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Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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Antisemitism in English and American Literature and Culture -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christoph Houswitschka, Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft. Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
BA-Hauptfach Jüdische Studien:
B/H 2a+b (Einführung in die jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
A/H 1a+1b+1 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/H 1 (Jüdische Literatur, Kunst und Kultur)
BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 45:
A/N-45 1+2 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
V/N-45 2a+3a (Sprache und Literatur)
BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 30:
A/N-30 1+2 Sternchen (Jüdische Religionsgeschichte)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- While Britain and the United States have contributed greatly to the promotion of liberal ideals like justice, tolerance and equality, one should not ignore the ugly underbelly of narrow-mindedness, prejudice and bigotry that has also existed. That anti-Semitism has proved to be one of the most enduring and baneful forms of hostility can partly be attributed to its ability to transform – “like a virus, it mutates,” as Jonathan Sacks, the former Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the UK, put it in a speech in the House of Commons on September 13, 2018.
This advanced seminar in literary and cultural studies will look at many of the mutations of the disease from the early modern period until today. Christian anti-Judaism did not only decry the Jewish religion as callous and legalistic, but accused its followers of blindness, stubbornness and clannishness. Ultimately, Jews were blamed for the death of Christ. Racial forms of anti-Semitism, which developed in the course of the 19th century, elaborated on these ancient prejudices, hallucinating about unsavory Jewish character traits, filthy bodies and licentious practices. The irrational character of anti-Jewish racism is nowhere better illustrated than in the grand conspiracies Jews were suspected of scheming.
Drawing upon a plethora of texts and phenomena, the seminar will elucidate these elements in their historical contexts. Questions addressed in the seminar include, but are not limited to, the following: How is the issue of Jewishness and anti-Semitism negotiated in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice? In what way did nineteenth-century physiognomic theories reflect anti-Semitic ideas? To what extent does Charles Dickens' character Fagin in Oliver Twist epitomize anti-Semitic stereotypes? What was the impact of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on early-twentieth century attitudes towards the Jews? What role did Henry Ford play in the promotion of anti-Semitism in the US? Who followed Nazi ideology in Britain and the US in the 1930s and ‘40s? What Jewish institutions combatted anti-Semitism in America? How has anti-Semitism been portrayed by Jewish-American authors? What are the connections between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism? What is the debate about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism all about?
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- tba
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Bamberg University English Drama Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Nadine Panjas
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 9.2.2019, 13:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module:
- Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
- Inhalt:
- Join the Bamberg University English Drama Group for our winter workshop. If you're interested in drama and acting and would like to try out some of that yourself, it's you we're looking for. Everybody can join, you need not have any previous drama experience. If you are interested, just come along on Monday, 15 October 2018.
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Exam Preparation English Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.1.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) on 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. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
- Inhalt:
- This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.
Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The range of topics (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.) will depend on the participants' interest. (Before the beginning of the semester, I will invite all participants to take part in a poll in order to find out which topics ["Körbe"] they want to prepare for their "Staatsexamen.")
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: 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!: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
- Inhalt:
- This course is addressed to students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in English Literature, be it "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses. The course consists of individual sessions for which you must register with Professor Houswitschka via e-mail. 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 your supervisor. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christoph Houswitschka, Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s.
We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).
The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.
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Literary Twins -
- Dozent/in:
- Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
This class can also be taken for Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (Hauptfach und Nebenfach)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018(10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Literature is full of twins: evil twins, twins who impersonate each other, twins in showbusiness. Readers (and theatregoers) through the centuries are still inevitably fascinated, confused and dazzled. Anglophone literature is no exception.
In this class we will first gather a brief and basic overview of notorious twins from Greek and Roman mythology - such as Romolus and Remus, Castor and Pollux - then we will move on to England. We will read one of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring twins, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, where playing with the double goes along with playing with gender roles.
We will then work on Angela Carter’s last novel Wise Children, about identical twin sisters and performers Dora and Nora Chance, where magical realism is accompanied by constant Shakespearean references.
The last full text we will read is Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, a story with gothic elements about secret twin(s) and storytelling, with intertextual references to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
The aim of this class is to become able to recognize and analyze major features and recurring themes in the literary representation of twinhood. We will try to answer questions such as: Is twinhood a game of exclusion? How is twinhood represented in literature throughout time and in different genres?
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Please acquire a copy of the books we are going to read in class as soon as possible.
William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale.
Angela Carter. Wise Children.
more primary texts tba in class
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Masterclass Personal Writing/Self Revelation with George Ellenbogen -
- Dozent/in:
- George Ellenbogen
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 7.12.2018, 14:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 8.12.2018, Einzeltermin am 9.12.2018, 9:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module allocation
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in the MA English and American Studies (including Joint Degree) or with English as "Erweiterungsbereich" in any other MA programmes.
2. Registration
Please contact the department of English Literature if you want to attend this class (kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de)
- Inhalt:
- This class is designed specifically for master students in English and American Studies who wish to broaden their studies under the tutelage of a renowned author. In this class, you will learn about life writing and the intricacies of creative writing on a master's level.
More information tba.
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.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- 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.
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Masterclass: Power, Judgement & Controversy: Male-Manufactured Women in Dystopia and Fantasy -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Übung/Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:00 - 20:00, U2/02.30
Einzeltermin am 1.12.2018, 8:00 - 18:00, U2/02.30
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- This class is an addendum to Igor Baldoino's class "Power, Judgement & Controversy" taught on Mondays. It is specifically designed for MA EAS students. Registration for the masterclass is only possible through registration for "Power, Judgement & Controversy".
If you have any questions, contact Igor Baldoino
- Inhalt:
- see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"
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Power, Judgement & Controversy: The Minefield separating a Legendary Heroine from her Holy Grail -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft /
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6
ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft:
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b):
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kultur
wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA Berufliche Bildung
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- For millennia, men have been the protagonists of their own heroic
stories. Stories written by men, mainly for men. Women had no place
in an epic or heroic tale, at least not one that could put them in equal
terms with their male counterparts. They were reduced to “damsels in
distress”, supernatural guides, the hero’s reward, or in some cases
the villain.
In his studies of myths, Joseph Campbell concluded that: “In the
whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is
realise that she’s the place that people are trying to get to”. Although
this may be true regarding that specific niche, literary history has
shown women move forward to centre stage. Since circa late Romanticism
to Postmodern Literature and our present day, female characters
have been given a path and a voice, but remained limited by the
constraints of their respective times, or the nightmares of a dystopian
future.
This course aims to analyse the depiction of women in dystopian literature
and fantasy and will pay special attention to the following aspects
of each work: (gendered) language and women’s orality; identity
in contrast with “purpose”; sex, sexuality and the body; sister-,
mother-, and womanhood; and power.
Furthermore, we will use two (or more) stages of Campbell’s model
(The Hero with a Thousand Faces), namely the Call for Adventure
and the Road of Trials in order to examine what restrain(s)(ed)
women from heroism and the obstacles set throughout their journeys.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read prior to beginning of semester:
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christina Dalcher. Vox.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.
To read during the semester:
Naomi Alderman. The Power.
J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings (Éowyn).
More material to be added in class
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Put the kettle on! Tea and other hot drinks in British culture and literature from the seventeenth century to the present. -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Heyl
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8
- Termine:
- Blockveranstaltung 16.11.2018-18.11.2018 Mo-Fr, Sa, So
This course is offered outside of the university at Königsberg
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
to sign up for this class, please approach Igor Baldoino or Kerstin-Anja Münderlein at the department. Please note that this class can only be taken by Master students and that it will be held outside of the university at Königsberg. To sign up for credits, please use FlexNow! during the credit registration time (you will be informed about this in Königsberg)
- Inhalt:
- Well into the mid-seventeenth century, everybody in England – men, women and children – drank beer. Beer was the standard drink because drinking water was not particularly safe, especially in cities. The transition from beer to hot drinks such as coffee, chocolate and, above all, tea in the British Isles is a remarkable phenomenon. We shall trace this development from its beginnings in the seventeenth century.
The rise of hot drinks was intimately connected with global trade, colonialism, slavery (no hot drinks without sugar, no sugar without slaves) and the opium trade (Chinese tea was exchanged for opium produced in British India). There is an interesting and important connection between coffee and journalism and the development of the public sphere as the earliest newspapers were both written and read in London´s coffee houses. In the eighteenth century, the tea table became a site of middle-class domestic sociability. Hot chocolate was popular as a hangover cure or an aphrodisiac. The etiquette of preparing and taking various drinks was intimately tied to evolving gender roles as well as notions of national identity. Bovril, a beef-based hot drink, was and still is associated with Britishness and muscular masculinity. Horlicks, a malted milk drink, was marketed as a wonder cure for “night starvation”, a medical condition invented for advertising purposes.
We will study a selection of sources (including texts, images and music) related to the cultural and literary history of hot drinks. There will be tasting sessions, i.e. we will prepare and drink some of the hot drinks under discussion.
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Shakespeare Reading Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Termine:
- Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 11.2.2019, 8:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.
Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.
You need not register for this course, just come along in the first session and bring a copy of the plays.
- Inhalt:
- William Shakespeare's works are well know, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare, one comedy and one tragedy, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on.
If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and comfortable shoes.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- William Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew.
William Shakespeare. Henry V.
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The Novel of Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In the eighteenth century, the difference between external and internal senses was not regarded to be easily defined. While Shaftesbury continued to see an analogy between the perceptions of external beauty and moral sense, Hutchinson rather argued that internal senses receive pleasure from complex ideas, the external senses from simple ones, both senses being informed by what Locke calls ideas. Later in the century, Kames explains that senses, “whether external or internal, are all of them powers or faculties of mind.” Tasting, touching, and smelling are merely corporeal; only in the mind they acquire a more refined and spiritual quality informed by reason and sentiment. Therefore, “everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word . . . a sentimental man . . . a sentimental party . . . a sentimental walk” as Lady Bradshaugh concludes (1749, quoted from Williams). In the later eighteenth century, the association with sensibility, in the sense of “a conscious openness to feelings, and also a conscious consumption of feelings,” causes a continual degeneration of sentiment, eventually meaning uncontrolled feelings.
The subjectivity of perception introduces new aspects of ideas shaped by external and internal senses, reception as discussed by Burke and the participation of the individual developing taste and moral sense on the basis of reason and sentiment. The novel of sense(s) examines these processes of the mind that guide people or mislead them to act inappropriately (Austen). Sentimental journeys could expose the traveler to unexpected perceptions (Sterne) and reading could transform the perception of the ordinary world into a parody (Austen). Other writers provoked their readers into abandoning the complex pleasures of the mind when confronted with the pain caused by simple, but extreme external senses. Smollett could evoke smells, touches, sounds and visual images that terrified and hurt readers. In his novels, physiological and medical concepts of the senses seem to prevail rather than philosophical ones.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Henry Mackenzie. The Man of Feeling.
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Visions of Egypt in the British Imagination -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:30 - 10:00, LU19/00.13
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft/ Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Plus: all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary and cultural studies in:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 - 10.01.2019
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Ancient Egypt has long held a special place in Western imagination. The tales of Gods, Pharaohs, war and pyramids have captivated European readers even before Napoleon s 1798-1801 campaign in Egypt, which unearthed archaeological sensations and decisively fed Egyptomania all over Europe. Ancient Egypt, it seems, provides an interesting form of the Other for the Europe. Its exoticism, occultism and overwhelming architecture still continue to fascinate visitors and readers today. For Great Britain, Egypt provided a double locus for the Other with Ancient Egypt and Colonial Egypt. British travellers and writers capitalised on the allure of the exotic while viewing the country and its inhabitants through the lens of colonialism.
This class will explore the British imagination of Colonial and Ancient Egypt through British literature and culture, such as architecture and art, feeding off the vision of Egypt from the 18th to the 20th century. To do so, this class will use Edward Said s theory of Orientalism to position Egyptomania in the British imagination. In addition, we will also have a look at a variety of literary forms, ranging from crime novels to dime novels, to examine why Egypt has been so enthralling to British audiences.
Since this class covers both literary and cultural studies, students are asked to prepare the books indicated below and watch the films in preparation before the semester starts. Further texts, excerpts or films can be added throughout the semester and will be announced on the VC class.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Books:
Louisa May Alcott. "Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse." 1869.
Agatha Christie. Death on the Nile. 1937.
Barbara Erskine. Whispers in the Sand. 2000.
Elizabeth Peters. Crocodile on the Sandbank. 1975
Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Ozymandias." 1818.
more novels and excerpts tba
Films:
Death on the Nile, dir. by John Guillermin. 1978.
The Mummy, dir. by Stephen Sommers. 1999.
Cairo Time, dir. by Ruba Nadda. 2009.
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