Australian Literature

Dozent/in:

Nora Pleßke

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar:

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: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: 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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar introduces students to a history of Australian literature, its phases, changes, and developments from first imaginations to the twenty-first century by analysing novels, plays, short stories, poems, and non-fictional writing. Exploring the multifariousness of Australian literature oscillating between metropolitan accommodation and postcolonial resistance, students will identify overtly Australian subject matters, e.g. concepts of convictism, colonialism, pastoralism, mateship, endurance, loneliness, renewal, self-discovery, egalitarianism, etc., and question these constructions of a national literature in the light of an imagery, which is more urban, modern, and transnational.

By the first session, you should have read:
Meyer, Therese-Marie. “Australia.” English Literatures across the Globe: A Companion. Ed. Lars Eckstein. Fink, 2007. 178-200.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Texts covered in class, for example, include:

Tench, Watkin. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay. 1789.
Clarke, Marcus. For the Term of His Natural Life. 1874.
Franklin, Miles. My Brilliant Career. 1901.
Lawler, Ray. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. 1957.
Carey, Peter. The True History of the Kelly Gang. 2000.
Wright, Alexis. Carpentaria. 2006.

Relevant excerpts and shorter texts will be provided on the VC.

Further suggested reading:

Huggan, Graham. Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism. Oxford UP, 2004.
Webby, Elizabeth. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature. Cambridge UP, 2000.

Introduction to Neoclassicism

Angaben:

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

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: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: 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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 – 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

During the mid seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, artists turned to classical texts and form in search of inspiration and creativity. The literature of the period, its drama, poetry as well as prose, sought not only to delight but to instruct its reader by extolling classical virtues such as restraint and order, simplicity, accuracy and logic. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the Neoclassical movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key neoclassical texts. In order to do so, the course will first frame Neoclassicism, 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 preceding and succeeding movements, for instance, the Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Neoclassicism, from both an artistic and literary stand point but also a philosophical one. The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Neoclassicist poetry, the prose of, for instance, Defoe and Swift and the multifaceted theatre of the period, with the examples of Comedy of Manners and Sentimental Comedy as prominent genres.

Empfohlene Literatur:

to be read PRIOR to the semester begin:

Dryden, John. Marriage à-la-Mode (1673).
Pope, Alexander. "The Rape of the Lock" (1675).
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe (1719).

to be read DURING the semester:

Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders (1722).
Swift, Johnathan. Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews (1742).

MORE will be added at the first session

The English Gothic Novel of the 18th Century

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Seminar

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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

When Horace Walpole “invented” the Gothic novel in 1764, little did he know what would happen to the new style of writing he introduced with his novella The Castle of Otranto. While the book itself was moderately successful in its own time, it sparked a genre that would take around 25 years to full develop and then dominate the literary scene for another 25 years. Haunted castles, gloomy mountains, oppressed heroines and brooding villains, banditti, ghosts, demons and dark aesthetics were “the rage” in the late 18th century and fascinated thousands of readers – and have continues to fascinate millions more. The excesses of the Gothic novel shock, provoke, and thrill contemporary and modern readers alike while they at the same time often cross into the (unwittingly) ridiculous. The Gothic novel has fascinated readers and (much late) scholars alike and Gothic has meanwhile become more than a genre.

This course specifically looks at the English Gothic novel of the long eighteenth century, starting with the universally acknowledged first Gothic text, The Castle of Otranto. We will study some of the most iconic and best-studied Gothic novels of the so called “first wave” of the 18th-century Gothic novel. Over the course of the semester, we will have a look at “female” and “male” Gothic, settings, aesthetics and further generic markers of the Gothic with the help of the primary reading. We will conclude the semester by looking at the Gothic Parody, a derivative genre of the Gothic novel with excerpts provide on the VC.

Students should be advised that this course will be very reading intensive as the primary sources tend to be rather long.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
The following full texts must be prepared by the third week of the semester:

Beckford, William. Vathek. 1786.
Lewis, M.G. The Monk. 1796.
Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. 1794.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. 2nd edition.

Excerpts from these texts will be provided on the VC over the course of the semester:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1818.
Beckford, William. Azemia. 2nd edition. 1798
Burke, Edmund. On the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757.

Secondary literature will be provided via the VC.

"Lest we remember”: War in Twentieth-Century English Literature & Culture

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 10.02.2023 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.05.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 01.06.2023 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.07.2023 (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:

“It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. […] [T]here’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.” Alan Bennett’s celebrated play, The History Boys (2004), alludes to the tendency of modern European societies to elide or altogether erase the human realities of war and conflict. But now that large-scale war has (once again) crashed back into the geopolitics of our continent, the task of ethically recording and remembering has shown itself to be more vital – if also more contested – than ever before.

This seminar will begin with a consideration of British cultures of remembrance around the two World Wars: a set of rituals of collective memory which often tread a fine line between sombre remembrance on one hand, and a thinly disguised glorification of the dead on the other. This memory culture will be placed in dialogue with the poetry of soldiers who served at the front line in the trenches of the Great War – and of the women many of them had to leave behind. We then turn to a much more recent representation of World War I, Pat Barker's much-celebrated Regeneration (1991): a novel which offers a brilliant yet disturbing insight into the traumatic lived experience(s) of industrial warfare. Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg three years later, is the British author J. G. Ballard’s surreal reimagining of his own childhood experience as a British expat in an internment camp in the wake of the UK’s declaration of war against the Japanese Empire in 1941. Finally, we turn to Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955), a novel set in 1950s Vietnam, which serves in retrospect as a prescient critique of the dawning era of American military interventions.

Please make sure you buy and read at least Regeneration and Empire of the Sun before the first week of the semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

II. Primärliteratur:

Ballard, J. G., Empire of the Sun [1984] (London: Fourth Estate, 2019).

Barker, Pat, Regeneration [1991] (London: Penguin, 2014).

Greene, Graham, The Quiet American [1955] (London: Penguin, 1991).

Kendell, Tim (ed.), Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology [1914-1925] (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2014).

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.

"The Poem (Un)Written": 20th-Century Poetry

Dozent/in:

Susen Halank

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/01.36

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for LITERARY 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!

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 (de)enrollment: March 1st – May 1st, 2023
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st – July 1st, 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:

“I, too, dislike it” is Marianne Moore’s opening line of her famous poem “Poetry”, summing up certain fears students might have about approaching this genre. However, poetry constitutes one of the central, most diverse, and most interesting pillars of American literature. The 20th century as a time of constant change – marked by historical events such as the two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and various liberation movements – has produced a vast body of extremely different poetic texts, demonstrating the significance of poetry as a “vital form of cultural expression” (Beach 1). At the same time, the 20th century is also a significant time for developments in literary theory including New Criticism, New Historicism, Poststructuralism, and feminist and gender studies.

In this course, we will talk about the poetry of the last century and its key movements and schools such as the Beat Poets, the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco School, and Confessional Poetry. We will engage with a number of writers from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, examine their texts in the light of influential literary theories and discuss poetry’s various kinds of cultural work.

The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 14.7.2023, 12:00 - 18:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Please note that this course can be taken as a SEMINAR (max. 6 ECTS) OR as an ÜBUNG (max. 4 ECTS).

1. Module Allocations:

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)

OR

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA WiPäd
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Studium Generale (2 or 4 ECTS - not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)
• Exchange Students (2 or 4 ECTS)

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul OR Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

SEMINAR

• 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/ )

ÜBUNG

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• presentation in English (=2 ECTS)
• presentation in English and short written assignment (=4 ECTS)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/consolidation-module-ma/ )

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 (de)enrollment: March 1st May 1st, 2023
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st July 1st, 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:

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 BEFORE THE START OF THE SEMESTER:

• Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1951)
• Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997)
• Chris Dingess, Manifest Destiny, Volume 1: Flora and Fauna (2014)

PS Angry Young Men: A Literary Movement of the 1950s

Dozent/in:

Mario Ebest

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 5.5.2023, Einzeltermin am 6.5.2023, Einzeltermin am 12.5.2023, Einzeltermin am 26.5.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, MG1/02.06
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:
March 1 until April 21, 2023

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:

Post-war British literature was very much informed by a new generation of authors, who were also referred to as Angry Young Men, expressing their enormous discontent and frustration with society as a whole in their literary works. These novels, plays, and short stories often address issues such as class affiliation conditioning a person s success, class contrasts, and lack of class consciousness. In this seminar, we will thus be taking a closer class-related analytical look at the following canonical pieces of English literature: John Osborne s play Look Back in Anger (1956), Alan Sillitoe s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), John Wain s novel Hurry on Down (1953), and Arnold Wesker s play Roots (1958). In addition, we will be dealing with Sillitoe s short story The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959). If you would like to take part in this seminar, please read these pieces of literature beforehand.

PS Approaching Aotearoa / New Zealand

Dozent/in:

Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04

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:
March 1 until April 21, 2023

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:

Aotearoa/New Zealand is commonly portrayed as a peaceful Pacific paradise, praised for its ("100% Pure") unspoilt nature and spectacular scenery as well as its harmonious race relations and egalitarian spirit. This seminar sets out to look both at and beyond the nation’s (colonial) myths and narratives and seeks to critically explore the small country’s brief history and cultural formation. Following a roughly chronological order for the first half of the term, the course will cover major events from the arrival of the first Polynesian settlers in the 13^th century, its British colonisation in the 19^th century, the Māori Renaissance, and bicultural policies of the late 20^th century to the challenges of its pluralistic society today. Against the backdrop of these historical contexts, the second part of the seminar will proceed thematically by looking into Māori–Pākehā relations and the role of te reo (Māori language), the myth of the ‘classless society’, nature and ‘the great outdoors’, immigration and multiculturalism, and gender roles. Throughout, the participants’ understanding of Aotearoa/New Zealand contexts is advanced by a selection of readings including excerpts from historical sources, official documents, a vast range of literary works, film, plus secondary and theoretical texts on the nation’s history, culture, and literature as well as (settler)(post)colonialism in general. All readings will be made available on the VC.