Fighting a "truth universally acknowledged"? 200 years of Jane Austen's works

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Blockseminar, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Blockveranstaltung 14.1.2023-15.1.2023 Sa, So, Blockveranstaltung 28.1.2023-29.1.2023 Sa, So, 10:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)

LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

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

LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: 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

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 23.10.2022, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Among the canon of English writers of the 18th century, one name is sure to be mentioned by all scholars of English literature: Jane Austen. Moreover, Austen is still a household name outside of academia and her six novels are still widely read, enjoyed, criticised or actively rejected by modern-day readers. Despite the often overt gender-bias contemporaries levelled at female writers, Austen already enjoyed popularity in her own time. Two hundred years later, her popularity has not waned, but the reception of Austen s narratives and characters has certainly changed with the invention of film.
This block seminar will approach the works of Jane Austen from two different perspectives: We will look at all six of Austen s novels and assess her narratives through contemporary literary discourses. In particular, the situation of women in the Regency period considering female authors like Austen as well as the landed gentry women (single, married and widowed) Austen depicts will be centralised. On the two Saturday appointments, we will then look at exemplary filmic adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Emma to analyse how filmmakers of the 20th and predominantly 21st century have adapted and translated women s struggles to not only a new medium but also a new time, i.e. the time of the respective audience.
To this end, the works and films listed under Obligatory reading and Obligatory watching need to be read or watched until the beginning of the class to make sure all participants are on the same page. More material (predominantly secondary sources) will be made available on the VC shortly before the course. To gain access to the VC, all students who sign up for this class on FlexNow will receive an email plus a course plan before the course. Guest auditors are very welcome and asked to send an email to the lecturer to sign up for the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. 1811
---. Pride and Prejudice. 1813
---. Mansfield Park. 1814
---. Emma. 1815
---. Northanger Abbey. 1818
---. Persuasion. 1818

Obligatory watching:

• Clueless. Directed by Amy Heckerling. 1995.

• Emma. Directed by Autum de Wilde. 2020.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of Emma Approved (YouTube, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeXkf8LZ_8)

• Pride and Prejudice. Directed by Joe Wright. 2005.

• Austenland. Directed by Jerusha Hess and based on the novel by Shannon Hale (2007). 2013.

• Episodes 1-5 (or more) of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (YouTube; see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs)

Introduction to Modernism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 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 / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Modernism is a very broad cultural and literary movement, or a mode of thinking if you will, that influenced all forms of art, and to an extent also philosophy and politics. The modernist movement may be seen as a reaction to the rapid pace of society, fast development and technological boom of the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. With influences from the theories of Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche to later influencing art as one may see in the paintings of Monet and Renoir, to name a few, Modernism has its roots in Europe but spans the entire globe. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key modernist texts.
In order to do so, the course will first frame Modernism, that is to say, we shall study the movement in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance Romanticism, Realism and others. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Modernism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one.
The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Modernist poetry, with the works of T. S. Eliot, Richard Aldington and T. E. Hulme; the narratives of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce; and finally the Modernist drama of Samuel Beckett.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land (1922); Four Quartets (1941)
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Joyce, James. Ulysses (1920)
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (1952)
More to be added during the course

Reading Postmodern Drama

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others, which is essentially a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from recognising that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding; instead, it is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, always knowing that the outcome of one’s experience will necessarily be fallible and relative rather than certain and universal.

In this seminar, we will read and discuss postmodernism, in general, and postmodern drama, in particular. We will approach the plays from the perspective of a simultaneous inscription and subversion of the basic dramatic categories of character, language and reality. We will read between the lines and try to understand the double-coded nature of the postmodern plays. We may read plays by Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward, Samuel Beckett, Robert Wilson, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Tom Stoppard, debbie tucker green or Heiner Müller, to name but a few.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended Reading:
Mark Forties. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction. Routledge, 1997.
Nice Kaye. Postmodernism and Performance. Red Globe Press, 1994.

Twenty-first Century Migration Novels

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Migration, in all its facets, is one of the most discussed and debated topics of the current century; however, it is not something new, but an aged-old phenomenon and human beings have been migrating since the beginning of time. Although migration is a topic that encompasses us all in one way or the other, but the most distressing aspect of migration is how invisible the migrant can become in the everyday narrative. As a result, the voices of many undocumented migrants, immigrants, and refugees become slowly muffled or go unheard. That’s why it’s crucial to read writings by those coming from other places, foreign traditions, different religions, unfamiliar social and political structures, diverse ideologies and ways of living, and landscapes dissimilar from the host society or country. Refuting Edwidge Danticat, “these writers more than tell us. They show us. They pull us in and draw us out. They invite us into homes, families, souls,” this seminar will address aspects of migration as rendered in the most recent novels. In particular, it will investigate the link between migration and literature, immigrant experiences, immigrant narrative, leaving and arriving, nostalgia, the concept of home and the transitory nature of migrant identities as articulated in literary texts. The discussion will focus on cultural identities, reception and criticism of migrant identity, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living between two or more languages, societies and cultures.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

Abdulrazak Gurnah. By the Sea. Bloomsbury, 2001.
Aleksandar Hemon. Love and Obstacles. Picador, 2009.
Dina Nayeri. The Ungrateful Refugee. Catapult, 2019.
Jamil Jan Kochai. 99 Nights in Logar. Penguin Books, 2020.

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the British Cultural Imagination

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 01.08.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.11.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 12.12.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 27.01.2023 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

“Must Rhodes fall?” In recent years, British cultural politics has been preoccupied – on all sides – with the question of how to come to terms with the shameful and painful legacies of colonialism and Empire. Whether in the form of debates around the contemporary appropriateness of an Oxford statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes, or in the direct action that saw the statue of a slave trader unceremoniously dumped in Bristol Harbor in the summer of 2020: British society is now confronting, more consciously than ever before, its long and dark historical shadow.

This seminar examines that legacy from a wide variety of perspectives, drawn from a variety of historical eras. We will start with an overview of the current British debates around the memory of Empire. After a brief theoretical excursus through Frantz Fanon’s ground-breaking Black Skin, White Masks (1952), we’ll discuss Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative of 1789: the remarkable first-hand account of a journey from slavery to freedom. We turn next to Chinua Achebe’s devastating masterpiece, Things Fall Apart (1958), an unsparing portrait of the impact of colonialism on the Igbo Tribe in nineteenth-century Nigeria. Following this, we’ll be reading selection of poems by Derek Walcott, a Saint Lucian poet and playwright whose meditations on the personal and collective legacies of colonialism culminated in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Finally, we arrive (back) in the multicultural Britain of the twenty-first century, with Bernardine Evaristo’s globally acclaimed and multi-award-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other (2019).

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London: Penguin, 2017).

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2018).

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (London: Penguin, 2020).

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2008).

Derek Walcott, Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

Gender, Race, and Nationality: Transatlantic Literature and Culture from the 18th to the Early 20th Century

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (‘Lehrstuhl’): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 – November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

While U.S.-American Literature and Culture and British Literature and Culture are often researched, analyzed, and taught separately, literary and cultural texts have long travelled back and forth across the Atlantic. Accordingly, this seminar will provide an introduction to the field of Transatlantic Studies and investigate literary and cultural texts that journeyed from Great Britain to the United States and vice versa.

More specifically, by reading texts from different genres and periods, we will trace how questions of gender, race, and nationality are negotiated, adapted, and in some cases re-negotiated in transatlantic literature. Additionally, we will talk about the ways print culture and ideas surrounding authorship and copyright changed between the 18th and the early 20th century.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students are asked to buy and start reading the following texts BEFORE the beginning of class.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe,Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393933994)
• Paula Bernat Bennett (ed.), Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (2001)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) – preferred edition: Penguin Classics (ISBN: 978-0140435849)
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928) – preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition (ISBN: 978-0393932423)

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

Girlhood in American Environmental Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24
Einzeltermin am 7.11.2022, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> OPEN for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section ( Lehrstuhl ): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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

Inhalt:

Since the early 1990s, the number of images, texts, and discourses around girls and girlhood in popular American media, culture, and literature has increased significantly. This growing presence suggests a new, and remarkably broad cultural movement that aims to redefine and empower adolescent girls, since girlhood has historically been the other of feminism s womanhood (Day et al. 5), and the lives and struggles of girls in American society were largely, if not completely, ignored in feminist (and other emancipatory) discourses. But now, and especially in the wake of the major success of The Hunger Games (2008), there seems to be a new trend in American literature and beyond: novels with adolescent girl protagonists, who emerge as strong and divergent figures and take on crucial roles and responsibilities for the survival of their ecologically and socially devastated, if not post-apocalyptic, communities and landscapes.

In this course, we will discuss recent representations of adolescent girlhood, focusing on the entanglement of their in-between subject positions with ecological issues that have figure prominently in contemporary American environmental literature. In our readings, we will pay particular attention to the intersections of gender, age, race, class, and the environment, and explore how and why contemporary literary representations of adolescent girlhood and girls like Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Lauren Onamina, and Tally Youngblood are relevant for ecocritical studies today.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
• Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (2013)
• Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera (2019)

Please acquire a copy of these novels and start reading in this order before the semester starts! Further primary readings (excerpts from other novels and/or short stories) and secondary literature will be made available via the VC.

Recommended Movies (to accompany this course; please watch them before/during the semester):

• The Hunger Games (2012)
• Divergent (2014)
• The 5th Wave (2016)

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

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, 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. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> NOT open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• ONLY Bamberg University students: completion of the basic module literary studies (Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. Registration:

• via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
• Course Participation (de)enrollment: October 10–31, 2022 (via vhb website!)
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01–31, 2023 (via email to the instructor!)

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

Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=27003

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)

More than Meets the Eye: A Survey of POC Voices in U.S. American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

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

Termine:

Mo, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.25
Einzeltermin am 23.1.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, SP17/00.13
Einzeltermin am 13.2.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
• BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/studies/ergaenzungsmodul/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section ( Lehrstuhl ): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 November 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 01, 2023

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

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

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Inhalt:

Studying U.S. American literature and culture would be incomplete without considering the wealth of POC perspectives. In this class we will discuss exemplary and marginal cultural artefacts of the past and present and the phenomena that are closely linked to the specific historical experiences of People of Color. Our classroom material will include mostly literary texts, but also music, film, painting, sculpture, food etc. As the title of the seminar suggests, we will employ several of our senses to deal with the topic, which may also include a field trip to an exhibition.

Since we will deal with one of the key issues of American Studies, the reading list of this class will be rather extensive and students are expected to come to class prepared for lively, critical discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most shorter reading (poems, speeches, short stories, secondary reading) will be provided via the VC. However, students are expected to acquire the following books (in print or as e-book) BEFORE the start of the semester and start reading the first two books (Jacobs and Hansberry) as soon as possible:

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) - prefered edition: The Norton Critical Edition (ISBN 0393614565)
• Lorrain Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• Mark Long, Jim Demonakos (authors), and Nate Powell (illustrator), The Silence of Our Friends (2012)
• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (2018)

Additionally recommended reading:

• Kai Wright (ed.). The African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2009.
• Neil Irvin Painter. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. New York: OUP, 2007.

PS Scottish Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

Dozent/in:

Mario Ebest

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 27.1.2023, Einzeltermin am 3.2.2023, Einzeltermin am 10.2.2023, 10:00 - 17:00, MG1/01.02
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

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

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 1 until October 21, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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.

Inhalt:

In this seminar, we will familiarise ourselves with important Scottish poems and novels, all of which can be described as being part of the Scottish literary canon. At first, we will discuss the narrative poem “Tam o’ Shanter” (1791) by Robert Burns in terms of its effect of popularising Scottish folk tales. Further, lyrical works by Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean will be looked into: While MacDiarmid uses synthetic Scots in his “Eemis Stan” (1925), MacLean composed the original version of “Hallaig” (1954) in Gaelic. The cultural-linguistic implications of poems like these will be of special interest to our class.

Apart from lyrical works, novels will be in the focus of this seminar. James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) revolves around the controversial role Calvinism played in Scottish society and history. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) deals with another painful chapter of Scottish history: the Jacobite rising of 1745. Finally, Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989) will be analysed in depth – a novel which focusses on postmodern themes such as depression, trauma, and alienation.

If you would like to take part in this class, please read two out of the three novels before the seminar starts.

PS T.S. Eliot's Waste Land in Context

Dozent/in:

William Adamson

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 21.10.2022, Einzeltermin am 28.10.2022, Einzeltermin am 4.11.2022, Einzeltermin am 11.11.2022, 12:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02
Einzeltermin am 24.11.2022, 19:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.
Die Veranstaltung findet als Blockseminar statt.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 1 until October 21, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

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.

Inhalt:

This year marks the 100^th anniversary of the publication of T.S. Eliot s The Waste Land, seen as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. This seminar will look specifically at the poem in its historical and cultural context (The Waste Land was unmistakably influenced by the upheaval of World War I (1914 18)), as well as against the literary background of the time, including Ezra Pound who heavily influenced the poem s final form. We will also discuss selected poems from Eliot s collection Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) by way of introduction.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Peter Ackroyd: T.S. Eliot: A Life
B. C. Southam: A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot.