Exam Preparation English Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.1.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) on all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (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 range of topics (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.) will depend on the participants' interest. (Before the beginning of the semester, I will invite all participants to take part in a poll in order to find out which topics ["Körbe"] they want to prepare for their "Staatsexamen.")

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung Englische Literaturwissenschaft (Houswitschka)

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/02.01

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS)

BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Forschungsmodul (5 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)

Inhalt:

This course is addressed to students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in English Literature, be it "Zulassungsarbeit", "BA-Arbeit" or Master's thesis. It is supposed to offer continuous support to students while preparing or writing their theses. The course consists of individual sessions for which you must register with Professor Houswitschka via e-mail. 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 your supervisor. For students in the BA, MA and new teacher training programmes, who write their thesis in literary studies, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung". Depending on the native tongue of the participants, the course will be given in English or German.

History of the English Novel II

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literary and cultural studies in
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

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) until 10.01.2019(10:00)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This lecture belongs to a series of genre surveys which cover English literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).

The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.

Literary Twins

Dozent/in:

Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, 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

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

• BSc. BWL

• MA WiPäd

This class can also be taken for Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (Hauptfach und Nebenfach)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018(10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Literature is full of twins: evil twins, twins who impersonate each other, twins in showbusiness. Readers (and theatregoers) through the centuries are still inevitably fascinated, confused and dazzled. Anglophone literature is no exception.

In this class we will first gather a brief and basic overview of notorious twins from Greek and Roman mythology - such as Romolus and Remus, Castor and Pollux - then we will move on to England. We will read one of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring twins, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, where playing with the double goes along with playing with gender roles.

We will then work on Angela Carter’s last novel Wise Children, about identical twin sisters and performers Dora and Nora Chance, where magical realism is accompanied by constant Shakespearean references. The last full text we will read is Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, a story with gothic elements about secret twin(s) and storytelling, with intertextual references to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

The aim of this class is to become able to recognize and analyze major features and recurring themes in the literary representation of twinhood. We will try to answer questions such as: Is twinhood a game of exclusion? How is twinhood represented in literature throughout time and in different genres?

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please acquire a copy of the books we are going to read in class as soon as possible.

William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale.
Angela Carter. Wise Children.
more primary texts tba in class

Masterclass Personal Writing/Self Revelation with George Ellenbogen

Dozent/in:

George Ellenbogen

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 7.12.2018, 14:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 8.12.2018, Einzeltermin am 9.12.2018, 9:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in the MA English and American Studies (including Joint Degree) or with English as "Erweiterungsbereich" in any other MA programmes.

2. Registration Please contact the department of English Literature if you want to attend this class (kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de)

Inhalt:

This class is designed specifically for master students in English and American Studies who wish to broaden their studies under the tutelage of a renowned author. In this class, you will learn about life writing and the intricacies of creative writing on a master's level.
More information tba.

Course Description In PERSONAL WRITING/SELF REVELATION, which will be conducted as a one week compact seminar, students will explore the means by which writers use their own experience—real and imagined—to fashion memoirs, personal essays, and poems that reveal themselves and touch their readers. The course will address, among other topics, the establishing of a persona, the use of place, real and imaginary settlings, the role of detail, and beginnings and endings. Students will also produce their own writing in classes and read to one another in small groups.
Before the first class, students will have read the texts, A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood by George Ellenbogen and Teaching Arabs, Writing Self by Evelyn Shakir. Passages of George Orwell’s essays will be assigned later.

Course Teacher: The course will be taught by memoirist and poet, George Ellenbogen. A professor of Creative Writing at Bentley University in Massachusetts, he has taught this course previously in Germany, and is awaiting the publication of the German edition of both his and Shakir’s memoir.

Empfohlene Literatur:

The reading (synopses):
A Stone in My Shoe: Poet George Ellenbogen’s memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journeys from Franz Joseph’s Austro-Hungarian empire and Poland to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood—a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers—sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces—the markers of his parents’ navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal—extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Evelyn Shakir's witty, wise, and beautifully written memoir explores her status as an Arab American woman, from the subtle bigotry she faced in Massachusetts as a second-generation Lebanese whose parents were not only foreign but eccentric, to the equally poignant blend of dislocation and homecoming she felt in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, where she taught American literature to university students. She effortlessly combines personal anecdote with cultural, political, and historical background, and is incapable of stereotyped thinking: one of the book's many pleasures is the diversity she finds among the people she encounters in the Middle East, including not only students, but cab drivers, storekeepers, and the guys who make the spinach pies at the bakery down the street from her apartment. As Shakir explores her own identity, she leads the reader to an appreciation of the richness and complexity of being Arab American (or any mixed heritage) in an increasingly small world.

Masterclass: Power, Judgement & Controversy: Male-Manufactured Women in Dystopia and Fantasy

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Übung/Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:00 - 20:00, U2/02.30
Einzeltermin am 1.12.2018, 8:00 - 18:00, U2/02.30

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This class is an addendum to Igor Baldoino's class "Power, Judgement & Controversy" taught on Mondays. It is specifically designed for MA EAS students. Registration for the masterclass is only possible through registration for "Power, Judgement & Controversy".
If you have any questions, contact Igor Baldoino

Inhalt:

see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"

Empfohlene Literatur:

see "Power, Judgement & Controversy"

Power, Judgement & Controversy: The Minefield separating a Legendary Heroine from her Holy Grail

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / 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 / Aufbaumodul Kultur wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

MA Berufliche Bildung

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

For millennia, men have been the protagonists of their own heroic stories. Stories written by men, mainly for men. Women had no place in an epic or heroic tale, at least not one that could put them in equal terms with their male counterparts. They were reduced to “damsels in distress”, supernatural guides, the hero’s reward, or in some cases the villain.
In his studies of myths, Joseph Campbell concluded that: “In the whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is realise that she’s the place that people are trying to get to”. Although this may be true regarding that specific niche, literary history has shown women move forward to centre stage. Since circa late Romanticism to Postmodern Literature and our present day, female characters have been given a path and a voice, but remained limited by the constraints of their respective times, or the nightmares of a dystopian future.
This course aims to analyse the depiction of women in dystopian literature and fantasy and will pay special attention to the following aspects of each work: (gendered) language and women’s orality; identity in contrast with “purpose”; sex, sexuality and the body; sister-, mother-, and womanhood; and power. Furthermore, we will use two (or more) stages of Campbell’s model (The Hero with a Thousand Faces), namely the Call for Adventure and the Road of Trials in order to examine what restrain(s)(ed) women from heroism and the obstacles set throughout their journeys.

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read prior to beginning of semester:
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christina Dalcher. Vox.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.

To read during the semester:
Naomi Alderman. The Power.
J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings (Éowyn).

More material to be added in class

Visions of Egypt in the British Imagination

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, LU19/00.13
Einzeltermin am 30.11.2018, 8:30 - 10:00, LU19/00.13

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Plus: all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary and cultural studies in:

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• MA Berufliche Bildung

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 - 10.01.2019

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Ancient Egypt has long held a special place in Western imagination. The tales of Gods, Pharaohs, war and pyramids have captivated European readers even before Napoleon s 1798-1801 campaign in Egypt, which unearthed archaeological sensations and decisively fed Egyptomania all over Europe. Ancient Egypt, it seems, provides an interesting form of the Other for the Europe. Its exoticism, occultism and overwhelming architecture still continue to fascinate visitors and readers today. For Great Britain, Egypt provided a double locus for the Other with Ancient Egypt and Colonial Egypt. British travellers and writers capitalised on the allure of the exotic while viewing the country and its inhabitants through the lens of colonialism.

This class will explore the British imagination of Colonial and Ancient Egypt through British literature and culture, such as architecture and art, feeding off the vision of Egypt from the 18th to the 20th century. To do so, this class will use Edward Said s theory of Orientalism to position Egyptomania in the British imagination. In addition, we will also have a look at a variety of literary forms, ranging from crime novels to dime novels, to examine why Egypt has been so enthralling to British audiences. Since this class covers both literary and cultural studies, students are asked to prepare the books indicated below and watch the films in preparation before the semester starts. Further texts, excerpts or films can be added throughout the semester and will be announced on the VC class.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Books:
Louisa May Alcott. "Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse." 1869.
Agatha Christie. Death on the Nile. 1937.
Barbara Erskine. Whispers in the Sand. 2000.
Elizabeth Peters. Crocodile on the Sandbank. 1975
Percy Bysshe Shelley. "Ozymandias." 1818.
more novels and excerpts tba

Films:
Death on the Nile, dir. by John Guillermin. 1978.
The Mummy, dir. by Stephen Sommers. 1999.
Cairo Time, dir. by Ruba Nadda. 2009.

American Literature II (Realism - Postmodernism)

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Vorlesung, ECTS: 2, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale

Termine:

Fr, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS); Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung (2 oder 4 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (2 oder 4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lehramt neu GY: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS); Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft); Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft)
MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree: Master Module English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS); Profile Modules English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS); Consolidation Modules English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies im Rahmen anderer MA: Master Module oder Profile Module I English and American Literature: Lecture (2 ECTS)
LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Vorlesung
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)

2. An- und Abmeldung (FlexNow) / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Teilnahmewunsch trotz Überbuchung des Seminars wenden Sie sich bitte per Email an die Dozentin.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*

Inhalt:

This lecture provides an overview of American literary history from the 1880s until today, focusing on the characteristic features of realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism.

For each of these periods, the thematic, formal and stylistic elements of a wide range of novels, plays, short stories, poems, and essays will be discussed in the broader context of the United States' cultural and intellectual history. In order to understand how different groups of Americans have imagined their culture at specific moments in time, we will analyze texts that address the diversity of American experiences in terms of race, class, gender, region, and political conviction. We will also explore how literary texts have critically engaged with the past and with other cultures, charting new directions for the relationship between literature and culture. Overall, we will investigate to which degree processes of modernization and the ideal of democratization can be understood as one of American literature's major driving forces.

American Women’s Poetry/American Women in Poetry

Dozent/in:

Lorena Bickert

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 9.11.2018, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 10.11.2018, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 23.11.2018, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2018, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/02.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF ohne BA-Arbeit):

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung 2 ECTS, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

MA English and American Studies/Joint Degree:

• Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Master-Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft I oder II: Übung (2 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA:

• Erweiterungsmodul I: Übung (2 ECTS)

Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft a (4 ECTS)
Lehramt neu RS: Zusatzmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt neu GY:

• Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
• Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Lehramt neu GY (ab WS 11/12): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Übung
Bachelor BWL, Studienschwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik II: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Studium Generale: NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!

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

• active participation
• presentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

This practical reading course serves as an introduction to views on/by American women during the early stages of the so-called New World (late 17th century – mid 19th century). As the American nation was trying to define an identity of its own, women, but also men, began to speak up for gender equality, emphasizing the various roles of women in American culture. Poetry played a crucial, if not leading, role in these multi-voiced literary debates.

Thus, this class will cover a selection of feminist texts from the 18th and 19th centuries as a basis for understanding women's situation at the time but will mostly focus on images of women presented in American poetry. We will discuss feminist visions by Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller as well as poems about and/or by American women. Our poetry readings will include works by Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson, as well as by Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, amongst many others.

Therefore, this class not only offers an in-depth discussion of selected views by and of American women but also serves as a compact course and starting point for those students who, in the "Staatsexamen", are interested in extending their reading of early American literature as a focal point for the literature exam.

Texts and Poems to read beforehand:

Text excerpts with explanatory commentaries:

• Abigail Adams, "Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution" (pp. 2-4)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (pp. 5-16)
• Margaret Fuller, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (pp. 62-71)
• Seneca Falls Convention 1848, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (pp.76-82)
• Frederick Douglass, “Editorial from The North Star” (pp. 83-85)
• Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (pp. 93-95)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self" (pp. 157-159)

Poems:

17th/18th century:

• Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband", "The Prologue", “The Author to Her Book”, “A Letter to Her Husband”
• Phillis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “Letter to Samson Occom”
• Edward Taylor: "Huswifery", “Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children”

19th century female poets:

• Phoebe Cary: “Do you Blame Her?”, “The Hunter and the Doe”, “The Rose”, “Disenchanted”
• Emily Dickinson: "The Soul Selects Her Own Society", "She Rose to His Requirement", “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”, “I Started Early – Took my Dog”, “This is my Letter to the World”, “They Shut me up in Prose”, “Publication is the Auction”, “A Bird Came down the Walk”, “I Cannot Live with You”, “One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”  please consult the Emily Dickinson Archive online for digital versions of the poems
• Charlotte Forten Grimké: “The Slave”, “My Country”, “An Appeal to Woman”
• Francis Ellen Watkins Harper: “Bury Me in a Free Land”, “Double Standard”, Bible Defense of Slavery”, “Learning to Read”
• Julia Ward Howe: "Battle Hymn of the Republic", “The Wedding”, “The Rough Sketch”, “The Tea-Party”, “Save the old South!”, “Woman”
• Frances Anne Butler Kemble: “Sonnet” (1844) [There’s not a fibre in my trembling frame], “Sonnet” (1859) [What is my lady like? thou fain would’st know – ]
• Emma Lazarus: “Echoes”, “The New Colossus”
• Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: “The Wraith of the Rose”, “The Lady’s Mistake”, “The Lily’s Decision”
• Lydia Huntley Sigourney: “To a Shred of Linen”, “The Cherokee Mother”, “Indian Names”, “The Western Emigrant”
• Cecilia Thaxter: “Alone”, “Submission”, “S.E.”, “Two Sonnets”

19th century male poets:

• Walt Whitman: "A Woman Waits for Me", "Respondez!", “I Sing the Body Electric”, “Poem of Women”, “Beautiful Women”, “Song of Myself” (sections: 5-8, 11, 15, 19, 21, 24, 33, 44)  please consult the Whitman Archive online for digital versions of the poems
• Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven", “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, “For Annie”
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: “When Malindy Sings”, “A Negro Love Song”, “Night of Love”

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Texts:

Schneir, Miriam (ed.). Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. Vintage Books, 1994. Please order the book in time! You can order very affordable copies online, but it will take several weeks.

Poems:

• 17/18th century, 19th century male poets: please go to [poetryfoundation.org] to read and print out the poems; also read the introductory texts to the respective poets available on this website
• 19th century female poets: these poems will be made available as PDFs on the Virtual Campus before the beginning of the term; please bring a printed version of the poems to class
• Dickinson and Whitman: please read and print out these poems from the respective online archives and read the poet introductions on [poetryfoundation.org]

Exam Preparation North-American Literature (Repetitorium)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
Alle Module einschließlich einer Examensübung / Übung für Examenskandidaten oder einer verpflichtenden Leseübung in folgenden Studienrichtungen:

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• MA English and American Studies
• MA Berufliche Bildung
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
• Studium Generale (NICHT für Studierende im BA Anglistik / Amerikanistik!)
• Joint Degree

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

• active participation
• presentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all teaching degrees ("Lehrämter") who prepare for the 3-hour written "Staatsexamen" in American Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other final exams - oral or written - are very welcome, too.

The "Repetitorum" is a class designed to assist students in their preparations for the final written exam. The class, however, does NOT substitute each student s individual study time! During class, students will receive immediate feedback about their level of preparation for the final exam. The most important aim of this class, however, is to provide participants with a platform to discuss complex issues, rather than particular details of one certain topic. Once again: the class aims to assist students in their preparations, but it does NOT replace independent study!
The class participants themselves choose the topics for this semester during the first session.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Fr, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit BA-Arbeit): Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Betreuungsübung (2 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
• BA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die BA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul I und II: Betreuungsübung Literaturwissenschaft (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird
• MA Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik
• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (begleitend zur Magister- oder Zulassungsarbeit)
• Joint Degree: Free Electives (2 ECTS), wenn die MA-Arbeit in amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft geschrieben wird

2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
• Betreuungsübung: Präsentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

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.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*

Inhalt:

This course is designed for students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in American literature or culture, be it a “Magisterarbeit,” “Zulassungsarbeit,” “BA-Arbeit” or Master’s thesis. It offers continuous support during the process of preparing or writing the thesis, and provides an opportunity to share parts of it with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions; the syllabus and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus.

In the plenary sessions, we will discuss general criteria and formal aspects of a thesis – such as possible topics and research questions, theoretical approaches, and structural issues. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you will discuss the argument and structure of your thesis with me. For students who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies in the BA, MA and new teacher training programs, this course provides the “Betreuungsübung.”

From Topic to Thesis to Final Paper: A Preparatory Course

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

How to Write a Term Paper

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)
• Lehramtsstudiengänge Anglistik/Amerikanistik: BASISmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Übung für 2 ECTS)

Betreuungsübung

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit): VERTIEFUNGSmodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft (Betreuungsübung für 2 ECTS >>> Bitte kontaktieren Sie vorher unbedingt die Dozentin zwecks Themenabsprache!), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft
• B.A. Medieval Studies: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung für 2 ECTS), wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Anglistik

2. Voraussetzungen zur Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme
• Betreuungsübung: Präsentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

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.

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/*

Inhalt:

This course aims to assist students in the Basismodul in writing their first term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. We will discuss general formal aspects and content related criteria of an academic paper, such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Primarily, however, we will practice how to choose a topic, how to develop a coherent structure, how to involve theoretical frameworks, and how to adhere to the MLA citation rules. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that are suitable for the list of references of your paper. Students have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where they will receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.

This course is also addressed at students in the Vertiefungsmodul who are preparing or working at a BA-thesis in American Literature or Culture. Therefore, this course provides the guidance sessions for the BA thesis (Betreuungsübung) for students in the BA programs who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies. It assists students in the preparation of their final paper, and gives them an opportunity to discuss their work with other students. BA-candidates will present parts of their final paper, offering it for discussion and feedback. If you are planning to attend this class, make sure that the instructor will also be your thesis advisor. Please contact Ms. Konopka well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Please note that this is a practical training course and not a lecture! You are expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Erste Sitzung: Montag, 15. Oktober 2018!

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik /Amerikanistik ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)
• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)
• MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul 1 oder 2: Übung Literaturwissenschaft (1 ECTS)
• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

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

• active participation
• presentation

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 1. Oktober – 19. Oktober 2018
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 10. Dezember 2018 – 26. Januar 2019

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.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Inhalt:

In this seminar, we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. Our reading will be chosen from the key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and post-structuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo-)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory.

The course is intended to assist students in both finding their own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense." (V. B. Leitch).

This class is based not only on the reading, but also the in depth analysis of theoretical writing. Therefore, students are expected to prepare diligently for each session by (1) reading the assigned text(s), (2) studying each text's background/context, and (3) establishing some basic understanding of the theory discussed in the respective text before coming to class! Only then will it be possible for us to engage in critical discussion during our sessions. In sum, it is important for participants to do the assigned reading, attend all sessions and contribute to class discussions. Your input is mandatory and will be welcome!

A course reader will be available for students of this class after the first session, when the reading list has been agreed upon.