Creative Writing with Analysis

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Chiara Manghi, Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Module Allocation

All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

An- und Abmeldung/(De)Registration:

via FlexNow 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to Chiara Manghi.

Inhalt:

Please read John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman by the second session.

Empfohlene Literatur:

John Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 13.2.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/Übung für Examenskanditaten) or an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• MA Berufliche Bildung

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

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 or who are interested in detailed analyses of exam questions covering the whole of British literature from the Renaissance until today are very welcome, too.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

• BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow!: 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

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.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25
ab 26.10.2016

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)

• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

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.

Rivers in Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

• BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

• LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

• LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class we will explore rivers in poetry, fiction, music, movies, mythology and folklore.
We will analyze the river as a generic, universal entity, present in countless songs and poems, but also specific rivers, focusing on the Thames and the Mississippi (but without forgetting the tributaries of the Thames in Rivers of London, the Spoon River and its cemetery and poems, the Sand Creek and its role in history).

This class is open for students of both literary and cultural studies, and both as a reading tutorial (Uebung) and as a seminar.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading List:

Novels:
Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat
Ben Aaronovitch. Rivers of London
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpts)
Norman Maclean. A River Runs Through It
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness

Please read Three Men in a Boat by the second session.

Poems (selection):
Richard Hugo. "The Towns We Know and Leave Behind, The Rivers We Carry With Us"
Carol Ann Duffy. "River"
Langston Hughes. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Songs (selection):
Carly Simon. "Let the River Run"
Fabrizio De Andrè. "Fiume Sand Creek"
Emeli Sandé. "River"

More tba in class

To Divert and Entertain, to Instruct and Improve: The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 26.1.2017, 10:00 - 12:00, KR14/00.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische 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

LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

[T]o divert and entertain, and at the same time to instruct and improve the minds. This is what Samuel Richardson famously defines in the poetological Preface to his epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) as one of the core objectives of the histories, lives and journals that we have come to identify as novels. Entertainment and instruction are core elements of 18th-century novel writing and will also be crucial to this seminar on the 18th-century novel: students will learn about 18th-century thought and (literary) culture and discuss some of the most entertaining novels of the English literary canon.

The 18th century is often considered as the moment at which modern literary culture begins and also sees the emergence of the novel as we have come to know it. We will thus set out to trace the origins of the novel and learn how the first novelists defined this new genre (novel vs. romance; truth and virtue; individualism and authenticity). After these preliminaries, we will gain a glimpse of the enormous diversity of 18th-century novel writing both with respect to different sub-genres and with respect to its development over the course of the century. We will not only focus on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, the authors most associated with the rise of the novel ever since Ian Watt s groundbreaking study of the same title (1957), but also consider novels by now canonized women writers such as Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood.

Students will study the Puritanism and Empiricism of Daniel Defoe s adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), Samuel Richardson s psychological realism in Pamela (1740), Henry Fielding s parodies of the sentimental novel (Shamela 1741, Joseph Andrews 1742) and explore the possibilities of authorial narration in Tom Jones (1749). We will study Eliza Haywood s amatory novel Love in Excess (1719) and Frances Burney s novel of development Evelina (1778) for the ways in which they construct a female subjectivity. Jonathan Swift s satire Gulliver s Travels (1726), Laurence Sterne s experimental novel Tristram Shandy (1759-67), Oliver Goldsmith s sentimental novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and Horace Walpole s Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1765) will complete our overview of 18th-century novel writing.

Hopefully, in the course of the semester, students will come to disagree with Samuel Johnson who decried [t]these books as being written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle with minds unfurnished with ideas (The Rambler, 31 March 1750) and will appreciate them as still being worthy of in-depth study.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719) [excerpts only]
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels (1726) [excerpts only]
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) [excerpts only]
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones 1749) [excerpts only of all three novels]
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Frances Burney, Evelina (1778) [excerpts only]
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67), A Sentimental Journey (1768) [excerpts only]
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Students need to buy copies of Robinson Crusoe, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Castle of Otranto.
Excerpts of all other novels listed above will be made available on the Virtual Campus. Please get in touch with your lecturer to get hold of the password.

Recommended Reading:
London, April. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.
McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.
Nixon, Cheryl L., ed. Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel 1688-1815. Peterborough: Broadview P, 2008.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. New York: Blackwell, 1986.
Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. 1957. 2nd. ed. Berkeley: U California P, 2001.

True Crime Fiction

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische 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
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
ERASMUS or visiting students: Seminar: max. 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading tutorial (Übung)
All modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literature and culture in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• ERASMUS or visiting students

M.A. Literatur und Medien: Profilmodul: Übung (Referat + Essay, 4 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration Via FlexNow! 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)
ERASMUS and visiting students: Please contact lecturer if you wish to attend the class.

Inhalt:

Crime fiction is one of the most popular genres in literature and film and most readers are familiar with fictional detectives such as Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple. However, many crime novels or films are based on actual crimes or actual detectives, often without explicitly stating so. Or did you know that Wilkie Collins’ in The Moonstone, one of the first ever crime novels in English, some of the elements of the story are actually based on a real crime, even on a murder?
Besides fictional stories including real elements, there is the whole genre of true crime fiction, stories of real crimes told in an entertaining way. Just like fiction, true crime fiction, as the name already implies, makes use of narrative strategies and literary elements since, after all, they still tell a story. But what are the differences between fictitious stories and factual stories told with the same narrative strategies? Are there any differences? And how does that work for film? Are there differences in the depiction of real and fictitious crimes? All of these questions are going to be examined in this class and we are going to discuss literature of various kinds, film and documentaries, and other texts.
Please be aware that you need to read several texts throughout the semester!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading list:
To read/watch before the seminar starts:
Kate Summerscale. Murder at Road Hill House. 2008.
Mary Belloc Lowndes. The Lodger. 1913.
Carol Ann Davis. Children Who Kill. 2014.

To read/watch during the semester:
Truman Capote. In Cold Blood. 1965.
Capote. Directed by Bennet Miller. 2005.
Heavenly Creatures. Directed by Peter Jackson. 1994.
Catch Me If You Can. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 2002.
The Great Train Robbery. Directed by Julian Jarrold and James Strong. 2013.

More films/excerpts may be added during the semester!

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/02.01

Writing Politics: Literary Modernism 1919 - 1939

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U11/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische 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

LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

ERASMUS or visiting students: max. 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)
guest auditors please contact lecturer:
alexander-stefan.debney@stud.uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

The ‘Great War’, a conflict which at the time had no parallel in human history in terms of bloodshed, ripped into the fabric of European civilisation and shook its traditional foundations to the core. In its wake, many new – and often radical – ideas regarding the organisation of society gained ever more proponents. Literature saw a burst of creative energy, but also underwent radical changes in form and content. Though its roots can be pinpointed well before 1914, literary modernism gained its most decisive influence with the First World War. From this time onward, the conflict haunted the imaginations of writers and readers alike, until being overshadowed by the looming possibility of a second conflagration, perhaps to be even more terrible than the first.

This course will examine the connections between literary modernism and the turbulent politics of the time, with an emphasis on the inter-war period, 1919 - 1939. Political thought will be analysed in the works of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, May Sinclair, Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, among others.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:
To be read by the second session:

D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo

Additional reading will be made available via the VC

Betreuungsübung (Konopka/Literatur)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U11/00.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen:

Modulbelegung:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit):

• Vertiefungsmodul (2 ECTS)

BA Medieval Studies (wenn BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaften geschrieben wird):

• Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS)

MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (wenn MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird):

• Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS)

MA Medieval Studies (wenn MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird):

• Intensivierungsmodul

Alle alten Studiengänge (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit):

• Übung Literaturwissenschaften

2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe:
regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, in den BA- und MA-Studiengängen (nicht Joint Degree): mündliche Modulteilprüfung

3. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:
Via FlexNow

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 18.7. - 17.10.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

Studierende melden sich bitte zusätzlich per e-mail bei der Dozentin des Kurses an

Inhalt:

This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a BA-thesis in American Literature or Culture. 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.

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 programs, 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-program. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.

The course will take place every two weeks. Our first meeting will take place in the first week of the semester.

Creative Writing: Poetry, Recklessness and Revision (Blockseminar)

Dozent/in:

Laura Passin

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 16.12.2016, 12:00 - 19:00, U2/01.30
Einzeltermin am 17.12.2016, 10:00 - 17:00, U2/01.30

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:

• Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Master-Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft I oder II: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS) Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS) Lehramt neu GY:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/12): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Übung

Studium Generale: NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation (10-15 minutes)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• until October 17, 2016
• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the teacher of this class).

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.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

In The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Dean Young declares that, in poetry writing, “The error is not to fall but to fall from no height.” In other words, the most terrible failure a poet can make is to risk nothing, to write a poem that is so safe there’s no danger of falling. According to Young, poets must be willing to fail in order to create something meaningful. What does it mean to take risks in poetry? How can you be reckless without wrecking your poem? In this intensive weekend seminar, we will use readings, in-class writing exercises, and group collaboration to create poems, take them apart, and put them together again. We will take inspiration from poets such as Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, and others, analyzing how they use poetry to face danger. The class will be conducted in English, and all writing exercises and required readings will be in English. Instead of a textbook, we will read poems selected by the instructor, which will be made available before the seminar and should be read in advance. This seminar is open to everyone, regardless of poetry writing experience. The only requirement is a desire to try!

Please note: Students who want to receive full credit for this course are expected to also attend the international conference "The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry," which takes place at the University of Bamberg from Nov. 25-26, 2016. Students who want to take the course without credit are very welcome as well.

Disturbing Paradigms: Mental Illness in US American Literature

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:

• Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Master-Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft I oder II: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS) Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS) Lehramt neu GY:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/12): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung:Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister:

• Übung

Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II:

• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Studium Generale: NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation (10-15 minutes)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• until October 18, 2016
• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the teacher of this class).

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.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

Mental illness has always played an important role in popular culture and general human awareness. The aspect of public attention has always been part of that, and due to simultaneously causing fear and fascination mental illness has figured largely in literature, visual art, and music. Artistic works have confirmed and challenged belief and value systems: the mad scientist, the horror of the asylum, the mentally ill relative in the family closet, fear of close proximity to mental institutions, the mental patient's desolation -- all these are perceptions of mental illness. In this course we will explore the concept of madness as presented in literature.

We will primarily explore texts from authors that are part of the department's reading list, such as Edgar Alan Poe, Theodore Dreiser, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Graham Greene, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Tennessee Williams and H. P. Lovecraft. Four novels shall be the key texts of this class, and students are expected to read the first two novels before the beginning of our seminar:

• Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961) – preferred edition: Vintage; ISBN 9780099536017.
• Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) – preferred edition: Signet; ISBN 0451163966.
• Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963) – preferred edition: FF Classics; ISBN 0571200338.
• Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks (1998) – preferred edition: Penguin; ISBN 0142000205.

Additional course material will be provided well ahead of class via the Virtual Campus. It is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend class regularly and contribute to class discussions. You are welcome to bring in materials from outside of class (newspaper articles, handouts etc.) and you can also plan class room activities – e.g. mock debates. Your input will be welcome!

Attention: This is a READING class! Participants must be able to read and review quite a lot of material between the weekly sessions. The class is also designed to assist you with the reading list of the American Studies Section and aims to contribute to your understanding of key narratives of North American literature and culture. Most of the material will be provided via the Virtual Campus ahead of each session. Students are, however, required to read some texts before the beginning of the semester – either in print or as e-book.

Exam Preparation North-American Literature (Repetitorium)

Dozent/in:

Theresa Roth

Angaben:

Repetitorium, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale, angeboten u.a. für European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Alle Module einschließlich einer Examensübung / Übung für Examenskandidaten oder einer verpflichtenden Leseübung in folgenden Studienrichtungen:

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• MA Berufliche Bildung
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Studium Generale (NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik / Amerikanistik!)
• Joint Degree:

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation and presentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 18.7. - 17.10.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

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.

Informationen zur Ammeldung in FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all teaching degrees ("Lehrämter") who prepare for the 3-hour written "Staatsexamen" in American Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other final exams - oral or written - are very welcome, too.

The "Repetitorum" is a class designed to assist students in their preparations for the final written exam. The class, however, does NOT substitute each student’s individual study time! During class, students will receive immediate feedback about their level of preparation for the final exam. The most important aim of this class, however, is to provide participants with a platform to discuss complex issues, rather than particular details of one certain topic. Once again: the class aims to assist students in their preparations, but it does NOT replace independent study!

The topics for this semester will be chosen by the class participants themselves during the first session.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (Amerik. Literatur)

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 2, angeboten für European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen:

Modulbelegung:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit):

• Vertiefungsmodul (2 ECTS)

BA Medieval Studies (wenn BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaften geschrieben wird):

• Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS)

MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (wenn MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird):

• Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS)

MA Medieval Studies (wenn MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird):

• Intensivierungsmodul

Alle alten Studiengänge (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit):

• Übung Literaturwissenschaften

2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, in den BA- und MA-Studiengängen (nicht Joint Degree): mündliche Modulteilprüfung

3. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:

Via FlexNow

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 18.7. - 17.10.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

Studierende melden sich bitte zusätzlich per e-mail bei der Dozentin des Kurses an

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.” The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as “mündliche Modulteilprüfung” in the BA-programm. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programs are advised to take this course to support them while writing their thesis.

From Absalom to Zora: A Survey of Southern Literature

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Alle Module einschließlich einer verpflichtenden / frewilligen Leseübung (2 oder 4 ECTS ) in folgenden Studienrichtungen:

• LA GS/HS/MS/ RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II
• Studium Generale (NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 2 ECTS: Aktive Teilnahme und Kurzpräsentation (10-15 minutes)
• 4 ECTS: Aktive Teilnahme, Kurzpräsentation und kurze Hausarbeit (1.000-1.500 Wörter)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
via FlexNow [Studenten, die keinen Zugang zu FlexNow haben (Eramus / Joint Degree) wenden sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin des Kurses

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 18.7. - 16.10.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

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.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

The U.S. Southern states stand on perhaps the most contested terrain in North America. “Southern Literature” shows its readers the varied ways in which the region has been approached since the founding of the nation. This class will provide a survey of various texts by Southern writers that are set in the South or deal with Southern characters. Our readings will include slave narratives and other texts from the time of the civil war, as well as novels, plays, short stories, poems and songs from the Southern Renaissance and the Civil Rights era. We will analyze recurrent topics as well as thematic and stylistic differences among the texts in order to examine how concepts like race, class and gender play into the construction of this region. We will – among other things – look into the way Southern women writers influenced the notions of the region and which texts belong to the subgenre “Southern Gothic.” For our central reading we will focus on 3 novels that need to be read BEFORE class. The shorter plays, poems and songs will be made available on the Virtual Campus.

Note:

• If you want to participate in the course, please write an email to the instructor as soon as you registered via FlexNow to get access to the Virtual Campus, where all of the material (excluding the four novels) will be made available!
• This class is a block seminar. We will therefore have a preliminary meeting on Monday, October 17.
• It is furthermore a reading exercise (Leseübung), designed to assist you in working through the reading list. Therefore, participants are expected to read a lot. It is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend class regularly and contribute to class discussions.

Required Reading:

• Harriet Ann Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (1861)
• William Faulkner. Absalom! Absalom! (1936)
• Alice Walker. The Color Purple. (1982)

Golden Door: Italian Perspectives on the USA and Vice Versa (Ü Literary Studies)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Fr, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:

• Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Master-Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft I oder II: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Consolidation Module (Literature)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GY:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/12): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Übung

Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

Also open for the Studium Generale and Studiengang Romanistik (Aufbaumodul Lit.wiss. italienisch: Übung 2 ECTS)

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation (10-15 minutes)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• until October 18, 2016
• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the teacher of this class).

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.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

The United States are often described as a nation of immigrants, the 'golden door' to the West, a land in which people from all over the world have sought – and apparently found – new homes and new lives. However, the myth of the Promised Land and the cultural narrative of the American Dream are as much exclusive as they are inclusive, thus encouraging new beginnings and personal aspirations, but also breaking individuals and their hopes and dreams.

In the first part of the semester, the course centers on American ideals and realities as seen from an Italian immigrant perspective. We will be looking at how Italian immigrants and their descendants participated and still participate in the creation of core American values and narratives, and influenced debates about inclusion of newcomers into the Promised Land.

In the second half of the class we will then take a look at the influence of Italy on the writing of past and present US-American writers, such as Emerson, Tennessee Williams and Elizabeth Spencer. Italy seems to have had and still plays a special role in American Literature, where especially Rome is everything at once: ancient playground, great peak of the grand tour, self-imposed exile, and unsettling mirror of existentialist anxieties.

This course has two key goals, which are related to "history from below" and the "development of a myth". First, this course seeks to help students interrogate their own notions of American history, literature and culture. Immigrants are neither the helpless victims, nor are they agents of pure individualism. To help students understand the many layers of the stories of migration, and how they are entwined with one aspect of American history in particular, shall be one objective of this class. The second goal is to show the gradual emancipation of popular narratives and how the ideas of the Promised Land and the American Dream become ideal or real against a particular ethnic background: Italian immigrants and their descendants in the US.

To understand the American fascination with Italy, we will do a lot of reading, speaking, thinking and possibly even traveling. Our main reading material will consist of several novels, which are listed below. Students are encouraged to start reading the novels before the semester! More material will then be provided via the VC during the semester.

Required reading October - December 2016:

• Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete (1939)
• Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965) OR Stuart Cooper's movie "Mama Lucia" (1988, available in the "Semesterapparat"!)
• Helen Barolino, Umbertina (1979)

Required reading January - February 2017:

• Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
• Tennessee Williams, The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone (1950)

This class will include a field trip to Rome (Italy), which will take place in the end of February or the beginning of March. Participants will receive generous funding from the American Studies Section and will be expected to contribute to the field trip with a presentation on site.

How to Write a Term Paper (Literary Studies)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung/Blockseminar

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 6.12.2016, Einzeltermin am 17.1.2017, 12:00 - 14:00, U11/00.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

To register for the Workshops on Academic Writing, please send an Email to the instructor of this class until November 22, 2016!

Inhalt:

This course aims to assist students in writing their first term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. In the first session, we will discuss (and practice!) how to develop a coherent structure for a term paper. In the second session you will learn about (and practice!) the MLA citation rules and how to use them. You will also be asked to compile a short "Works Cited" list. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that can appear in the list of references of your term paper. Between the two sessions, you have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where you will receive feedback from your fellow students and the instructor.

If you are interested in participating in this exercise course send an Email to the instructor who will then give you the password to the VC course of this class.

Please note that this is an exercise course and not a lecture! You will be expected to participate in the tasks and discussions. Note: No ECTS points will be awarded for this class!

• Workshop I - Structuring a Term Paper: 06.12.2016 (12:00 – 14:00 s.t.)
• Workshop II - Citation Rules and Guidelines: 17.01.2017 (12:00 – 14:00 s.t.)

Key Texts in Literary Studies

Dozent/in:

Theresa Roth

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 1, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 14.12.2016, Einzeltermin am 11.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 18.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 25.1.2017, Einzeltermin am 8.2.2017, 10:00 - 12:00, U2/01.36

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik /Amerikanistik ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15):

Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009):

Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

• alle alten Studiengänge:

Übung (1 ECTS)
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation and presentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of this class)

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 18.7. - 17.10.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

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.
Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. Our reading will consist of 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 research interests and input, 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 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 class regularly and contribute to class discussions. Your input is mandatory and will be welcome!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading: A course reader will be made available for students of this class once the schedule has been agreed upon.