Lehrveranstaltungen

V Lecture: History of English Poetry I

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 2.2.2017, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/01.30

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:

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
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II

2. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:
via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to christine.gerhardt(AT)uni-bamberg.de.)

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:

This lecture provides an overview of the United States literary history from the first settlement until the 1860s, focusing on the colonial era, the enlightenment, and romanticism. 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 America s 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 the ways in which 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.

The syllabus will be available on the Virtual Campus.

Dozent/in:: Pascal Fischer
Angaben:: Vorlesung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 4
Termine:: Do, 8:15 - 9:45, U5/02.22
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung:
Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15):
Ergänzungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft Seminar + Übung (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung (2 oder 4 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Studium Generale (2 oder 4 ECTS)

Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt neu GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/2): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Vorlesung

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

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies im Rahmen anderer MA:
Master Module oder Profile Module I English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS)

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 26 until October 20, 2016
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Inhalt:: This lecture traces the development of English poetry from the early sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth centuries. Introducing the most important periods, literary schools and movements, the lecture also tries to challenge established systems of periodization and categorization. Close readings of individual poems will provide students with some tools for their own interpretations. The second part of this class, starting with early Romanticism, will be given in the summer term.

Übungen und Repetitorien

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:

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

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.

Dozent/in:

Key Texts in Literary Theory

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.

Dozent/in:

Rivers in Literature and Culture

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.

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:

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

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!

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:

Creative Writing: Poetry, Recklessness and Revision (Blockseminar)

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.

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).

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:

Exam Preparation North-American Literature (Repetitorium)

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).

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.

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:

From Absalom to Zora: A Survey of Southern Literature

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.

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

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)

Einzeltermin am 28.10.2016
Einzeltermin am 29.10.2016
Einzeltermin am 18.11.2016
Einzeltermin am 19.11.2016

12:00 - 20:00
9:00 - 16:00
12:00 - 20:00
9:00 - 16:00

U5/01.17
U5/01.17
U5/01.17
U5/01.17

Roth, Th.

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

Dozent/in:

How to Write a Term Paper (Literary Studies)

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).

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.

Dozent/in:

Key Texts in Literary Studies

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.)

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.

Einführungsseminare und Tutorien (Basismodule)

Introduction to English and American Literature (A)

Dozent/in:

Introduction to English and American Literature (B)

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

BA Berufliche Bildung

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.10. – 23.01.2017

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D 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 Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature A" (Hedwig Hardi) zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) 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 English and American literary history.

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

BA Berufliche Bildung

BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.10. – 23.01.2017

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D 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 Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature B" (Hedwig Hardi) zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.

Inhalt:

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Tutorium zu "Introduction to English and American Literature A"

Dozent/in:: Hedwig Hardi
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:00, WE5/02.004
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Dr. Susan Brähler

Tutorium zu "Introduction to English and American Literature B"

Dozent/in:: Hedwig Hardi
Angaben:: Tutorien
Termine:: Mi, 16:15 - 17:45, U5/02.22
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies B taught by Alexander Debney

Introduction to English and American Literature (C) (Roth)

Dozent/in:

Theresa Roth

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Frühstudium, 6 ECTS = inclusive Tutorium; WICHTIG!!! Anmeldung über FlexNow! auch für Studierende höherer Semester

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 31.1.2017, 16:00 - 18:00, U7/01.05

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Basismodule folgender Studienrichtung ( 2 oder 6 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BA Berufliche Bildung
Lehramt GHS
Lehramt RS
Lehramt GY
BSc BWL Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II

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

An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 10.10. 17.10.2016
An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

WICHTIG: Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Kurse "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.

3. Tutorien / Tutorials
The following courses are supplementary to the seminar:

Tutorium to the "Introduction to English and American Literature" (no additional enrollment required!)
a one-off 2-hour course provided by the library: "Einführung in die Bibliotheksbenutzung für Anglisten" (enrollment via the Virtual Campus, access via "Bibliothek")

4. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points
6 ECTS:

active participation
Übung "Einführung in die Bibliotheksbenutzung für Anglisten" (enrollment via the Virtual Campus, access via "Bibliothek")
final written exam

2 ECTS (nur BA Medieval Studies):

active participation
small tests

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 English and 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 informed readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, and informed by key theories and analytical methods.

Please note that the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session!

Empfohlene Literatur:

Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010. (Required!)

Introduction to English and American Literature (D) (Konopka)

Dozent/in:

Rivers in Literature and Culture

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Introduction to English and American Literature
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study

Basismodule folgender Studienrichtung ( 2 oder 6 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
BA Berufliche Bildung
Lehramt GHS
Lehramt RS
Lehramt GY
BSc BWL Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II

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

An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 10.10. – 17.10.2016
An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: tba

WICHTIG: Es stehen vier Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, die Termine C und D bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Kurse "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.

3. Tutorien / Tutorials

The following courses are supplementary to the seminar:

Tutorium to the "Introduction to English and American Literature" (no additional enrollment required!)
a one-off 2-hour course provided by the library: "Einführung in die Bibliotheksbenutzung für Anglisten" (enrollment via the Virtual Campus, access via "Bibliothek")

4. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points
6 ECTS:

active participation
Übung "Einführung in die Bibliotheksbenutzung für Anglisten" (enrollment via the Virtual Campus, access via "Bibliothek")
final written exam

2 ECTS (nur BA Medieval Studies):

active participation
small tests

Inhalt:

Empfohlene Literatur:

Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010. (Required!)

Tutorium (Intro Lit) C

Dozent/in:: Marius Rosner
Angaben:: Tutorien, 2 SWS
Termine:: Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17

Tutorium (Intro Lit) D

Dozent/in:: Marius Rosner
Angaben:: Tutorien, 2 SWS
Termine:: Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Proseminare (Aufbaumodule)

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

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:

Empfohlene Literatur:

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

Dozent/in:

Writing Politics: Literary Modernism 1919 - 1939

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:

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:

Empfohlene Literatur:

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:

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

Inhalt:

Empfohlene Literatur:

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:

The Politics of American Immigrant Literature (Blockseminar)

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

Inhalt:

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)

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

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)

Haupt- und Oberseminare (Vertiefungs- und Mastermodule)

An interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare: Language pedagogy, linguistics, literary and cultural studies

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:: Manfred Krug, Isolde Schmidt, Pascal Fischer, Nicole K. Konopka, Beatrix Hesse
Angaben:: Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung
Termine:: jede 2. Woche Di, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 17.1.2017, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Beginn: erste Semesterwoche. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die erste Sitzung von 8:30-11:30 Uhr stattfindet. Die Sitzung am 24.01.2017 entfällt. In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods in the computer pool U5/02.23 (unless they have already participated in the Übung Methods and Theories in Linguistics ). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Mon, 24 October 2016, 8-10h OR 10-12h OR 12-14h AND Thu, 27 October 2016, 8-14h OR Fri, 28 October 2016, 8-14h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 20 October at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=18361 . You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 21 October.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Anmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 20.10.16, 23:59h.
Abmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 30.10.16, 23:59h.

Die Anmeldung für die Lehrveranstaltung erfolgt für alle Studierenden über den Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft.
Die Prüfungsanmeldung erfolgt später im jeweils gewählten Teilbereich.
Nähere Informationen erhalten Sie in der ersten Seminarsitzung.

Modulanbindungen:
Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist für alle Lehramtsstudierenden der Anglistik/Amerikanistik sowie MA-Studierende geeignet. Studierende können wählen, in welcher der beteiligten Teildisziplinen sie Punkte für ein Modul einbringen bzw. ein Modul absolvieren wollen. Darüber hinaus kann die Lehrveranstaltung auch im Rahmen des neuen KulturPLUS-Moduls belegt werden.

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Sprachwissenschaft

1. Modules:

-LA GY modularisiert: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Restricted Electives in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul II Anglistik: Seminar (7 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Sprachwissenschaft
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)

For students transferring to the University of Bamberg, for Erasmus students and for those who need the credit to register for their upcoming final exams a few places will be reserved. If the course is fully booked please contact the lecturer personally.

2. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
regular active participation in class + oral presentation + termpaper (4500-6000 words)

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Didaktik

1. Modulzugehörigkeit:
-Lehramt GS; MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
-Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
-BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
-MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
-Bachelor BWL Studienschwerpunkt BIMA: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Bachelor Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Leistungsnachweis:
regelmäßige Anwesenheit und intensive Mitarbeit; Referat und Hausarbeit

Informationen für Studierende der anglistischen und amerikanistischen Kulturwissenschaft

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies:
-Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS) Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS) Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation
term-paper according to the style-sheet

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Kultur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft -B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS) -LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS); Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS); Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS); Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies ; Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

-6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
-8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de!

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Literatur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen

-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
-LA neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Profilmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Mastermodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Vertiefungsmodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Profilmodul I oder II Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow
Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de!

Informationen für Studierende der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft

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)

Bedingung für Leistungsnachweis:
Hausarbeit
Im Consolidation Module: Mündliche Prüfung
Inhalt:: course description
Shakespeare and his works are often discussed in seminars but usually with a focus on either a literary-cultural or a linguistic perspective.
In this seminar we will take a different approach. Collaborating across the various disciplines of our department, we will look at Shakespeare and his works from different perspectives, thus not only presenting a multifaceted approach to Shakespeare but also hopefully - providing the basis for future teachers to successfully teach Shakespeare at school.
In the linguistic part of the seminar, we will see that around 1600 the English language was in a state of flux and underwent some of its most radical structural changes. More often than not, parallels between Shakespeare's language and present-day German can be revealed. We will discuss all levels of linguistic organization, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. Overall, this should help future teachers of English (as well as their prospective students) to better understand not only the grammars of the two languages but also the underlying reasons for mistakes commonly made by speakers whose first language is German.
The next class will introduce classic approaches to Shakespeare s plays from the perspective of literary studies. Taking Macbeth as our prime example, we will study Shakespeare s use of historical and literary sources and of stylistic devices, particularly metaphor, metre and the juxtaposition of dialogue and soliloquy.

From a British Cultural Studies perspective the seminar will first position Shakespeare s plays in the context of the popular culture, folk traditions, and festivities of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. In a second step, we will look at Shakespeare comics as a popular medium of our own time that can profitably be used in the classroom.
From an American Cultural Studies perspective we will focus on what happens when Shakespeare s plays not only are turned into movies, but American high school movies. Taking The Taming of the Shrew/Ten Things I Hate about You (1999) and Othello/O (2001) as our prime examples, we will study the adaptation process and find out how the alterations can be utilized for the EFL classroom.
From the perspective of Language Pedagogy we will discuss the question of whether Shakespeare should or should not be dealt with at school and the challenges that go along with teaching Shakespeare in the EFL classroom. We will also look at various approaches of how to teach Shakespeare and critically discuss them.

additional information:
Students attending this class can choose whether they want to earn credits in literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics or language pedagogy or for the newly established KulturPLUS module. They must be willing to do regular reading assignments and give a short presentation (including a handout, typically to be prepared in co-operation with another student). In their term papers, students may wish to check hypotheses from the literature by working with Shakespearean texts (inter alia, the complete works of Shakespeare in electronic, machine-readable form).
Empfohlene Literatur:: required texts:

before the beginning of the class:
Macbeth (Arden Edition)
Hamlet (Arden Edition)

during the semester:
Othello (Norton Critical Edition)

Contemporary British Jewish Literature

Dozent/in:

Pre-Raphaelite Literature and Art in Victorian Britain

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2016, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:

Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:

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

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

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

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The seminar tries to trace issues of identity and belonging in various texts and films by Jewish British writers and film makers. In British society ever since World War II, it has been class more than anything else that made it difficult for Jews to define an identity of their own; either they were excluded or they assimilated into society.

In this seminar we will discuss a variety of perspectives that shape Jewish identity in Great Britain. The immigration from Eastern European countries in the early twentieth century, exiles who had either escaped or survived the Shoah, the foundation of the State of Israel, the legacy of the Shoah, the Palestinian conflict, old and new forms of anti-Semitism.

We will read, discuss and include a number of texts and films. The list below is more than we can actually do in one semester. So please understand it as a list of suggestions and let me know at your earliest convenience whether you are interested in any specific text for your presentation/paper. The texts marked with # are for smaller presentations, i.e. for students who do not want to write a term paper, but just participate.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Israel Zangwill: Children of the Ghetto (1892) (essay)#
George Mikes: How to be an Alien (1946) (essay)#
Marghanita Laski: The Little Boy Lost (1949)
Bernice Rubens: Set on Edge (1960); I, Dreyfus (1999) (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Birthday in London (1963) (short story)#
Muriel Spark: The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) (novel)
Clive Sinclair: Wingate Football Club (1979), Bed Bugs (1982) (short story)#
Michelene Wandor: Return to Sender (1986), Song of the Jewish Princess (1989) (short story)#
Anita Brookner: Latecomers (1988); A Family Romance (1993) (novel)
Elena Lappin: Noa and Noah (1998) (short story)#
Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times (2000) (novel)
Tamar Yellin: Kafka in Bronteland (short stories) (2005); The Genizah at the House of Shepher (2004) (novel)
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience (2006); The Lessons (2010) (novel)
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question (2010) (novel)
Natasha Solomons: Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman (2010); The Novel in the Viola (2011)

Julia Pascal: The Holocaust Trilogy (1995) (play)
Ronald Harwood: Taking Sides (1995) (play and film adaptation)
Harold Pinter: Ashes to Ashes (2006) (play)
Karen Gershon: A Tempered Wind (1992/2009) (autobiography)
Kindertransport, Before and After. Sixty Poems 1980-2007, ed. by Lotte Kramer (2007) (poetry)
Jack Rosenthal: The Evacuees (1975) (film) Stephen Poliakoff: Glorious 39 (2009) (film) Gollancz, Victor. The Case of Adolf Eichmann (1961) (essay/pamphlet)

PhD-Colloquium

Dozent/in:: Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:: Kolloquium, 1 SWS
Termine:: Di, 20:00 - 22:00, U11/00.24
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Begins in week 2, held every other week

Dozent/in:

An interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare: Language pedagogy, linguistics, literary and cultural studies

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:

Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:

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

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

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 1872, W. H. Mallock published a mock-literary cookbook for aspiring poets. One ‘recipe’ was entitled ‘How to Write a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem’. Among the recommended ingredients were: ‘obsolete and unintelligible’ words, ‘a perfectly vacant atmosphere’, ‘three damozels, dressed in straight nightgowns’, ‘a stone wall’, ‘trees and flowers’, as well as stars, aureoles and lilies. ‘When you have arranged all these objects rightly,’ the recipe continued, ‘take a cast of them in the softest part of your brain, and pour in your word-composition.’” Dinah Roe introduces her anthology of writings of The Pre-Raphaelits from Rossetti to Ruskin (2010) with this entertaining summary of a contemporary critic. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its peak in the 1860s and 1870s. Pre-Raphaelite poetry was influenced by Romanticism, but developed independent ideas, forms and focuses. This movement tried to escape the industrialised world and concentrated on idealistic themes such as romantic love and poetic imagination. It finally became utterly divorced from reality when it emphasized art for art’s sake.

We will discuss the works of poetry and art categorised as belonging to Pre-Raphaelitism and try to establish an understanding that goes beyond the contemporary criticism of rejecting it as naive rather conceptualising it as a counter-culture opposing Victorian earnestness and realism.

Pre-Raphaelite poets include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, William Bell Scott, William Allingham, Arthur O’Shaughnessy and John Payne. Painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, James Collinson and Frederic Stephens, and others opposed the aesthetics of the London’s Royal Academy of Arts founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1848. In a period of revolutions, the movement remained astonishingly apolitical with the exception of William Morris and Swinburne.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase Dinah Roe’s anthology. Additional texts will be made available.

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:: Manfred Krug, Isolde Schmidt, Pascal Fischer, Nicole K. Konopka, Beatrix Hesse
Angaben:: Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung
Termine:: jede 2. Woche Di, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 17.1.2017, 8:45 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Beginn: erste Semesterwoche. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die erste Sitzung von 8:30-11:30 Uhr stattfindet. Die Sitzung am 24.01.2017 entfällt. In the second week of term, MA students as well as BA/Lehramt students in their Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft are expected to take part in an introduction to research methods in the computer pool U5/02.23 (unless they have already participated in the Übung Methods and Theories in Linguistics ). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Mon, 24 October 2016, 8-10h OR 10-12h OR 12-14h AND Thu, 27 October 2016, 8-14h OR Fri, 28 October 2016, 8-14h. To coordinate course dates and times, please register for the following Virtual Campus course by 20 October at the latest and take part in the survey you will find there: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=18361 . You will receive notice of the time slots you have been allotted on 21 October.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:: Anmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 20.10.16, 23:59h.
Abmeldung über FlexNow vom 26.09.16, 10:00h bis 30.10.16, 23:59h.

Die Anmeldung für die Lehrveranstaltung erfolgt für alle Studierenden über den Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft.
Die Prüfungsanmeldung erfolgt später im jeweils gewählten Teilbereich.
Nähere Informationen erhalten Sie in der ersten Seminarsitzung.

Modulanbindungen:
Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist für alle Lehramtsstudierenden der Anglistik/Amerikanistik sowie MA-Studierende geeignet. Studierende können wählen, in welcher der beteiligten Teildisziplinen sie Punkte für ein Modul einbringen bzw. ein Modul absolvieren wollen. Darüber hinaus kann die Lehrveranstaltung auch im Rahmen des neuen KulturPLUS-Moduls belegt werden.

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Sprachwissenschaft

1. Modules:

-LA GY modularisiert: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA English and American Studies: Restricted Electives in English Linguistics: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul II Anglistik: Seminar (7 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Sprachwissenschaft
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Mastermodule in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Consolidation Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-European Joint Master's Degree in English and American Studies: Profile Module in English Linguistics: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)
-Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (max. 8 ECTS)

For students transferring to the University of Bamberg, for Erasmus students and for those who need the credit to register for their upcoming final exams a few places will be reserved. If the course is fully booked please contact the lecturer personally.

2. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
regular active participation in class + oral presentation + termpaper (4500-6000 words)

Informationen für Studierende der englischen Didaktik

1. Modulzugehörigkeit:
-Lehramt GS; MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
-Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
-BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
-MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
-Bachelor BWL Studienschwerpunkt BIMA: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Bachelor Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Basismodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul
-Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Leistungsnachweis:
regelmäßige Anwesenheit und intensive Mitarbeit; Referat und Hausarbeit

Informationen für Studierende der anglistischen und amerikanistischen Kulturwissenschaft

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies:
-Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS) Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS) Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation
term-paper according to the style-sheet

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Kultur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen
-B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft -B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS) -LA (neu) GYM: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar, 8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
-M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS); Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS); Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS); Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies ; Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

2. Voraussetzungen Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

-6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
-8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicole.konopka(at)uni-bamberg.de!

Informationen für Studierende der Amerikanistik (HS Literatur)

1. Modulzugehörigkeit und Zugangsvoraussetzungen

-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
-LA neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Profilmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Erweiterungsmodul I oder II: Seminar (8 ECTS)
-LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
-Joint Degree: Mastermodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Vertiefungsmodul Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)
-Joint Degree: Profilmodul I oder II Britische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (8 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
6 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung (1.000-1.500 Wörter)
8 ECTS: regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter)

An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung / Registration via FlexNow
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Informationen für Studierende der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft

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)

Bedingung für Leistungsnachweis:
Hausarbeit
Im Consolidation Module: Mündliche Prüfung
Inhalt:: course description
Shakespeare and his works are often discussed in seminars but usually with a focus on either a literary-cultural or a linguistic perspective.
In this seminar we will take a different approach. Collaborating across the various disciplines of our department, we will look at Shakespeare and his works from different perspectives, thus not only presenting a multifaceted approach to Shakespeare but also hopefully - providing the basis for future teachers to successfully teach Shakespeare at school.
In the linguistic part of the seminar, we will see that around 1600 the English language was in a state of flux and underwent some of its most radical structural changes. More often than not, parallels between Shakespeare's language and present-day German can be revealed. We will discuss all levels of linguistic organization, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon. Overall, this should help future teachers of English (as well as their prospective students) to better understand not only the grammars of the two languages but also the underlying reasons for mistakes commonly made by speakers whose first language is German.
The next class will introduce classic approaches to Shakespeare s plays from the perspective of literary studies. Taking Macbeth as our prime example, we will study Shakespeare s use of historical and literary sources and of stylistic devices, particularly metaphor, metre and the juxtaposition of dialogue and soliloquy.

From a British Cultural Studies perspective the seminar will first position Shakespeare s plays in the context of the popular culture, folk traditions, and festivities of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. In a second step, we will look at Shakespeare comics as a popular medium of our own time that can profitably be used in the classroom.
From an American Cultural Studies perspective we will focus on what happens when Shakespeare s plays not only are turned into movies, but American high school movies. Taking The Taming of the Shrew/Ten Things I Hate about You (1999) and Othello/O (2001) as our prime examples, we will study the adaptation process and find out how the alterations can be utilized for the EFL classroom.
From the perspective of Language Pedagogy we will discuss the question of whether Shakespeare should or should not be dealt with at school and the challenges that go along with teaching Shakespeare in the EFL classroom. We will also look at various approaches of how to teach Shakespeare and critically discuss them.

additional information:
Students attending this class can choose whether they want to earn credits in literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics or language pedagogy or for the newly established KulturPLUS module. They must be willing to do regular reading assignments and give a short presentation (including a handout, typically to be prepared in co-operation with another student). In their term papers, students may wish to check hypotheses from the literature by working with Shakespearean texts (inter alia, the complete works of Shakespeare in electronic, machine-readable form).
Empfohlene Literatur:: required texts:

before the beginning of the class:
Macbeth (Arden Edition)
Hamlet (Arden Edition)

during the semester:
Othello (Norton Critical Edition)

From Puritan Romance to Cross-Dressing Action Comedy: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels

Dozent/in:

The Politics of American Poetry (Literary Studies)

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 17:30 - 20:30, U9/01.11
(1) October 18, (2+3) November 15, (No class on 2.11. - Allerheiligen and on 8.11. - American Election Night), (4+5) November 29, (6+7) December 13, (8+9) January 10, (10+11) January 24, (12+13) February 7, (14+15) February 14.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module and Entrance Requirement:

Modulbelegung:
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)

LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister:

Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft

Erasmus and other visiting students:

Seminar (6 or 8 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.
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4.Termine:
(1) October 18,
(2+3) November 15,
(No class on 2.11. - Allheheiligen and on 8.11. - American Election Night),
(4+5) November 29,
(6+7) December 13,
(8+9) January 10,
(10+11) January 24,
(12+13) February 7,
(14+15) February 14.

Inhalt:

What do Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Catharine Sedgwick, Elisabeth Stuart Phelps, and Frances Harper have in common? They were part of a large group of female writers who forever changed America's literary landscape. They helped to establish the novel as highly diverse genre, popular and sophisticated, sentimental and realistic, fantastic and experimental. They explored questions of slavery and Native American wars, industrial exploitation and sexual liberation with unprecedented frankness and verve. And most if not all of them could live as economically independent, professional authors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was so unnerved by this development that he famously complained in an 1855 letter: "America is now wholly given over to a d_d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed." It is less well known that he added but two weeks later: "I have since been reading Ruth Hall; and I must say I enjoyed it a good deal. The woman writes as if the devil was in her... Can you tell me anything about this Fanny Fern? If you meet her, I wish you would let her know how much I admire her." In this seminar, we will read a selection of the novels that caused such passionate reactions, and are now considered part of the literary canon. We will discuss their thematic as well as formal range, paying particular attention to the ways in which they used popular modes to negotiate some of the most controversial issues of their time while being quite a lot of fun to read.

Der vorausgegangene Besuch eines Seminars im Aufbaumodul wird vorausgesetzt!

Required Reading before the beginning of the term:

Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall (1854) [pdf]
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom s Cabin (1852)
E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand (1859) [pdf]

Required Reading during the term:

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Minnie's Sacrifice (1869) [pdf]
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) [pdf]

Please order/download all books and start reading as early as possible (you may also use e-books or pdfs - see the documents on the VC).

Dozent/in: