20th- and 21st-Century Gothic

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

For more than two centuries, literary Gothic has been a main staple of English literature and it has entertained readers ever since. After the genre’s inception with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), the Gothic quickly captured not only the readers’ interest but also their favour and it became the best-selling genre in the 1790s. Despite the genre’s decline in the early 1820s, it resurfaced in the late 19th century and has since been an important part of British literary history. Now, in 2019, we can look back at more than a full century of increased interest in a genre that is still going strong and has conquered not only literature, but all media.

In this class, we will specifically study the Gothic of the last roughly 100 years, starting in the early 20th century and finishing with today’s literary (and some filmic) Gothic. To do so, we will mainly cover narrative texts (novels and short stories) tracing the development of generic markers and socio-political relevance of the Gothic from 1900 to today. The reading list below is by no means exhaustive and more literature will be announced here and in the first session of class. Moreover, we will focus on literary scholarship in the areas of Gothic literature, (literary) subcultures, and audience reception. Short excerpts from primary and secondary material will be available on the VC – please contact lecturer upon enrolment in the class to receive the password for the VC course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. 1938.
Patrick Hamilton. Angel Street (also known as Gas Light). 1938
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale. 2006

More literature tba in class

From Romantic Literature to Climate Change Fiction: Two Centuries of English Nature Writing

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

This seminar will trace the evolution of English nature writing from Romantic poetry and prose to contemporary eco-poetry and climate change literature. During our first sessions, students will receive an introduction to Ecocriticism or ‘green studies’, the study of the ‘relationship between literature and the physical environment’ (Cheryll Glotfelty), which have emerged in the UK as late as the early 1990s. We will discuss questions such as: what is the relationship between culture and nature? Does nature really exist or is it socially/linguistically constructed? Once students have been provided with a firm theoretical basis, we will turn to ecocritical (and ecofeminist) readings of works by William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. 20th- and 21st-century writers will include Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Graham Swift (Waterland 1983) and Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods 2007). Discussions will revolve around the ‘invention’ of the English countryside, around aesthetic theories of the picturesque, the Romantic lonely wanderer (what if he happens to be a woman?), the Victorian angel in the house (can there be something like an ‘angel in the garden’?), posthumanist ideas (in which the ‘human’ is conceived as just one life form among many and not an autonomous and conscious human subject), etc.

Students will receive weekly reading assignments of both literary texts (poems, novel excerpts, short stories) as well as theoretical ones (most of them taken from The Green Studies Reader [2000], edited by Laurence Coupe). In addition, students will be asked to buy and read Swift’s novel Waterland as well as Winterson’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stone Gods.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

• weekly reading assignments (cf. VC)

• Graham Swift, Waterland (ISBN 978-1447275503)

• Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (ISBN 978-0141032603)

Recommended Literature:

• Laurence Coupe, ed. The Green Studies Reader (ISBN 978-0415204071)

Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 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 Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture (except Consolidation Module!) 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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation.

Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQ+ literature, culture and history. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster ("Maurice"); with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s.

Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory Reading and Watching:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)

Livingston, Jennie . Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

Living in the “Third Space”: Hybridity and Bicultural Identity in The Buddha of Suburbia

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02

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

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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The Buddha of Suburbia is a coming-of-age novel which deals with construction of class, gender, race and sexual identity through a depiction of multi-cultural Britain. Karim Amir, the protagonist of the novel, searches for a sense of belonging in the suburban communities but at the end comes to realization that he belongs to neither of the prominent categories: white upper class and alienated migrant. Karim ultimately crosses the boundaries of race, religion, class and skin color to become “an Englishman born and bred”.

In this seminar we will discuss how second generation Asian British community reconciles and forms bi-cultural identity. We will also critically analyze whether hybrid identity is a threat to cultural tradition and history.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Hanif Kureishi. The Buddha of Suburbia.
More material tba on the VC

“Who Am I?”: Individual and Collective Identities

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 8:00 - 10:00, LU19/00.13

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 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 Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Whichever way we conceive “identity,” individual or collective, it always has many precedents ranging from cultural backgrounds to the types of television shows one grows up with. The core idea of “identity” evolves around the timeless question: “who am I?” and the other relevant questions: "who and what do I appear: to myself and others." As a result, a person can be many things at once, even when these different “identities” appear inconsistent or even contradictory. Someone could be, for example, a political conservative, religiously atheist or conversely liberal. All these descriptions act as categories that describe us in a different context. Such markers or identifiers are vital to our life experiences, both within our known circles or surroundings and outside of them. In short, these markers or identifiers help us navigate or negotiate our way through the social landscape.
Through the lenses of literary and cultural studies, this seminar aims to analyze texts related to identity and identity formation. In-class discussion will be based on:
1. How do society and culture shape and challenge individual or collective identities?
2. How do we form our own personal identification markers/identity?
3. How do communities and individuals form identities?
4. How do power and hegemony operate within and through culture?
5. What causes individual and collective identities to change over time?
6. How do individuals and groups express their identities?
7. How are people and groups with particular identities viewed and treated by others?

The course will be built on engagement with academic readings of various definitions and theories of identity and identity formations from different academic disciplines. The objective of this course is to offer an understanding of various literary texts dealing with individual and collective identities. Students are expected to learn how to apply their understanding of literary and cultural theories to an interpretation of literary texts.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Readings

Anthony Elliot. Ed. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Literary Texts:

Mira Jacob. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversation
Zadie Smith. White Teeth
David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas
Chris Cleve. Little Bee

Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in American Literature

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.12.2019, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 14.12.2019, 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 17.1.2020, 12:00 - 19:00, U5/01.17
Einzeltermin am 18.1.2020, 9:00 - 16:00, 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 instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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:

What do we mean when we talk about the literary canon? Who shapes this canon, based on which criteria, and whom does it include and exclude?

These questions are particularly relevant for American literature and the radical changes that have been made to the canon over the last several decades. Traditionally, the American canon as taught in high schools and universities was mostly white and mostly male. In the wake of the Civil Rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and 70s, which lead to an increasing scholarly interest in the literatures of previously marginalized social groups, the canon has expanded exponentially to include works by women, African Americans, and Latinx authors, among others. At the same time, however, the ways in which new or newly discussed genres, such as American nature writing, are now being published and taught in schools and universities often go back to limited notions of authorship that seemed long overcome. In this course, we will look at how questions of race and gender have shaped and continue to shape what is considered great literature in the United States and how the expansion of the canon has changed the American literary landscape.

Empfohlene Literatur:

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
• N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968)
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
• Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
• Susan Muaddi Darraj, "Preparing a Face"; "The Journey Home"; "Chasing Valentino" (2007)

In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Dies ist ein reines Online-Seminar. Anmeldung erfolgt über die VHB!

Termine:

Der Kurs findet ausschließlich virtuell statt. Er steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
• Lehramt Englisch: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

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

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:

• via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung: 01. Oktober - 15. November 2019 (via vhb website!)
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung: 05. Dezember 2019 - 05. Februar 2020 (via email to the instructor)

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist als Online-Kurs konzipiert. Sie steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern [ https://www.vhb.org/startseite ] Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

• Zum Online-Kurs auf dem Virtuellen Campus im Wintersemester 2019/20: tba
• Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: tba

Inhalt:

This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.

Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

Terrible Laughter: The Grotesque in French & American Literature

Dozent/in:

Judith Rauscher

Angaben:

Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

Seminar - also open for the Ergänzungsmodul LITERATURwissenschaft

• 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

Übung - also open for the consolidation module LITERARY studies
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
• 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 instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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:

Associated with the "unintentionally ridiculous and monstrous" (Clayborough) as well as with "exaggeration, hyperbolism, [and] excessiveness" (Bakhtin), the grotesque has been used to describe landscapes, bodies, behaviors, psychological states, and artworks that trouble what is considered "real," "normal," or "decent."

In this comparative course, we will discuss French and American literature of the grotesque from the 19th and 20th century, exploring the forms, effects, and functions of representations that merge the beautiful and the ugly, good and evil, laugher and terror, disgust and compassion. Reading authors such as Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Mathilde Ermery (Rachilde), William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Flannery O’Connor, we will examine how the grotesque relates to horror, the gothic, and the absurd. Moreover, we will try to understand what scholars mean when they argue for the grotesque as a critique of capitalism or colonialism, when they contrast a "European" and an "American" grotesque, or when they try to describe precisely how the ludicrous and the horrifying manifest in the literature of the U.S. South after slavery or in French modernist literature after WWI.

The course will be taught partly in German (the sessions on French literature) and partly in English (the sessions on American literature). Students should read the assigned text in their original versions whenever possible, and in translation only when necessary.

Empfohlene Literatur:

TBA

The Monstrous Other in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

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

LITERARY STUDIES - open for the Ergänzungmodul!

• 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

Cultural Studies - open for the Ergänzungsmodul!

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Studienbeginn ab WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft Seminar (je nach Belegung 7, 5, oder 4 ECTS)
• 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 the instructor of the course )
• An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung (course registration): 01. August – 18. Oktober 2019
• An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung (ECTS/ToR registration): 02. Dezember 2019 – 17. Januar 2020

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:

Following W. Scott Pool's claim that "from our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of American culture," this class is designed to identify and critically analyze the multiple and contradictory presences of such "monsters" in American literature and culture.

We will start with a brief historical and conceptual overview, consulting historical maps of the world, the anonymous Physiologus (200 AD), medieval almanacs, transatlantic travel accounts, freak show advertisements, medical journals, criminal records, and court files. Moving through North American history from pre-colonial times to the present, we will then study a variety of texts, such as Native American tall tales, crafts and imagery, short stories, poems, newspaper articles, pictures, TV shows and movies with an analytical focus on their changing representations of "monstrosity" as a particular kind of otherness.

As we navigate through the complex universe of surreal distortion, we will try to answer the following questions: How have "monsters" been defined in America, and how have these definitions changed over time? What is culturally specific about 'American' monsters? Which culturally and historically specific fears (and perhaps also longings) have been projected on these monstrous "others", and to which effects?

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most of the material used in class will be provided via the Virtual Campus ahead of class. Students are, however, required to purchase the following books:

• Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1951)
• Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997)
• Chris Dingess, Manifest Destiny, Volume 1: Flora and Fauna (2014)

For further reading the following book is strongly recommended:

• Scott W. Poole, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (2011)