'Writers from elsewhere' II: Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In his essay “‘Commonwealth Literature’ Does not Exist,” Salman Rushdie devises the idea of ‘writers from elsewhere’ referring to those contemporary novelists, poets and playwrights who, although often not born into the English language have chosen it as the medium of their expression. This new definition, in general, is a reaction to the idea of ‘Commonwealth Literature’ as formal and at times flattering appreciation of a diverse group of writers writing in English. According to Rushdie ‘Commonwealth Literature’, in a sense, also confines all these writers into ghettos together with the cultures from which they originate. Besides, literature written in English after the Second World War is too vast a territory to be measured with any precision if we stick to narrow definitions like ‘Commonwealth Literature’. Great Britain has provided the linguistic, literary and cultural context to what can broadly be called ‘writers from elsewhere’: Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Simi Bedford or Hanif Kureishi are some of the names that we all know. These novelists are notable examples of immigrant writers who have contributed to British fiction with their transnational outlook and alternative uses of English. In contrast to the aforementioned names, Abdulrazak Gurnah has not got enough attention in literary circle or in academic discourse, although his novels have been short listed for Booker Prize. Nevertheless, he remains a formidable talent whose work deserves more recognition than it has received to date, especially outside Britain where he resides and has received most fame.

This course will offer an in-depth look at Abdulrazak Gurnah’s writing from linguistic, historical and cultural perspectives. We will analyse key literary works of him and try to posit them within the new canon of ‘writers from elsewhere’. The primary objective of this course is to introduce Abdulrazak Gurnah to students. Also, creating a sense of awareness of his culturally induced writing style among students.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Memory of Departure (1987)
Paradise (1994)
By the Sea (2001)
The Last Gift (2011)
Gravel Heart (2017)

20th-Century British Drama, part III

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer  

Inhalt:

To conclude this three-part overview course of 20th-Century British Drama, this third part will now cover the 1990s and then move into the first two decades of the 21st century. Like the previous two courses, Drama III will be a very reading-intensive class. Each week, students will read a new play and discuss it in class. In so doing, we use a quantitative approach to postmodern British drama, allowing us to study plays comparatively and individually.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The following plays will be read in class and can be made available by the lecturer:
Terry Johnson. Hysteria. 1993.
Sarah Kane. Blasted. 1995.
Mark Ravenhill. Shopping and Fucking. 1996.
Patrick Marber. Closer. 1997.
Alan Bennett. The History Boys. 2004.
Tanika Gupta. Gladiator Games. 2005.
Bola Agbaje. Gone Too Far. 2007.
Polly Stenham. Tusk Tusk. 2009.
Nina Raine. Tribes. 2010.
debbie tucker green. hang. 2015.
Duncan Macmillan. Every Brilliant Thing. 2016.
Jez Butterworth. The Ferryman. 2017.

Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozent/in:

Ellen Werner

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Mo, 20:00 - 22:00, Raum n.V.
Do, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 12.11.2020, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

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

Inhalt:

Winter Workshop 2020/2021: A Dramatic Scrapbook
Directors: Alicia Drefs and Ellen Werner

Instead of a normal performance, the Drama Group's annual Winter Workshop will this semester produce a collection of several small projects, such as poetry readings, dramatic monologues or short scenes, some of which will then be uploaded to our YouTube channel - a dramatic scrapbook with diverse theatre-related activities. In addition, we will familiarise ourselves with fundamental theatre techniques, such as stage- and costume design and textual adaptation.

The class will consist of an online and a face to face session. Online sessions will be held on Mondays from 8-10pm via Microsoft Teams, face to face meetings from 8-10pm in U2/00.25 on Thursdays. Participants are welcome to attend either or both; if you do not want to/cannot attend the live sessions, this will not be a problem for participation in our projects as we will use the live meetings mostly for exercises.

If you would like to participate in the Drama Group, please write an email to Alicia Drefs and Ellen Werner for further information: buedg.englit@uni-bamberg.de

Note: The first face to face session will be held in the second week of term on 12 November; online classes start on 2nd November.

Betreuungsübung für Bachelorarbeiten

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

Inhalt:

All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course on the weekend before the beginning of class. You will receive further information on how this class is conducted via e-mail during the first week of classes.

Constructions of Femininity in 18th-Century Fiction

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: 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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The eighteenth century saw the rise of gender as a political category. “[C]learly defined gender roles were” thought to be “central to the stability of English society, and by extension, to England’s status as a world power” (Barker/Chalus 1). Men and women were conceived as ‘naturally’ different, with women being in need of close supervision. Gender roles were becoming increasingly more rigid and contrasting over the course of the century, which is reflected by an abundance of prescriptive texts elaborating on ideal male and female behaviour in a polite society. The Spectator deemed ‘the fair sex’ essential in upholding the moral order and stressed that it was vital to instruct women in “all the becoming Duties of Virginity, Marriage, and Widowhood” (March 1711). Next to periodicals like The Spectator, The Tatler, The Female Spectator and The Female Tatler, conduct books, salon discussions and the newly emergent genre of the novel were major vehicles in either fostering 18th-century ideals of a ‘decorative femininity’ or pushing the boundaries of what it meant to be an ideal woman at the time.

This class will offer a survey of literary representations of women in texts written during the Long 18th-Century, spanning from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, the first self-proclaimed ‘novelist’. We will not only be interested in texts written by female authors but also in constructions of femininity in the fictional texts and conduct books written by their male contemporaries. Students will be introduced to the impact of Enlightenment thought on gender roles as well as the cult of sensibility’s supposed threat to male authority. Our text selection will comprise a variety of genres: Gothic fiction, amatory novels, sentimental novels, the novel of manners, conduct books, feminist tracts, poetry, diaries and travel accounts. We will be interested in how female protagonists conform with, push the boundaries of or satirically and more or less radically transgress established gender codes. Topics will range from female sexuality and marriage, women and property to women and class and politics.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All primary texts will be made available on the VC. Students will be asked to read excerpts from the texts listed below in preparation for each session.

Conduct books (t. b. a.)
Travel accounts (t. b. a.)
Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-87).
Phoebe Crackenthorpe, ed., The Female Tatler (1709-10; selection of articles).
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719), Anti-Pamela (1741); The Female Spectator (1744-46; selection of articles);
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722).
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740); Clarissa (1748).
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741).
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752).
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778).
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).
Poems by Charlotte Smith (t. b. a.).
Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (written 1800-03; publ. 1897 posthum.).
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801).
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Northanger Abbey (1817).

Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 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 course 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.

Experiencing, Processing and Remembering the Great War in British Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

More than a century after its end, the Great War still shapes the European understanding of (total) war – possibly even more so than the Second World War. Now that the centennial of the armistice has passed, it is time to look back not only at the war itself, specifically at how the war is remembered today and has been remembered ever since it ended in 1918. How does current remembrance of the war compare with contemporary depictions of it? How has the memory of the war developed and how has the cultural memory changed over the last century?
In this course, we are going to analyse how the war was experienced, processed, remembered and narrated during three stages; the war itself (1914-18); roughly the decade after the war (1920s); and roughly one century after the war (2010s). To do so, this course looks at the literature of these three stages and assesses the different ways the Great War has been framed in cultural memory for the last century, comparing the differences and similarities in the depiction of the war and its participants (both combatants and non-combatants). For every period, we will use poetry, one play and one narrative text as well as non-fiction texts, the majority of which will be made available by the lecturer.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
The following books will be read during the course:
West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier. 1918.
Price, Evadne (“Helen Zenna Smith”). Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War. 1930.
Boyne, John. The Absolutist. 2011.

The plays we read will be announced in the first session of class

A poetry reader and non-fiction material will be made available on the VC

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

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!: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 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.

History of the English Novel I

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact Igor Baldoino.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature
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

Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)

Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von „Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B“ per E-Mail bis 30. Oktober 2020 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 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. The focus in the winter term will be on the origins and the history of the novel and the following novels in particular:
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719)
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe, Roxana (1724)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740)
Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741)
Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wilde (1743)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-8)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751)
Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753)
Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1761/62; 1766)
Tobias Smollett, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1761-2)
Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97)
William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

WICHTIG: Dieser Kurs wird via Microsoft Teams unterrichtet. TeilnehmerInnen werden am Wochenende vor Kursbeginn in den zugehörgen VC-Kurs eingetragen. Dort finden Sie den Link zum Team. Wenn Sie sich später zum Kurs melden, müssen Sie sich selbstständig bei der Dozentin melden!

IMPORTANT: This course be taught via Microsoft Teams. All participants will registered for the accompanying VC course during the weekend before the course begins. On the VC, you will find the link to Teams. If you register later than that, it is your responsibility to contact the lecturer!
1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 27.10.2020 (10:00) - 15.11.2020 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer
WICHTIG Es stehen zwei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Termin A finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin B 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 Literary Studies" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies A" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Dieses Tutorium wird von derselben Dozentin unterrichtet wie die Introduction selbst.
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 predominantly English literary history.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introductions taught by members of the English Literature section use literary examples from a primarily British context, and those taught by members of the American Studies section use primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you “specialize” in English or American literature, and you don’t have to take your later courses in the same area.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

Introduction to Realism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul 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
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: 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
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

What is “reality”? And should we still refer to it in singular form? Literary critics and scholars alike warn us that Realism is a notoriously treacherous concept, complex to be defined in a precise and unambiguous way, specially when isolated. This course will thus provide an overview of literary Realism in English Literature, but rather than define the movement we shall contextualise it. That is to say, we shall study Realism in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism and later Naturalism and Modernism. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Realism, from both an artistic and literary point of view as well as a philosophical one. Focus will be given to texts of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, namely novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens and a few other authors.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
More material WILL be added in class

Just Write

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Nachbesprechung

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

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, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.
ab 11.11.2020

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)

NOT open for Consolidation Module

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 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.

Nachholtermine Englische Literaturwissenschaft

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, 2 SWS, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Reading Theory

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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)

MA Religion Verstehen
Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache MA RelLit 3a: Seminar (5 ECTS)

NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This course is meant to enhance advanced students’ knowledge of theoretical perspectives and their awareness of the ways in which literary and cultural theories are discussed and applied in today’s scholarly discourse.

We will begin the term with an overview of major 20th century theoretical approaches (e.g. New Criticism, (Post)Structuralism, Marxism, critical theory, Gender Studies, Postcolonialism, Foucault, Deconstruction etc.). Subsequently, we will discuss more recent developments in some of these well-established fields, looking at the ways in which they are relevant for researchers today. Later, we will turn to some of the latest developments in literary and cultural criticism, from Ecocriticism and Posthumanism via Disability Studies to new aspects in the study of Migration (laissez-faire, multiculturalism, integration), Mobility Studies, Cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, cognitive science.

Short student presentations (10-15 minutes) are followed by discussions of significant texts. For the success of this class it is paramount that all of the assigned texts be read and prepared carefully.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (2002)
Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory. The Basics (2014)
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory. An Introduction (2008)
Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. A Reader. 4th ed. (2001)

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

IN THE WS 20/21 WE WILL START THE COURSE VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS. Please follow the link above ("online") to access the team. You will be confirmed by the lecturer.

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. Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Bronte Sisters

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

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)

open for Consolidation Module Literature (semimar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

“I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.” ‘“A wicked boy, at all events,” remarked the old lady, “and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton? I’m shocked that my children should have heard it.”
The novels of Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne Brontë (1820–1849), introduce us to those who have not been born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Far away from London, in the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, we find the Brontë Parsonage. In this modest house the three sisters and their uninspired brother Branwell started writing novels. Male pen names, Currer Bell for Charlotte Brontë, Ellis Bell for Emily, and Acton for Anne helped to carefully reach out for the reading public. Success was instant and rumours about their true identity spread fast.
On the one hand, all three Brontës are quite different in their approaches in developing characters, plots and settings. On the other hand, they have much in common and share characteristics that originate in their belonging to Yorkshire and the Midlands. In class we will read some of their major novels, but also their poetry and novels that were written in their narrative tradition.
Novels we will discuss are Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
Possible topics are love and marriage, the Yorkshire moors, the Gothic tradition (ghosts, vampirism and necrophilia) and Romanticist traditions, colonialism and racism (mad woman in the attic), the governess and other female roles, genre traditions (John Bunyan), city vs country, gender and class, alcohol and domestic violence, Heathcliff as a Byronic hero, prequels, sequels and film adaptations of the Brontës’ novels.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847)
Brontë, Charlotte. Villette (1853)
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights (1847)
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

The Rise of Islamic Feminism: Reading Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Bird Summons

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MSc WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

A wave of feminist sentiment is mounting among the Muslim women who are seeking to reclaim Islam and the Quran for themselves. Islamic feminism demands equal rights for Muslim women in social, economic and political spheres both in the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. Islamic feminist writers emphasize on religious spirituality and gender equality based on the Islamic religious scripts: the Quran and Hadith. They have taken up the task of reinventing feminism from Islamic perspective and are trying to emphasize on the mutual interest of narrowing the distance between Islam and Western feminism.
There is a misconception among many Muslim women that they must choose between being religious as well as submissive to men and being rebellious distancing themselves from their religion. Islamic feminist writers are firstly challenging this misconception and advocating that a Muslim woman can be religious and at the same time can enjoy equal rights as men in both Islamic and non-Islamic societies. Secondly, they are confronting the stereotypes of Muslim women especially in non-Islamic cultures where the Muslim women are often seen as the oppressed who must be liberated from their cultural and religious subjugation.
Leila Aboulela in her books shows a realistic picture of the lives of Muslim women and establishes the evidence of why Muslim women choose Islam over Western freedom. Aboulela speaks for all the Muslim women, openly stating that her religious identity surpasses her national and geographic loyalties with her religion offering more stability than any other affiliation. In The Translator and Bird Summons she places Islamic faith at the center of her narration emphasizing the nonpolitical aspects of the religion. Her characters are not submissive and oppressed but rather confident and in control of their lives.
In this course we will critically analyze The Translator and Bird Summons and discuss how Islamic feminism is contributing to change the stereotypes of Muslim women.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

Aboulela, Leila. Bird Summons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.

Aboulela, Leila. The Translator. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2008.

Tutorial Academic Research for MA students [TU]

Dozent/in:

Ellen Werner

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 9:30 - 11:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Please follow the link above ("online") to access the VC class (no password).

Tutorium zu Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:15 - 13:45, Raum n.V.
ab 9.11.2020

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.

Inhalt:

This course will only begin on 09 November 2020 with one asynchronous session (i.e. material for you to prepare on the VC) and include some more asynchronous material for students to prepare at home, which will then be corrected by the lecturer. The course is intended to accompany "Introduction to English and American Literature (A)" and provide practice sessions as well as the opportunity to write practice essays and have these corrected. Teaching will be done via Microsoft Teams, materials will be provided on te Virtual Campus. The key to the Virtual Campus class will be handed our in the first session of "Introduction (A)".

Welcome Meeting new MA students

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Susan Brähler, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.10.2020, 11:00 - 12:30, Raum n.V.

Inhalt:

This meeting will be held via MS TEAMS. Please follow the link above ("online") to access the team with your student account. If you encounter any technical problems, please contact maeas.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

Workshop Academic Infrastructure

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Marcellina Scheller, Janina Lupprian

Angaben:

Tutorien

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.10.2020, 12:00 - 15:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 30.10.2020, 10:00 - 13:00, Raum n.V.

Inhalt:

This workshop will be held online via MS TEAMS. Plesae follow the link above ("online") to enter the team with your student account. If you encounter any technical problems, please contact maeas.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

The course material will be published on the Virtual Campus by the tutors.

“Where modesty’s ill manners”: English Restoration Comedy

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
All participants registered via FlexNow will be added to the VC course (see link "online") before the course begins. The link to Microsoft Teams will be published on the VC. If you join the course after the first session, please contact the lecturer.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
M.Sc. WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

(De)Registration in FlexNow: 07.09.2020, 10:00 - 15.11.2020, 23:59

Inhalt:

English Restoration Comedy, also known as ‘comedy of manners’, covers a historical period between 1660 and 1710. Restoration period followed an era of puritanical role in England that banned any types of public performances at the theatre. The playhouses and theatres were re-opened by Charles II, the newly restored King of England. This new freedom and re-opening of theatres after a ban of 18 years during the Puritan role gave birth to a ‘rakish’ style of theatre that was witty, satirical, bawdy, clever, uproarious and socially diverse. While many critics considered the plays from this period as highly immoral, artificial or just plain old-fashioned, the social satire they offer makes for fascinating analysis.

In this course, we are going to analyze and interpret plays from both historical and social context of Restoration period. In-class discussion will take a critical look at typical motifs and concepts in Restoration Comedy, as well as on the courtly politics, class relations and the divisions between London and country life of the late 17th century England. To do so, students must read the plays listed below by the beginning of the semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The following plays must have been read by the beginning of the semester

William Wycherley. The Country Wife (1675).
George Etherege. Man of Mode (1676).
Aphra Behn. The Rover (1677).
John Vanbrugh. The Provoked Wife (1697).
William Congreve. The Way of the World (1700).
George Farquhar. The Beaux Stratagem (1707).