N.N.

Dozent/in:

N.N.

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

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!

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

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, 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:
Alle Module einschließlich einer verpflichtenden / frewilligen Vorlesung (2 oder 4 ECTS ) in folgenden Studienrichtungen:

• 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
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

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

• active participation
• presentation
• term-paper according to the style-sheet and the respective module handbook

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 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.

The Politics of American Immigrant Literature (Blockseminar)

Dozent/in:

Kellen Bolt

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 2.12.2016, 12:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 3.12.2016, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 9.12.2016, 12:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 10.12.2016, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
Alle Module einschließlich einer verpflichtenden / frewilligen Vorlesung (2 oder 4 ECTS ) in folgenden Studienrichtungen:

• 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
• LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

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

• active participation
• presentation
• term-paper according to the style-sheet and the respective module handbook

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

Via FlexNow

• 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:

Instructor: Kellen Bolt (Northwestern University, USA)
contact: kellenbolt2017@u.northwestern.edu

Why do people migrate? What factors push and pull them to new locations, in particular the United States? Why do people support immigration and others oppose it? How do people represent the immigration experiences? What are the political, cultural, economic, ecological, gendered, and raced subtexts within stories by or about immigrants? What functions do stories by or about immigrants have in U.S. and transnational cultural imaginaries?

Reading short stories, poems, personal accounts, cartoons, articles, and scholarly texts, this course will address these questions as well as consider how genre, form, and style inform the argument, the content, and the reception of works written by or about U.S. immigrants. By comparing French-, Irish-, German-, Russian-, Chinese-, Swedish-, and Mexican-American immigrant literature, this class will highlight how immigration and naturalization are not monolithic experiences but rather vary according to race, class, religion, and gender. In addition to immigrant fiction, we will consider how native-born American writers grapple with issues of immigration. In particular, we will think about the role that xenophobia plays in the immigration experience, noting how it does and does not change from the American Revolution to Climate Change.

Ultimately, the goal of this course is to offer a kaleidoscopic view of the politics of immigrant literature and its role in shaping American social and literary history. By comparing past and present representations of immigration, this course will provide a historical and theoretical framework for thinking about the futures of American immigration.

Readings:

• Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, Oxford University Press, 2009 (ISBN: 978-0199554744)
• Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron Mills", Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993 (ISBN: 978-0935312393)
• John F. Kennedy, Nation of Immigrants, Harper Perennial, 2008 (ISBN: 978-0061447549)
• Alicia Alarcon, The Border Patrol Ate My Dust, Arte Publico Press, 2004 (ISBN: 978-1558854321)
• Bihk Mihn Nyugen, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, Penguin, 2008 ( ISBN: 978-0143113034)