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Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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Bamberg University English Drama Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Ellen Werner
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mo, 20:00 - 22:00, Raum n.V.
Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 12.11.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module:
- Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
- Inhalt:
- Winter Workshop 2020/2021: A Dramatic Scrapbook
Directors: Alicia Drefs and Ellen Werner
Instead of a normal performance, the Drama Group's annual Winter Workshop will this semester produce a collection of several small projects, such as poetry readings, dramatic monologues or short scenes, some of which will then be uploaded to our YouTube channel - a dramatic scrapbook with diverse theatre-related activities.
In addition, we will familiarise ourselves with fundamental theatre techniques, such as stage- and costume design and textual adaptation.
The class will consist of an online and a face to face session. Online sessions will be held on Mondays from 8-10pm via Microsoft Teams, face to face meetings from 8-10pm in U2/00.25 on Thursdays. Participants are welcome to attend either or both; if you do not want to/cannot attend the live sessions, this will not be a problem for participation in our projects as we will use the live meetings mostly for exercises.
If you would like to participate in the Drama Group, please write an email to Alicia Drefs and Ellen Werner for further information: buedg.englit@uni-bamberg.de
Note: The first face to face session will be held in the second week of term on 12 November; online classes start on 2nd November.
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Shakespeare Reading Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Termine:
- Do, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- IN THE WS 20/21 WE WILL START THE COURSE VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS. Please follow the link above ("online") to access the team. You will be confirmed by the lecturer.
This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.
Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.
You need not register for this course, just come along in the first session and bring a copy of the plays.
- Inhalt:
- William Shakespeare's works are well know, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare, one comedy and one tragedy, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on.
If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and comfortable shoes.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet.
William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Tutorien
Vorlesungen und Übungen
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'Writers from elsewhere' II: Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah -
- Dozent/in:
- Touhid Chowdhury
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, 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 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)
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:
- In his essay “‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does not Exist,” Salman Rushdie devises the idea of ‘writers from elsewhere’ referring to those contemporary novelists, poets and playwrights who, although often not born into the English language have chosen it as the medium of their expression. This new definition, in general, is a reaction to the idea of ‘Commonwealth Literature’ as formal and at times flattering appreciation of a diverse group of writers writing in English. According to Rushdie ‘Commonwealth Literature’, in a sense, also confines all these writers into ghettos together with the cultures from which they originate. Besides, literature written in English after the Second World War is too vast a territory to be measured with any precision if we stick to narrow definitions like ‘Commonwealth Literature’. Great Britain has provided the linguistic, literary and cultural context to what can broadly be called ‘writers from elsewhere’: Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Simi Bedford or Hanif Kureishi are some of the names that we all know. These novelists are notable examples of immigrant writers who have contributed to British fiction with their transnational outlook and alternative uses of English. In contrast to the aforementioned names, Abdulrazak Gurnah has not got enough attention in literary circle or in academic discourse, although his novels have been short listed for Booker Prize. Nevertheless, he remains a formidable talent whose work deserves more recognition than it has received to date, especially outside Britain where he resides and has received most fame.
This course will offer an in-depth look at Abdulrazak Gurnah’s writing from linguistic, historical and cultural perspectives. We will analyse key literary works of him and try to posit them within the new canon of ‘writers from elsewhere’. The primary objective of this course is to introduce Abdulrazak Gurnah to students. Also, creating a sense of awareness of his culturally induced writing style among students.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Memory of Departure (1987)
Paradise (1994)
By the Sea (2001)
The Last Gift (2011)
Gravel Heart (2017)
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20th-Century British Drama, part III -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 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 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)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Inhalt:
- To conclude this three-part overview course of 20th-Century British Drama, this third part will now cover the 1990s and then move into the first two decades of the 21st century. Like the previous two courses, Drama III will be a very reading-intensive class. Each week, students will read a new play and discuss it in class. In so doing, we use a quantitative approach to postmodern British drama, allowing us to study plays comparatively and individually.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- The following plays will be read in class and can be made available by the lecturer:
Terry Johnson. Hysteria. 1993.
Sarah Kane. Blasted. 1995.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and Fucking. 1996.
Patrick Marber. Closer. 1997.
Alan Bennett. The History Boys. 2004.
Tanika Gupta. Gladiator Games. 2005.
Bola Agbaje. Gone Too Far. 2007.
Polly Stenham. Tusk Tusk. 2009.
Nina Raine. Tribes. 2010.
debbie tucker green. hang. 2015.
Duncan Macmillan. Every Brilliant Thing. 2016.
Jez Butterworth. The Ferryman. 2017.
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Constructions of Femininity in 18th-Century Fiction -
- 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).
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Exam Preparation English Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Susan Brähler
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Do, 10:00 - 12:00, 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 exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten)
Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
- Inhalt:
- This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.
Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The course will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature (Prof. Houswitschka)
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
- Inhalt:
- This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.
In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.
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History of the English Novel I -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Di, 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 Igor Baldoino.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale
MA English and American Studies
MA Berufliche Bildung
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)
Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von „Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B“ per E-Mail bis 30. Oktober 2020 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de
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 lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from
the Middle Ages to the present. The focus in the winter term will be on the origins and
the history of the novel and the following novels in particular:
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe, Roxana (1724)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740)
Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741)
Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wilde (1743)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-8)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1761/62; 1766)
Tobias Smollett, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1761-2)
Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97)
William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)
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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
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozent/in:
- Touhid Chowdhury
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, 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.
ab 11.11.2020
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)
NOT open for Consolidation Module
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s.
We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).
The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.
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The Rise of Islamic Feminism: Reading Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Bird Summons -
- 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.
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"Searching for Our Mothers' Gardens": Deconstructing Motherhood in American Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Nermine Abdulhafiz
- Angaben:
- Übung/Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Der Kurs ist aktuell als reine Online-Lehrveranstaltung geplant. / The course is currently scheduled to take place entirely online.
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 6.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 20.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 4.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 18.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 15.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 12.2.2021, 16:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting
- 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:
All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- MA WiPäd
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
--> NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature!
2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)
- Course (de)registration: September 7 – October 30!, 2020 (first session: November 6th!)
- 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 traces changing notions of motherhood in American literature and culture through different periods of time and across different races and ethnic communities, using a variety of approaches and cultural and literary theories. Motherhood has always been a contested terrain in American society. Together we will look into the complexities, contradictions, and socio-political aspects of the mothering experience as it has been constructed in various literary and other cultural texts. Is motherhood a universal experience, shared by the common lot of women? How do factors such as race, class, religion, sexuality shape and influence the mothering experience? Is there such thing as feminist mothering? Within the continuous debate of the public and private, where can we position motherhood? And how can we interpret motherhood as a politicized concept in light of racial discrimination, reproductive rights, immigration laws, and U.S. foreign policy? Furthermore, within the global capitalist market, we will look into how mothering is being commodified within the care industry.
Guided by these questions, our readings will explore various experiences of mothering within different ethnic groups in order to have not a single monolithic narrative, but a collage of diverse narratives that redefine and revolutionize the concept of motherhood.
Notes:
- Participants are expected to read the primary novels, along with other reading materials, such as articles, poems, and short stories. It is important to do the assigned readings, attend classes regularly and engage in class discussions.
- The course structure and other reading materials (apart from the novels) will be uploaded on the VC before the beginning of the semester.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Primary Readings (Either hard copy or e-book):
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid s Tale
- Mona Simpson, My Hollywood
- Susan Abulhawa, The Blue between Sky and Water
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American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben:
- Vorlesung, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung
- Termine:
- Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, Online-Meeting
The first session takes place via MS Teams on Nov 9th, 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:
All modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature
- Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale
- MA English and American Studies
- MA Berufliche Bildung
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
--> Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)!
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 lecture provides an overview of American literary history from the 1880s until today, focusing on the characteristic features of realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism.
For each of these periods, the thematic, formal and stylistic elements of a wide range of novels, plays, short stories, poems, and essays will be discussed in the broader context of the United States' cultural and intellectual history. In order to understand how different groups of Americans have imagined their culture at specific moments in time, we will analyze texts that address the diversity of American experiences in terms of race, class, gender, region, and political conviction. We will also explore how literary texts have critically engaged with the past and with other cultures, charting new directions for the relationship between literature and culture. Overall, we will investigate to which degree processes of modernization and the ideal of democratization can be understood as one of American literature's major driving forces.
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt) -
- Dozent/in:
- Eva-Sabine Zehelein
- 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:
- 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:
- 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."
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How to Write a Term Paper / Betreuungsübung BA -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- 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.
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Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
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Seminare im Basismodul (Einführungen)
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Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) -
- 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
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
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!)
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Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (B) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Online-Meeting
- 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:
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. 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!)
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Seminare im Aufbaumodul (inklusive Ergänzungsmodul)
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Constructions of Femininity in 18th-Century Fiction -
- 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).
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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
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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
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“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).
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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:
- 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:
- 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.
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In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course) -
- Dozent/in:
- Nicole K. Konopka
- 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.
- Inhalt:
- This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.
Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
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PS Working-Class Literature and Culture in Britain, 1930-1960 -
- 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.
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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)
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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)
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America, the 19th Century and the Short Form -
- Dozent/in:
- Eva-Sabine Zehelein
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung
- Termine:
- Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Online-Meeting
- 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:
- 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).
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Native American Voices: Stories of Survival and Resistance -
- Dozent/in:
- Johanna Feier
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung
- Termine:
- Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting
- 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:
- 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.
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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.
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