|
|
Departments >> Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology >> Department Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Romanistik >> Department of English and American Studies >>
|
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
| |
American Naturalism -
- Lecturer:
- Ulf Schulenberg
- Details:
- Hauptseminar, 2 cred.h
- Dates:
- Thu, 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 5: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
- Contents:
- The world is a very bad place, and you’re doomed anyway. This is the – admittedly somewhat simplified - message of naturalist texts. As a radicalized or scientized realism, naturalism was influenced by Social Darwinism, the process of industrialization, an increasingly positivistic and materialistic world view, as well as by Zola’s idea of the “bête humaine”. In this seminar, we will analyze the characteristics of this fascinating literary period. We will clarify the differences between realism and naturalism, and we will discuss to what degree naturalism prepared the ground for aesthetic modernism. We will read the following texts:
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage Frank Norris, McTeague Jack London, The Sea Wolf
- Recommended literature:
-
|
| |
AS Literature -
- Lecturer:
- Karin Höpker
- Details:
- Aufbauseminar, 2 cred.h, LAFV, LAFN, Bachelor
- Dates:
- Tue, 16:15 - 17:45, C 303
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Das Aufbauseminar Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Basismodul III Literature (keine Zulassungsvoraussetzung; empfohlen nach dem Besuch des Grundseminars Literature) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Basismodul III Literature (keine Zulassungsvoraussetzung; empfohlen nach dem Besuch des Grundseminars Literature)
- Contents:
- Building on the Grundseminar Literature, this class will introduce students to basic concepts of literary theory and provide a historical survey over its rise, developments, and controversies. We will discuss various approaches in depth and investigate how they impact our understanding of literature and our reading of primary texts.
- Recommended literature:
- Please make sure to acquire a copy of F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Penguin), which you need to have read by the first week of the semester, as well as a copy of Lois Tyson's Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Routledge), which we will read and discuss throughout the semester.
|
| |
Choreographing Identities: Modern Dance in the U.S. (Blockseminar) -
- Lecturer:
- Carmen Dexl
- Details:
- Proseminar, 2 cred.h
- Dates:
- single appointment on 19.5.2017, single appointment on 16.6.2017, single appointment on 14.7.2017, 13:00 - 19:00, C 603
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Das PS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Zwischenmodul II Culture" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsseminar) BA American Studies: "Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture - Veranstaltung mit Nordamerika-Bezug"
- Contents:
- In this seminar we will focus on a form of cultural expression that has long constituted an underrated field of research: dance, particularly modern dance. Not the least spurred by an increased critical attention to performativity and the body, dance studies have engaged in a dialogue with cultural studies since the mid-1980s and turned to explore aspects like the ideological underpinnings of stylized movement practices, the materiality of the body in motion, and the relevance of categories of age, race, gender, and sexuality for constructions and the reception of bodies in motion. Considering these theoretical concerns for our analyses, we will look at the philosophy and practice of key figures of modern dance - most notably Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, Zora Neal Hurston, and Alvin Ailey - and examine how these dancers engage the body and its social meanings in very different ways and to very different effects and purposes. In that context, we will explicate the relation of modern dance to sociocultural and historical paradigms of the period between 1910 and 1950.
|
| |
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1718: Präsenz und implizites Wissen -
- Lecturers:
- Antje Kley, Heike Paul, Christoph Ernst, Clemens Kauffmann, Kay Kirchmann, Michael Lackner, Andreas Nehring, Wolfgang Schoberth
- Details:
- Kolloquium, 2 cred.h
- Dates:
- Tue, 14:15 - 15:45, 00.3 PSG
|
| |
Post/Human Futures: Science, Technology, and the Cultural Imagination -
- Lecturer:
- Karin Höpker
- Details:
- Proseminar, Magister, Master, Bachelor
- Dates:
- Tue, 14:15 - 15:45, C 303
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Das PS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-UF Englisch (neu): "Zwischenmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Literature) L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Zwischenmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Zwischenmodul II Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsseminar) BA American Studies: "Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture - Veranstaltung mit Nordamerika-Bezug"
Das PS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Zwischenmodul II Culture" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsseminar) BA American Studies: "Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture - Veranstaltung mit Nordamerika-Bezug"
- Contents:
- In our 21st century, the boundary between science fictional fantasy and reality seems to be increasingly blurred. On an everyday level, we are surrounded by an “internet of things” and intelligent virtual assistants, “augmented reality” and remote steering technology, which enables minimally invasive surgery and drone warfare alike. We witness progress in stem cell technology, DNA-editing and -replication, and discuss whether smart cars may make decisions that kill people. Prosthetic limbs, medical implants, and pharmaceutical augmentation revolutionize how we think of the limits and possibilities of the human body, while climatological studies of the Anthropocene model disconcerting trajectories on the future of planetary ecosphere. Fiction provides a space for imagining such futures, both utopian and dystopian, and invites its audiences to negotiate individual and collective hopes and fears.
The aim of this course is to investigate into the ‘human question’ by studying a number of philosophical and literary texts as well as films and TV-productions that engage in defining and problematizing humanness. What makes us human? What separates us from non-human others such as animals or intelligent machines, and what ethical implications follow for contemporary humanism, once the boundaries of human exceptionalism are drawn into question? And what function may fictional narrative across media and genre conventions have, in coming to terms with such issues?
The class will read and discusses samples of public discourse, fiction, and theoretical texts, and will recur to the theoretical contexts and analytical skills students have acquired in the basic modules of literary and cultural studies. Throughout the semester, students will practice to work on joint projects for presentations and finish with a final scholarly paper.
- Recommended literature:
- Please purchase and read in advance: William Gibson Neuromancer (Ace), Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake (Virago), Richard Powers Generosity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Once enrollment has closed on Cassy, please make sure to sign up for the class on StudOn right away, where you will find the syllabus and specifications of course requirements.
|
| |
Violence and American Literature -
- Lecturer:
- Ulf Schulenberg
- Details:
- Hauptseminar, 2 cred.h
- Dates:
- Wed, 16:15 - 17:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 5: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs;
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs;
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
- Contents:
- Violence has been an integral part of American history and culture from the Middle Passage to the Columbine shooting and Donald Trump’s rhetoric. In this seminar, we will analyze different forms of violence; for instance, physical violence, racial violence, rhetorical violence, and epistemic violence. We will begin our discussion with theoretical texts that seek to clarify the complexity of the practice of violence. Then, we will ask whether American literature can help us determine whether there is a form of violence that can be termed genuinely American. We will read the following texts:
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
- Recommended literature:
-
|
| |
VL American Literary and Cultural History, 19th Century -
- Lecturer:
- Ulf Schulenberg
- Details:
- Vorlesung, 2 cred.h, LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor
- Dates:
- Tue, 8:15 - 9:45, KH 1.016
- Prerequisites / Organisational information:
- Die VL kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Optionsmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul B" Literature oder Culture
MA North American Studies
Mastermodul 6: "Überblicksmodul": VL plus Independent Study
Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents:
- In the nineteenth century, the multilayered complexity of American literature became increasingly obvious. In his influential Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence even advanced the argument that the real beginning of American literature was James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking novels. Furthermore, many literary scholars contend that the American Renaissance, with authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson, still ought to be regarded as the most distinguished period of American literature. This lecture course will offer a broad overview of nineteenth-century American literature. However, it will go further by discussing American literature in its cultural context. We will focus on complex terms such as “the American romance” and “regionalism,” as well as on period terms like “Romanticism,” “realism,” and “naturalism.” Furthermore, we will analyze American literature and culture in a transnational perspective, seeking to elucidate to what degree the nineteenth century can already be termed modern.
- Recommended literature:
- Jonathan Arac, The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005.
Richard Brodhead, Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Richard Gray, A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
|
|
|
|