South Africa and Nigeria in Postcolonial Discourse

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Emilija Lipovsek, Stevan Bradic

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.6.2019, 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 29.6.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
Einzeltermin am 30.6.2019, 9:00 - 17:00, U5/02.18

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): 01.05.2019 (10:00) - 28.06.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Inhalt:

J. M. Coetzee (1940) is arguably one of the most important contemporary South African novelists. Even with only five of the thirteen novels being set in South Africa, they all, to certain extent, address themes pertinent to the (post)colonial and apartheid situations: relations of power, colonial discourse, the other, racial segregation, the position of women, class relations, violence, South African liberalism and revolutionary activism, the relationship of South Africa’s peoples to the land and, not least, the politics of writing. His fiction is located “in the nexus of history and text”, and “explore[s] the tension between these polarities” (Attwell, 2-3), seeing the “South African situation [today] as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo colonialism” (Coetzee qtd. in Attwell, 14). Starting from his early masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), moving to his puzzling work of ‘situational metafiction’ Foe (1986), and finishing with post-apartheid narrative of Disgrace (1999), this course will address the aforementioned issues, in an attempt to relate their political and poetic questions.

The second part of the seminar will discuss how postcolonial women writers depict Nigeria in their writings. The focus will be given to the novel-in-verse Lara by Bernardine Evaristo and memoir Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay through analysis of the heroines of mixed parentage and the relevance of their visits to Lagos and Abuja for the first time to renegotiate their British-Nigerian identity. The novels A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on the other hand, portray Nigerian-born female characters as returnees willing to settle down after a long period of studying and working abroad. It will be argued how all the protagonists eventually find themselves in the liminal space between the wish to belong to Nigeria and elsewhere.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Penguin Books, 1999.
--. Foe , London: Penguin Books, 1987. --. Disgrace , London: Penguin Books, 2000.
--. "On Madness and Rivalry", Giving Offens e, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
B. Evaristo (2009, extended edition) Lara .
J. Kay (2010) Red Dust Road .
S. Atta (2012) A Bit of Difference .
C. Ngozi Adichie (2013) Americanah .

Optional reading on Coetzee
Attwell, David. South Africa and the Politics of Writing , Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Attridge, Derek. J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Hayes, Patrick. J. M. Coetzee and the Novel, New York: Oxford UP, 2010.

Optional reading on postcolonial literature
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jameson, Fredric. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”, Social Text, No. 15. (Autumn, 1986), pp. 65-88.

Spectre of Defeat: Post 9/11 War in Contemporary British Drama

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) is well known for its commitment to staging plays on controversial political issues and military missions. Defeat is experienced in many different ways. Usually, it is the defeat of weaker combatants and/or civilians by the overwhelmingly usurping power of a military enemy that is often accompanied by war crimes. In the asymmetric wars of colonial and hegemonic powers, defeat is rarely solely military. Very often defeat is brought about for inevitable, political reasons following the exhausting and painful impact of legally or morally questionable military campaigns encountering guerilla tactics and civilians whose loyalties remain doubtful. This is the situation the British Army has found itself in during the wars in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). After the military successes of the liberation of the Falklands and Kuwait, fighting wars in the wake of 9/11 and invading Iraq on the grounds of forged evidence claiming to seize Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction brought about long and futile wars and the painful experience of defeat in spite of military superiority. Almost all these military events have been staged at the Tricycle Theatre. Among these Tribunal plays are productions about Nuremberg and Srebrenica, the Hutton Inquiry (Justifying War), and the Scott Army to Iraq Inquiry (Half the Picture). The Great Game Afghanistan introduces the theatre goer to 150 years of British interventions in Central Asia. The seminar focuses on The Great Game Afghanistan and other British plays about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 in the context of British contemporary drama and politics.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Drama Texts:
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Justifying War. Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2003.
Teevan, Colin. How Many Miles to Basra? London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2006.
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Called to Account. The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq. A Hearing. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2007.
Bean, Richard et al. The Great Game Afghanistan. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2009.
Burke, Gregory. The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Moore, D.C. The Empire. London: Methuen, 2010.

Research Literature:
Angstrom, Jan and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War. London: Routledge, 2007.
Colleran, Jeanne. Theatre and War Theatrical Responses since 1991. London: Palgrave, 2012.
de Waal, Ariane. Theatre on Terror. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
Gupta, Suman. Imagining Iraq. Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion. London: Palgrave, 2011.
Hammond, Will and Dan Seward, eds. Verbatim, Verbatim. Contemporary Documentary Theatre.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia. London: John Murray, 1990, 2006.
Ledwidge, Frank. Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yale University Press, 2011.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Culture of Defeat. On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery. London: Granta, 2003 (orig. in German 2001)

The Novel in the 1790s

Dozent/in:

Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 14.6.2019, 14:00 - 17:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this seminar we will read Jacobin and anti-Jacobin literature written in 1790s in the wake of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics in the 1790s. After Edmund Burke had published his book on The Revolution in France (1790), those who wanted to reform the English political institutions were under the suspicion of starting a revolution in England. The radicals were accused of sedition and high treason and prosecuted. On the other hand, the so-called anti-Jacobin novel and Hannah More's cheap repository tracts tried to popularise conservative and loyal belief systems in a similar way the radicals did with theirs. Literature became a means to distribute philosophical and political ideas and to educate the reading public appropriately. A third group of novels, such as those by Jane Austen, tried to keep out of politics altogether and to write as if the age of revolution had no influence on literature.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Although the focus will be on Jacobin literature, we will work on how political and philosophical ideas shaped various identities in the literature of the 1790s. Some of the authors read in this seminar will be William Godwin, John Thelwall, Hannah More, Jane Austen and other less known writers whose work is available in the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO). Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Godwin, William. Caleb Williams (1794) Thelwall, John. The Daughter of Adoption (1801) More, Hannah. "History of Mr Fantom, the New-Fashioned Philosopher, and his Man William" (1795) Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (written 1797, publ. 1813)

American Avant-garde: Experiments in Word and Image

Dozent/in:

Barry Laga

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 29.6.2019, Einzeltermin am 30.6.2019, Einzeltermin am 6.7.2019, Einzeltermin am 7.7.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Attention: Please note that this class is NOT open for the Consolidation Modules!

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT/CULTURAL STUDIES
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik

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

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

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)

KulturPLUS:

• Lehramtsstudiengänge RS/Gym (2 oder 4 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul A (Wahlpflichbereich)
• M.Ed. Berufliche Bildung (3 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul B (Wahlpflichtbereich)

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
• Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)

M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:

• Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
• Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

M.A. Literatur und Medien:

• Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.:

• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)

LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister:

• Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT/LITERARY STUDIES

• 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)
• 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 (8 ECTS)

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

• active participation
• presentation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only KulturPlus (2 ECTS): presentation
• only KulturPLUS (3 or 4 ECTS): short essay

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

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to Dr. Nicole K. Konopka!)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 4. März – 4. Mai 2019 (March 4 - May 4, 2019)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 12. Juni - 12. Juli 2019 (June 12 - July 12, 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:

Sometimes we encounter works that perplex us: literal holes appear on every page; sentences never end; syntax doesn’t make sense; a film displays nothing but moving shapes and colors; words look like pictures. Sometimes a poem is organized like a film, or an author may refuse to use the letter “e.” Why do these experimental texts exist? How do we make sense of them? The course will combine theory and a collection of sample texts in our effort to understand and even produce avant-garde literature and film. Be ready to theorize the “avant-garde,” apply those frameworks to the literature, film, and performance pieces we study, and experiment with your own creations.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Readings will be announced in the beginning of April 2019!

Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century American History, Literature, and Culture (Die Entdeckung der Umwelt: Natur und Kultur im Amerika des 19. Jahrhunderts)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christine Gerhardt, Sabine Freitag

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Das verbindliche Vortreffen findet am 30. April 2019 um 17:45 Uhr in Raum U9/01.11 statt!

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 6.6.2019, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18
Einzeltermin am 2.7.2019, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.26
Das Blockseminar findet vom 25. August - 01. September 2019 im Chalet Giersch in Manigod, Frankreich, statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Attention: This class is open for students in the Consolidation Modules!

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT/CULTURAL STUDIES
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik

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

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

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)

KulturPLUS:

• Lehramtsstudiengänge RS/Gym (2 oder 4 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul A (Wahlpflichbereich)
• M.Ed. Berufliche Bildung (3 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul B (Wahlpflichtbereich)

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
• Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)

M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:

• Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
• Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

M.A. Literatur und Medien:

• Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.:

• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)

LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister:

• Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT/LITERARY STUDIES

• 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)
• 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 (8 ECTS)

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

• active participation
• presentation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only KulturPlus (2 ECTS): presentation
• only KulturPLUS (3 or 4 ECTS): short essay

3. 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): 4. März 4. Mai 2019 (March 4 - May 4, 2019)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 12. Juni - 12. Juli 2019 (June 12 - July 12, 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:

The nineteenth century marks a key moment not only in the history of American literature and culture, but also in the development of America s environmental thought. This upper level seminar addresses key aspects of American environmental history in a decidedly interdisciplinary fashion, combining theoretical concepts and approaches from the fields of Historiography with those of American Literary and Cultural Studies. We will first discuss the two fields respective conceptual frameworks and methods (environmental historiography, and environmental literary and cultural studies). From this double perspective, we will then explore issues such as the environmental significance of the Westward movement, the settler-colonial warfare against Native Americans, the emergence of ecology and other increasingly specialized natural sciences, key arguments of early conservationist and preservationist debates and controversies over the first national parks, and links between slavery, Civil War, and views of the nonhuman environment. Our discussions will be based on a wide range of readings, including classic nature essays, autobiographical texts, regionalist short stories, nature poems, and slave narratives. Students have to read all texts before the beginning of the seminar week.

Organization:

This compact seminar (Blockseminar), taught by Prof. Christine Gerhardt (American Studies) and Prof. Sabine Freitag (Modern and Contemporary History), offers a unique chance to study formative aspects of American environmental history in the special atmosphere of a study retreat in the French Alps (Chalet Giersch, Manigod), from Aug. 25 (Sunday) Sept. 01 (Sunday) 2019.
We can accommodate 18 students (ideally 9 from History, 9 from English/American Studies).

Seminar dates:

• Pre-meeting (attendance required): Tuesday, April 30, 5:45 p.m. in room U9/01.11
• seminar: Sunday 25.8. - Sunday, 1.9.2019

Requirements:

The seminar will be held in German and English, so students need to be able to read and discuss texts in both languages.
Each student will give a 20-minute presentation and write a final research paper.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Our reading list includes:

• George Perkins Marsh, from Man and Nature (1864)
• James Fenimore Cooper, from The Pioneers (1823)
• Susan Fenimore Cooper, from Rural Hours (1850)
• Henry David Thoreau: from Walden (1854); Walking (1861) and Wild Apples (1862)
• Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass (1855; 1891/92) and Specimen Days (1882)
• Emily Dickinson, selected poems (1859-86)
• Henry Bibb, from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave (1849)
• Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886)
• John Muir, from The Mountains of California (1875)
• Mary Austin, from The Land of Little Rain (1903)

The final reading list will be discussed during the information meeting (see above).

Video Games and Digital Narratives

Dozent/in:

Colin Milburn

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 25.5.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 26.5.2019, 10:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 1.6.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2019, 10:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Attention: This class is NOT open for students in the Consolidation Modules!

KULTURWISSENSCHAFT/CULTURAL STUDIES
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik

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

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

• freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)

KulturPLUS:

• Lehramtsstudiengänge RS/Gym (2 oder 4 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul A (Wahlpflichbereich)
• M.Ed. Berufliche Bildung (3 ECTS): Kulturelle Bildung, Grundlagenmodul B (Wahlpflichtbereich)

M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:

• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
• Profilmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)

M.A. English and American Studies / Joint Degree:

• Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
• Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

M.A. Literatur und Medien:

• Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterung Film- und Bildwissenschaft: Seminar (Referat + Hausarbeit, 8 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.:

• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
• Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)

LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister:

• Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung

LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT/LITERARY STUDIES

• 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); Restrictive Electives: Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: 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 (8 ECTS)

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

• active participation
• presentation
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only KulturPlus (2 ECTS): presentation
• only KulturPLUS (3 or 4 ECTS): short essay

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

• via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to Dr. Nicole K. Konopka)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 4. März - 4. Mai 2019 (March 4 - May 4, 2019)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 12. Juni - 12. Juli 2019 (June 12 - July 12, 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:

The video game has now emerged as a dominant media form of contemporary American culture. This seminar will examine the video game as a storytelling medium, addressing the features that distinguish video games from other narrative texts. We will study the relationship of video games to literature in today's global media ecology, the transformation of the "text" from a discrete object to a transmedia narrative system. We will also investigate the ways that video games position themselves as interactive fictions whose characters, plotlines and gameplay mechanics draw upon, and contribute to, broader literary traditions.

Schedule:

• Block 1: May 25, 9:00 - 16:00, and May 26, 10:00 - 16:00 (U9/01.11)
• Block 2: June 1st, 9:00 - 16:00, and June 2nd, 10:00 - 16:00 (U9/01.11)

Empfohlene Literatur:

Readings will be announced here in the beginning of April!