20th-Century British Poetry

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 20.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, 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): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar will guide you through the fascinating variety of poetry in the 20th century. We will begin with T.S. Eliot and modernism, talk about the political poetry in the 1930s (Auden, Spender, MacNeice), and continue with Robert Conquest’s New Lines introducing us to poets of the 1950s. The diversity of British poetry is difficult to categorise. There are individual poets such as Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, and Geoffrey Hill. Some poets gained a reputation as representatives of the bygone rural England (John Betjeman). Others might be read as poets of a particular region such as Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid or Jackie Kay for Scotland or Dylan Thomas and R.S Thomas for Wales, and John Harris and D.M. Thomas for Cornwall. Recent poets include ethnic minorities and immigrants, i.e. diasporic poetry or women poets such as Emily Berry, Alice Oswald or Clare Pollard. Reading these poets in class, you will learn a lot about the changing poetic language in the twentieth century, but also about history and politics, society and culture in the United Kingdom throughout a troubled century.

John Milton's Paradise Lost

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 19.5.2017, 10:00 - 16:00, U11/00.25

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): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we read one of the most significant epics written in English literature and beyond, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). Written in the tradition of Homer and Vergil, the puritan writer John Milton took on the entire tradition of Western epic literature writing a Christian epic. In his provocative and amazingly imaginative work, he tells the story of “man’s first disobedience” and wants to "justify the ways of God to men." He turns biblical characters into heroes, an attempt that works best with Satan. Does this make Paradise Lost a failure turning the whole Christian narrative upside down? Milton’s position in the literature of the restoration period speaks for itself. As a supporter of parliamentary, puritan rule under Cromwell, Milton was not a friend of the restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II. In spite of all this, he was acknowledged as a national poet. He influenced generations of writers all over Europe and was translated in many languages. Over the course of twelve books John Milton wrote an epic poem depicting the struggle between God and Satan taking place across hell, heaven, and earth.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended text: The edition of Oxford World's Classics (2008) edited by Stephen Orgel.
We will also use the annotated online version at Dartmouth
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml

Medievalism in Film

Dozent/in:

Richard Utz

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 9.6.2017, 13:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 10.6.2017, 10:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 16.6.2017, 13:00 - 17:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 23.6.2017, 16:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS) and Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft 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) and Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: 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)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS) Profile Module British and American CultureI-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS) Consolidation Module British and American CultureI-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)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registriation via FlexNow: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)

Inhalt:

Medievalism, the ongoing reinvention of the Middle Ages in postmedieval times, has become a major area of scholarship over the last three decades. At the heart of this scholarship has been the investigation of the vast number of cinematic representations of medieval culture from the 1922 silent Robin Hood through the soon-to-be-released King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017). From the vast harvest of medieval-themed movies (Kevin J. Harty counted as many as 900 in his 2006 The Reel Middle Ages) we will select, view, and discuss some classics as well as some lesser known examples to explore how 20th- and 21st-century screen writers, directors, studios, and actors have represented the medieval past. To inhabit our topic swiftly, we will familiarize ourselves with the critical terminology and methodologies of medievalism studies by reading Medievalism: Key Critical Terms, ed. Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017 [paperback]). Students will have an opportunity to review some recent medievalist movies and produce research papers that, if of high quality, may be considered by external reviewers for publication in Medievally Speaking (http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com) and other outlets published under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Medievalism.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Emery, Elizabeth and Richard Utz, eds. Medievalism: Key Critical Terms. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017. Paperback.

Movies
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Excalibur (1981)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Timeline (2003)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Romance and Reality: The Making of the English Novel 1800-1850

Dozent/in:

Simon Edwards

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 23.6.2017, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 24.6.2017, 10:00 - 18:00, U11/00.16
Einzeltermin am 25.6.2017, 10:00 - 18:00, 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): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

While the novels of both Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters have acquired cult status in our own times, not least thanks to immensely popular TV and film adaptations, in their own time it was the historical fiction of Walter Scott, ‘The Wizard of the North’, that enjoyed an even greater standing.
As with Austen and the Brontes this was in part through adaptation for stage drama and opera. All of his novels were thus transformed, not merely in Britain but throughout Europe and America. While Scott is no longer widely read this course aims to examine one of his historical novels alongside those of Austen and Bronte. Austen and Scott expressed a mutual regard for each other’s work, though widely different in scope and emphasis. Yet they also share the qualities that are foundational for the work of their great successors in the 19c novel. They combine stories of passionate and frustrated love with closely observed and realised social settings, whereby romance is always held in check by reality. Our perception of what constitutes ‘character’ in the novel is radically shaped by these novelists. Likewise the novel’s attentiveness to matters of social class. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is inconceivable without the example of both Scott and Austen. But we might also argue that without Scott there would be no Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Hardy, Henry James. Equally no Balzac, Fenimore Cooper, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy.
The novels to be read and studied are:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)

NB. For students who are unfamiliar with the work of Scott they should begin reading The Bride of Lammermoor at chapter 2. Scott’s novels always contained a good deal of prefatory material which we can examine later in class. They should also prepare themselves for encountering (not insurmountable) Scottish dialect spoken by some of the characters. Most modern editions have a helpful glossary. The story is in fact spell-binding, testimony for which is provided by the three operatic versions, of which the best known is Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835).

Empfohlene Literatur:

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)

Contemporary Arab-American Literature

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christine Gerhardt, Lale Behzadi

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 25.4.2017, Einzeltermin am 9.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 23.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 30.5.2017, Einzeltermin am 27.6.2017, Einzeltermin am 4.7.2017, Einzeltermin am 18.7.2017, 17:30 - 21:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA neu GY: -Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

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 Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister:

• Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung

BA Islamischer Orient:

• Vertiefungsmodul I+II

MA Arabistik/Arabic Studies:

• MA Ar 01,02,03

Masterstudiengänge Orientalistik:

• Nachbarmodul im Kernbereich
• Modul im Erweiterungsbereich

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

3. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

4. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the teacher of this class.)

• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 28.3.-28.4.
• An-/ Abmeldung zur Prüfung: 14.6.-14.7.

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to the aesthetic, cultural and political significance of contemporary Arab-American literature from the joint perspectives of Arabic Studies and American Studies. We will focus on how Arab-American literature has been informed by and speaks back to two major contexts: the historical and current developments in diverse Arab cultures, and the shifting role of the United States as a culture of immigrants. Starting out from a survey of the historical dynamics that have shaped major strands of Arab-American migration, we will read a selection of novels, short stories, and poems to discuss how their specific thematic concerns and formal features resonate in various Arab, American, and Arab-American frameworks. Throughout our readings, we will also engage critical concepts such as diaspora, postcolonialism, transnationalism, orientalism, race, gender, and memory, so students are expected to come to this seminar with an interest in theoretical issues as well.

All readings are in English.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All students are required to get and read these two novels before the term:

Rabih Alameddine - I, The Divine (2002)
Diana Abu-Jabir - Crescent (2003)

Further primary and secondary readings will be made available on the Virtual Campus before the beginning of the term.

The American Civil War – History, Literature, Film (Literary Studies)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Sabine Freitag, Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 3 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 13.8.2017-20.8.2017 Mo-Fr, Sa, So
Chalet Giersch in Manigod, France

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA neu GY: -Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
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 Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister:

• Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

3. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• presentation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

4. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

Anmeldungen für das Seminar können NUR noch per Email an eine der beiden Dozentinnen erfolgen. Bitte melden Sie sich bis 23.4.2017 per E-Mail bei Prof. Gerhardt oder Prof. Freitag an.

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/

Inhalt:

Course description:

This block seminar offers a unique chance to study one of the most formative events in American history and its lasting effects on American culture from an interdisciplinary perspective (American Studies/History). It allows participants to immerse themselves in discussions of historical documents, literary texts, and films, all in the special atmosphere of a study retreat in the French Alps. Our reading materials will include:
1) historical documents and articles about:

• slavery and abolitionism
• the founding of the Republican Party
• President Lincoln’s Election
• the Kansas Nebraska Act and Missouri Compromise
• the Southern secession

2) literary texts:

• Frederick Douglass, "The Heroic Slave" (1852)
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (excerpts) (1861)
• Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass (1855/92), Drum Taps (1865), and Specimen Days (1882)
• Emily Dickinson, Civil War poems (1860s)
• Louisa May Alcott, from Hospital Sketches (1863)
• Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

After intensive, 4-5 hour seminar sessions on five mornings, students will have free afternoons to read and prepare their presentations (and, if you're done, explore the scenic area). In the evenings we will screen several classic and some of the most recent Civil War films, including Gone With the Wind (1939) Glory (1989), Ride with the Devil (1999), Lincoln (2012).
The seminar is open to mid-level to advanced students of English and American Studies (BA/MA, Lehramt; Vertiefungsmodul) and History. The seminar will be taught in English and German, so both languages are required.

The first information meeting already took place. Additional students can sign up for this seminar ONLY by sending an email to Prof. Gerhardt or Prof. Freitag (before April 23).

Informationen für Geschichtsstudierende:

Das Blockseminar von Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag und Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt beschäftigt sich thematisch mit einer der zentralen „Gelenkstellen“ in der amerikanischen Geschichte und beleuchtet in u.a. kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive Effekte und Tendenzen jener Zeit. Quellenkundlich stehen v.a. historische, literarische und filmische Dokumente und Verarbeitungen im Fokus.

Das Seminar basiert auf deutsch- und englischsprachigen Quellen.

Tagungsort des interdisziplinären Blockseminars ist das Chalet Giersch in Manigod (Frankreich).

Alle weiteren Informationen werden zeitnah bekannt gegeben.

Die Vorbesprechung für das Hauptseminar hat bereits stattgefunden. Anmeldungen für das Seminar können NUR noch per Email an eine der beiden Dozentinnen erfolgen. Bitte melden Sie sich bis 23.4.2017 per E-Mail bei Prof. Gerhardt oder Prof. Freitag an.

(!) Zusatzinformationen für Studierende der Geschichte (!): Das Blockseminar kann ausschließlich (!) als „Hauptseminar Neueste Geschichte“ (7 ECTS) angerechnet werden!