Daniel Defoe

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.

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 (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

His writings offer “lessons of experience” writes Paula Backscheider in her seminal biography of Daniel Defoe. She continues to describe this dissenter, propagandist, journalist, spy, businessman, and - last but not least - novelist as a man not of theories and ideas, but of keen observations and practical insights in the world he grew up in: “His was a life of struggle and survival and of hard-won economic security and literary achievement. Indeed, the nature of his life was marked by his birth in the busiest, most crowded part of London and by the upheaval in his early years.” Defoe’s work and life offers a marvelous access to a whole period, a period which gave rise to the world we still live in. Freedom and constitutional rights, political advancement and corruption, prosperity and unspeakable poverty, a society in which every object and every service may turn into a commodity that used to be either sinful or in the domain of family and tradition. Materialism and the right to accumulate money changed this world for good and turned everything upside down which used to give orientation to people. These challenges were embraced by the progressive mind of Defoe, but also scrutinised by the novelist who represented the hardships of this new world of freedom and money.

We will read Robinson Crusoe, and Moll Flanders and excerpts from many other works such as Journal of a Plague Year that describes the effect of a pandemic on individuals and society, Roxana, the story of young woman who embraces life and fights for independence. Other excerpts will be taken from Defoe’s prolific journalistic and propaganda writings, particularly “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters”, but also his ideas about granting asylum to war refugees from Germany and immigration and his enthusiasm in describing the benefits of a trading society for everybody.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Students should have read Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders by the beginning of the semester. Paula Backscheider’s biography is highly recommended.

Einführungsveranstaltungen der Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Studienanfänger im SS 2021

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Manfred Krug, Christoph Houswitschka, Christa Jansohn, Christine Gerhardt, Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Dienstag, 06.04.2021
Einführungsveranstaltung für Bachelor-HF/NF/Lehramt/Bachelor-BWL-WiPäd: online, 12-13 Uhr
Anglistik/Amerikanistik-Einstufungstest (verpflichtend für Studierende des Faches Anglistik/Amerikanistik/Englisch (Bachelor-HF/NF, Master, alle Lehrämter, Berufliche Bildung/Sozialpädagogik)
Eine Anmeldung zum Einstufungstest ist im Vorfeld nicht erforderlich! Test gilt nicht für Wirtschaftsenglisch!

Donnerstag, 08.04.2021
Einführungstutorium für alle Lehrämter, BA-BWLWiPäd): online, 12-14 Uhr
Einführungstutorium für Bachelor-HF/NF: online, 16-18 Uhr

Freitag, 09.04.2021
Facheinführung MA English and American Studies: online, 10.00-11.30 Uhr

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!: 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 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.

Jews in England: From William the Conqueror to Oliver Cromwell and Beyond

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 9.7.2021, 12:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 10.7.2021, Einzeltermin am 11.7.2021, 9:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature and culture
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 and Culture (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 06. April 2021 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

Modulzuordnung für Judaist/innen:
BA-Hauptfach Jüdische Studien:
V/H-1 (Jüdische Literatur, Kunst und Kultur)
BA-Nebenfach Jüdische Studien und Judaistik 45:
V/N-45 2a+3a (Sprache und Literatur)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture will offer you a survey of many centuries of Jewish life in Great Britain. Jews arrived with the Norman conquerors in the 11th century. The emphasis is on Jewish life in the Middle Ages (York Pogrom and blood libel) and Jews in English literature (Chaucer and Shakespeare). Jews were driven out of England under Edward I in the 13th century to return under Puritan rule in the 17th century. Oliver Cromwell championed readmission of Jews from the Continent using a variety of arguments that present England as a rapidly changing, progressive society. Eighteenth-century enlightenment and Victorian middle-class culture brought about the assimilation of many Jews. When hundreds of thousands of Ashkenazi arrived from Eastern Europe around the turn of the 19th century, the London East End and other cities in England became centres of Jewish culture.
The lecture will not only address Jewish immigration and the thriving Jewish communities, its literature and its cultural and scientific achievements, but also antisemitism and ‘the trials of diaspora’. Finally, the lecture informs you about Jewish synagogues, the London Jewish Museum, and forms of Holocaust Memory in the UK.

Nachholtermine Englische Literaturwissenschaft

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, 2 SWS, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

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

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

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

Science Fiction Genres

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

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

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 (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Science Fiction as a genre is a recent development. Although a variety of texts have been suggested as the first Science Fiction novels, we usually apply this term to texts written since the 19th century. The genres of Science fiction are many. In the 19th century the utopian and dystopian novels (H.G. Wells, William Morris) and the post-apocalyptic visions (Mary Shelley) are easy to identify and the focus on technological advancement is a main concern from the very beginning (H.G. Wells). It is the twentieth century which saw an amazing diversification of the genre very often informed by changing technological and political contexts.

In the seminar, we will start with the classics of various Science Fiction genres and look at more recent examples. We will also focus on scientific discoveries and their representation in Science Fiction as well as the response of this genre to political and social ideas such as evolution theory and its spin-offs such as devolution and eugenics. Another focus will be given to various forms of artificial life forms (such as A.I., robots, androids, cyborgs, and clones), Cyberpunk, alternative history, environmental and gender issues that very often inform the above-mentioned genres.

Empfohlene Literatur:

A preliminary list of texts, from which you may choose, includes:
Mary Shelley, Last Man (1826)
H.G. Wells, Time Machine (1895)
H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Olaf Stapledon, Last Man and First Man (1930)
Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944)
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959)
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (1949)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1951)
Isaac Asimov, Foundation Trilogy (1951-53)
Isaac Asimov, I Robot (1950)
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)
Philip K. Dick, The Man in High Castle (1962)
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968)
Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
William Gibson, Idoru (1996)
Greg Egan, Diaspora (1997)
Greg Egan, ed. Clones (1998)
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me (2019)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (2021)

Welcome Meeting new MA students

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Susan Brähler, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Wednesday, 07 April 2021, 11:00 a.m.

Inhalt:

This appointment will be held via Zoom. New students will receive an invitation link via e-mail a few days in advance.