Lehrveranstaltungen

How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung BA

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting
The first session will take place online on Nov 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of American Studies
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft / Übung Kulturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. FlexNow-Registration:

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

All participants: please contact lecturer before the beginning of the semester via e-mail to discuss the potential topic of your final thesis (BA-Arbeit/MA-Arbeit/Zulassungsarbeit)!

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."

Dozent/in:

Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul)

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, This is a bi-weekly class!

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course.
Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.

1. Module Allocation:

Please note that this course is open for international exchange students, but NOT M.A. students!

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

Participants of the "Betreuungsübung": please contact the lecturer before the beginning of the semester via e-mail to discuss the potential topic of your BA-Thesis (Literary or Cultural Studies)!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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.

Dozent/in:

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 1, This is a bi-weekly class!

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 9, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul CULTURE!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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 includes 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!

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be available for students of this class one week BEFORE the first session.

Seminare im Basismodul (Einführungen)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

WICHTIG: Dieser Kurs wird via Microsoft Teams unterrichtet. TeilnehmerInnen werden am Wochenende vor Kursbeginn in den zugehörgen VC-Kurs eingetragen. Dort finden Sie den Link zum Team. Wenn Sie sich später zum Kurs melden, müssen Sie sich selbstständig bei der Dozentin melden!

IMPORTANT: This course be taught via Microsoft Teams. All participants will registered for the accompanying VC course during the weekend before the course begins. On the VC, you will find the link to Teams. If you register later than that, it is your responsibility to contact the lecturer!
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

BA Berufliche Bildung

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 27.10.2020 (10:00) - 15.11.2020 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen zwei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Termin A finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.

3. Tutorials:

Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies A" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Dieses Tutorium wird von derselben Dozentin unterrichtet wie die Introduction selbst.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of predominantly English literary history.

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

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (B)

Dozent/in:

Constructions of Femininity in 18th-Century Fiction

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Berufliche Bildung
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BSc. BWL

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, tutorial, and final written exam
2 ECTS (only BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end

3. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: October 27 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, den Termin B 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.

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:

Required Reading:

Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010. (or a newer edition; Ebook welcome!)

Seminare im Aufbaumodul (inklusive Ergänzungsmodul)

Dozent/in:: Susan Brähler
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:: Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / 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: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: The eighteenth century saw the rise of gender as a political category. “[C]learly defined gender roles were” thought to be “central to the stability of English society, and by extension, to England’s status as a world power” (Barker/Chalus 1). Men and women were conceived as ‘naturally’ different, with women being in need of close supervision. Gender roles were becoming increasingly more rigid and contrasting over the course of the century, which is reflected by an abundance of prescriptive texts elaborating on ideal male and female behaviour in a polite society. The Spectator deemed ‘the fair sex’ essential in upholding the moral order and stressed that it was vital to instruct women in “all the becoming Duties of Virginity, Marriage, and Widowhood” (March 1711). Next to periodicals like The Spectator, The Tatler, The Female Spectator and The Female Tatler, conduct books, salon discussions and the newly emergent genre of the novel were major vehicles in either fostering 18th-century ideals of a ‘decorative femininity’ or pushing the boundaries of what it meant to be an ideal woman at the time.

This class will offer a survey of literary representations of women in texts written during the Long 18th-Century, spanning from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, the first self-proclaimed ‘novelist’. We will not only be interested in texts written by female authors but also in constructions of femininity in the fictional texts and conduct books written by their male contemporaries. Students will be introduced to the impact of Enlightenment thought on gender roles as well as the cult of sensibility’s supposed threat to male authority. Our text selection will comprise a variety of genres: Gothic fiction, amatory novels, sentimental novels, the novel of manners, conduct books, feminist tracts, poetry, diaries and travel accounts. We will be interested in how female protagonists conform with, push the boundaries of or satirically and more or less radically transgress established gender codes. Topics will range from female sexuality and marriage, women and property to women and class and politics.
Empfohlene Literatur:: All primary texts will be made available on the VC. Students will be asked to read excerpts from the texts listed below in preparation for each session.

Conduct books (t. b. a.)
Travel accounts (t. b. a.)
Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87).
Phoebe Crackenthorpe, ed., The Female Tatler (1709-10; selection of articles).
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719), Anti-Pamela (1741); The Female Spectator (1744-46; selection of articles);
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722).
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740); Clarissa (1748).
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741).
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752).
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778).
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).
Poems by Charlotte Smith (t. b. a.).
Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (written 1800-03; publ. 1897 posthum.).
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801).
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Northanger Abbey (1817).

Experiencing, Processing and Remembering the Great War in British Literature

Dozent/in:: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 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: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: More than a century after its end, the Great War still shapes the European understanding of (total) war – possibly even more so than the Second World War. Now that the centennial of the armistice has passed, it is time to look back not only at the war itself, specifically at how the war is remembered today and has been remembered ever since it ended in 1918. How does current remembrance of the war compare with contemporary depictions of it? How has the memory of the war developed and how has the cultural memory changed over the last century?
In this course, we are going to analyse how the war was experienced, processed, remembered and narrated during three stages; the war itself (1914-18); roughly the decade after the war (1920s); and roughly one century after the war (2010s). To do so, this course looks at the literature of these three stages and assesses the different ways the Great War has been framed in cultural memory for the last century, comparing the differences and similarities in the depiction of the war and its participants (both combatants and non-combatants). For every period, we will use poetry, one play and one narrative text as well as non-fiction texts, the majority of which will be made available by the lecturer.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Obligatory reading:
The following books will be read during the course:
West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier. 1918.
Price, Evadne (“Helen Zenna Smith”). Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War. 1930.
Boyne, John. The Absolutist. 2011.

The plays we read will be announced in the first session of class

A poetry reader and non-fiction material will be made available on the VC

Introduction to Realism

Dozent/in:: Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:: Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft /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: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: What is “reality”? And should we still refer to it in singular form? Literary critics and scholars alike warn us that Realism is a notoriously treacherous concept, complex to be defined in a precise and unambiguous way, specially when isolated. This course will thus provide an overview of literary Realism in English Literature, but rather than define the movement we shall contextualise it. That is to say, we shall study Realism in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism and later Naturalism and Modernism. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Realism, from both an artistic and literary point of view as well as a philosophical one. Focus will be given to texts of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, namely novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens and a few other authors.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
More material WILL be added in class

“Where modesty’s ill manners”: English Restoration Comedy

Dozent/in:: Touhid Chowdhury
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 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: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

(De)Registration in FlexNow: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
Inhalt:: English Restoration Comedy, also known as ‘comedy of manners’, covers a historical period between 1660 and 1710. Restoration period followed an era of puritanical role in England that banned any types of public performances at the theatre. The playhouses and theatres were re-opened by Charles II, the newly restored King of England. This new freedom and re-opening of theatres after a ban of 18 years during the Puritan role gave birth to a ‘rakish’ style of theatre that was witty, satirical, bawdy, clever, uproarious and socially diverse. While many critics considered the plays from this period as highly immoral, artificial or just plain old-fashioned, the social satire they offer makes for fascinating analysis.

In this course, we are going to analyze and interpret plays from both historical and social context of Restoration period. In-class discussion will take a critical look at typical motifs and concepts in Restoration Comedy, as well as on the courtly politics, class relations and the divisions between London and country life of the late 17th century England. To do so, students must read the plays listed below by the beginning of the semester.
Empfohlene Literatur:: The following plays must have been read by the beginning of the semester

William Wycherley. The Country Wife (1675).
George Etherege. Man of Mode (1676).
Aphra Behn. The Rover (1677).
John Vanbrugh. The Provoked Wife (1697).
William Congreve. The Way of the World (1700).
George Farquhar. The Beaux Stratagem (1707).

American Journeys: Narratives of Travel and Displacement in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Lorena Bickert

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 27.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 11.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 8.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 22.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 5.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting
Einzeltermin am 19.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b) / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS

--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature or Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me, / The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." (from Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road")

"Some will survive. We are the land. […] Our journey – the one ahead – the one after this walking – will begin again from nothing. This is how we go. Always back to nothing." (from Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, p. 127)

The quotes above are a testimony to the diverse and complex journeys undertaken across American history. In this seminar, we will go on a literary and cultural journey that will take us from early American travel writing to the exploration of new “frontiers” in contemporary American science fiction. Our journey begins with the first accounts of the so-called New World. It encompasses African American voices in slave narratives of the nineteenth century, extends across the American West, and exposes the apocalyptic reality of Native American displacement in the name of American expansionism. We will move from Oklahoma to California during the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, finally, we will travel to Mars, exploring the “final frontier” of the American empire, while also challenging this notion of American exceptionalism from Indigenous perspectives.

The texts discussed in this seminar illustrate the multifaceted experiences of travel in the American context from multiple perspectives. Apart from our three key novels – John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars (1993), and Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996) – our readings include excerpts from various narratives, but also poetry and film. Thus, the journey of this seminar transcends not only geographical boundaries, but also moves across genres and beyond the written word. We will examine how American journeys are expressed in different literary traditions and genres like travel writing, slave narratives, Native American oral traditions, science fiction, or Indigenous futurisms. Together, we will analyze how those works are informed by questions of gender, race, identity, or mobility.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase the following works before classes start in November: (to be read by January)

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Penguin, 2014 [1939].
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. Del Rey, 2017 [1993].
Glancy, Diane. Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Mariner, 1998 [1996].

All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.

In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course)

Dozent/in:

PS Working-Class Literature and Culture in Britain, 1930-1960

Angaben:

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: 1. Oktober - 1. November 2020 (via vhb website!)
An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung: 1. Februar - 1. März 2021 (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 2020/21: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=26475 (will open on October 26, 2020)
Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=27003

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)

Dozent/in:: Mario Ebest
Angaben:: Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 22.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 5.2.2021, Einzeltermin am 12.2.2021, 10:00 - 17:30, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS;
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

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:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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 first half of the 20th century was marked by major upheavals in Britain, such as, for example, the General Strike, the Great Depression, Labour’s rise to power as opposed to the decline of the Liberal Party, two world wars, and the loss of the Empire.

In this seminar, we will be looking into the field of power relationships during this critical period – firstly, from a rather theoretical (Foucauldian) angle and, secondly, from the point of view of literary works. We will especially analyse the portrayal of organised labour/trade unionism in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song (1932), Gwyn Jones’s novel Times Like These (1936), Idris Davies’s long poem “The Angry Summer” (1943), and Arnold Wesker’s play Roots (1958).

If you want to take part in this class, please read Sunset Song and Roots beforehand.

Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul und für Module des MA English and American Studies

Reading Theory

Dozent/in:: Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:: Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Termine:: Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

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

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

MA Religion Verstehen
Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache MA RelLit 3a: Seminar (5 ECTS)

NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: This course is meant to enhance advanced students’ knowledge of theoretical perspectives and their awareness of the ways in which literary and cultural theories are discussed and applied in today’s scholarly discourse.

We will begin the term with an overview of major 20th century theoretical approaches (e.g. New Criticism, (Post)Structuralism, Marxism, critical theory, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Foucault, Deconstruction etc.). Subsequently, we will discuss more recent developments in some of these well-established fields, looking at the ways in which they are relevant for researchers today. Later, we will turn to some of the latest developments in literary and cultural criticism, from Ecocriticism and Posthumanism via Disability Studies to new aspects in the study of Migration (laissez-faire, multiculturalism, integration), Mobility Studies, Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, cognitive science.

Short student presentations (10-15 minutes) are followed by discussions of significant texts. For the success of this class it is paramount that all of the assigned texts be read and prepared carefully.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002)
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory. The Basics (2014)
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. An Introduction (2008)
Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. A Reader. 4th ed. (2001)

The Bronte Sisters

Dozent/in:: Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:: Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:: Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
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)

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: “I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.” ‘“A wicked boy, at all events,” remarked the old lady, “and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton? I’m shocked that my children should have heard it.”
The novels of Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne Brontë (1820–1849), introduce us to those who have not been born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Far away from London, in the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, we find the Brontë Parsonage. In this modest house the three sisters and their uninspired brother Branwell started writing novels. Male pen names, Currer Bell for Charlotte Brontë, Ellis Bell for Emily, and Acton for Anne helped to carefully reach out for the reading public. Success was instant and rumours about their true identity spread fast.
On the one hand, all three Brontës are quite different in their approaches in developing characters, plots and settings. On the other hand, they have much in common and share characteristics that originate in their belonging to Yorkshire and the Midlands. In class we will read some of their major novels, but also their poetry and novels that were written in their narrative tradition.
Novels we will discuss are Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
Possible topics are love and marriage, the Yorkshire moors, the Gothic tradition (ghosts, vampirism and necrophilia) and Romanticist traditions, colonialism and racism (mad woman in the attic), the governess and other female roles, genre traditions (John Bunyan), city vs country, gender and class, alcohol and domestic violence, Heathcliff as a Byronic hero, prequels, sequels and film adaptations of the Brontës’ novels.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847)
Brontë, Charlotte. Villette (1853)
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights (1847)
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

America, the 19th Century and the Short Form

Dozent/in:

Native American Voices: Stories of Survival and Resistance

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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)

--> Open for Consolidation Module Literature!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

This course looks at the oscillating genre of the short story, the historical development of the form, and its American socio-cultural context, with a specific focus on the 19th century. We will perform close readings of canonical works by (in)famous authors such as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Wharton, Chopin and Gilman.

Empfohlene Literatur:

W. Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (1819); "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
N. Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" (1835); "Wakefield" (1835)
E. A. Poe, "The Purloined Letter" (1844); "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
H. Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener" (1853)
L.M. Alcott, "A Modern Cinderella: Or, the Little Old Shoe" (1860)
M. Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
A. Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890)
C. Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
K. Chopin, "The Storm" (1898)
C.W. Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth" (1899)
E. Wharton, "The Other Two" (1904)
S.S. Far, "Mrs Spring Fragrance" (1912)

All texts – primary as well as secondary – will be provided via the VC (Virtual Campus).

Dozent/in:

Johanna Feier

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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), Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) / Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS), Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: 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 English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

Attention: The course is NOT open for the Consolidation module!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

In 2019, Joy Harjo became the first indigenous American writer to be named the United States Poet Laureate. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, currently serves as the official poet of the U.S., which marks a crucial step in formally recognizing the literary and cultural contributions of Native Americans. For over four hundred years, the fraught history of political, socio-economic, and cultural oppression has predominantly led to reductionist appropriations of indigenous stories by non-Natives in mainstream American culture. Since the so-called Native American Renaissance in the late 1960s, though, indigenous voices have become ever more prominent in America’s literary canon, to which Harjo’s Poet Laureate status is a testament.

In this seminar, we will discuss the longstanding tradition of indigenous storytelling and examine the stories of survival as well as resistance that Native American authors have chosen to tell about themselves and their communities. We will trace the complicated origins of indigenous literature and analyze how it questions, challenges, subverts, or conforms to the literary norms of ethnocentric white America. Through a study of selected works by major Native American writers, we will engage with the complex tapestry that indigenous storytellers have created in the 20th and 21st century. Readings in this course will include Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine, Joy Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, poetry by Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahonso, and prose by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, and Linda Hogan.

Students are kindly asked to purchase Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine (the newly revised edition or an earlier edition) and Harjo’s collection Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems (2017). A digital reader with all other texts (as PDFs) will be made available at the beginning of the course.

HS The Sonnet

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich online über MS-Teams statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (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:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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:

The sonnet is one of the most important poetic form in the English literary tradition. While being extremely versatile, it has also retained some long-lasting characteristics. Originally conceived for the expression of love and desire, the sonnet has expanded its range to include religious devotion, mourning and even political expression. From early on, a central concern of the sonnet has been poetic self-reflection. In all of these fields, poets have been required to condense their ideas in a narrowly defined space.

Starting its overview in early modern period, this seminar traces several strands of development, always with an interest in the interplay of content and form. As the interpretation of poetry requires some cultural and historical background, we will place the sonnets in the contexts of their literary periods. Some theoretical insights into the communicative functions of poetry will support our general understanding of the sonnets and the practice of close reading will improve our analytical skills.

Britische und Amerikanische Kultur

The Rise of Islamic Feminism: Reading Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Bird Summons

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Di, 16:15 - 17:45, Raum n.V.

Vorlesungen und Übungen

Dozent/in:: Mahbub Alam
Angaben:: Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Termine:: Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: A wave of feminist sentiment is mounting among the Muslim women who are seeking to reclaim Islam and the Quran for themselves. Islamic feminism demands equal rights for Muslim women in social, economic and political spheres both in the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. Islamic feminist writers emphasize on religious spirituality and gender equality based on the Islamic religious scripts: the Quran and Hadith. They have taken up the task of reinventing feminism from Islamic perspective and are trying to emphasize on the mutual interest of narrowing the distance between Islam and Western feminism.
There is a misconception among many Muslim women that they must choose between being religious as well as submissive to men and being rebellious distancing themselves from their religion. Islamic feminist writers are firstly challenging this misconception and advocating that a Muslim woman can be religious and at the same time can enjoy equal rights as men in both Islamic and non-Islamic societies. Secondly, they are confronting the stereotypes of Muslim women especially in non-Islamic cultures where the Muslim women are often seen as the oppressed who must be liberated from their cultural and religious subjugation.
Leila Aboulela in her books shows a realistic picture of the lives of Muslim women and establishes the evidence of why Muslim women choose Islam over Western freedom. Aboulela speaks for all the Muslim women, openly stating that her religious identity surpasses her national and geographic loyalties with her religion offering more stability than any other affiliation. In The Translator and Bird Summons she places Islamic faith at the center of her narration emphasizing the nonpolitical aspects of the religion. Her characters are not submissive and oppressed but rather confident and in control of their lives.
In this course we will critically analyze The Translator and Bird Summons and discuss how Islamic feminism is contributing to change the stereotypes of Muslim women.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Obligatory reading:

Aboulela, Leila. Bird Summons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.

Aboulela, Leila. The Translator. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008.

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Mi, 18:15 - 19:45, Raum n.V.

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Do, 16:15 - 18:30, Raum n.V.

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:15, Raum n.V.

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Do, 18:45 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Übung zum Kompaktseminar "Teaching (as) Art" / Übung Methoden und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaft

Dozent/in:: N.N.
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Mo, 11:15 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Dozent/in:: Stefan Eick
Angaben:: Übung, 1 SWS, Englischsprachig, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 20.07.2020 (10:00 Uhr) bis 06.11.2020 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 14.12.2020 (08:00 Uhr) bis 29.01.2021 (23:59 Uhr).
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 13.11.2020, 12:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 27.11.2020, 14:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability and conditions of participation:

Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Theorien und Methoden (1 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basis- und Aufbaumodul (2 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul ohne Bachelorarbeit in Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Bachelor/Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Basismodul/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module British and American Culture I: Übung (2 ECTS)
Joint Degree: Consolidation Module British and American Culture I: Übung (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Realschule: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Gymnasium: Freier Bereich, Wahlpflichtmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
M. Ed.: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (3 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (4 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students (2 or 4 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module British and American Culture I: Übung (2 ECTS)
B.Sc. BWL (Wirtschaftspädagogik): Übung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
M.Sc. Wirtschaftspädagogik: Übung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Inhalt:: The course is intended as a forum for discussing approaches within cultural studies. It functions as a complementary course to the seminar “Teaching (as) Art” but it can also be attended by other students with the necessary requirements. A particular focus will be placed on texts relating to concepts of culture, identity, and the contextualization of art.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)

Dozent/in:

How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung BA

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting
The first session will take place online on Nov 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of American Studies
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft / Übung Kulturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. FlexNow-Registration:

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Inhalt:

Dozent/in:

Ü Betreuungsübung britische und amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, This is a bi-weekly class!

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 21:00, Online-Meeting
First session: November 10, 2020.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course.
Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.

1. Module Allocation:

Please note that this course is open for international exchange students, but NOT M.A. students!

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

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

Dozent/in:: Pascal Fischer
Angaben:: Übung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 2
Termine:: Do, 13:00 - 15:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich über MS-Teams statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit):
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul:
Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

MA English and American Studies:
Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of Professur Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Fischer)

MA Medieval Studies:
Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Anglistischer/Amerikanistischer Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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.)

Ü Übung Methoden und Theorien der Kulturwissenschaft / Methods and Theories of Cultural Studies

Dozent/in:: Pascal Fischer
Angaben:: Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1
Termine:: Mi, 8:00 - 10:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich online über MS-Teams und alle 14 Tage statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability and conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien Kulturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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.)
Inhalt:: This course provides an overview of important approaches in the theory of culture. We will study key texts that have influenced the discipline of Cultural Studies in the Anglo-American world and beyond. Rather than being based on a lecture-style instruction, this class should be understood as a forum to discuss students’ positions toward the texts. A thorough preparation of the respective material is therefore imperative.

Ü The Myth of California

Dozent/in:: Simone Linz
Angaben:: Übung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 2
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 28.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 12.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 9.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 23.1.2021, 10:00 - 17:30, Raum n.V.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):
Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:
Master Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies im Rahmen anderer MA:
Master Module oder Profile Module British and American Culture: Tutorial (2 ECTS)

B.A./M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Basismodul, Aufbaumodul: Übung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Lehrämter:
RS/BS: Zusatzmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)
GY: Wahlpflichtmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
WiPäd: Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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.)
Inhalt:: The American West has always been associated with endless possibilities to start a new life with promise, hope and wealth. As part of the Western myth, California is often depicted as an exotic tropical paradise, the Garden of Eden or the end point of Manifest Destiny, in short, as the epitome of the American Dream. Numerous people have answered the call of the Golden State to build a better life in the West. Many of them dream of becoming movie stars, singers or high-tech entrepreneurs.

This seminar sets out to explain the California myth from its origin until today. We are going to analyze a variety of novels, poems, movies and songs as well as important biographies and historical events.

V Religion in Britain: Past and Present

Dozent/in:: Pascal Fischer
Angaben:: Vorlesung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Termine:: Do, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich online über MS-Teams statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basis-, Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Vorlesung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Master-, Profilmodul; Fachwissenschaftliche Vertiefung; Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik: Vorlesung Kulturwissenschaft (2 bzw. 4 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:
Master Module British and American Culture: Lecture (2 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture: Lecture (2 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture: Lecture (2 ECTS)

Lehrämter:
RS/BS: Zusatzmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)
GY: Wahlpflichtmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
WiPäd: Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (Wahlpflicht) (2 ECTS)

B.A./M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Basismodul, Aufbaumodul: Vorlesung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Joint Degree:
Master-, Vertiefungs-, Profilmodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft; Erweiterungsbereich: Vorlesung Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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.)
Inhalt:: While American Cultural Studies has always paid tribute to the importance of religion in the US, the question of religion has often been a blind spot in British Cultural Studies. In recent years, however, the discipline has increasingly acknowledged that religion has been a central part of people’s identities in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. This lecture provides a survey of the major tendencies and events of the religious history of Britain from the Early Modern Period to the present. Rather than dwelling on Biblical and theological issues, the lecture will show the relevance of important disputes for the formation of allegiances, solidarity and hostility.

Seminare im Basismodul (Einführungen)

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies: Einführung in die Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft

Dozent/in:: Robert Craig
Angaben:: Seminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 20.07.2020 (10:00 Uhr) bis 06.11.2020 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 14.12.2020 (08:00 Uhr) bis 29.01.2021 (23:59 Uhr).
Termine:: Fr, 9:15 - 11:30, Raum n.V.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Verwendbarkeit/Module applicability

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)
Lehrämter (neu): GS/HS/RS/BS/GYM Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students (6 ECTS)

Lehrformen/Taught by
Textstudium in Heimarbeit / independent study of texts.

Prüfungsformen/Examined by
Schriftliche Prüfung, aktive Mitarbeit/Written examination, active participation.

Klausurtermin: Freitag, 5. Februar 2021, 09:30-11:00 Uhr, U5/00.24.
Wiederholungsklausur: Montag, 1. März 2021, 09:30-11:00 Uhr, im KR12/02.05. (Neue Anmeldung über FlexNow erforderlich - s. hierzu gesonderten UnivIS-Eintrag "Wiederholungsklausur: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (Einführungskurs)". / Separate FlexNow registration required - please see the separate UnivIS entry "Wiederholungsklausur: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (Einführungskurs)".)

Bitte lesen Sie auch gründlich die Informationen zum Semester auf unserer Website. / Please also read carefully the information on the semester which is on our website.
Inhalt:: Das Seminar führt in zentrale methodische Fragestellungen, Grundbegriffe, theoretische Modelle und historische Zusammenhänge des Faches Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft ein. Der Kurs findet sowohl in englischer als auch deutscher Sprache statt, um die Studierenden mit beiden Wissenschaftssprachen vertraut zu machen.

The seminar is an introduction to the essential methodological problems, principles, theoretical models, and historical contexts indispensable for the academic pursuit of British and American cultural studies. The course is conducted in both English and German, in order to familiarize the students with the specialized academic use of both languages.

Lernergebnisse, Kompetenzen/Learning outcomes, Skills

Grundthemen und Fragestellungen der Kulturwissenschaften konsequent mit literarischen Texten und Lektüren zu verbinden, ihre inhaltlichen Zusammenhänge zu erkennen, systematisch zu rekonstruieren sowie diese kritisch in Wort und Schrift zu analysieren. Es wird ein erster Überblick in kulturwissenschaftliche Analysemodelle und Fachterminologie gewonnen. Ferner werden grundlegende Kompetenzen sowohl formaler als auch zielsprachlicher Art vermittelt. Die kommunikativen und sozialen Kompetenzen der Studierenden werden durch interaktive und projektbezogene Gruppenarbeit gefordert und gefördert.

To relate in a logical fashion the central themes and problems of cultural studies with literary texts, and also to recognize, reconstruct, express and analyse in spoken and written form their mutual relevance. In the first instance the analytical models and special terminology of cultural studies will be established. Thereafter basic skills of both a formal and linguistic nature will be developed. Students' ability to communicate and interact in an academic setting will be both required and promoted by interactive group projects.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Primär- und Sekundärliteratur wird in den Seminarstunden angegeben bzw. auf dem VC gespeichert.

Primary and secondary literature will be distributed in the seminar sessions and/or posted on the VC.

Wiederholungsklausur: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (Einführungskurs)

Dozent/in:: Robert Craig
Angaben:: Seminar, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 12.02.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 26.02.2021 (23:59 Uhr) [angelegt in FlexNow als 2. Termin des Einführungskurses]
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 1.3.2021, 9:30 - 11:00, Raum n.V.
Inhalt:: Am 1. März 2021 im KR12/02.05 (09.30-11:00 Uhr) findet eine Wiederholungsklausur für diejenigen Studierenden des Einführungskurses (von Dr. Craig) statt, die den Kurs trotz Mitschreibens der Abschlussklausur nicht bestanden haben oder aufgrund eines ärztlichen Attestes an der Abschlussklausur nicht teilnehmen konnten. Das Attest muss der/m Lehrenden innerhalb von drei Tagen (hier gelten die Bestimmungen unter: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zur-attestpflicht/ ) im Original vorgelegt werden. Die Wiederholungsklausur wird von den jeweiligen Lehrenden gestellt und muss persönlich abgeholt werden. Eine Auskunft über die Endnote kann nicht per E-Mail oder telefonisch erfolgen. Studierende müssen sich für die Wiederholungsklausur über FlexNow anmelden.

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Seminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Do, 9:55 - 12:10, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Berufliche Bildung
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BSc. BWL

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar and final written exam
2 ECTS (only BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end

3. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

This course offers an introduction to key themes and methods in American cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Thematically, we will explore issues such as religion and immigration, the frontier and regionalism, class and economic success, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, America as nature s nation; conceptually, the focus will be on equality and difference as utopian ideas that have shaped American culture from colonial times to the present.

The course is designed to provide you with basic skills in American cultural studies, with a strong emphasis on reading and discussing various texts in their cultural contexts. Our primary readings will include short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels as well as historical documents, essays, political speeches, photographs, popular songs, and films, while several theoretical essays will provide us with a language for discussing changing concepts of culture.

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies - E

Dozent/in:: Lina Strempel
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar, 3 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
Termine:: Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/00.24
Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich in Präsenz und von 13.55 Uhr bis 16.10 Uhr (3SWS) statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability and conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS)

B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)

Lehrämter:
Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung in die Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen zur Leistungsfeststellung/zum Scheinerwerb:
6 ECTS: Regelmäßige, aktive Teilnahme an Introduction, Klausur am Semesterende
2 ECTS: Regelmäßige, aktive Teilnahme an Introduction, kleine Tests

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020
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.)
Inhalt:: This course offers an introduction to key themes and methods in American cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Thematically, we will explore issues such as religion and immigration, the frontier and regionalism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, the media and technology, America as nature s nation and America and the world; conceptually, the focus will be on equality and difference as utopian ideas that have shaped American culture from colonial times to the present.

The course is designed to provide you with basic skills in American cultural studies, with a strong emphasis on reading and discussing various kinds of texts in their cultural contexts. Our primary materials will include short stories, poems and excerpts from novels as well as historical documents, essays, political speeches, photographs, popular songs and films, while several theoretical essays will provide us with a language for discussing changing concepts of culture.

Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies - F (Einführung in die Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft)

Dozent/in:: Pascal Fischer
Angaben:: Seminar/Proseminar, 3 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24
Die Veranstaltung findet voraussichtlich hybrid/flexibel und von 17.55 bis 20.10 Uhr (3SWS) statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability and conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS)

B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies:
Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)

Lehrämter:
Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Einführung in die Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft (5 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen zur Leistungsfeststellung/zum Scheinerwerb:
6 ECTS: Regelmäßige, aktive Teilnahme an Introduction, Klausur am Semesterende
2 ECTS: Regelmäßige, aktive Teilnahme an Introduction, kleine Tests

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 19 until November 6, 2020
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.)
Inhalt:: This course offers an introduction to key themes and methods in American cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Thematically, we will explore issues such as religion and immigration, the frontier and regionalism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, the media and technology, America as nature s nation and America and the world; conceptually, the focus will be on equality and difference as utopian ideas that have shaped American culture from colonial times to the present.

The course is designed to provide you with basic skills in American cultural studies, with a strong emphasis on reading and discussing various kinds of texts in their cultural contexts. Our primary materials will include short stories, poems and excerpts from novels as well as historical documents, essays, political speeches, photographs, popular songs and films, while several theoretical essays will provide us with a language for discussing changing concepts of culture.

Seminare im Aufbaumodul (inklusive Ergänzungsmodul)

Teaching (as) Art: Creative Approaches to British Culture (Kompaktseminar)

Dozent/in:: Stefan Eick
Angaben:: Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Englischsprachig, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 20.07.2020 (10:00 Uhr) bis 06.11.2020 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 14.12.2020 (08:00 Uhr) bis 29.01.2021 (23:59 Uhr).
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 14.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 28.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 12.12.2020, 10:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2021, 10:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The 'Aufbaumodul' will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.
Inhalt:: The seminar has a triple focus.

Firstly, art. Through an engagement with the British visual arts, students are to become acquainted with a pictorial tradition that moved from the imitation of Continental models to landscape painters and Romanticists like Constable (1776-1837) and Turner (1775-1851), from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (founded in 1848) and Whistler (1834-1903) to more contemporary artists like Hockney (born 1937), the Young British Artists of the 1990s, and Banksy (who rose to prominence in the 2000s). Finishing off with Brexit art, particular attention will be paid to art as an expression, mediation and construction of British culture.

Secondly, teaching art. We will consider appropriate ways of presenting art and learn about British art mostly in the form of student presentations. These presentations are encouraged to itself try out innovative formats of presenting their subjects. In this context, we re also going to look at ways of incorporating an aesthetic education within the English school curriculum and in education more generally.

Thirdly, teaching as art. For this we're going to deal with paintings, novels and films depicting teachers (for example, To Sir, with Love, 1967, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969, Dead Poets Society, 1989, The History Boys, 2006, and An Education, 2009). We're also going to explore parallels between the domains of art and teaching, such as the necessity of knowledge, skill, creativity and empathy in both disciplines.

As such, the course is not only particularly suitable for future teachers, but also for anyone with an interest in art, British culture, or the skilful presentation of content.
Empfohlene Literatur:: While basic reading will be made available, participants are encouraged to read one of the following teaching novels before or during the semester. Listed are the most recent editions; earlier formats are fine, too.

Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull [1972] (London: Thorsons, 2015).

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1961] (London: Penguin, 2000).

John Williams, Stoner [1965] (London: Vintage, 2012).

American Journeys: Narratives of Travel and Displacement in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Lorena Bickert

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b) / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS

--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature or Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase the following works before classes start in November: (to be read by January)

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Penguin, 2014 [1939].
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. Del Rey, 2017 [1993].
Glancy, Diane. Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Mariner, 1998 [1996].

All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.

From Neuschwanstein to Niagara Falls: Germans in Canadian Culture

Dozent/in:

PS Working-Class Literature and Culture in Britain, 1930-1960

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS

--> Open for Ergänzungsmodul Culture!

2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)

Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

This interdisciplinary course has been designed especially for American and Canadian exchange students and German students, inviting them to study each other’s cultures together. This semester, the focus will be representations of Germany and all things German in Canadian writing and culture, present and past.

The rich heritage and multiethnic present of Canada offer ample ground for studying issues such as identity, home, (post-)colonialism and transformation. Drawing extensively on two essay collections by German and Canadian scholars – Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture (2003) and Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture (2005) – we will, on the one hand, discover and discuss traces of Germany and Germans in a broad range of text by Canadian authors, such as Leonard Cohen, Rudy Wiebe, Jane Urquhart and Suzette Mayr. On the other hand, we will also discuss the image of Canada in the German context: Canada as the land of plenty – plenty of politeness, plenty of promise, and plenty of wildernesses. Ultimately, this class aims to broaden the participants' horizons with regard to their own national background as much as with regard to the corresponding 'other.'

One major framework of our class will be the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, where Canada is the (unfortunately due to Corona physically absent) guest of honor. Students who sign up for this class are required to follow the event closely (October 14-17, 2020), and are expected to be very well informed about what is published about the event and Canadian literature and culture in print and on social media up until the beginning of the semester. Make sure to consult a variety of sources (in German and in English!) to gain insight into as many perspectives as possible!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most texts, especially the essays from Refractions, will be provided via the Virtual Campus. Students are, however, required to purchase and start reading the following novels before the beginning of the semester: Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers (2001), Suzette Mayr’s The Widows (1998), and Rudy Wiebe’s Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006). Ebook-versions of the novels are welcome.

Dozent/in:: Mario Ebest
Angaben:: Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6
Termine:: Einzeltermin am 22.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 5.2.2021, Einzeltermin am 12.2.2021, 10:00 - 17:30, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS;
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

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:
October 19 until November 6, 2020

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 first half of the 20th century was marked by major upheavals in Britain, such as, for example, the General Strike, the Great Depression, Labour’s rise to power as opposed to the decline of the Liberal Party, two world wars, and the loss of the Empire.

In this seminar, we will be looking into the field of power relationships during this critical period – firstly, from a rather theoretical (Foucauldian) angle and, secondly, from the point of view of literary works. We will especially analyse the portrayal of organised labour/trade unionism in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song (1932), Gwyn Jones’s novel Times Like These (1936), Idris Davies’s long poem “The Angry Summer” (1943), and Arnold Wesker’s play Roots (1958).

If you want to take part in this class, please read Sunset Song and Roots beforehand.

Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul (inklusive MA-Module)

Reading Theory

Dozent/in:: Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:: Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien
Termine:: Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

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

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

MA Religion Verstehen
Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache MA RelLit 3a: Seminar (5 ECTS)

NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:: This course is meant to enhance advanced students’ knowledge of theoretical perspectives and their awareness of the ways in which literary and cultural theories are discussed and applied in today’s scholarly discourse.

We will begin the term with an overview of major 20th century theoretical approaches (e.g. New Criticism, (Post)Structuralism, Marxism, critical theory, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Foucault, Deconstruction etc.). Subsequently, we will discuss more recent developments in some of these well-established fields, looking at the ways in which they are relevant for researchers today. Later, we will turn to some of the latest developments in literary and cultural criticism, from Ecocriticism and Posthumanism via Disability Studies to new aspects in the study of Migration (laissez-faire, multiculturalism, integration), Mobility Studies, Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, cognitive science.

Short student presentations (10-15 minutes) are followed by discussions of significant texts. For the success of this class it is paramount that all of the assigned texts be read and prepared carefully.
Empfohlene Literatur:: Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002)
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory. The Basics (2014)
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. An Introduction (2008)
Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. A Reader. 4th ed. (2001)

Making the Broken Whole? Re-reading Modernist Poetry in a Broken Age

Dozent/in:: Robert Craig
Angaben:: Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, Vertiefungsmodul. An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 20.07.2020 (10:00 Uhr) bis 06.11.2020 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 14.12.2020 (08:00 Uhr) bis 29.01.2021 (23:59 Uhr).
Termine:: Di, 16:15 - 17:45, Raum n.V.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

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)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 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)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.
Inhalt:: ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins.’ T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land (1922) reaches its strange end with a salvo of quotations drawn from across European literary and folk traditions, before trailing off in a blaze of Sanskrit. Eliot’s admission here is symbolic not just of the poem itself, but a whole literary and cultural epoch: the modern world seems completely broken, caught as it is between a yearning for order and peace (in every sense), and the chaotic flux of human desire in all its forms. The spiritual congruities and continuities of old were vanishing, and modernist writers and poets were preoccupied with recovering a lost sense of wholeness. Whether through the holistic traditions of the past, or the utopian (or reactionary) visions of the present, European modernism was both keyed to the idea of redeeming modern life from itself, and painfully aware of its impossibility. Could the broken ever be made whole again?

This will be our primary question as we read a selection of works by three of the greatest European poets and writers of the early twentieth century: the Anglo-Irish W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), the Bohemian-Austrian Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), and Eliot (1888-1965), a naturalized British citizen of American origin. All three developed deeply ambivalent attitudes towards modernity. Beginning with an overview of modernist poetics, we shall first turn our attention to a selection of Yeats’s later work. Critic Daniel Albright has described him as ‘the ghost that haunted Modernism’: while immersed in Irish spiritualist and folkloric traditions, and identifying with British Romanticism, he came to absorb and adopt the modernist forms he had tried so hard to reject. We will then read either a selection of Rilke's Neue Gedichte (1907-8), or his pathbreaking experimental city novel, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910). We'll then bring Rilke's sense of fragmentation into dialogue with the redemptive possibilities explored in his famous Duineser Elegien (1923). Finally, we’ll turn to Eliot, a poet with whom he is often compared. If The Waste Land lays bare the spiritual desolations of modern life, his Four Quartets (1943) find fresh consolation and meaning beyond the bounds of human time itself. While Yeats remains keenly conscious of modernity’s contradictions, Rilke and Eliot propose hard-won answers to them. But all three drew upon either conservative or even reactionary cultural and political visions. How might these poets nonetheless speak to contemporary crises of meaning and purpose? And thinking about the dangers of our own day and age, what might they tell us about some of the more seductive ‘solutions’?

We shall discuss the English-language works in English, and the German-language works in German.
Empfohlene Literatur:: I. Primärliteratur:

Please buy the books in the editions stated:

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems, ed. by Frank Kermode (London: Penguin, 2003).

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien / Die Sonette an Orpheus (Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1974).

A selection of W. B. Yeats’s poems, and further poems by Rilke, will be made available on the Virtual Campus.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

Manfred Engel (ed.), Rilke Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013).

Jason Harding, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Marjorie Howes and John Kelly (eds), The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

A. David Moody (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

A variety of further texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus, as well as in the seminar Semesterapparat. Texts will be uploaded in the course of the semester, shortly before the relevant seminar session is due to take place. Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).

"Little Fires Everywhere" in America Today

Dozent/in: