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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.
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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
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Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka) -
- Dozent/in:
- Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben:
- Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 5
- Termine:
- Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)
BA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul: Literaturwissenschaft (5 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
MA English and American Studies: Module Master's Defence (4 ECTS), if the MA thesis is written in the department of English Literature (Prof. Houswitschka)
MA Medieval Studies: Anglistik: Intensivierungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft II (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 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.
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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)
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