Impossible Worlds, Unspeakable Sentences: Exploring Postclassical Narratologies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, 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)

MA Religionen verstehen / Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul / Reading English Academic Key Texts: Master Module (MA RelLit 3a): Seminar (5 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:

Why do readers empathise with fictional characters? To what effect do narratives break with real-world frames and feature dead or unborn narrators? How can a story be told by a dog? How can poems, movies, paintings, videogames or cartoons be accommodated into narratological models? And how is storytelling enmeshed with ideology? Do the gender, sexual and ethnic identities of a narrator make a difference? – These are only some of the questions that have been dealt with by postclassical narratologists over the past three decades.

Since its structuralist beginnings in the mid-1960s and a first ‘classical phase’ (– early 1980s), the field of narratology has seen methodological and thematic extensions as well as (more radical) revisions, contestations and diversifications, to the point when Ansgar Nünning – as early as 2003 – questioned the usefulness of keeping ‘narratology’ as an overarching term for the ever-proliferating number of ‘postclassical narratologies’. Ever since its first coinage in David Herman’s seminal study Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (1999), the label ‘postclassical narratology’ has come to denominate a set of interdisciplinary, pragmatic, context- and reader-oriented narratologies which, in opposition to classical models striving to develop ‘universal’ categories, “consider the circumstances that make every act of reading different” (Herman/Vervaeck 2005).

After a revision of the classical narratologies of especially Tvetan Todorov, Franz Stanzel and Gérard Genette and Seymour Chatman, we will dedicate each session to the theory as well as methodology and application of a distinctive postclassical narratological approach. Students will be asked to read theoretical texts in preparation for each meeting as well as (excerpts from) fictional and non-fictional texts.

Among the postclassical narratologies we will cover are: transgeneric and transmedial narratology, rhetorical narratology, cognitive, natural and unnatural narratology, feminist, queer and postcolonial narratology, ideology and narrative, narratology beyond the human.

Please note: for students participating in this seminar, the online Master Class held by narratologist Prof. Dr. Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen) on 17 and 18 December is mandatory. Please check the following website for details: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news-englische-literaturwissenschaft/artikel/master-class-with-prof-dr-jan-alber/

Empfohlene Literatur:

Weekly reading assignments of theoretical texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus. A list of primary texts will be published here soon.

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler, Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

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

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) in literature (Focus on English literature)

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: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" (students in teachers training) who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" (state exams) 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.

S: From Poetry to Song Lyrics: Analysing and Teaching Verse

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Theresa Summer, Lorena Bickert, Susan Brähler, Pascal Fischer, Manfred Krug, Mareike Spychala, Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Please note: Students will also be asked to participate in some additional sessions (e.g. lectures).

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Information für Studierende der Fachdidaktik Englisch:

1. Modules: (ECTS: 4)
Lehramt GS, MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
Bachelor BWL/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Bachelor
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Master
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Anmeldung:
über FlexNow
vom 27.09.2021, 12:00 Uhr bis 15.10.2021, 11:59 Uhr

4. Leistungsnachweis:
schriftliche Hausarbeit

Further information: Students will also be asked to participate in a symposium (Friday, 04/02/2022 - Saturday, 05/02/2022).

Information for students of English Linguistics:

1. Modules:
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 21 October 2021, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 30 October 2021, 23:59h.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
8 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500-6000 words

4. Combination with "Methods and Theories in Linguistics":
In the early weeks of term, all students are expected to take part in a special introduction to research methods entitled "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/method&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/method&sem=2021w&codeset=utf8 (unless they have already participated in this course in an earlier semester). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Friday, 29 October 2021, 8-10 am, Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8-10 am, and Friday, 12 November 2021, 8-11 am. To enable pre-planning, please register for the course in FlexNow and in the Virtual Campus course by 27 October at the latest: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/enrol/index.php?id=49429

Information for students of American Studies:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
1. completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
2. active participation (individual tasks and group work)
3. term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. FlexNow-Registration:
1. Course (de)enrollment: 01.09.2021 - 01.11.2021
2. ECTS (de)registration: 01.01.2022 - 01.02.2022

Information for students of English Literature:

1. Modules:
Lehramt GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. FlexNow - Registration:
Class Registration: 06.09.2021 bis 31.10.2021
Exam Registration: 10.01.2022 bis 06.02.2022
Term Paper Deadline: 27.03.2022

Information for students of English and American Cultural Studies:

1. Modules:
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (8 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (5 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft WIPÄD (6 ECTS)

2. Registration:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft"

Inhalt:

Lyrical texts such as poems and songs are particularly suitable for illustrating the characteristics of literariness to students: different levels of communication, stylistic devices and aesthetic effects are distinct in this genre with its tendency towards condensation and structural rigour. At the same time, poems and songs can offer readers and listeners an engaging insight into a great variety of social, cultural, and environmental issues. For English language education, lyrical texts have several benefits and, primarily due to their brevity and density of subject matter, they provide opportunities for flexible use and the development of various competences as well as critical literacy. In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will explore lyrical texts ranging from traditional poems to popular songs from different academic perspectives. These include literary-cultural, linguistic, and educational as well as methodological perspectives to identify how verse can be analysed and integrated into English language education. In opening up the canon of lyrical texts and including popular and learner-centred texts such as rhymes, tongue twisters, and pop songs, English language education can encourage learners to discover specific features of lyrical texts, identify layers of meaning, and explore various transcultural perspectives as well as issues of social (in)justice relevant in our society today.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Open for Master students in English and American Studies with Bamberg as their home university including the Joint Programme (including visiting students within the Joint Programme).
This tutorial is coordinated through the VC course "Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies", see link above (klick on "Online").