A Woman's Road to Mount Olympus: The Journey of the Modern Heroine

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/01.30

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
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): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In 1949, Joseph Campbell described, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the path (or rather cycle) through which every hero has to go in order to succeed in their journey. His work approaches heroification from a mythological and masculine perspective. Throughout this course, however, we will be looking at his model from a modern and feminine angle. How does the process of becoming a hero differ between men and women? How do concepts of masculinity and femininity play a role within the same heroine? With such questions in mind, we will discuss the construction and development of some female protagonists in Modern and Contemporary Literature. For instance, we have Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre or Jane Austen s Lizzy Bennet whose impact on readers and society of their respective times has paved and opened way for the creation of Suzanne Collin s Katniss Everdeen, Veronica Roth s Beatrice Prior and even Wonder Woman in the twentieth and early twenty-first Century. In this class, we will analyze the gradual changes that have happened in the portrayal of a few female characters in literature, the various degrees of masculinity and femininity in their behavior (androgyny), how their fashion influences (positive or negatively) their image, their journey to become heroines and the impact of their image in the eduction of young and adult female audiences.

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read until the beginning of the semester:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre (1847)

To read during the semester:
Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games-trilogy (2008-2010)
William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman (1941-2017)
Veronica Roth. Divergent-trilogy (2011-2013)

More material to be added in class.

From World War II to Brexit: The Continent in Recent British Literature [The Continent in Recent British Literature]

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 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:

The year 2017 marks the 60^th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement that effectively gave birth to what became the European Union. In her 2002 essay “The Writer at Home in Europe”, award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel was still confident that young British citizens “are pro-European, without having to think about it. The European Community is one of the givens of their world.” In a more recent Spiegel interview, however, she has come to deplore Britain’s “retreat into insularity” (2014). On 23 June 2016, the day of the EU membership referendum, she and other British artists and intellectuals who had supported the pro-EU campaign, had to face up to the fact that the UK would, after 44 years of membership, withdraw from the European Union.

Before this background, this class sets out to investigate the relationship between the UK and the Continent as it has been imagined in recent British literature. We will deal with definitions of Europe as a historical, geographical, political as well as cultural entity, with conceptions of European identity as well as national identities (Englishness, Britishness), British exceptionalism and the link between space and identity. After these preliminaries, we will turn to novels and films which explore what it meant to be English/British at the end of WW II (The English Patient) as well as in Cold-War-Europe (The Innocent). We will trace the “clichéification of Europe” (Annan) in Tim Parks’s Europa and find out what it means to be black and British and European in Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists. The section “Europe goes UK” investigates predominantly Eastern European immigrants’ perspectives on British society (The Road Home; Eastern Promises; Once). And last but not least, students will explore how British comedians and satirists have responded to the Brexit campaign and referendum.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992): Bloomsbury 2004.
Ian McEwan, The Innocent (1990): Vintage 1998.
Tim Parks, Europa (1998): Vintage 1998.
Bernardine Evaristo, Soul Tourists (2005): Penguin 2005.
Rose Tremain, The Road Home (2007): Vintage 2008.

Films: Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007); Once (Carney, 2006)

Students should have read at least The English Patient and The Innocent by the beginning of the semester. Please make sure you buy the editions listed above so we all refer to the same page numbers! The two DVDs can be borrowed from my office.

The Poetry of WWI

Dozent/in:

Alexander Debney

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
ERASMUS or visiting students: Seminar: max. 6 ECTS

Übung
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

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

BSc. BWL

MA WiPäd

ERASMUS and visiting students: Please contact lecturer if you wish to attend the class.

2. (De)Registration via FlexNow: 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: Please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The First World War marks one of the most decisive events in modern history. Initially, it elicited great enthusiasm and even war fervour, with millions enlisting all over Europe. As the early delusions of a quick victory, of being in the enemy capital 'by Christmas', had subsided, the full horror of full-scale industrialised warfare became apparent. The rupture it created within societies profoundly shaped the European psyche, to this very day.

This course tracks the many facets and outlooks on the conflagration in British poetry of the First World War. The list of authors covered includes Robert Service, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, among others.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required reading:

Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology. Tim Kendall (ed.).

Additional reading will be made available via the VC

Thomas Hardy

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, MG1/02.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
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

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

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:

One of the most prolific writers of the Victorian Era, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is still regarded as a major influence on English literature. His novels, set in the fictional county of Wessex in Southern England, explore fundamentally human drives and experiences. At the core of Hardy’s realist fiction, we find people – their relationships, joys and sorrows – any many of his characters are still household names today, such as Tess Durbeyfield, Jude Fawley or Bathsheba Everdene. Hardy’s writing contributed enormously to the development of the realist novel and his books often expose Victorian hypocrisy and meaningless morality or religious conventions. Infidelity, illicit love, illegitimate motherhood, questionable courtship, and social ostracism are set before a backdrop of seemingly pastoral Wessex. The social fabric of his fictional towns and their inhabitants is laid open and the reader can see behind the façade of the Victorian small town.

This course will look at some of Hardy’s novels, a few stories and a few poems by discussing and analysing themes and topics in his works. While most of the novels will have to be read before the beginning of the semester, some additions to the course material will be made during the semester and via the VC course.

Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons’ The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room U5/00.24. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read before the semester:

Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure (1895)

Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

Thomas Hardy. Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)

Thomas Hardy. Wessex Tales (1888) – excerpts to be announced in class

Exemplary poetry to be announced in class

"This Double-Consciousness:" African American and Afro German Literature and Culture (Literary Studies)

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
• BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
• Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
• Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

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

• active participation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

3. 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 has been designed especially for North-American exchange students and German students, inviting them to study each other’s cultures together. Readings and classroom discussion will be both in English and German.
African American literature and culture are vibrant and important parts of the larger literary and cultural landscape of the United States. Similarly, works by Afro German authors and artists are becoming an important part of German literature and are increasingly attracting scholarly scrutiny. In this German-American seminar, we will analyze different literary and cultural products by African American and Afro German authors and artists that deal with issues of race and national belonging in their respective countries. We will compare which narrative and artistic strategies these authors use to represent, emphasize, and contextualize the experiences of African Americans and Afro Germans in nations that still imagine themselves as primarily white.

Empfohlene Literatur:

before class stars in April:

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

during the semester:

• Toni Morrison,Beloved (1987)
• Ika Hügel-Marshall, Daheim unterwegs: ein deutsches Leben (1998)
• Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, Destined to Witness/Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (1999)

Further readings will be made available through the reserve shelf (Handapparat) in the library.
Films

• Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years (2012)
• Selma (2015)

From Gossip Girl to Dust Bowl Okie: The Representation of Social Class in American Literature and Culture (PS Literary Studies)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Fr, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2017, 12:00 - 18:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
• BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
• Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
• Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

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

• active participation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

3. 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:

Despite the persistency of the myth that US American society is a classless society, social class is a very popular topic across genres and times in American literature and culture. In this class we will trace the establishment and effects of social hierarchies throughout American literary and cultural history, in order to come to a better understanding of today s social realities in the US. Our primary reading will consist of three novels and one play (see below), as well as one movie, but additional material (short stories, poems, songs and pictures) will be part of the course curriculum, too.

NOTE: This seminar will include one block session on June 2nd (12 6 p.m.), when we will watch and critically discuss the movie Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 2010) together with students from a seminar on Reviewing Capitalism from the Theology Department.

All course material (except for the novels see below) will be provided well ahead of class via the Virtual Campus. Make sure that you order your copy of the books well in advance! It is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend class regularly and contribute to class discussions. You are welcome to bring in materials from outside of class (newspaper articles, handouts etc.) and you can also plan class room activities e.g. mock debates. Your input will be welcome!

Our first meeting will take place on May 5.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading: (print or e-book)

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
• Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)

Literary Journalism [Literary Journalism]

Dozent/in:

Hendrik Michael

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Schein, ECTS: 6, Studiengangzuordnung: BA IV, BA Vb

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, WE5/02.004

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Bitte beachten Sie: Das Seminar „Literary Journalism“ von Hendrik Michael befindet sich als Import-Veranstaltung auch im Lehrangebot des Faches Anglistik. Deshalb gilt: Wenn Sie in diesem Seminar einen Leistungsnachweis im Fach Kommunikationswissenschaft erbringen wollen (=BA IV KoWi), melden Sie sich bitte über das Vergabeverfahren des Instituts für Kommunikationswissenschaft an. Wollen Sie einen Leistungsnachweis für das Fach Anglistik/Amerikanistik erbringen (=Aufbaumodul), besuchen Sie bitte die erste Sitzung und melden Sie sich beim Dozenten Hendrik Michael.
Für das Sommersemester 2017 findet ein Online-Anmeldeverfahren für die Lehrveranstaltungen in der Kommunikationswissenschaft statt. Dieses läuft vom 20.03.2017 bis zum 09.04.2017. Nähere Informationen finden Sie in den News auf der Homepage des Instituts.
please note that this course is primarily taught in English)

Inhalt:

Recently, literary journalism was called “a genre whose time, once again, has come” (Alexander 2016). Literary journalism is a genre of nonfiction writing that adheres to all of the reportorial and truth-telling covenants of traditional journalism, while employing storytelling techniques more commonly associated with fiction. In short, it is journalism as literature. This course will introduce students to the major writers, publications, controversies and questions that have emerged during American literary journalism’s 150 year history. We will start with the 19th century newspaper sketch and move through its social justice impulses at the turn of the century. We will trace literary journalism’s institutionalization in the 1930s and ‘40s, and follow its proliferation in America’s magazine culture during the New Journalism era of the 1960s and ‘70s. Finally, we’ll end with a look at contemporary writers and examine the effect the digital revolution is having on the genre. Throughout this journey we will explore distinctions between physical truth and emotional truth, imagination and invention, form and content. We will note how historical and political contexts influence and appear in the works, and ask how these stories work as narratives, as cultural critiques, and as entertainment. We will examine the correlation between publication venue and readership, and note the ways literary journalism motivates citizens to act. A syllabus and a reading list will be provided in our first session.

Empfohlene Literatur:

A syllabus and a reading list will be provided in our first session.

The American (Post-)Apocalypse: From the 'City upon a Hill' to Zombiescape (Seminar/Block Literary Studies)

Dozent/in:

Lucie Homann

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 6.5.2017, 9:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 7.5.2017, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 20.5.2017, 9:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 21.5.2017, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17
Vorbesprechung: Dienstag, 25.4.2017, 12:00 - 14:00 Uhr, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
• BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies
• Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies (= Einführung)
• Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
• Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
• LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Kulturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to British and American Cultural Studies
• Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS

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

• active participation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to theresa.roth@uni-bamberg.de

• 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: theresa.roth@uni-bamberg.de) an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

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Inhalt:

The United States have long evinced a fascination with the imagination of the end. Especially in the 20th century, two world wars, environmental disasters and the threat of nuclear extinction during the cold war and after were developments that raised awareness of the possibility of a global collapse. Yet despite the negative aspects, the idea of global destruction also enables a renewal and the understanding of one s place in the world. In a world where geographical and social borders constantly shift and locality seems to dissolve into globality, people might be looking for a tabula rasa , a new structure in a disordered universe. Interestingly, in American culture the concept of apocalypse has been a powerful force much longer, and has shaped American literature from the very beginning of European settlement. In this seminar, we will focus on the never-ending fascination with the end of the world. We will discuss different apocalyptic narratives from the colonial period to the modern day s The Walking Dead . Our aim is to unveil the characteristic features of the American apocalypse by looking back on the country s unique past to understand the present boom.

Please note: There will be a preliminary mandatory meeting on April 25th, 12th o'clock. Further details will be sent to you via email shortly before that meeting.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Novels/Short Stories:

• McCarthy, Cormac: The Road (2006)
• Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Young Goodman Brown (1835)

Film/TV:

• Darabont, Frank: The Walking Dead (2010-)
• Lawrence, Francis: I Am Legend (2007)