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Einrichtungen >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >> Department Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Romanistik >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >>
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Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, insbesondere Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
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"Shopping" in the 19th Century: Representations of Consumer Culture in British Literature and Culture [AE_PSSHOP] -
- Dozent/in:
- Ronja Holzinger
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Mo, 10:15 - 11:45, KH 0.023
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Das Proseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:
Voraussetzungen für den Besuch:
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- Inhalt:
- According to a 19th-century journalist: "When a woman is really and truly on pleasure bent,[...] she proposes to herself what is euphemistically termed 'a day's shopping'".
In the 19th century British culture changed greatly due to industrialisation, urbanisation and colonisation. In the city centres, such as London, a 'consumer culture' emerged;
'shopping' as a pleasurable experience and an activtiy for women gained attention.
In this seminar we will look at different texts from a wide range of genres, such as literary works, newspaper and magazine articles, 'guide-books' and advertisements.
Our analysis will consider material culture, urban spaces, power structures and representations of gender.
Among the works that will be read in class are texts from Christina Rossetti, Charlotte Bronte and George Gissing.
Please, prepare the reading of George Gissing's The Odd Women (1893) before our first session.
Further texts will be announced in the first session.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Gissing, George. The Odd Women. Ed. Patricia Ingham. Oxford: OUP, 2008 [1893].
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Britons: Forging and Sentimentalizing the Nation [AE_HSBRIT] -
- Dozent/in:
- Christian Krug
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Mi, 16:15 - 17:45, C 601
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature/Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) – HA
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zu-lassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) – HA (80 %) MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031, exam 40311: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051, exam 40511: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Culture (module 8350, exam 83501: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360, exam 83601: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3pages, 20%)) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4
- Inhalt:
- Taking our cue from Linda Colley’s classic study Britons (1992), we will explore how Wales, Scotland and England joined together and forged a new 'British' identity which now coexists uneasily with more localized identities, but specifically with 'Englishness'. This imagined community of 'Britons' involves, in the late 18th century, revised constructions of 'national identity' and what is considered the ‚national character‘ of the people. According to Harold Perkin, "[b]etween 1780 and 1850 the English ceased to be one of the most aggressive, brutal, rowdy, outspoken, riotous, cruel and bloodthirsty nations in the world and became one of the most inhibited, polite, orderly, tender-minded, prudish and hypocritical" (The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880). This shift still informs current stereotypes (such as 'stiff upper lip', 'gentlemanly behavior', but perhaps also football hooliganism). We will explore representations of such identity positions in texts ranging from Shakespeare’s Henry V to James Bond films.
We will also consider perceived challenges to dominant 'national characteristics', such as a 'sentimentalization' of British public life (e.g. in reaction to Princess Diana's death and her funeral in September 1997) - but also the sentimental strain that runs through British life. It can be traced in ‚Victorian Sentimentalities‘ (e.g. in Dickens), sentimental representations of Queen Victoria, sentimental men in novels of the late 19th century and the sentimentalism of Bollywood in Britain. It also informs forms of social organization in Britain - including concepts of 'class' (we will look at Ealing films of the 1950s and the British New Wave and gritty 'social realism' of the 1960s and '70s) and of 'family' (ranging from representations of working-class families to the one that resides in Windsor).
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Colonial Masculinities: Explorers, Adventurers, Heroes? [AE_PSCOMA] -
- Dozent/in:
- Silvia Gerlsbeck
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Di, 14:15 - 15:45, C 301
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Das Proseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Culture; Zulassungsvoraussetzungen: GOP, in der Regel Zwischenmodul I (Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)) BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Literature; Zulassungsvoraussetzungen: GOP, in der Regel Zwischenmodul I (Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: GOP, Basismodul Literature) Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen: Zwischenmodul L-UF Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: GOP, Elementarmodul Literature)
- Inhalt:
- 'The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or who have slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.'
This famous quote from Conrad's Heart of Darkness indicates the scope of our seminar: The narrator portrays the colonial enterprise as the 'white man's burden' but also already hints at how the colonial 'self' must always be negotiated between European and non-European identities. As colonialism has always been a predominantly male enterprise, we will look at representations of colonial male figures in literature and culture in this seminar and analyse ideals and stereotypes of masculinity, such as the explorer, hunter or the 'effeminate other', and their functions in colonial discourse. Our theoretical and historical context will thus unite concepts and theories of masculinity studies, colonial and postcolonial theory as well as historical dimensions of British imperialism. We will analyse archetypical representations of male explorers and adventurers in canonical texts from the 18th to the 20th century, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Conrad's Lord Jim as well as selected short stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling or Robert Louis Stevenson. Furthermore, we will also look at more recent negotiations and subversions of the male colonial 'hero' and consider postcolonial answers to these literary representations.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Please purchase the following books in the indicated edition and start reading them before term:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Oxford World Classic edition, 2008) Sir Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Oxford World Classic edition, 2016) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (Oxford World Classic edition, 2008)
Further texts and material will be announced in the first session and/or made available on StudOn.
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GS Culture [AE_GSCULT] -
- Dozent/in:
- Dozenten
- Angaben:
- Grundseminar, 2 SWS
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Das GS Culture mit Projektgruppen gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Basismodul IV Culture. (Keine Zulassungsvoraussetzung)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Basismodul IV Culture. (Keine Zulassungsvoraussetzung)
- Inhalt:
- This seminar provides a first insight into the field of contemporary cultural studies, with a special emphasis on definitions of culture and on the different approaches and methods of cultural analysis. The course also introduces students to special topics such as media studies, constructions of otherness, the role of myths in the production of social meaning, and gender studies.
Requirements and Assignments: preparation and attendance; project work and group presentation; written exam (90 minutes).
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Einzeltermine am 29.5.2019, 19.6.2019, 3.7.2019, 10.7.2019 | 14:15 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45 | C 301
Oberer Hörsaal - Pathologie | |
Gerund, K. | |
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Einzeltermine am 29.5.2019, 19.6.2019, 3.7.2019, 10.7.2019 | 14:15 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45 | C 601
Oberer Hörsaal - Pathologie | |
Krug, Ch. | |
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ISG zum HS Working-Class Heroes [AE_ISHERO] -
- Dozent/in:
- Doris Feldmann
- Angaben:
- Übungsseminar, 1 SWS, Termine nach Vereinbarung
- Termine:
- Zeit/Ort n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II), HA
MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031, exam 40311: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051, exam 40511: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Culture (module 8350, exam 83501: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360, exam 83601: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3pages, 20%)) MA Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4
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Representations of Precarity and Poverty in 19th-Century Britain [AE_PSPREC] -
- Dozent/in:
- Sandra Dinter
- Angaben:
- Proseminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Mo, 16:00 - 17:30, KH 1.014
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Das Proseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:
Voraussetzungen für den Besuch:
- Inhalt:
- In his 1845 novel Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli went so far as to claim that England consisted of "[t]wo nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets […] THE RICH AND THE POOR". Today, the nineteenth century in Britain continues to be known for the many forms of social inequality that arose in the wake of the industrial revolution. In this seminar, we will take a closer look at diverse phenomena pertaining to social inequality during this period, e.g. the New Poor Laws, workhouses, child labour, working conditions in factories, Chartism, prostitution, the slums of London and Manchester and the emergence of working-class cultures. Our focus will lie on the ambivalent ways in which novelists, poets, journalists and visual artists represented these forms of precarity and poverty in fictional and non-fictional texts. Among the works we will discuss in class are excerpts from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837-39), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "The Cry of Children" (1843), Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1855) and sections of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1861).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Please purchase and read the Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South before the beginning of the term:
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South, edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham, Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978-0140434248
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Textanalyseseminar British Literature [AE_SEBLIT] -
- Dozent/in:
- Silvia Gerlsbeck
- Angaben:
- Seminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Di, 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Dieser Kurs gehört zu folgendem Modul:
Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature
- Inhalt:
- Der Kurs vertieft durch die gemeinsame, aktive Analyse kanonischer Texte der britischen Literatur vom 16. bis ins 20./21. Jahrhundert die Kenntnis zentraler Analysekategorien. Gleichzeitig werden die Gattungstraditionen der Texte und ihre literaturgeschichtliche Einordnung vorgestellt. Dieser Kurs setzt intensive und relativ umfangreiche Lektürearbeit voraus, bitte beginnen Sie daher mit dem Lesen der unten angegebenen längeren Texte bereits vor Beginn des Semesters.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Bitte besorgen Sie sich folgende Werke in den jeweils angegebenen Ausgaben (sofern keine spezifische Edition angegeben ist, ist jede Ausgabe des Textes möglich).
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Oxford World's Classics Edition, 2008 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Norton Critical Editions, 1998 William Shakespeare, Othello, bevorzugt Arden Edition Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Eine Lektüreliste wird am Anfang des Semesters zur Verfügung gestellt. Weitere Textauschnitte und Leitfragen werden auf StudOn veröffentlicht.
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Working-Class Heroes in British Fiction and Film [AE_HSHERO] -
- Dozent/in:
- Doris Feldmann
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
- Termine:
- Do, 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature/Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) – HA
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zu-lassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) – HA (80 %) MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031, exam 40311: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051, exam 40511: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Culture (module 8350, exam 83501: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360, exam 83601: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3pages, 20%)) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4
- Inhalt:
- “A working-class hero is something to be” (John Lennon).
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, questions of socio-economic status and the dynamics of class have formed the undercurrent of British literature and culture but have simultaneously often been critically evaded in favour of other categories of social difference. Moreover, fiction and film mostly feature middle-class protagonists, with working-class characters often being confined to minor roles or constructed through processes of othering. This seminar focuses on the working-class hero as a model for subjectivity and asks why and in what way literary texts and films feature proletarian protagonists. To what extent do they constitute prominent examples of a modern heroic code negotiating changing socio-cultural norms and national self-perceptions? In order to answer these questions, we will study ‘classic’ representations of ‘the’ working-class in mid-nineteenth- and mid-twentieth-century narratives and discuss the function of iconic working-class (anti-)heroes in British cinema, with a special focus on the 1990s. We will also reflect on the performative role of fiction and film in shaping our perception of class and class stereotypes. Topics to be discussed include: ‘gritty’ documentary realism ‘vs.’ melodramatic and comic utopianism; the ‘crisis’ of masculinity and gender politics; ideologies and conflicting beliefs about social inequality and poverty; the ‘transgressive’ rhetoric and performance of resistance and desire.
Texts and films to be studied in detail: Excerpts from Henry Mayhew’s documentary record London Labour and the London Poor (will be made available online); Charles Dickens’s Christmas book The Chimes; Alan Sillitoe’s working-class ‘classic’ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the film adaptation directed by Karel Reisz; the social-problem film Riff-Raff by Ken Loach; Peter Cattaneo’s screen hit The Full Monty.
It is essential that all students read and reflect upon the texts before each class. All participants should enrol for a short oral presentation before the beginning of term (see the list in our library, C 602); all B.A. and M.A. students are expected to participate in the Independent Study Group. A class schedule and a bibliography will be made available online.
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