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(Virtual) Women Rebooted: Transcending the Bombshell into a Relatable “Human” -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Übung, ECTS: 4
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 17.5.2019, 14:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 18.5.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.5.2019, 14:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 25.5.2019, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/02.17
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for culture in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Female game characters have come a long way since the days where Lara Croft and Princess Peach were the only ones flying the feminine flag, and the results are rather awe-inspiring. Although developers struggled to combine curves with personality and insisted in over sexualising their creations or giving them sassy attitude, the industry has witnessed a progressive shift in female representation in games and it has made serious strides toward creating believable women. No longer are female characters simple glassy-eyed dolls, damsels in distress or mere extensions of the main character (mostly male). Female heroines and characters have become more relatable, realistic, in fact they have been “humanised” and letting stereotypical romantic love stories fade into the background has provided them with room for character development.
This seminar aims to analyse the gradual change in the portrayal of female characters in video games, namely: Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) and Wonder Woman (DC Games). By studying these characters’ gender roles, expressions of gender, fashion, psychological behaviour and tendencies, we will attempt to uncover the many layers of female representation in this form of media and how how it has changed since the early 1990s.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Lara Croft — Tomb Raider (2009-2018)
Aloy — Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)
Wonder Woman (1941-2018)
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Bamberg University English Drama Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Alice Limmer
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2
- Termine:
- Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 23.4.2019, Einzeltermin am 30.4.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 6.7.2019, Einzeltermin am 7.7.2019, 10:00 - 18:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 11.7.2019, 20:15 - 22:00, LU19/00.09
Einzeltermin am 12.7.2019, 9:00 - 12:00, U2/00.26
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module:
- Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)
- Inhalt:
- Join the Bamberg University English Drama Group for our summer production of Tom Stoppard's tragic comedy "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"!
We will meet for our first session on Tuesday(!), the 23rd of April, at 8pm(sharp!) in the U7 lecture hall to get to know each other a little and discuss the play and auditions. If you cannot make it to this session, that's no problem, just send me an email (alice.limmer@stud.uni-bamberg.de) and I'll let you know when and where to audition and what to prepare.
Auditions will then be held on Thursday, the 25th, and Monday, the 29th of April. If you cannot make it to either of these dates, also do not hesitate to contact me and we'll figure out an alternative audition.
Newcomers are always welcome and if you want to help us out with costumes, music, lighting, stage design, etc., feel very free to let us know. Very much looking forward to a semester full of fun, drama and creativity with you!
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Bending Rules and Confronting Normativity: Liquid Identity and Genderless Potential in "Queer" Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft /
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6
ECTS
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft:
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b):
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kultur
wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: tba
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Inhalt:
- “'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty” (Zygmunt Bauman).
Using Bauman’s theory as a start point, this seminar will approach
and analyse Gender in various literary works from a multi-angled perspective.
Acknowledging its malleable and fluid characteristics, Gender will be discussed in relation to Power, Language, Sex and Body, Identity, Love, and how these mutually influence one another.
Furthermore, from a variety of texts, ranging from feminist science
fiction, modernism and the Beat Generation, the course aims to “deconstruct”(Judith Butler) previously rigid concepts of gender and reshape such ideas as we advance, for instance, through the novels of
Woolf, le Guin and Piercy.
Finally, the seminar will approach both masculinity and femininity from an “androgynous” viewpoint, that is, one that allows transition in between the binary opposites rather than the traditional stationary
perspective on them.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Piercy, Marge - He, She and It (2016)
Butler, Octavia - Dawn (1997)
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando (2016)
Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Left Hand of Darkness (2016)
Kerouac, Jack - On the Road (2011)
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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 26.7.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, MG1/01.02
CLASS STARTS IN WEEK 2
- 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: 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (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.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- tba
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Food in Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Chiara Manghi
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 1.7.2019, 18:00 - 22:00, U5/00.17
CLASS STARTS IN WEEK 2
ab 2.5.2019
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- PLEASE NOTE: CLASS STARTS IN WEEK 2!
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
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Food appears in literary texts in countless forms: within a set of religious norms, with a specific symbolic meaning, within a narrative of conviviality, as means of survival,
as a recipe mentioned and described in a text and sometimes present as a paratextual element, just to mention some of the possibilities.
In this class we will learn how food in fiction can be an indicator of identity, gender, religion and, of course, power.
We will explore texts throughout the history of English literature (with some necessary short excerpts from other countries). Working with the Norton Anthology of Food Writing, we will, for instance, find an invitation to supper in Ben Johnson s poetry, read Jonathan Swift s A Modest Proposal (his solution to the famine in Ireland eating babies), poetry by Seamus Heaney, Charles Lamb s very entertaining A Dissertation upon a Roast Pig, as well as texts by contemporary authors and theorists such as Jumpa Lahiri and Terry Eagleton.
You will also become familiar with some other canonical texts outside of the British context, such as Proust s On the Madeleine, Upton Sinclair s The Jungle (I would advise not to eat before that specific reading), Walter Benjamin s reflections on eating, Roland Barthes meditation on chopsticks, as well as some excerpts from The Old Testament.
We will read in full Natasha Solomons novel Mr Rosenblum's List or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman, where the protagonists very different attitudes to Jewish recipes, memory and culture represent opposite approaches to life after fleeing Germany during WWII, where Jack Rosenblum tirelessly tries to assimilate and to become a British gentleman by trying to forget his Jewish identity, whereas his wife Sadie stubbornly clings to the memories of her family, specifically cooking through her family cookbook.
We will also read a non-fictional text, Anthony Bourdain s memoir and behind-the-scenes of the kitchen subculture, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- ·Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter. Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing.
·Anthony Bourdain. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
·Natasha Solomons. Mr Rosenblum's List or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman.
Please read Natasha Solomons Mr Rosenblum's List before the beginning of class.
Please take with you Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing to the first session of class. You need to acquire a copy of the book, since we will read and discuss most of it.
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature (Prof. Houswitschka)
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
- Inhalt:
- This course is addressed at students who are preparing or working at a final thesis in English or American Literature, be it a "Magisterarbeit", "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses, and to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions. A definite schedule will be set up in the first meeting of the class. There will be a site on the Virtual Campus; access will be given upon registration.
In the plenary sessions, we shall discuss general formal aspects and criteria of a thesis - such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis, offering it for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you can discuss the argument, the progress and possible problems of your thesis with me. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". The presentation of the thesis in a plenary session (max. 30 minutes) will be graded and counts as "mündliche Modulteilprüfung" in the BA-programme. Students in the Magister- and old teacher training programmes are advised to take this course to support them while writing their theses. Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.
The course will be taught every two weeks, with individual meetings in the weeks where we will have no common session.
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Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary Migration Literature -
- Dozent/in:
- Touhid Chowdhury
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- At the wake of recent waves of right wing nationalism and xenophobia which has not only plagued the last US presidential election, but also most of the elections in Europe and around the world. It is critical to continue listening to the voices of those who come from other places, foreign traditions, different religions, unfamiliar social and political structures, diverse ideologies and ways of living, and landscape dissimilar from the host society or country. Therefore, migration literature and/or immigrant writing is one of the valid source to study to understand the differences and similarities between migrants and locals. Although, the genre of migration literature or literature about/on migration is quite a new phenomenon in the academia, however, it has slowly getting into the center of contemporary academic discourse.
The seminar will address aspects of migration as rendered in literature. In particular, it will investigate the link between migration and literature, immigrant experiences, immigrant narrative, leaving and arriving, nostalgia, and transitory nature of migrant identities as articulated in literary texts. Discussion will focus on trans-cultural identities, reception and criticism of migrant identity, the complex experience of immigrant characters of being living in between two or more languages, societies and cultures.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Obligatory Reading before the semester begins:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah.
Guo, Xiaolu. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.
Hemon, Aleksandar. The Question of Bruno.
Kureshi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia.
Optional/ during the semester:
Agosin, Marjore. The Alphabet In My Hands.
Bedford, Simi. Yoruba Girl Dancing.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Levy, Andrea. Small Island.
Mo, Timothy. Sour Sweet.
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth.
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Introduction to English and American Literature (A) -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium
- Termine:
- Mo, 8:30 - 10:00, MG1/02.05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba (10:00) - tba (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen drei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin C bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.
3. Tutorials:
Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:
a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature A+B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)
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Introduction to English and American Literature (B) -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- 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
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): tba (10:00) - tba (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen drei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Die Termine A und B finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin C bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.
3. Tutorials:
Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literature" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:
a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literature A+B" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.
- Inhalt:
- This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of English and American literary history.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)
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Key Texts in Literary Theory -
- Dozent/in:
- Touhid Chowdhury
- Angaben:
- Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
- alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (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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Shakespeare Reading Group -
- Dozent/in:
- Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben:
- Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung
- Termine:
- Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26
CLASS STARTS IN WEEK 2
- 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. Hamlet.
William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost.
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South Africa and Nigeria in Postcolonial Discourse -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Emilija Lipovsek, Stevan Bradic
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 28.6.2019, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 29.6.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 30.6.2019, 9:00 - 17:00, U5/02.18
- 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): 01.05.2019 (10:00) - 28.06.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Inhalt:
- J. M. Coetzee (1940) is arguably one of the most important contemporary South African novelists. Even with only five of the thirteen novels being set in South Africa, they all, to certain extent, address themes pertinent to the (post)colonial and apartheid situations: relations of power, colonial discourse, the other, racial segregation, the position of women, class relations, violence, South African liberalism and revolutionary activism, the relationship of South Africa’s peoples to the land and, not least, the politics of writing. His fiction is located “in the nexus of history and text”, and “explore[s] the tension between these polarities” (Attwell, 2-3), seeing the “South African situation [today] as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo colonialism” (Coetzee qtd. in Attwell, 14). Starting from his early masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), moving to his puzzling work of ‘situational metafiction’ Foe (1986), and finishing with post-apartheid narrative of Disgrace (1999), this course will address the aforementioned issues, in an attempt to relate their political and poetic questions.
The second part of the seminar will discuss how postcolonial women writers depict Nigeria in their writings. The focus will be given to the novel-in-verse Lara by Bernardine Evaristo and memoir Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay through analysis of the heroines of mixed parentage and the relevance of their visits to Lagos and Abuja for the first time to renegotiate their British-Nigerian identity. The novels A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on the other hand, portray Nigerian-born female characters as returnees willing to settle down after a long period of studying and working abroad. It will be argued how all the protagonists eventually find themselves in the liminal space between the wish to belong to Nigeria and elsewhere.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Obligatory reading
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Penguin Books, 1999.
--. Foe , London: Penguin Books, 1987.
--. Disgrace , London: Penguin Books, 2000.
--. "On Madness and Rivalry", Giving Offens e, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
B. Evaristo (2009, extended edition) Lara .
J. Kay (2010) Red Dust Road .
S. Atta (2012) A Bit of Difference .
C. Ngozi Adichie (2013) Americanah .
Optional reading on Coetzee
Attwell, David. South Africa and the Politics of Writing , Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Attridge, Derek. J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Hayes, Patrick. J. M. Coetzee and the Novel, New York: Oxford UP, 2010.
Optional reading on postcolonial literature
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jameson, Fredric. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”, Social Text, No. 15. (Autumn, 1986), pp. 65-88.
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South Asian Writers in English -
- Dozent/in:
- Touhid Chowdhury
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- South Asian writers’ writing in English began with the establishment of the British colonial system in the subcontinent a hundred and sixty years ago as a bi-cultural product and has been contributing a lot to the world literature since then. Many subcontinental writers have chosen English as a medium of expression and left a great impact on different forms of literature. For example Toru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Kamala Das, Jayant Mahapatra, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, and some recent Indian writers such as Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, Zia Haider and many others. They have been using English to represent the culture and spirit they are from.
This course introduces students to the modern South Asian literature in English both written and published in most recent years. It examines literary dynamics of modern South Asian writing as manifested in novels and short stories written in English, in conversation with themes of identity, sexuality, nation building, Partition, exile and migration. The course also touches on key issues that are relevant to the region and its Diasporas around the world.
Each participant is expected to give a short presentation on the major topics of one text and to lead us into discussion. The main part of each session, however, should be devoted to close readings and to situating the text with regard to its historical, cultural and social context.
At the very first class, Students will be provided with a list of text that they have to choose from on which they would like to discuss in the class. However, there will be 2-3 set texts that will be announced on the same day that Students should get hold of them as soon as possible. As we will talk about a new text at least every other week, students should be prepared to do a considerable amount of reading during the term.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Obligatory reading before the semester begins:
Anam, Tahmima (2012, 2007): A Golden Age. Edinburgh: Canongate.
Chaudhuri, Amit (1999): Freedom Song. New York: A. de Knopf.
Hamid, Mohsin (2001, 2000): Moth Smoke. A novel. New York: Picador USA.
Optional/ during the semester reading list:
Ali, Monica (2004, 2003): Brick Lane. London: Black Swan.
Chaudhuri, Nirad C. (1999): The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. London: Picador.
Deb, Sidhartha (2002): The Point of Return. London: Picador.
Desai, Kiran (2006): The Inheritance of Loss. London: Penguin.
Ghosh, Amitav (ca. 2007): The Shadow Lines. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Hossain, Begum Rokheya Sakhawat (2015): Sultana's Dream. Chennai: Tara Books Pvt. Ltd.
Khan, Adib (1994): Seasonal Adjustments. NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Khan, Adib (2000): The Storyteller. NSW, Australia: Flamingo.
Lahiri, Jhumpa (1999): Interpreter of Maladies. London: Flamingo.
Mueenuddin, Daniyal (2009): In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Mukherjee, Bharati (2008): Jasmine. New York: Grove Press.
Rahman, Mahmud (2010): Killing the Water. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
Rahman, Zia Haider (2015): In the Light of What We Know. London: Picador.
Roy, Arundhati (1997): The God of Small Things. London: Flamingo.
Rushdie, Salman (1988): The Satanic Verses. London: Vintage Books.
Singh, Khushwant (1956/2006 // 2009): Train to Pakistan. New Delhi: Grove Press.
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Spectre of Defeat: Post 9/11 War in Contemporary British Drama -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- The Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) is well known for its commitment to staging plays on controversial political issues and military missions. Defeat is experienced in many different ways. Usually, it is the defeat of weaker combatants and/or civilians by the overwhelmingly usurping power of a military enemy that is often accompanied by war crimes. In the asymmetric wars of colonial and hegemonic powers, defeat is rarely solely military. Very often defeat is brought about for inevitable, political reasons following the exhausting and painful impact of legally or morally questionable military campaigns encountering guerilla tactics and civilians whose loyalties remain doubtful. This is the situation the British Army has found itself in during the wars in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). After the military successes of the liberation of the Falklands and Kuwait, fighting wars in the wake of 9/11 and invading Iraq on the grounds of forged evidence claiming to seize Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction brought about long and futile wars and the painful experience of defeat in spite of military superiority. Almost all these military events have been staged at the Tricycle Theatre. Among these Tribunal plays are productions about Nuremberg and Srebrenica, the Hutton Inquiry (Justifying War), and the Scott Army to Iraq Inquiry (Half the Picture). The Great Game Afghanistan introduces the theatre goer to 150 years of British interventions in Central Asia. The seminar focuses on The Great Game Afghanistan and other British plays about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 in the context of British contemporary drama and politics.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Drama Texts:
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Justifying War. Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2003.
Teevan, Colin. How Many Miles to Basra? London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2006.
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Called to Account. The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq. A Hearing. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2007.
Bean, Richard et al. The Great Game Afghanistan. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2009.
Burke, Gregory. The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Moore, D.C. The Empire. London: Methuen, 2010.
Research Literature:
Angstrom, Jan and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War. London: Routledge, 2007.
Colleran, Jeanne. Theatre and War Theatrical Responses since 1991. London: Palgrave, 2012.
de Waal, Ariane. Theatre on Terror. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
Gupta, Suman. Imagining Iraq. Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion. London: Palgrave, 2011.
Hammond, Will and Dan Seward, eds. Verbatim, Verbatim. Contemporary Documentary Theatre.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia. London: John Murray, 1990, 2006.
Ledwidge, Frank. Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yale University Press, 2011.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Culture of Defeat. On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery. London: Granta, 2003 (orig. in German 2001)
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The Novel in the 1790s -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale
- Termine:
- Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 14.6.2019, 14:00 - 17:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In this seminar we will read Jacobin and anti-Jacobin literature written in 1790s in the wake of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics in the 1790s.
After Edmund Burke had published his book on The Revolution in France (1790), those who wanted to reform the English political institutions were under the suspicion of starting a revolution in England. The radicals were accused of sedition and high treason and prosecuted. On the other hand, the so-called anti-Jacobin novel and Hannah More's cheap repository tracts tried to popularise conservative and loyal belief systems in a similar way the radicals did with theirs. Literature became a means to distribute philosophical and political ideas and to educate the reading public appropriately. A third group of novels, such as those by Jane Austen, tried to keep out of politics altogether and to write as if the age of revolution had no influence on literature.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Although the focus will be on Jacobin literature, we will work on how political and philosophical ideas shaped various identities in the literature of the 1790s. Some of the authors read in this seminar will be William Godwin, John Thelwall, Hannah More, Jane Austen and other less known writers whose work is available in the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO).
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams (1794)
Thelwall, John. The Daughter of Adoption (1801)
More, Hannah. "History of Mr Fantom, the New-Fashioned Philosopher, and his Man William" (1795)
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (written 1797, publ. 1813)
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Victorian & Puritan Gender: Roles and Expectations in the Works of Austen, Brontë, Defoe, Hardy and Hawthorne -
- Dozent/in:
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Di, 8:00 - 10:00, LU19/00.13
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft:
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b):
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Inhalt:
- Before Suzanne Collins' Katniss Everdeen, Veronica Roth's Beatrice
Prior and even Wonder Woman in the twentieth and early twenty-first
Centuries, a select group of literary women paved the way to our contemporary heroines and without power or superhuman abilities were
able to bend or transcend their, then, rigid and limited gender roles.
The main focus of this course lies in the representation of gender in
Victorian and Puritan Literature, thus, we will analyse the gradual
changes that have happened in the portrayal of “womanhood” in literature, the various degrees of masculinity and femininity in the behaviour of female characters (psychological androgyny) such as: Austen’s Lizzy Bennet, Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene,
Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and Defoe’s Moll Flanders; also how their fashion influences (positive or negatively) their image, their journey to become heroines and the impact of their image in the education
of young and adult female audiences.
In addition to the above mentioned prose, the poetry of William Blake
and his portrayal of women will also be of interest to this course.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- To read prior to beginning of semester
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd
To read during the semester
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders
More material to be added in class
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Writing Workshop Julia Pascal -
- Dozent/in:
- N.N.
- Angaben:
- Vorlesung
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 14.6.2019, 12:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 15.6.2019, 8:00 - 20:00, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 16.6.2019, 8:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 17.6.2019, 8:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00, LU19/00.08
Einzeltermin am 17.6.2019, 12:00 - 14:00, LU19/00.13
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“The Clash of Cultures” and Immigrant Experience in Brick Lane -
- Dozent/in:
- Mahbub Alam
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, The class takes place every biweekly, starting in week two
- Termine:
- Mo, 16:00 - 19:30, MG1/01.02
Sessions held on: 29 April, 13 May, 27 May, 17 June, 24 June, 8 July, 22 July
- 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt:
- In Brick Lane Monica Ali presents identity crisis and uncertainty of belongingness among Bangladeshi immigrants. Some immigrants call the country they originally come from home, despite having British citizenship. This particular group of immigrants endeavors to keep their cultural identity, while another sees England as their new homeland and accepts new cultural trends.
In this seminar we will investigate these conflicts among the first and second generation of immigrants from multicultural perspectives and discuss related topics such as immigration, integration, assimilation and cultural identity.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Brick Lane Monica Ali
Course materials will be made available on VC.
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