Introduction to Modernism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 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 / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Modernism is a very broad cultural and literary movement, or a mode of thinking if you will, that influenced all forms of art, and to an extent also philosophy and politics. The modernist movement may be seen as a reaction to the rapid pace of society, fast development and technological boom of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. With influences from the theories of Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche to later influencing art as one may see in the paintings of Monet and Renoir, to name a few, Modernism has its roots in Europe but spans the entire globe. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key modernist texts.
In order to do so, the course will first frame Modernism, that is to say, we shall study the movement in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Modernism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one.
The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Modernist poetry, with the works of T. S. Eliot, Richard Aldington and T. E. Hulme; the narratives of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce; and finally the Modernist drama of Samuel Beckett.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land (1922); Four Quartets (1941)
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Joyce, James. Ulysses (1920)
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (1952)
More to be added during the course

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the British Cultural Imagination

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 01.08.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.11.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 12.12.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 27.01.2023 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

“Must Rhodes fall?” In recent years, British cultural politics has been preoccupied – on all sides – with the question of how to come to terms with the shameful and painful legacies of colonialism and Empire. Whether in the form of debates around the contemporary appropriateness of an Oxford statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes, or in the direct action that saw the statue of a slave trader unceremoniously dumped in Bristol Harbor in the summer of 2020: British society is now confronting, more consciously than ever before, its long and dark historical shadow.

This seminar examines that legacy from a wide variety of perspectives, drawn from a variety of historical eras. We will start with an overview of the current British debates around the memory of Empire. After a brief theoretical excursus through Frantz Fanon’s ground-breaking Black Skin, White Masks (1952), we’ll discuss Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative of 1789: the remarkable first-hand account of a journey from slavery to freedom. We turn next to Chinua Achebe’s devastating masterpiece, Things Fall Apart (1958), an unsparing portrait of the impact of colonialism on the Igbo Tribe in nineteenth-century Nigeria. Following this, we’ll be reading selection of poems by Derek Walcott, a Saint Lucian poet and playwright whose meditations on the personal and collective legacies of colonialism culminated in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Finally, we arrive (back) in the multicultural Britain of the twenty-first century, with Bernardine Evaristo’s globally acclaimed and multi-award-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other (2019).

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London: Penguin, 2017).

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2018).

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (London: Penguin, 2020).

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2008).

Derek Walcott, Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

Gender, Race, and Nationality: Transatlantic Literature and Culture from the 18th to the Early 20th Century

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (‘Lehrstuhl’): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 – November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

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

Inhalt:

While U.S.-American Literature and Culture and British Literature and Culture are often researched, analyzed, and taught separately, literary and cultural texts have long travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. Accordingly, this seminar will provide an introduction to the field of Transatlantic Studies and investigate literary and cultural texts that journeyed from Great Britain to the United States and vice versa.

More specifically, by reading texts from different genres and periods, we will trace how questions of gender, race, and nationality are negotiated, adapted, and in some cases re-negotiated in transatlantic literature. Additionally, we will talk about the ways print culture and ideas surrounding authorship and copyright changed between the 18th and the early 20th century.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students are asked to buy and start reading the following texts BEFORE the beginning of class.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393933994)
• Paula Bernat Bennett (ed.), Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (2001)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) – preferred edition: Penguin Classics (ISBN: 978-0140435849)
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393932423)

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

More than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, SP17/00.13
Einzeltermin am 13.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section ( Lehrstuhl ): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/

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

Inhalt:

Studying U.S. American literature and culture would be incomplete without considering the wealth of POC perspectives. In this class we will discuss exemplary and marginal cultural artefacts of the past and present and the phenomena that are closely linked to the specific historical experiences of People of Color. Our classroom material will include mostly literary texts, but also music, film, painting, sculpture, food etc. As the title of the seminar suggests, we will employ several of our senses to deal with the topic, which may also include a field trip to an exhibition.

Since we will deal with one of the key issues of American Studies, the reading list of this class will be rather extensive and students are expected to come to class prepared for lively, critical discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most shorter reading (poems, speeches, short stories, secondary reading) will be provided via the VC. However, students are expected to acquire the following books (in print or as e-book) BEFORE the start of the semester and start reading the first two books (Jacobs and Hansberry) as soon as possible:

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - prefered edition: The Norton Critical Edition (ISBN 0393614565)
• Lorrain Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• Mark Long, Jim Demonakos (authors), and Nate Powell (illustrator), The Silence of Our Friends (2012)
• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (2018)

Additionally recommended reading:

• Kai Wright (ed.). The African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2009.
• Neil Irvin Painter. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: OUP, 2007.

PS Scottish Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

Dozent/in:

Mario Ebest

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 27.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 3.2.2023, Einzeltermin am 10.2.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, MG1/01.02
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 1 until October 21, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

In this seminar, we will familiarise ourselves with important Scottish poems and novels, all of which can be described as being part of the Scottish literary canon. At first, we will discuss the narrative poem “Tam o’ Shanter” (1791) by Robert Burns in terms of its effect of popularising Scottish folk tales. Further, lyrical works by Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean will be looked into: While MacDiarmid uses synthetic Scots in his “Eemis Stan” (1925), MacLean composed the original version of “Hallaig” (1954) in Gaelic. The cultural-linguistic implications of poems like these will be of special interest to our class.

Apart from lyrical works, novels will be in the focus of this seminar. James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) revolves around the controversial role Calvinism played in Scottish society and history. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) deals with another painful chapter of Scottish history: the Jacobite rising of 1745. Finally, Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989) will be analysed in depth – a novel which focusses on postmodern themes such as depression, trauma, and alienation.

If you would like to take part in this class, please read two out of the three novels before the seminar starts.

PS The Kennedy Era

Dozent/in:

Simone Linz

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 20.10.2022, 19:00 - 21:00, Online-Meeting
Einzeltermin am 29.10.2022, Einzeltermin am 26.11.2022, Einzeltermin am 17.12.2022, Einzeltermin am 14.1.2023, 10:30 - 17:30, U5/02.18
Die Lehrveranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt. Die Vorbesprechung/Einführungsveranstaltung am 20. Oktober 2022 wird online abgehalten.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS;
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 1 until October 21, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

The Kennedy Family has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment and business. Only 35 years after their immigration from Ireland, the first member of the Kennedy family held a political office. This seminar will focus primarily on the time period of the 1950s and 1960s, the high years of the Kennedy family, when John F. Kennedy served as 35th president of the United States from 1961 - 1963 and his brother Robert run for the presidency in 1968. We will however also cover topics such as Irish immigration, Catholicism, politics in the 1950s and 1960s, Conspiracy Theories, Popular culture, and the role of the Kennedy family today.

There will be an online introduction to the course in which we will discuss the program, presentation topics, etc.