranstaltung 16.11.2018-18.11.2018 Mo-Fr, Sa, So
This course is offered outside of the university at Königsberg
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: 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)
2. (De)Registration:
to sign up for this class, please approach Igor Baldoino or Kerstin-Anja Münderlein at the department. Please note that this class can only be taken by Master students and that it will be held outside of the university at Königsberg. To sign up for credits, please use FlexNow! during the credit registration time (you will be informed about this in Königsberg)
- Inhalt:
- Well into the mid-seventeenth century, everybody in England – men, women and children – drank beer. Beer was the standard drink because drinking water was not particularly safe, especially in cities. The transition from beer to hot drinks such as coffee, chocolate and, above all, tea in the British Isles is a remarkable phenomenon. We shall trace this development from its beginnings in the seventeenth century.
The rise of hot drinks was intimately connected with global trade, colonialism, slavery (no hot drinks without sugar, no sugar without slaves) and the opium trade (Chinese tea was exchanged for opium produced in British India). There is an interesting and important connection between coffee and journalism and the development of the public sphere as the earliest newspapers were both written and read in London´s coffee houses. In the eighteenth century, the tea table became a site of middle-class domestic sociability. Hot chocolate was popular as a hangover cure or an aphrodisiac. The etiquette of preparing and taking various drinks was intimately tied to evolving gender roles as well as notions of national identity. Bovril, a beef-based hot drink, was and still is associated with Britishness and muscular masculinity. Horlicks, a malted milk drink, was marketed as a wonder cure for “night starvation”, a medical condition invented for advertising purposes.
We will study a selection of sources (including texts, images and music) related to the cultural and literary history of hot drinks. There will be tasting sessions, i.e. we will prepare and drink some of the hot drinks under discussion.
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The Novel of Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
- 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): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In the eighteenth century, the difference between external and internal senses was not regarded to be easily defined. While Shaftesbury continued to see an analogy between the perceptions of external beauty and moral sense, Hutchinson rather argued that internal senses receive pleasure from complex ideas, the external senses from simple ones, both senses being informed by what Locke calls ideas. Later in the century, Kames explains that senses, “whether external or internal, are all of them powers or faculties of mind.” Tasting, touching, and smelling are merely corporeal; only in the mind they acquire a more refined and spiritual quality informed by reason and sentiment. Therefore, “everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word . . . a sentimental man . . . a sentimental party . . . a sentimental walk” as Lady Bradshaugh concludes (1749, quoted from Williams). In the later eighteenth century, the association with sensibility, in the sense of “a conscious openness to feelings, and also a conscious consumption of feelings,” causes a continual degeneration of sentiment, eventually meaning uncontrolled feelings.
The subjectivity of perception introduces new aspects of ideas shaped by external and internal senses, reception as discussed by Burke and the participation of the individual developing taste and moral sense on the basis of reason and sentiment. The novel of sense(s) examines these processes of the mind that guide people or mislead them to act inappropriately (Austen). Sentimental journeys could expose the traveler to unexpected perceptions (Sterne) and reading could transform the perception of the ordinary world into a parody (Austen). Other writers provoked their readers into abandoning the complex pleasures of the mind when confronted with the pain caused by simple, but extreme external senses. Smollett could evoke smells, touches, sounds and visual images that terrified and hurt readers. In his novels, physiological and medical concepts of the senses seem to prevail rather than philosophical ones.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Henry Mackenzie. The Man of Feeling.
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Emily Dickinson and 19th-Century Popular Culture -
- Dozent/in:
- Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 10, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Eligible for literary AND cultural studies; FIRST SESSION: October 23, 2018!
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 21:00, U9/01.11
Sessions: Oct 23, Nov 06, Nov 20, Dec 04, Dec 18, Jan 22, Feb 05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
KULTURWISSENSCHAFT/CULTURAL STUDIES
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
KulturPLUS:
- Lehramtsstudiengänge RS/Gym (2 oder 4 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul A (Wahlpflichbereich)
- M.Ed. Berufliche Bildung (3 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul B (Wahlpflichtbereich)
M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:
- Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
- Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies
M.A. Literatur und Medien:
- Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 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
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT/LITERARY STUDIES
- 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 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)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
- Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (8 ECTS)
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
- only KulturPlus (2 ECTS): presentation
- only KulturPLUS (3 or 4 ECTS): short essay
3. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course)
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- Recluse. Isolated genius. Poet of the mind. For decades, Emily Dickinson was seen as an exceptional poet whose proto-modernist work had little to do with the world around her. But much of her poetry responded quite directly to key dynamics that shaped the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, including a vivid letter writing culture and literary mass markets, religious revivals and the temperance movement, popular gardening and the new sciences, industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War. Reading her work in conjunction with these cultural developments opens fresh perspectives on the ways in which Dickinson's elusive work was part of and talked back to many of the most widely discussed issues of her time.
Students should come to this course ready to engage in lively debates about nineteenth-century America, changing notions of literary and cultural studies, and, most of all, Emily Dickinson's poetry.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. Franklin. 16 €. Further readings will be made available via the VC.
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Race and Biopolitics in French and American Culture -
- Dozent/in:
- Judith Rauscher
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 10, Literary and Cultural Studies
- Termine:
- Mi, 10:00 - 11:30, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
KULTURWISSENSCHAFT/CULTURAL STUDIES
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. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:
- Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
- Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies
M.A. Literatur und Medien:
- Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 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
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT/LITERARY STUDIES
- 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 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)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
- Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (8 ECTS)
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
3. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course)
- An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober 19. Oktober 2018
- An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 26. Januar 2019
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
- Inhalt:
- On July 11, 2018, a commission of French lawmakers agreed to remove the word race from the constitution based on the argument that "race" as a biological category of differentiation does not exist and should therefore not appear in any official text. At the same time, Black Lives Matter activists in the United States continue to protest systemic anti-black violence and state-sponsored discrimination. In both countries, then, questions of race and biopolitics are a matter of considerable political as well as popular interest.
This seminar focuses on French and American literature and popular culture that deals with questions of race and biopolitics in different historical and cultural contexts. Drawing on the theoretical and political conversation between French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault and Afro-American philosopher and civil right activist Angela Davis about state power and race-based violence, we will discuss how cultural products such as literary texts, TV shows, and Rap music represent, help to reproduce or can be used to contest exclusionary practices and discriminatory discourses.
This seminar is open to students of Romance languages, students in American studies, and students interested in comparative approaches to literature and culture. The course languages will be German and English. While all seminar participants are expected to read English and should be able to follow course discussions in German, translations of the French materials will be made available via the VC. Students taking the course for an American studies module are required to write a term paper in English. Students studying Romance languages can write their term papers in English, French, or German.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Foucault, Michel: Surveiller et punir (Fr. Original), excerpts (Full text: https://katalog.ub.uni-bamberg.de/query/BV040521717 )
- OR: Foucault, Michel: Discipline and Punish (Engl. Transl.), excerpts (Full text: https://katalog.ub.uni-bamberg.de/query/BV040521628 )
- OR: Foucault, Michel: Überwachen und Strafen (Germ. Transl.), excerpts (Full text (library/VPN): https://katalog.ub.uni-bamberg.de/query/BV035580586 )
- Davis, Angela: "Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition" (1988) (Full Text: https://doubleoperative.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/racialized-punishment-and-prison-abolition.pdf )
- Davis, Angela: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) (Full Text: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf )
- Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
- Jacobs, Harriet: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), excerpts
- Orange is the New Black, TV Series (2013-), selected episodes
- De Rentiis,Dina: "Stereotypisierung als Form kulturellen Handelns" (Full Text: https://katalog.ub.uni-bamberg.de/query/BV044505299 )
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HS Landmarks of Modernism - A Biographical Approach -
- Dozent/in:
- Beatrix Hesse
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8
- Termine:
- Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, MG2/01.02
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
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)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term-paper according to the style-sheet
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 24 until October 19, 2018
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
- Inhalt:
- This class will introduce students to three key texts of Literary Modernism: Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness”, written in 1899 (and hence a precursor rather than a work of Modernism proper), Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse of 1927 and “Burnt Norton” (1936), a long poem by T. S. Eliot, the first of his Four Quartets. While these texts are highly esteemed by literary critics, experience shows that students are often finding it difficult to relate to them. Hence, this class will approach these three classic texts by locating them firmly within their authors’ biographies, since one thing that they have in common is that they were each clearly inspired by a specific event in their respective author’s life. By means of this aspect of “human interest”, it is hoped, students will develop a personal investment in the texts and feel more motivated to tackle more abstract and difficult issues of literary technique. In a second step, we will therefore invariably discuss those features of the texts that account for their canonical status in literary history, namely different kinds of formal experiment. A word of warning may be appropriate: biographical approaches have long (at least since Roland Barthes proclaimed the “Death of the Author” in 1967) been suspect in academic circles, probably even more so in Germany than in Great Britain. In the wake of feminist and postcolonial criticism, however, this attitude seems to be about to change. But students should note that – for instance in an exam – biographical information should merely be used as a starting point for a thorough literary and technical analysis.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Students must have read “Heart of Darkness” by the second week of term and have finished reading To the Lighthouse by Week 6 – do not let the books’ apparent brevity mislead you, because reading will certainly be difficult! Any decent complete (not simplified, abridged or translated!) edition will do; the text of “Burnt Norton” will be made accessible in class. A reserve shelf with recommended secondary reading may be found in the library.
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