20th- and 21st-Century Gothic

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

For more than two centuries, literary Gothic has been a main staple of English literature and it has entertained readers ever since. After the genre’s inception with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), the Gothic quickly captured not only the readers’ interest but also their favour and it became the best-selling genre in the 1790s. Despite the genre’s decline in the early 1820s, it resurfaced in the late 19th century and has since been an important part of British literary history. Now, in 2019, we can look back at more than a full century of increased interest in a genre that is still going strong and has conquered not only literature, but all media.

In this class, we will specifically study the Gothic of the last roughly 100 years, starting in the early 20th century and finishing with today’s literary (and some filmic) Gothic. To do so, we will mainly cover narrative texts (novels and short stories) tracing the development of generic markers and socio-political relevance of the Gothic from 1900 to today. The reading list below is by no means exhaustive and more literature will be announced here and in the first session of class. Moreover, we will focus on literary scholarship in the areas of Gothic literature, (literary) subcultures, and audience reception. Short excerpts from primary and secondary material will be available on the VC – please contact lecturer upon enrolment in the class to receive the password for the VC course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. 1938.
Patrick Hamilton. Angel Street (also known as Gas Light). 1938
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale. 2006

More literature tba in class

20th-Century British Drama, part I

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, 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
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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
 

Inhalt:

Unlike the most part of the 19th century, the early 20th century (roughly starting with Oscar Wilde’s plays) was a very good and prolific era in British drama. Starting with the social drama of G.B. Shaw (an Irishman who wrote mainly for the London stage), the century saw the passing of two world wars that each changed not only the country and its society, but also its dramatic literature significantly. Different schools of drama, such as the well-made play, the kitchen-sink drama or the feminist city comedies of the 1910s and 20s left their mark in the literary history of Britain and many of them are still played today.
To trace the development of drama throughout the first half of the 20th century, this course will take a quantitative approach to reading drama. To do so, we will cover 12 plays in the course of the 15 week-course, so students will be required to read one play per week. Below, you will find a reading list of the plays we will cover in the order in which we are going to read them. You should have read Peter Pan by the beginning of the semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading
J.M. Barrie. Peter Pan. 1904.
G.B. Shaw. Major Barbara. 1905.
W. Somerset Maugham. Penelope. 1912.
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.
Aimée and Philip Stuart. Nine Till Six. 1930.
John Galsworthy. The Skin Game. 1930.
T.S. Eliot. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935.
Dodie Smith. Dear Octopus. 1938.
J.B. Priestley. An Inspector Calls. 1945.
Christopher Fry. The Lady's Not for Burning. 1948.
Terrence Rattigan. The Deep Blue Sea. 1952.
Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap. 1952.

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Alice Limmer, Ellen Werner

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U7/01.05
Einzeltermin am 24.10.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 2.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 9.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 18.1.2020, 9:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09, LU19/00.11
Einzeltermin am 19.1.2020, 9:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09, LU19/00.11
Einzeltermin am 6.2.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 12.2.2020, 18:00 - 21:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

• Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)

Inhalt:

This workshop is an opportunity for any student who wants to try acting to give it a shot. There will be no auditions and no set play this semester, so anyone can join. Just come to the great lecture hall on the first floor of U7 on either the 14th or the 17th of October or send an email to alice.limmer@stud.uni-bamberg.de .

The focus this semester will be on acting exercises and character development using scenes from different plays both old and modern. At the end of the semester we will put on a winter showcase presenting some of the scenes we have worked on during the semester.

If you're not interested in acting but want to gain some experience regarding behind the scenes work (PR, props, costume, hair, make up, etc) or directing, you are also very welcome to join. Just come and talk to the directors about what you would like to do.

Betreuungsübung für Bachelorarbeiten

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/02.01

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

Borders in Exile, Migration and War

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 17.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature/Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI/Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV/ 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/Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

De Bernières has one of his protagonists say "For birds with wings nothing changes; they fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small."

Nothing seems as fluid as borders. In the period of nationhood, wars were fought to define and protect national or ideological borders. Ethnic cleansings and relocations of entire ethnicities or religious groups became official policy to create homogenous nations. In the late twentieth century and in our time, walls were removed and built to protect and define national identities. The attacks of 9/11 and the asymmetrical wars and refugee movements that followed introduced new concepts of borders. Border dynamics include concepts of debordering and rebordering. Traditional topographies disappear and are re-created as symbolic and functional spaces that are defined by mobile borders and networks. This also redefines the relation between literature and the nation-state and between the stability of printed books and the sovereignty of national borders, a connection studied since Benedict Anderson published Imagined Communities (1983).

Writers we will discuss in these contexts include Salman Rushdie, Louis de Bernières, Kapka Kassabova, Mirsolav Penkov, Johnathan Safran Foer, Michael Ondaatje, Seamus Deane, Howard Brenton, Caryl Phillips, Bernardine Evaristo, Hugo Hamilton, and others.
On 17 December, an extra appointment will be held in U2/00.26 (8 p.m.). On this day, Eva Thüne will give a lecture on Kindertransporte, the sending of Jewish children into Britain during WWII to save them from the Nazi regime - a very pertinent topic for (crossing) borders. This lecture is part of the class programme and should be attended by all students fluent in German.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Texts will be made available in the seminar.

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 25.1.2020, 9:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten)

Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 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 coourse will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.

Final Frontiers: Exploring, Discovering, Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment (LAPASEC Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 27.9.2019-29.9.2019 Mo-Fr, Sa, So

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Module allocation
To take part, students need to register via e-mail until 20 September, 2019: lapasec2019.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
MA English and American Studies: Master Module Literature /Culture : Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
Profile Module I-III Literature / Culture: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS

Inhalt:

This conference also serves as an Oberseminar specifically for students intending to pursue an academic career after their current course of studies.
With the eighteenth century, the so-called Age of Discovery, or Age of Exploration, in European history reached its fulminant peak. Apart from professional geographic exploration, such as the travels around the world of James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, travelling to Continental Europe (e.g. the Grand Tour) and further abroad had become fashionable for many people of independent means. The literature of the time is thus replete with travel writing, ranging from scientific reports following exploration tours, via observations of countries and their people, such as Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s letters, to satiric “travel reports” such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (British) people had taken to roaming the earth and sharing their adventures and opinions by publishing their experiences. As Book III of Gulliver’s Travels and Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins suggest, the eighteenth century saw a lot of speculation (in scientific, pseudo-scientific and fictional writing) on technical innovation, travels into outer space, and trans-human development. While Swift drew on previous and contemporary speculation that was to culminate in Science Fiction, Paltock exploited (among other sources) the serious discussion in Mathematical Magick of John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, of the question whether man could acquire the art of flying. Yet, the eighteenth century was also an Age of Discovery within. Doctors and scientists rendered the fields of surgery, obstetrics and pathology socially acceptable and the development within medicine gained much momentum. Exploring what lies underneath or within through medicine or early psychology widened the scope of human understanding and changed the perception of the human being within the world. Exploring and discovering is thus a core motivation of professional and non-professional persons in the long eighteenth century. The conference aims at bringing together a variety of approaches and results addressing the following questions: How was exploration motivated? How did scientific, medical or other discoveries change human understanding? Which effects did spatial or medical discoveries have on politics and society? Or quite basically, how was exploration made possible? Who ordered explorative voyages or anatomical studies? Who wrote about discoveries and to what purpose? These questions are certainly only a fraction of the plethora of questions scholars could ask about this Age of Discoveries.

Financed by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Unversité Franco-Allemande

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!: 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 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.
To take this course, students need to sign up via e-mail to receive information about appointments and sessions.

From Romantic Literature to Climate Change Fiction: Two Centuries of English Nature Writing

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar will trace the evolution of English nature writing from Romantic poetry and prose to contemporary eco-poetry and climate change literature. During our first sessions, students will receive an introduction to Ecocriticism or ‘green studies’, the study of the ‘relationship between literature and the physical environment’ (Cheryll Glotfelty), which have emerged in the UK as late as the early 1990s. We will discuss questions such as: what is the relationship between culture and nature? Does nature really exist or is it socially/linguistically constructed? Once students have been provided with a firm theoretical basis, we will turn to ecocritical (and ecofeminist) readings of works by William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. 20th- and 21st-century writers will include Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Graham Swift (Waterland 1983) and Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods 2007). Discussions will revolve around the ‘invention’ of the English countryside, around aesthetic theories of the picturesque, the Romantic lonely wanderer (what if he happens to be a woman?), the Victorian angel in the house (can there be something like an ‘angel in the garden’?), posthumanist ideas (in which the ‘human’ is conceived as just one life form among many and not an autonomous and conscious human subject), etc.

Students will receive weekly reading assignments of both literary texts (poems, novel excerpts, short stories) as well as theoretical ones (most of them taken from The Green Studies Reader [2000], edited by Laurence Coupe). In addition, students will be asked to buy and read Swift’s novel Waterland as well as Winterson’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stone Gods.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

• weekly reading assignments (cf. VC)

• Graham Swift, Waterland (ISBN 978-1447275503)

• Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (ISBN 978-0141032603)

Recommended Literature:

• Laurence Coupe, ed. The Green Studies Reader (ISBN 978-0415204071)

History of English Poetry II

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture for literature (2 or 4 ECTS) in
Lehramt 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
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:

Susan Brähler

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 Literaturwissenschaft (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.10.2019 (10:00) - 01.12.2019 (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!)

Introduction to English and American Literature (B)

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.10.2019 (10:00) - 01.12.2019 (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!)

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture

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 Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture (except Consolidation Module!) 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation.

Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQ+ literature, culture and history. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster ("Maurice"); with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s.

Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory Reading and Watching:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)

Livingston, Jennie . Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

Just write!

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Nachbesprechung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 10.2.2020, Einzeltermin am 11.3.2020, 18:30 - 20:00, U9/01.11

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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 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.

Living in the “Third Space”: Hybridity and Bicultural Identity in The Buddha of Suburbia

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
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

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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Buddha of Suburbia is a coming-of-age novel which deals with construction of class, gender, race and sexual identity through a depiction of multi-cultural Britain. Karim Amir, the protagonist of the novel, searches for a sense of belonging in the suburban communities but at the end comes to realization that he belongs to neither of the prominent categories: white upper class and alienated migrant. Karim ultimately crosses the boundaries of race, religion, class and skin color to become “an Englishman born and bred”.

In this seminar we will discuss how second generation Asian British community reconciles and forms bi-cultural identity. We will also critically analyze whether hybrid identity is a threat to cultural tradition and history.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Hanif Kureishi. The Buddha of Suburbia.
More material tba on the VC

Metaphysical Poetry

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02, 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Metaphysical is the name that was given to seventeenth-century English poetry by Samuel Johnson, a literary critic and neo-classicist of the Augustan Age who despised the overwhelmingly rich and elaborate imagery of these poets. They did not belong to a specific group or school of poets, but shared an imagery collectively rejected by poets of both the Renaissance and Neo-classicism. In Germany, this period is associated with a term taken from art history, Barock. The writers in both countries have in common the experience of war and the vanity of all earthly ambitions in a time of instability and violence.

Metaphysical poets were forgotten for a long time. Although the first traces of a recovery go back to the nineteenth century, their revival is certainly associated with T.S. Eliot, the modernist poet of the "Waste Land" (1922) who praised their sensibility lost in the work of John Milton and brought back to the English reader by Herbert Grierson's famous anthology of Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921). Like the period after the First World War, the so-called Age of Revolution, the period of rapid and cruel changes, of regicide and Restoration developed a new spirituality and a new sense of the materiality of the world. John Donne described this age in the following words: "The new philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out;/ The sun is lost and the earth, and no man's wit/ Can well direct him where to look for it./ And freely men confess that this world's spent,/ When in the planets and the firmament/ They seek so many new; they see that this / Is crumbled out again to his atomies."

In the seminar we will read a variety of secular and religious poetry, discuss its language and talk about the context of metaphysical poetry.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Colin Burrow, ed. Metaphysical Poetry (Penguin Classics) (2006)

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Einzeltermin am 20.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 31.10.2019, 18:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 8.11.2019, 14:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 16.12.2019, 8:30 - 10:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 6.2.2020, 18:00 - 21:00, 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. Macbeth. William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost.

Tutorial Academic Research for MA students [TU]

Dozent/in:

Alexander Feitenhansl

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 16.11.2019, Einzeltermin am 14.12.2019, 10:00 - 13:00, KR12/01.05

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/02.01
Einzeltermin am 9.11.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 5.12.2019, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

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

Dozent/in:

Ines Reckziegel

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.09

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Note: This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A+B taught by Susan Brähler and its serves both courses.

Welcome Meeting new MA students

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Susan Brähler, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 9.10.2019, 9:30 - 11:00, U9/01.11

Workshop Academic Infrastructure

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Marcellina Scheller, Janina Lupprian

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 9.10.2019, 11:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 11.10.2019, 10:30 - 16:30, U9/01.11

Writing Lives - Literature and Biography

Dozent/in:

Beatrix Hesse

Angaben:

Seminar, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 16.1.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Novels describing the lives of writers are so numerous that they have received a generic label of their own, the Künstlerroman . It is, however, not the Künstlerroman itself that we are going to study in this course. Rather, we will discuss a number of literary texts from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries that focus on the attempts of literary biographers to capture the elusive lives of genius writers and thereby, possibly, the secret of literary creativity itself.

The first text we are going to read is Henry James s novella The Aspern Papers that created a kind of blueprint for the following works: A nameless first-person narrator makes the attempt to acquire the long lost letters of the fictional Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, presumably modelled on Percy Bysshe Shelley. The next text we will discuss is the short story Wireless by Rudyard Kipling, in which an equally nameless first-person narrator has the opportunity of witnessing the birth of the poem The Eve of St. Agnes by another Romantic poet, John Keats. Moving away from the influence of the Romantic poets, our third text, Vladimir Nabokov s novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, describes the attempt of yet another nameless narrator to retrace the life of his deceased half-brother, the novelist Sebastian Knight, who is arguably modelled on Nabokov himself. Structurally, the novel by Nabokov seems to some extent indebted to James s seminal novella. Finally, we are going to examine a play, Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, which returns to the field of Romantic poetry. In this drama, we witness two competing literary scholars who are trying to discover yet another lost letter, supposedly written by yet another Romantic poet, George Gordon Lord Byron. In terms of method, we will focus on close readings of selected passages since a seminar on biographical readings of modernist literature that I conducted last winter term has proved that this is a practice both useful and pleasurable. However, this approach requires that all students are thoroughly familiar with all of the texts, which, albeit not particularly long, make somewhat difficult reading. Students will also be required to deliver a brief presentation (no longer than 15 minutes) on a topic relating to one of the four texts, since one of the minor goals of this class is to introduce the participants to four major poets of the Romantic period. Finally, it is hoped that this seminar will encourage students to reflect on their professional self-image as literary scholars.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students must read the following primary texts: The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Wireless by Rudyard Kipling, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The text of Wireless will be made accessible in class, for the other texts, any edition can be used. Please note that you must have finished reading The Aspern Papers by the second session. A detailed term plan giving the dates by which you must have finished reading The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Arcadia will be distributed in the first session. A selection of appropriate secondary texts will be presented on a reserve shelf in the library.

“My name is Khan and I am not a Terrorist”: Muslim Characters in Post 9/11 Bollywood Narratives

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture (except Consolidation Module!) 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Bollywood is one of the biggest movie industries in the world that produces approximately 1600 movies in a year. In terms of viewership and cultural impact, Bollywood competes with Hollywood as the most influential cinema on the globe. Furthermore, the substantial Indian diasporas around the world encourage Bollywood producers to make cinemas based on current world phenomena; and since the 9/11, a lot of Bollywood movies were made that talk about terrorism and terrorists.

This Übung is intended to explore the theme of “terrorism” in post 9/11 Bollywood movies and literary representation of Muslim characters in it. To do so, this class will focus on films that explicitly refer to 9/11 and the 2008’s Mumbai terrorist attack.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The following book will be discussed in class:
Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 2007

The following movies will be discussed in the class:

1. My Name is Khan. Dir. Karan Johar.
2. Kurbaan. Dir. Rensil D’Silva.
3. New York. Dir. Kabir Khan.
4. Shoot at Sight. Dir. Jag Mundhra.
5. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Dir. Mira Nair.
6. Hotel Mumbai. Dir. Anthony Moras.

Students should watch these movies before the semester begins. All additional readings for the class will be provided in the VC.

“Who Am I?”: Individual and Collective Identities

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 8:00 - 10:00, LU19/00.13

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Whichever way we conceive “identity,” individual or collective, it always has many precedents ranging from cultural backgrounds to the types of television shows one grows up with. The core idea of “identity” evolves around the timeless question: “who am I?” and the other relevant questions: "who and what do I appear: to myself and others." As a result, a person can be many things at once, even when these different “identities” appear inconsistent or even contradictory. Someone could be, for example, a political conservative, religiously atheist or conversely liberal. All these descriptions act as categories that describe us in a different context. Such markers or identifiers are vital to our life experiences, both within our known circles or surroundings and outside of them. In short, these markers or identifiers help us navigate or negotiate our way through the social landscape.
Through the lenses of literary and cultural studies, this seminar aims to analyze texts related to identity and identity formation. In-class discussion will be based on:
1. How do society and culture shape and challenge individual or collective identities?
2. How do we form our own personal identification markers/identity?
3. How do communities and individuals form identities?
4. How do power and hegemony operate within and through culture?
5. What causes individual and collective identities to change over time?
6. How do individuals and groups express their identities?
7. How are people and groups with particular identities viewed and treated by others?

The course will be built on engagement with academic readings of various definitions and theories of identity and identity formations from different academic disciplines. The objective of this course is to offer an understanding of various literary texts dealing with individual and collective identities. Students are expected to learn how to apply their understanding of literary and cultural theories to an interpretation of literary texts.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Readings

Anthony Elliot. Ed. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Literary Texts:

Mira Jacob. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversation
Zadie Smith. White Teeth
David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas
Chris Cleve. Little Bee