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

Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

 

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Alexander Debney, Jacques Schiltz
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Mo, Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 12.4.2016, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module:
  • Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
Inhalt:
Join the Bamberg University English Drama Group as we embark on the adventurous journey of staging a Shakespearean play. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Bard of Avon’s death, it seems only natural for any drama group to commemorate him and somehow celebrate his work. We have decided to do this by putting on his hilarious farce "The Comedy of Errors" in the upcoming semester.

If you would like to join us in our endeavour, please prepare a short speech from any English-language (!) play or screen play. Auditions are being held on Monday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 12 at 20:00 (U7/01.05). If you are absolutely unable to attend on either of these dates, just drop us a line and we will try to arrange an alternative audition for you. Also, if you would like to help us with stage design, costumes, music, etc., do not hesitate to contact us.
alexander-stefan.debney@stud.uni-bamberg.de
jacques.schiltz@stud.uni-bamberg.de

(You will receive an edited script of the play on your first day of rehearsal, so there is no need to buy or print anything.)

We are looking forward to seeing you!

 

British Auteur Cinema

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 15.7.2016, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 16.7.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
NB: THIS CLASS STARTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SUMMER TERM
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)

This seminar is available to students of Literatur und Medien.
  • Modul Film- und Bildwissenschaft
  • Modul Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

Five places are reserved for students of Literatur und Medien. Please contact barbara.kehler@uni-bamberg.de (until March 2016) or chiara.manghi@uni-bamberg.de before registering in FlexNow!.

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
The seminar offers a survey of post-war British auteur cinema and a discussion of its theory. This includes the critical debate around the question of authorship in film, an industrial and collaborative medium that appears not to have one author. But the creative center of films and writings in the tradition of the French New Wave are controlled by the film director s perspective.

The films we are going to discuss include various topics and styles that represent post-war British culture and are identified with specific directors and their work. These directors include Michael Powell, Carol Reed, John Boorman, Terence Davies, Stephen Frears, Michael Winterbottom, Danny Boyle, Ken Loach, Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, Dennis Potter, Stephen Poliakoff.

 

British Migration Literature and Modernity

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
NB: THIS CLASS STARTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SUMMER TERM
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): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
This seminar scrutinises key concepts in migration studies and provides an in-depth study of selected texts to explore them in diverse political, cultural and ethnic contexts. Migration, diaspora and hybridity have become key experiences of the modern condition. Rapid economic and social changes, political oppression and war have brought about displacement, loss and alienation, but also a sense of individual achievement and cosmopolitan connectedness. The seminar tries to define migration and its social and cultural consequences in the context of modernist literature, postcolonial literature and novels written by immigrants from Europe ever since the 1930ies. Novels in this tradition of modernity strive to reconcile the recognition of collective identities (class, gender, religion, ethnicity) with the diversity and freedom of individuals.

We will read texts from James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Erika and Klaus Mann, Joseph Roth, Arthur Koestler, George Lamming, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Carly Phillips, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, Kapka Kassabova, Helen Oyeyemi.

A reader with excerpts will be provided.

 

Contemporary Poetry from 1945 until 2015

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
The second half of the 20th century has seen a broad variety of literary styles and genres. In poetry, we find postmodern poetry alongside with poetry in imitation of Romanticism and many more diverse writings. The writing of the last 70 years can be accessed from a plethora of different angles, such as feminism, postcolonialism, ecocriticism and queer theory, to name only a few. And with every reading, we discover new layers of meaning within the poems.

In this seminar, we will try to answer several questions: What is so appealing about poetry, especially in our time? How can poetry voice criticism and concern? And what kind of poetry are we actually talking about, when we talk about “contemporary poetry”? With these guiding questions in mind, we will explore the realm of poetry together and use literary as well as cultural theory to help our understanding of poetry altogether.
Empfohlene Literatur:
A reader of the poetry we are going to cover will be distributed in week 1.

 

Discovering the 19th Century Novel

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 29.4.2016, Einzeltermin am 20.5.2016, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Reading Tutorial (Übung)

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • MA English and American Studies

  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


1.2 Seminar

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
This is a very (!) reading intensive class!

In this Übung, we attempt to gain an overview over many of the 19th century s most important novelists and some of their works. We will start in the Romantic period with Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and will then follow the century and its eminent writers. Please be aware that you have to read approx. one long (!) novel per session, so you should start reading right away.

The 19th century is often said to be the Golden Age of the novel and it has seen authors who are still household names today, such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. By quantitatively reading and discussing novels from the whole century, we try to compare themes and key elements of the 19th-century novel . We will discover romance plots alongside social concern and pastorals of the country life alongside London crime stories. In all, as diverse as the books from the 19th century are, there are surprisingly many common denominators among the novels and we are going to discuss as many of them as we can. So be prepared to read and read more.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice

Mary Shelley. Frankenstein

Anthony Trollope. The Eustace Diamonds

George Elliot. Middlemarch (Vol. I-III)

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd

Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist

Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White

Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World + The Hound of the Baskervilles

 

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 21.5.2016, 10:00 - 15:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 9.7.2016, 14:00 - 19:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/Übung für Examenskanditaten) or an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • MA English and American Studies

  • MA Berufliche Bildung

  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
to be announced
Empfohlene Literatur:
to be announced

 

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, NB: THIS CLASS STARTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SUMMER TERM
Termine:
Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U5/02.18
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

  • BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

  • MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

  • MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

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


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow!: 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)
Inhalt:
This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.

In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.

The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.

 

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Münderlein)

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
Termine:
Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/02.01
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

  • BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

  • MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

  • MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

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


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow!: 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)
Inhalt:
This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.

In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.

The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.

 

Heroes, Wizards and Nobody: Identity in Children's Literature

Dozent/in:
Lisa Kalkowski
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 13.4.2016, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.05
Einzeltermin am 27.4.2016, Einzeltermin am 11.5.2016, Einzeltermin am 25.5.2016, Einzeltermin am 8.6.2016, 18:00 - 22:00, MG1/02.05
Einzeltermin am 15.6.2016, 18:00 - 21:00, MG1/02.05
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • MA English and American Studies

  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Hagrid ran his fingers through his hair, fixing Harry with a bewildered stare. "Yeh don know what yeh are?" he said finally. (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone)

"Who are you, Chiron? Who who am I?" Chiron smiled. [ ] "Who are you?" he mused. "Well, that s the question we all want answered, isn t it?" (Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief)

The question of Who am I? has pervaded much of human thought, philosophy and, of course, literature. The reflections connected to this seemingly simple question are as complex as they are endless: How can we describe who we are? What enables and what limits the categories we use to construct identity? How much of our conceived individuality is determined by structures and discourses and by which? How do identities function within relationships and how do relationships constitute identities? Is there some kind of essence of identity deep within us? Where does the Self end, and the Other begin? And what agency do we actually have in determining our own identity and those of others?

In this course, we will look at how questions of identity and subjectivity are being negotiated in famous examples of contemporary children s literature. In order to tackle these issues, we will gain an understanding of what constitutes the genres of children s and fantastic literature. Furthermore, we will interrogate theories about the construction of identity, and how these theories along with the concept of individuality have developed over the last centuries. With this theoretical framework, we will be able to interrogate identities constructed in Diana Wynne Jones s Howl s Moving Castle (1986), J.K. Rowling s Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone (1997), Cressida Cowell s How to Train Your Dragon (2003), Rick Riordan s The Lightning Thief (2005) and Neil Gaiman s The Graveyard Book (2008). We will ask how identities come into existence in these coming-of-age -stories, interrogate labels such as heroes , witches and wizards , half- or mud-bloods ; debate the influence that comes with belonging to Hogwart s houses or camp cabins, discuss the importance of names for characters like Nobody Owens and The-Boy-Who-Lived, look at how quests and prophecies shape and determine individuality, and analyse the significance of mastering notions of self, language and magic.

Participants will be asked and encouraged to practice various methods to approach both literary and theoretical texts, engage actively in discussions, and exercise their presentation and moderation skills.

Our discussions necessitate excellent knowledge of the above mentioned novels as well as basic knowledge of Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), as it will serve as a first example to our theoretical reflections.

Participants are expected to have access to a copy of the novels in class, and to have read the novels by the beginning of the semester. Additional reading assignments will be made available in the VC.

Guests are always welcome. If you would like to attend the course as a guest, please write an email at LisaKalkowski@gmx.de.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl s Moving Castle #

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone #

Cressida Cowell: How to Train Your Dragon #

Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief #

Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book

Lewis Carroll: Alice s Adventures in Wonderland #
(This text is available online and can be accessed on various platforms such as Project Gutenberg)

# These books are part of a series and/or generated spin-offs or sequels. Any additional knowledge about them is greatly appreciated, but not obligatory, since we ll concentrate our close-reading and analyses on the first books of the series.

 

History of the Novel II

Dozent/in:
Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium
Termine:
Di, 16:00 - 17:30, U5/01.22
NB: THIS CLASS STARTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SUMMER TERM
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in

  • Leharmt 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): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

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 English and American Literature (A)

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
Termine:
Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, U5/00.24
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • BA Berufliche Bildung

  • BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 05th of April 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

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, den 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 und B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
Inhalt:
This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

 

Introduction to English and American Literature (B)

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
Termine:
Mo, 16:15 - 17:45, U2/00.25
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • BA Berufliche Bildung

  • BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 05th of April 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

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, der 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 und B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Einem zweistündigen Bibliothekstutorium bestehend aus einer Vorlesung (45 Minuten) und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
Inhalt:
This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

 

Island Fictions

Dozent/in:
Daniel Schümann
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 16.4.2016, 9:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 11.6.2016, 9:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.6.2016, 10:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 9.7.2016, 9:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 10.7.2016, 10:00 - 14:00, 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): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Islands have captivated generations of poets and writers, as well as readers. Multi-faceted like the reasons for this age-old fascination are the poetic creations that are set on islands. It can be argued that it is essentially the 'amphibious' quality of islands as border zones between land and sea that has made them into favourite fictitious testing grounds for philosophic ideas and literary plots. Since islands are prime destinations of explorers, conquerors, and modern-day tourists, it can also be safely claimed that every island has its own myth(s). What is more, even non-existent islands have kindled the imagination of authors, as can be seen in the myths of Atlantis and Vineta, supposedly submerged into the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea, respectively.

This seminar will approach the literary motif of the island from different angles both in terms of the cultural background of the authors whose texts will be dealt with and in terms of the historical perspectives adopted. The tales and novels selected for discussion were originally written in four different languages English, Russian, Polish, and German. Consequently, a wide range of cultural traditions is reflected in these texts even if they refer back to certain common ur-texts of insularity (e.g. Thomas More's Utopia). The main focus will be on the following texts:

  • Thomas More: Utopia (1516)
  • Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World (1912)
  • Evgeni Zamiatin: The Islanders (1917)
  • Jan Józef Szczepa ski: Die Insel (1968)
  • Vasili Aksënov: The Island of Crimea (1979)
  • Lutz Seiler: Kruso (2014)

All of the texts selected for this class have either originally been written in English or have been translated into English or German. These works must be read by every student. Besides, every student is required to choose one of the works for which s/he will build up special textual expertise in the course of the semester.
This class will be conducted on five single weekend days (16 April 9:00-14:00, 4 June 9:00-14:00, 5 June 10.00-14.00, 9 July 9:00-14:00, and 10 July 10:00-14:00), which will leave longer breaks for reading and individual study. A list of topics for discussion and presentation, as well as deadlines for the submission of research papers will be made available on the Virtual Campus.
Empfohlene Literatur:
McCusker, Maeve: Islanded Identities: constructions of postcolonial cultural insularity. Amsterdam et al.: Rodopi 2011 (= Cross Cultures 139).

Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca: Empire Islands: castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of conquest. Minneapolis et al.: University of Minnesota Press 2007.

 

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Chiara Manghi, Christoph Houswitschka
Angaben:
Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale, NB: THIS CLASS STARTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SUMMER TERM
Termine:
jede 2. Woche Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/01.33
Einzeltermin am 6.7.2016, 14:00 - 16:00, U11/00.22
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

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

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

  • MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)

  • alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

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.

 

Letters, Letters, Letters: Epistolary and Semi-Epistolary Novels

Dozent/in:
Chiara Manghi
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2016, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.26
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS


1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • MA English and American Studies

  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
"Letters, letters, letters. Not for me" writes Blanche Glover in A.S. Byatt s neo-Victorian novel Possession. The whole plot revolves around the love letters between two fictional Victorian writers and the investigation that two scholars undertake after finding the draft of the first letter. In this class, apart from thoroughly analyzing Possession, we will become familiar with the Victorian letters that inspired this epistolary love story, those between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (the letters are available in their digitized form at http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/portal/collection/ab-letters, provided by a collaboration of Baylor University and Wellesley College).

We will also read some classic examples of the epistolary novel in excerpts from Samuel Richardson s Clarissa and Pamela and Henry Fielding s Shamela, a satirical answer to Pamela. Then we will travel through time and space with David Mitchell s Cloud Atlas, again an example of a novel that is not purely epistolary, but interweaves several narratives in several different forms. In order to gain some insight in the American epistolary novel, we will read Alice Walker s The Color Purple, featuring mainly unanswered letters to God.

Moreover, we will look at some excerpts from Viktor Shklovsky s Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, where we will see what happens when a theorist who would like to write love letters is forbidden to do so.
Empfohlene Literatur:
A.S. Byatt, Possession (read Possession by the second session of our class)
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Excerpts from further novels and a selection of non-fictional letters will be made available during the semester.

 

Linguistics Meets Literature: An Interdisciplinary Experiment

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Romina Buttafoco, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
Termine:
Di, 16:00 - 18:00, KR12/02.05
Einzeltermin am 3.6.2016, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS


2. (De)Registration:

Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 21st of March 2016 (10:00) until 14th of April 2016 (23:59)

De-registration: in FlexNow!: 21st of March 2016 (10:00) until 30th of April 2016 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

3. Additional Information:

This seminar can be attended to gain ECTS for either English literature or for English linguistics: if you attend to gain ECTS for English literature, please register for English literature in FlexNow! and if you attend to gain ECTS for English linguistics, please register for English linguistics in FlexNow!.
Inhalt:
While literary studies and linguistics are often treated as two independent disciplines, the fields of study are not to be regarded as mutually exclusive but rather as significantly related to each other. Not only do literary texts form a great source for linguistic analyses, but an interdisciplinary approach can also enhance the reading and interpretation of literary texts by applying different aspects of literary and linguistic theory. There are many topics which are of interest in both fields of research. In this seminar we are going to narrow our focus to discussing the topics of identity and unreliable narration, combining approaches and theories from both disciplines. This will include
  • exploring how identity (and especially that of fictional characters) is constructed linguistically and with literary techniques
  • comparing the method of discourse analysis in the two disciplines
  • discussing the term of (un)reliability in the context of narrative theory
  • tackling the issue of unreliability from a linguistic perspective (e.g. cooperative principle)

IMPORTANT On FlexNow! you can register at the Department of English Literature or the Department of English Linguistics, depending on where you would like to obtain credit points from this class.
NOTE: Please be aware that even if you can obtain credits only for one discipline, you are expected to cover both fields in the seminar. That means, for example, that the primary texts (see below) are to be read by all participants.

Guests are generally welcome! Students interested in attending this seminar as guest students are to send an e-mail to romina.buttafoco@uni-bamberg.de and to attend the first session; only then it will be clear if guest students can be accepted.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Before the beginning of the class
Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion.
During the semester
Agatha Christie. The murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Ian McEwan. Atonement.

 

Personal Writing / Self Revelation

Dozent/in:
George Ellenbogen
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 22.4.2016, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 23.4.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.4.2016, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

  • MA English and American Studies

  • Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies


IMPORTANT INFORMATION

2 ECTS (regular requirements apply)
4 ECTS (regular requirements apply)

For MA students: in order to gain 8 ECTS for this reading tutorial (Übung), George Ellenbogen’s course needs to be combined with either Simon Edward’s course (title and content to be announced) in SoSe 2016 or with Christoph Houswitschka’s course “Shakespeare on Film” in WS 2016/17 (this option is for MA students only; the course will take place at Burg Feuerstein on a weekend in November).

@BA/LA-students: If you have any questions, please contact Chiara Manghi.

@MA-students: If you have any questions, please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 24th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact chiara.manghi@uni-bamberg.de
Inhalt:
Course Description

In PERSONAL WRITING/SELF REVELATION, which will be conducted as a one week compact seminar, students will explore the means by which writers use their own experience—real and imagined—to fashion memoirs, personal essays, and poems that reveal themselves and touch their readers. The course will address, among other topics, the establishing of a persona, the use of place, real and imaginary settlings, the role of detail, and beginnings and endings. Students will also produce their own writing in classes and read to one another in small groups.

Before the first class, students will have read the texts, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen and Teaching Arabs, Writing Self by Evelyn Shakir. Passages of George Orwell’s essays will be assigned later.

Course Teacher

The course will be taught by memoirist and poet, George Ellenbogen. A professor of Creative Writing at Bentley University in Massachusetts, he has taught this course previously in Germany, and is awaiting the publication of the German edition of both his and Shakir’s memoir.

The reading (synopses)

A Stone in My Shoe: Poet George Ellenbogen’s memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journeys from Franz Joseph’s Austro-Hungarian empire and Poland to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood—a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers—sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces—the markers of his parents’ navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal—extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood

Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Evelyn Shakir's witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming she felt in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, where she taught American literature to university students. She effortlessly combines personal anecdote with cultural, political, and historical background, and is incapable of stereotyped thinking: one of the book's many pleasures is the diversity she finds among the people she encounters in the Middle East, including not only students, but cab drivers, storekeepers, and the guys who make the spinach pies at the bakery down the street from her apartment. As Shakir explores her own identity, she leads the reader to an appreciation of the richness and complexity of being Arab American (or any mixed heritage) in an increasingly small world.

 

Seminar im Aufbaumodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft

Dozent/in:
N.N.
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6
Termine:
Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

 

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
Termine:
Do, 18:00 - 20:00, M12A/00.14
Einzeltermin am 29.7.2016, Einzeltermin am 1.8.2016, 12:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
No class on 21 April 2016!
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. The Comedy of Errors.
William Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus.

 

The Enlightenment and Its Discontents

Dozent/in:
Simon Edwards
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 1.7.2016, 16:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 2.7.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 3.7.2016, 10:00 - 12:00, 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)


IMPORTANT INFORMATION

In order to gain 8 ECTS for this seminar, Simon Edward's course needs to be combined with either George Ellenbogen's course Personal Writing / Self Revelation in SoSe 2016 or with Christoph Houswitschka's course Shakespeare on Film in WS 2016/17 (this option is for MA students only; the course will take place at Burg Feuerstein on a weekend in November). The seminar paper needs to be written in Simon Edwards's seminar.

@BA/LA-students: If you have any questions, please contact Chiara Manghi.

@MA-Students: If you have any questions, please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04th of March 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00); de-registration: until 24th of June 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact chiara.manghi@uni-bamberg.de
Inhalt:
From the late 17c the development and application of scientific knowledge throughout Europe, seemed to offer the possibility of continuous improvement in the human condition, the steady advance of civilization and a radical challenge to the power of organised religion. These putatively enlightened principles and values came to dominate our political culture and many of our ordinary expectations of individual and social life.

Even at their peak in the 18c they did not of course go unchallenged particularly in the literary imagination. Nor did the material evidence of human and improvement progress stack up in the following years, not least against the persistent presence of violence, slavery, superstition, and exploitation. As the great German critic Walter Benjamin noted in 1940: There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism .

Unsurprisingly 20/21c literature and popular culture are both rich in dystopian visions of the abundant wealth and comfort that appear to characterise the so-called advanced economies. This short course, however, is intended to explore the abiding interest and power of some of the earliest dystopian texts in the British literary tradition which still inform and indeed haunt our contemporary perspectives.

We start with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), which remains the best known and most widely read text of the English 18c. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1819) survives in countless adaptations in film and popular myth but always rewards by examining its original form. Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) has proved the source of possibly more film, TV, theatrical, cartoon adaptations and versions than any other work of prose fiction. Finally, H G Wells's The Time Machine (1895 ) announces the formal emergence of a new literary genre, science fiction, which will proliferate in the following centuries.

NB. Students intending to buy a copy of Gulliver's Travels should make sure they have an edition of the complete original text. Later editions, a measure of the work's popularity, very often only include the first two sections, and are often highly bowdlerised .

Depending on numbers, students will be expected to make short presentations on each of the texts, either individually or as part of a group. Please organise this in the weeks prior to the seminar, to ensure that all texts are covered on the three days of the course.

Students are expected to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal as well as Gulliver's Travels.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Students are expected to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal as well as Gulliver's Travels.

 

The Notorious, the Traumatic: Representation of Apartheid in South African Novels

Dozent/in:
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah
Angaben:
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, Studium Generale
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 20.5.2016, 16:00 - 22:00, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 21.5.2016, 10:00 - 18:00, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 27.5.2016, 10:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 3.6.2016, 16:00 - 22:00, U11/00.25
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
1. Module Allocation:

  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

  • LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS


2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Inhalt:
Apartheid, meaning the state of being apart , was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced by the National Party (NP) in 1948 and lasted until 1994. Apartheid was characterized by oppression, detrimental and inhuman treatment of the black people, bloodshed, and violence, and was responded with internal resistance (anti-apartheid movement) and international arms and trade embargo. Both black and white South African writers have written on the evil, violence, unimaginable atrocities and trauma of apartheid, and criticized the government policy. Apart from representing the atrocities, these writers have also strived to open up new opportunities and choices contained in the present as well as in the future. Writing on apartheid violence has given these writers the chance of re-writing, re-inventing and re-imagining South Africa s past which is quite indispensable for the process of reconciliation and identity construction.

In the seminar, we will go through four novels and analyze how they represent the evil of apartheid. Nadine Gordimer s Burger s Daughter (1979) is deep rooted in the history of apartheid violence and anti-apartheid struggle, and features a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa who seeks to overthrow the South African government. J. M. Coetzee s Age of Iron (1990) is the story of an old Professor who throughout her life has ideologically opposed the apartheid rule but has never strongly protested against it, and finally she comes face to face with the terror of the system. Zakes Mda s Ways of Dying (1995) is marked by an attempt to find new ways of narrating the experience of reproachful apartheid violence, and symbolizes the importance of recovery from violence and the hope for a better future. Last but not least, Zoë Wicomb s David s Story (2000) reveals the gendered dehumanization and violence that underline the anti-apartheid movement s resistance against racialized dehumanization.

Participants are expected to have access to a copy of Burger s Daughter, Age of Iron, Ways of Dying, and David s Story. Participants are expected to actively engage in discussions, to practice their presentation and moderation skills in preparing a short presentation and an ensuing discussion, and are required to write a term paper of 3.000 to 4.000 words.

 

Tutorial for international MA students

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
Alexander Debney, Lisa Schädlich
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 6.4.2016, 10:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 8.4.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 29.4.2016, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/02.23
Einzeltermin am 3.5.2016, 19:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 8.7.2016, 12:00 - 17:00, U11/00.22

 

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Angaben:
Übung, 2 SWS
Termine:
Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/02.01

 

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

Dozent/in:
Hedwig Hardi
Angaben:
Tutorien
Termine:
Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17

 

Workshop Middle English Literature (dr hab. Anna Czarnowus)

Dozent/in:
Anna Czarnowus
Angaben:
Seminar
Termine:
Einzeltermin am 17.6.2016, 15:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 18.6.2016, 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11



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