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.

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

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

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.

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