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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >>

Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

 

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Alice Limmer, Ellen Werner
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 24.10.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 2.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 9.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 18.1.2020, 9:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09, LU19/00.11
Einzeltermin am 19.1.2020, 9:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09, LU19/00.11
Einzeltermin am 6.2.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 12.2.2020, 18:00 - 21:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module:
  • Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
Inhalt:
This workshop is an opportunity for any student who wants to try acting to give it a shot. There will be no auditions and no set play this semester, so anyone can join. Just come to the great lecture hall on the first floor of U7 on either the 14th or the 17th of October or send an email to alice.limmer@stud.uni-bamberg.de .

The focus this semester will be on acting exercises and character development using scenes from different plays both old and modern. At the end of the semester we will put on a winter showcase presenting some of the scenes we have worked on during the semester.

If you're not interested in acting but want to gain some experience regarding behind the scenes work (PR, props, costume, hair, make up, etc) or directing, you are also very welcome to join. Just come and talk to the directors about what you would like to do.

 

Just write!

Dozent/in:
Touhid Chowdhury
Angaben:
Nachbesprechung
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 10.2.2020, Einzeltermin am 11.3.2020, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/01.11

 

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Christoph Houswitschka, Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar
Termine:
Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 20.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

 

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
Termine:
Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 31.10.2019, 18:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 8.11.2019, 14:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 16.12.2019, 8:30 - 10:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 6.2.2020, 18:00 - 21:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits. Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.
You need not register for this course, just come along in the first session and bring a copy of the plays.
Inhalt:
William Shakespeare's works are well know, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters. This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare, one comedy and one tragedy, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on. If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and comfortable shoes.
Empfohlene Literatur:
William Shakespeare. Macbeth. William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost.

 

Welcome Meeting new MA students

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Christoph Houswitschka, Susan Brähler, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 9.10.2019, 9:30 - 11:00, U9/01.11

Tutorien

 

Tutorial Academic Research for MA students [TU]

Dozent/in:
Alexander Feitenhansl
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 16.11.2019, Einzeltermin am 14.12.2019, 10:00 - 13:00, KR12/01.05

 

Tutorium zu "Introduction to English and American Literature A+B"

Dozent/in:
Ines Reckziegel
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A+B taught by Susan Brähler and its serves both courses.

 

Workshop Academic Infrastructure

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Marcellina Scheller, Janina Lupprian
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 9.10.2019, 11:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 11.10.2019, 10:30 - 16:30, U9/01.11

 

Tutorium zur "Introduction to English American Literature" (Konopka)

Dozent/in:
Carmen Herrmann
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, SP17/00.13
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Enrollment via FlexNow is not necessary!

Note: This tutorial is linked to the Introduction to English and American Literature taught by Dr. Nicole K. Konopka (Tuesday, 4-6 p.m.). The first session takes place after the first seminar session took place!
Inhalt:
In the course of the semester, we will focus on the basics of prose, drama and poetry analysis. This tutorial further provides room for discussion, practice and exam preparation. Students are expected to show active participation, and to be able to apply the contents of the tutorial in the follow-up sessions with Dr. Nicole K. Konopka.

Please note that the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session with Mrs Konopka!
Empfohlene Literatur:
Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010.

Vorlesungen und Übungen

 

20th-Century British Drama, part I

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Unlike the most part of the 19th century, the early 20th century (roughly starting with Oscar Wilde’s plays) was a very good and prolific era in British drama. Starting with the social drama of G.B. Shaw (an Irishman who wrote mainly for the London stage), the century saw the passing of two world wars that each changed not only the country and its society, but also its dramatic literature significantly. Different schools of drama, such as the well-made play, the kitchen-sink drama or the feminist city comedies of the 1910s and 20s left their mark in the literary history of Britain and many of them are still played today.
To trace the development of drama throughout the first half of the 20th century, this course will take a quantitative approach to reading drama. To do so, we will cover 12 plays in the course of the 15 week-course, so students will be required to read one play per week. Below, you will find a reading list of the plays we will cover in the order in which we are going to read them. You should have read Peter Pan by the beginning of the semester.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Obligatory reading
J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan. 1904.
G.B. Shaw. Major Barbara. 1905.
W. Somerset Maugham. Penelope. 1912.
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.
Aimée and Philip Stuart. Nine Till Six. 1930.
John Galsworthy. The Skin Game. 1930.
T.S. Eliot. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935.
Dodie Smith. Dear Octopus. 1938.
J.B. Priestley. An Inspector Calls. 1945.
Christopher Fry. The Lady's Not for Burning. 1948.
Terrence Rattigan. The Deep Blue Sea. 1952.
Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap. 1952.

 

Betreuungsübung für Bachelorarbeiten

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/02.01
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
(De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

 

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 25.1.2020, 9:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten)

Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
Inhalt:
This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.

Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The coourse will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.

 

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5
Termine:
Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

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

MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature (Prof. Houswitschka)

MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 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.
To take this course, students need to sign up via e-mail to receive information about appointments and sessions.

 

History of English Poetry II

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture for literature (2 or 4 ECTS) in
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


2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
This lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

 

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:
Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
Angaben:
Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

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

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation.

Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQ+ literature, culture and history. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster ("Maurice"); with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s.

Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Mandatory Reading and Watching:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)

Livingston, Jennie . Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

 

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:
Touhid Chowdhury
Angaben:
Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
Termine:
jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

  • alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 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.

 

Living in the “Third Space”: Hybridity and Bicultural Identity in The Buddha of Suburbia

Dozent/in:
Mahbub Alam
Angaben:
Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
The Buddha of Suburbia is a coming-of-age novel which deals with construction of class, gender, race and sexual identity through a depiction of multi-cultural Britain. Karim Amir, the protagonist of the novel, searches for a sense of belonging in the suburban communities but at the end comes to realization that he belongs to neither of the prominent categories: white upper class and alienated migrant. Karim ultimately crosses the boundaries of race, religion, class and skin color to become “an Englishman born and bred”.

In this seminar we will discuss how second generation Asian British community reconciles and forms bi-cultural identity. We will also critically analyze whether hybrid identity is a threat to cultural tradition and history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Hanif Kureishi. The Buddha of Suburbia.
More material tba on the VC

 

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:
Susan Brähler
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS
Termine:
Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/02.01
Einzeltermin am 9.11.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 5.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

 

“My name is Khan and I am not a Terrorist”: Muslim Characters in Post 9/11 Bollywood Narratives

Dozent/in:
Touhid Chowdhury
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Bollywood is one of the biggest movie industries in the world that produces approximately 1600 movies in a year. In terms of viewership and cultural impact, Bollywood competes with Hollywood as the most influential cinema on the globe. Furthermore, the substantial Indian diasporas around the world encourage Bollywood producers to make cinemas based on current world phenomena; and since the 9/11, a lot of Bollywood movies were made that talk about terrorism and terrorists.

This Übung is intended to explore the theme of “terrorism” in post 9/11 Bollywood movies and literary representation of Muslim characters in it. To do so, this class will focus on films that explicitly refer to 9/11 and the 2008’s Mumbai terrorist attack.
Empfohlene Literatur:
The following book will be discussed in class:
Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 2007

The following movies will be discussed in the class:

1. My Name is Khan. Dir. Karan Johar.
2. Kurbaan. Dir. Rensil D’Silva.
3. New York. Dir. Kabir Khan.
4. Shoot at Sight. Dir. Jag Mundhra.
5. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Dir. Mira Nair.
6. Hotel Mumbai. Dir. Anthony Moras.

Students should watch these movies before the semester begins. All additional readings for the class will be provided in the VC.

 

American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism)

Dozent/in:
Christine Gerhardt
Angaben:
Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale
Termine:
Fr, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. 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 (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); Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft); Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft)
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)
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Vorlesung
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
This lecture provides an overview of American literary history from the 1880s until today, focusing on the characteristic features of realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism.

For each of these periods, the thematic, formal and stylistic elements of a wide range of novels, plays, short stories, poems, and essays will be discussed in the broader context of the United States' cultural and intellectual history. In order to understand how different groups of Americans have imagined their culture at specific moments in time, we will analyze texts that address the diversity of American experiences in terms of race, class, gender, region, and political conviction. We will also explore how literary texts have critically engaged with the past and with other cultures, charting new directions for the relationship between literature and culture. Overall, we will investigate to which degree processes of modernization and the ideal of democratization can be understood as one of American literature's major driving forces.

 

Exam Preparation American Literature (Repetitorium für Lehrämter)

Dozent/in:
Christine Gerhardt
Angaben:
Repetitorium, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
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
  • 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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
This course is designed specifically for students of all teaching degrees ("Lehrämter") who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" in American Literature according to the new LPO. Students preparing other final exams - oral or written - are also welcome.

The "Repetitorium" is meant to assist students in their preparations for the final written exam. However, it is no substitute for each student's individual study time. During class, participants will receive immediate feedback on their level of preparation for the final exam, and discuss overarching questions of American Literature that they have prepared in advance. Once again: the class aims to assist students in their preparations, but it does not replace independent study.

The participants themselves choose the topics for this semester during the first session, so please come prepared.

 

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung (BA, MA und Lehramt)

Dozent/in:
Christine Gerhardt
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Di, 16:00 - 18:00, M3/00.16
Class takes place on the following Tuesdays: Oct 15; Oct 29; Nov 12; Nov 26; Dec 10; Jan 07; Jan 28; Feb 04
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literatur-, bzw. Kulturwissenschaft
  • BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
  • MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul I und II: Betreuungsübung Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
  • MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
  • alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
  • Joint Degree: Free Electives (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
  • Betreuungsübung: Präsentation

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020


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.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
This course is designed for students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in American literature or culture, be it a "Magisterarbeit," "Zulassungsarbeit," "BA-Arbeit" or Master’s thesis. It offers continuous support during the process of preparing or writing the thesis, and provides an opportunity to share parts of it with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions; the syllabus and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus.

In the plenary sessions, we will discuss general criteria and formal aspects of a thesis – such as possible topics and research questions, theoretical approaches, and structural issues. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you will discuss the argument and structure of your thesis with me. For students who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies in the BA, MA and new teacher training programs, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung."

 

How to Write a Term Paper: From Topic to Thesis to Final Paper / Betreuungsübung

Dozent/in:
Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4
Termine:
Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.18
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

Please note that this course is NOT open for M.A. students!

How to Write a Term Paper
  • B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)
  • Lehramtsstudiengänge Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)

Betreuungsübung
  • B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit): VERTIEFUNGSmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Betreuungsübung für 2 ECTS >>> Bitte kontaktieren Sie vorher unbedingt die Dozentin zwecks Themenabsprache!), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft
  • B.A. Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung für 2 ECTS), wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik


2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
  • Betreuungsübung: Präsentation

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020


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.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
This course aims to assist students in the Basismodul in writing their first term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. We will discuss general formal aspects and content related criteria of an academic paper, such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Primarily, however, we will practice how to choose a topic, how to develop a coherent structure, how to involve theoretical frameworks, and how to adhere to the MLA citation rules. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that are suitable for the list of references of your paper. Students have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where they will receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.

This course is also addressed at students in the Vertiefungsmodul who are preparing or working at a BA-thesis in American Literature or Culture. Therefore, this course provides the guidance sessions for the BA thesis (Betreuungsübung) for students in the BA programs who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies. It assists students in the preparation of their final paper, and gives them an opportunity to discuss their work with other students. BA-candidates will present parts of their final paper, offering it for discussion and feedback. If you are planning to attend this class, make sure that the instructor will also be your thesis advisor. Please contact Ms. Konopka well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Please note that this is a practical training course and not a lecture! You are expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.

 

Key Texts in Literary Theory (Methodenübung für das Ergänzungsmodul)

Dozent/in:
Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:
Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis
Termine:
Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 31.1.2020, 12:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
First Session: October 23rd!
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
  • 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
  • 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 (course registration): 01. August 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Inhalt:
In this seminar, we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. Our reading includes key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and post-structuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo-)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory.

The course is intended to assist students in both finding their own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense." (V. B. Leitch).

This class is based not only on the reading, but also the in-depth analysis of theoretical writing. Therefore, students are expected to prepare diligently for each session by (1) reading the assigned text(s), (2) studying each text's background/context, and (3) establishing some basic understanding of the theory discussed in the respective text before coming to class! Only then will it be possible for us to engage in critical discussion during our sessions. In sum, it is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend all sessions and contribute to class discussions. Your input is mandatory and will be welcome!
Empfohlene Literatur:
A course reader will be available for students of this class one week BEFORE the first session.

 

Terrible Laughter: The Grotesque in French & American Literature

Dozent/in:
Judith Rauscher
Angaben:
Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6
Termine:
Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

Seminar - also open for the Ergänzungsmodul LITERATURwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
  • Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS


Übung - also open for the consolidation module LITERARY studies
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
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
  • Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Inhalt:
Associated with the "unintentionally ridiculous and monstrous" (Clayborough) as well as with "exaggeration, hyperbolism, [and] excessiveness" (Bakhtin), the grotesque has been used to describe landscapes, bodies, behaviors, psychological states, and artworks that trouble what is considered "real," "normal," or "decent."

In this comparative course, we will discuss French and American literature of the grotesque from the 19th and 20th century, exploring the forms, effects, and functions of representations that merge the beautiful and the ugly, good and evil, laugher and terror, disgust and compassion. Reading authors such as Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Mathilde Ermery (Rachilde), William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Flannery O’Connor, we will examine how the grotesque relates to horror, the gothic, and the absurd. Moreover, we will try to understand what scholars mean when they argue for the grotesque as a critique of capitalism or colonialism, when they contrast a "European" and an "American" grotesque, or when they try to describe precisely how the ludicrous and the horrifying manifest in the literature of the U.S. South after slavery or in French modernist literature after WWI.

The course will be taught partly in German (the sessions on French literature) and partly in English (the sessions on American literature). Students should read the assigned text in their original versions whenever possible, and in translation only when necessary.
Empfohlene Literatur:
TBA

Seminare im Basismodul (Einführungen)

 

Introduction to English and American Literature (A)

Dozent/in:
Susan Brähler
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
Termine:
Mo, 8:30 - 10:00, MG1/02.05
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • BA Berufliche Bildung

  • BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

  • BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.10.2019 (10:00) - 01.12.2019 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen drei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin C 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+B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
Inhalt:
This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

 

Introduction to English and American Literature (B)

Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • BA Berufliche Bildung

  • BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

  • BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.10.2019 (10:00) - 01.12.2019 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen drei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin C 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+B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
Inhalt:
This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

 
 
Mo
Einzeltermin am 27.1.2020
14:15 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45
U5/00.24
U2/01.33
Brähler, S.
 

Introduction to English and American Literature (C)

Dozent/in:
Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:
Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis
Termine:
Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
  • BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Basismodul Anglistik: Einführung in die Englische Literaturwissenschaft (2 oder 6 ECTS)
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS)
  • Lehramt GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
  • Lehramt RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
  • Lehramt GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Einführung (6 ECTS, inkl. Tutorium)
  • BSc BWL Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturrwissenschaft (6 ECTS mit Klausur, 2 ECTS ohne Klausur)

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, tutorial, and final written exam
  • 2 ECTS (nur BA Medieval Studies): active participation and small written exam in the end

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 (course registration): 08. – 18. Oktober 2019
  • Anmeldung zur Prüfung: 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020
  • Abmeldung von der Prüfung: 02. Dezember 2019 – 06. Februar 2020

WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, den Termin C bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on American literature.

We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction, and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.

Please note that the first tutorial (Tutor: Carmen Herrmann) will take place AFTER the first regular session!
Empfohlene Literatur:
Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010.

Seminare im Aufbaumodul (inklusive Ergänzungsmodul)

 

20th- and 21st-Century Gothic

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
For more than two centuries, literary Gothic has been a main staple of English literature and it has entertained readers ever since. After the genre’s inception with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), the Gothic quickly captured not only the readers’ interest but also their favour and it became the best-selling genre in the 1790s. Despite the genre’s decline in the early 1820s, it resurfaced in the late 19th century and has since been an important part of British literary history. Now, in 2019, we can look back at more than a full century of increased interest in a genre that is still going strong and has conquered not only literature, but all media.

In this class, we will specifically study the Gothic of the last roughly 100 years, starting in the early 20th century and finishing with today’s literary (and some filmic) Gothic. To do so, we will mainly cover narrative texts (novels and short stories) tracing the development of generic markers and socio-political relevance of the Gothic from 1900 to today. The reading list below is by no means exhaustive and more literature will be announced here and in the first session of class. Moreover, we will focus on literary scholarship in the areas of Gothic literature, (literary) subcultures, and audience reception. Short excerpts from primary and secondary material will be available on the VC – please contact lecturer upon enrolment in the class to receive the password for the VC course.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Obligatory reading

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. 1938.
Patrick Hamilton. Angel Street (also known as Gas Light). 1938
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale. 2006

More literature tba in class

 

From Romantic Literature to Climate Change Fiction: Two Centuries of English Nature Writing

Dozent/in:
Susan Brähler
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 / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
This seminar will trace the evolution of English nature writing from Romantic poetry and prose to contemporary eco-poetry and climate change literature. During our first sessions, students will receive an introduction to Ecocriticism or ‘green studies’, the study of the ‘relationship between literature and the physical environment’ (Cheryll Glotfelty), which have emerged in the UK as late as the early 1990s. We will discuss questions such as: what is the relationship between culture and nature? Does nature really exist or is it socially/linguistically constructed? Once students have been provided with a firm theoretical basis, we will turn to ecocritical (and ecofeminist) readings of works by William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. 20th- and 21st-century writers will include Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Graham Swift (Waterland 1983) and Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods 2007). Discussions will revolve around the ‘invention’ of the English countryside, around aesthetic theories of the picturesque, the Romantic lonely wanderer (what if he happens to be a woman?), the Victorian angel in the house (can there be something like an ‘angel in the garden’?), posthumanist ideas (in which the ‘human’ is conceived as just one life form among many and not an autonomous and conscious human subject), etc.

Students will receive weekly reading assignments of both literary texts (poems, novel excerpts, short stories) as well as theoretical ones (most of them taken from The Green Studies Reader [2000], edited by Laurence Coupe). In addition, students will be asked to buy and read Swift’s novel Waterland as well as Winterson’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stone Gods.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Obligatory Reading:
  • weekly reading assignments (cf. VC)

  • Graham Swift, Waterland (ISBN 978-1447275503)

  • Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (ISBN 978-0141032603)


Recommended Literature:
  • Laurence Coupe, ed. The Green Studies Reader (ISBN 978-0415204071)

 

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:
Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
Angaben:
Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

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

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation.

Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQ+ literature, culture and history. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster ("Maurice"); with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s.

Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Mandatory Reading and Watching:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)

Livingston, Jennie . Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

 

Living in the “Third Space”: Hybridity and Bicultural Identity in The Buddha of Suburbia

Dozent/in:
Mahbub Alam
Angaben:
Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
The Buddha of Suburbia is a coming-of-age novel which deals with construction of class, gender, race and sexual identity through a depiction of multi-cultural Britain. Karim Amir, the protagonist of the novel, searches for a sense of belonging in the suburban communities but at the end comes to realization that he belongs to neither of the prominent categories: white upper class and alienated migrant. Karim ultimately crosses the boundaries of race, religion, class and skin color to become “an Englishman born and bred”.

In this seminar we will discuss how second generation Asian British community reconciles and forms bi-cultural identity. We will also critically analyze whether hybrid identity is a threat to cultural tradition and history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Hanif Kureishi. The Buddha of Suburbia.
More material tba on the VC

 

“Who Am I?”: Individual and Collective Identities

Dozent/in:
Touhid Chowdhury
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Di, 8:00 - 10:00, LU19/00.13
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Whichever way we conceive “identity,” individual or collective, it always has many precedents ranging from cultural backgrounds to the types of television shows one grows up with. The core idea of “identity” evolves around the timeless question: “who am I?” and the other relevant questions: "who and what do I appear: to myself and others." As a result, a person can be many things at once, even when these different “identities” appear inconsistent or even contradictory. Someone could be, for example, a political conservative, religiously atheist or conversely liberal. All these descriptions act as categories that describe us in a different context. Such markers or identifiers are vital to our life experiences, both within our known circles or surroundings and outside of them. In short, these markers or identifiers help us navigate or negotiate our way through the social landscape.
Through the lenses of literary and cultural studies, this seminar aims to analyze texts related to identity and identity formation. In-class discussion will be based on:
1. How do society and culture shape and challenge individual or collective identities?
2. How do we form our own personal identification markers/identity?
3. How do communities and individuals form identities?
4. How do power and hegemony operate within and through culture?
5. What causes individual and collective identities to change over time?
6. How do individuals and groups express their identities?
7. How are people and groups with particular identities viewed and treated by others?

The course will be built on engagement with academic readings of various definitions and theories of identity and identity formations from different academic disciplines. The objective of this course is to offer an understanding of various literary texts dealing with individual and collective identities. Students are expected to learn how to apply their understanding of literary and cultural theories to an interpretation of literary texts.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Readings

Anthony Elliot. Ed. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Literary Texts:

Mira Jacob. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversation
Zadie Smith. White Teeth
David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas
Chris Cleve. Little Bee

 

Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in American Literature

Dozent/in:
Mareike Spychala
Angaben:
Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 13.12.2019, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 14.12.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 17.1.2020, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 18.1.2020, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
  • Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • active participation
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
  • Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Inhalt:
What do we mean when we talk about the literary canon? Who shapes this canon, based on which criteria, and whom does it include and exclude?

These questions are particularly relevant for American literature and the radical changes that have been made to the canon over the last several decades. Traditionally, the American canon as taught in high schools and universities was mostly white and mostly male. In the wake of the Civil Rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and 70s, which lead to an increasing scholarly interest in the literatures of previously marginalized social groups, the canon has expanded exponentially to include works by women, African Americans, and Latinx authors, among others. At the same time, however, the ways in which new or newly discussed genres, such as American nature writing, are now being published and taught in schools and universities often go back to limited notions of authorship that seemed long overcome. In this course, we will look at how questions of race and gender have shaped and continue to shape what is considered great literature in the United States and how the expansion of the canon has changed the American literary landscape.
Empfohlene Literatur:
  • Harriet Jacobs, Incidents the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
  • N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968)
  • Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
  • Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
  • Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Preparing a Face"; "The Journey Home"; "Chasing Valentino" (2007)

 

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

Dozent/in:
Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:
Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Dies ist ein reines Online-Seminar. Anmeldung erfolgt über die VHB!
Termine:
Der Kurs findet ausschließlich virtuell statt. Er steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt Englisch: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft


2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • active participation (individual tasks and group work)
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)


3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
  • via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 01. Oktober - 15. November 2019 (via vhb website!)
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung: 05. Dezember 2019 - 05. Februar 2020 (via email to the instructor)

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist als Online-Kurs konzipiert. Sie steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern [ https://www.vhb.org/startseite ] Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.
  • Zum Online-Kurs auf dem Virtuellen Campus im Wintersemester 2019/20: tba
  • Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: tba
Inhalt:
This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.

Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:
  • Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

 

Terrible Laughter: The Grotesque in French & American Literature

Dozent/in:
Judith Rauscher
Angaben:
Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6
Termine:
Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

Seminar - also open for the Ergänzungsmodul LITERATURwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
  • Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS


Übung - also open for the consolidation module LITERARY studies
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
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
  • Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Inhalt:
Associated with the "unintentionally ridiculous and monstrous" (Clayborough) as well as with "exaggeration, hyperbolism, [and] excessiveness" (Bakhtin), the grotesque has been used to describe landscapes, bodies, behaviors, psychological states, and artworks that trouble what is considered "real," "normal," or "decent."

In this comparative course, we will discuss French and American literature of the grotesque from the 19th and 20th century, exploring the forms, effects, and functions of representations that merge the beautiful and the ugly, good and evil, laugher and terror, disgust and compassion. Reading authors such as Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Mathilde Ermery (Rachilde), William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Flannery O’Connor, we will examine how the grotesque relates to horror, the gothic, and the absurd. Moreover, we will try to understand what scholars mean when they argue for the grotesque as a critique of capitalism or colonialism, when they contrast a "European" and an "American" grotesque, or when they try to describe precisely how the ludicrous and the horrifying manifest in the literature of the U.S. South after slavery or in French modernist literature after WWI.

The course will be taught partly in German (the sessions on French literature) and partly in English (the sessions on American literature). Students should read the assigned text in their original versions whenever possible, and in translation only when necessary.
Empfohlene Literatur:
TBA

 

The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:
Nicole K. Konopka
Angaben:
Proseminar, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung
Termine:
Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

LITERARY STUDIES - open for the Ergänzungmodul!
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
  • Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

Cultural Studies - open for the Ergänzungsmodul!
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies
  • Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (= Einführung)
  • Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
  • Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
  • LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Kulturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies
  • Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • active participation
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
  • Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Inhalt:
Following W. Scott Pool's claim that "from our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of American culture," this class is designed to identify and critically analyze the multiple and contradictory presences of such "monsters" in American literature and culture.

We will start with a brief historical and conceptual overview, consulting historical maps of the world, the anonymous Physiologus (200 AD), medieval almanacs, transatlantic travel accounts, freak show advertisements, medical journals, criminal records, and court files. Moving through North American history from pre-colonial times to the present, we will then study a variety of texts, such as Native American tall tales, crafts and imagery, short stories, poems, newspaper articles, pictures, TV shows and movies with an analytical focus on their changing representations of "monstrosity" as a particular kind of otherness.

As we navigate through the complex universe of surreal distortion, we will try to answer the following questions: How have "monsters" been defined in America, and how have these definitions changed over time? What is culturally specific about 'American' monsters? Which culturally and historically specific fears (and perhaps also longings) have been projected on these monstrous "others", and to which effects?
Empfohlene Literatur:
Most of the material used in class will be provided via the Virtual Campus ahead of class. Students are, however, required to purchase the following books:
  • Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1951)
  • Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997)
  • Chris Dingess, Manifest Destiny, Volume 1: Flora and Fauna (2014)

For further reading the following book is strongly recommended:
  • Scott W. Poole, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (2011)

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

 

Borders in Exile, Migration and War

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 17.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.26
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

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

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

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

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

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
De Bernières has one of his protagonists say "For birds with wings nothing changes; they fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small."

Nothing seems as fluid as borders. In the period of nationhood, wars were fought to define and protect national or ideological borders. Ethnic cleansings and relocations of entire ethnicities or religious groups became official policy to create homogenous nations. In the late twentieth century and in our time, walls were removed and built to protect and define national identities. The attacks of 9/11 and the asymmetrical wars and refugee movements that followed introduced new concepts of borders. Border dynamics include concepts of debordering and rebordering. Traditional topographies disappear and are re-created as symbolic and functional spaces that are defined by mobile borders and networks. This also redefines the relation between literature and the nation-state and between the stability of printed books and the sovereignty of national borders, a connection studied since Benedict Anderson published Imagined Communities (1983).

Writers we will discuss in these contexts include Salman Rushdie, Louis de Bernières, Kapka Kassabova, Mirsolav Penkov, Johnathan Safran Foer, Michael Ondaatje, Seamus Deane, Howard Brenton, Caryl Phillips, Bernardine Evaristo, Hugo Hamilton, and others.
On 17 December, an extra appointment will be held in U2/00.26 (8 p.m.). On this day, Eva Thüne will give a lecture on Kindertransporte, the sending of Jewish children into Britain during WWII to save them from the Nazi regime - a very pertinent topic for (crossing) borders. This lecture is part of the class programme and should be attended by all students fluent in German.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Texts will be made available in the seminar.

 

Final Frontiers: Exploring, Discovering, Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment (LAPASEC Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Christoph Houswitschka, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8
Termine:
Blockveranstaltung 27.9.2019-29.9.2019 Mo-Fr, Sa, So
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Module allocation
To take part, students need to register via e-mail until 20 September, 2019: lapasec2019.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
MA English and American Studies: Master Module Literature /Culture : Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
Profile Module I-III Literature / Culture: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
Inhalt:
This conference also serves as an Oberseminar specifically for students intending to pursue an academic career after their current course of studies.
With the eighteenth century, the so-called Age of Discovery, or Age of Exploration, in European history reached its fulminant peak. Apart from professional geographic exploration, such as the travels around the world of James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, travelling to Continental Europe (e.g. the Grand Tour) and further abroad had become fashionable for many people of independent means. The literature of the time is thus replete with travel writing, ranging from scientific reports following exploration tours, via observations of countries and their people, such as Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s letters, to satiric “travel reports” such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (British) people had taken to roaming the earth and sharing their adventures and opinions by publishing their experiences. As Book III of Gulliver’s Travels and Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins suggest, the eighteenth century saw a lot of speculation (in scientific, pseudo-scientific and fictional writing) on technical innovation, travels into outer space, and trans-human development. While Swift drew on previous and contemporary speculation that was to culminate in Science Fiction, Paltock exploited (among other sources) the serious discussion in Mathematical Magick of John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, of the question whether man could acquire the art of flying. Yet, the eighteenth century was also an Age of Discovery within. Doctors and scientists rendered the fields of surgery, obstetrics and pathology socially acceptable and the development within medicine gained much momentum. Exploring what lies underneath or within through medicine or early psychology widened the scope of human understanding and changed the perception of the human being within the world. Exploring and discovering is thus a core motivation of professional and non-professional persons in the long eighteenth century. The conference aims at bringing together a variety of approaches and results addressing the following questions: How was exploration motivated? How did scientific, medical or other discoveries change human understanding? Which effects did spatial or medical discoveries have on politics and society? Or quite basically, how was exploration made possible? Who ordered explorative voyages or anatomical studies? Who wrote about discoveries and to what purpose? These questions are certainly only a fraction of the plethora of questions scholars could ask about this Age of Discoveries.

Financed by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Unversité Franco-Allemande

 

Metaphysical Poetry

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8
Termine:
Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02, U9/01.11
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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Metaphysical is the name that was given to seventeenth-century English poetry by Samuel Johnson, a literary critic and neo-classicist of the Augustan Age who despised the overwhelmingly rich and elaborate imagery of these poets. They did not belong to a specific group or school of poets, but shared an imagery collectively rejected by poets of both the Renaissance and Neo-classicism. In Germany, this period is associated with a term taken from art history, Barock. The writers in both countries have in common the experience of war and the vanity of all earthly ambitions in a time of instability and violence.

Metaphysical poets were forgotten for a long time. Although the first traces of a recovery go back to the nineteenth century, their revival is certainly associated with T.S. Eliot, the modernist poet of the "Waste Land" (1922) who praised their sensibility lost in the work of John Milton and brought back to the English reader by Herbert Grierson's famous anthology of Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921). Like the period after the First World War, the so-called Age of Revolution, the period of rapid and cruel changes, of regicide and Restoration developed a new spirituality and a new sense of the materiality of the world. John Donne described this age in the following words: "The new philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out;/ The sun is lost and the earth, and no man's wit/ Can well direct him where to look for it./ And freely men confess that this world's spent,/ When in the planets and the firmament/ They seek so many new; they see that this / Is crumbled out again to his atomies."

In the seminar we will read a variety of secular and religious poetry, discuss its language and talk about the context of metaphysical poetry.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Colin Burrow, ed. Metaphysical Poetry (Penguin Classics) (2006)

 

Writing Lives - Literature and Biography

Dozent/in:
Beatrix Hesse
Angaben:
Seminar, ECTS: 8
Termine:
Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 16.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Novels describing the lives of writers are so numerous that they have received a generic label of their own, the Künstlerroman . It is, however, not the Künstlerroman itself that we are going to study in this course. Rather, we will discuss a number of literary texts from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries that focus on the attempts of literary biographers to capture the elusive lives of genius writers and thereby, possibly, the secret of literary creativity itself.

The first text we are going to read is Henry James s novella The Aspern Papers that created a kind of blueprint for the following works: A nameless first-person narrator makes the attempt to acquire the long lost letters of the fictional Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, presumably modelled on Percy Bysshe Shelley. The next text we will discuss is the short story Wireless by Rudyard Kipling, in which an equally nameless first-person narrator has the opportunity of witnessing the birth of the poem The Eve of St. Agnes by another Romantic poet, John Keats. Moving away from the influence of the Romantic poets, our third text, Vladimir Nabokov s novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, describes the attempt of yet another nameless narrator to retrace the life of his deceased half-brother, the novelist Sebastian Knight, who is arguably modelled on Nabokov himself. Structurally, the novel by Nabokov seems to some extent indebted to James s seminal novella. Finally, we are going to examine a play, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, which returns to the field of Romantic poetry. In this drama, we witness two competing literary scholars who are trying to discover yet another lost letter, supposedly written by yet another Romantic poet, George Gordon Lord Byron. In terms of method, we will focus on close readings of selected passages since a seminar on biographical readings of modernist literature that I conducted last winter term has proved that this is a practice both useful and pleasurable. However, this approach requires that all students are thoroughly familiar with all of the texts, which, albeit not particularly long, make somewhat difficult reading. Students will also be required to deliver a brief presentation (no longer than 15 minutes) on a topic relating to one of the four texts, since one of the minor goals of this class is to introduce the participants to four major poets of the Romantic period. Finally, it is hoped that this seminar will encourage students to reflect on their professional self-image as literary scholars.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Students must read the following primary texts: The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Wireless by Rudyard Kipling, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The text of Wireless will be made accessible in class, for the other texts, any edition can be used. Please note that you must have finished reading The Aspern Papers by the second session. A detailed term plan giving the dates by which you must have finished reading The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Arcadia will be distributed in the first session. A selection of appropriate secondary texts will be presented on a reserve shelf in the library.

 

Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale"

Dozent/in:
Christine Gerhardt
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung
Termine:
Di, 18:00 - 21:00, U9/01.11
Class takes place on the following Tuesdays: Oct 15; Oct 29; Nov 12; Nov 26; Dec 10; Jan 07; Jan 28; Feb 04
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

CULTURAL STUDIES - also open for the consolidation module!

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik
  • Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft

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

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
  • Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
  • Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)

M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:
  • Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
  • Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

M.A. Literatur und Medien:
  • Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
  • Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 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


LITERARY STUDIES - also open for the consolidation module!

  • 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
  • M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives (Master Module English and American Literature); Restricted Electives (Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar)
  • Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
  • LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
  • Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
  • active participation
  • presentation
  • term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. 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 (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
  • An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 102. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*
Inhalt:
In this course, we will read Herman Melville's classic American novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) from a variety of perspectives such as transnational American studies and critical race theory, post-humanist theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies, gender studies and queer theory. Based on close readings of Moby-Dick and readings of essays on current literary and cultural theory, we will move through the novel slowly, chapter by chapter, discussing its complex aesthetic achievements (or "wickedness") while looking at the ways in which the narrative puts pressure on some of the core issues of its cultural moment, including national identity, slavery, immigration, and cultural contact, the natural environment and ecology, gender and sexuality. The main objective of the course is to be able to combine theoretically informed close reading skills (textual analysis) with an understanding of the issues that shaped American culture in tension or contact with other cultures.

Please purchase a copy of Moby-Dick (a critical edition with footnotes, such as Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. ISBN 978-0393972832) before our first session, and start reading asap – ideally, read the entire novel during the semester break.



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