Institut für Englische Philologie (WE 6)

• BM1 Introduction to Literary Studies

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  • 17300 Grundkurs
    GK-Introduction to Literary Studies (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This lecture offers an introduction to the study of English literatures. It invites students to reflect on what one does when interacting with texts and familiarizes them with common approaches to analyzing poetry, prose, and drama, as well as broader topics like rhetoric, genre theory, literary history, and various schools of literary criticism. The primary goal of the lecture is to enhance students’ abilities as independent, critical readers, who combine the pleasure of reading with a more systematic approach to literature that is interested in the effects of literature on readers and the world.

    
    

    The lecture is accompanied by a weekly seminar where these questions, concepts, and methods will be discussed in smaller groups. Students are required to enroll separately for one of the PS ‘Working with Literary Texts’.

    
    

    The lecture will be conducted in English. Please note that while attendance is not mandatory, it is highly recommended. To successfully complete the module, students will need to actively participate in the seminar (including assignments), follow the lecture series, and take the 90-minute final exam at the end of the semester. The exam will cover the contents discussed in both the lecture and the seminar.

    
    

    This lecture is a live, in-person event. It will not be streamed or recorded. Slides will be made available after each session.

    
    

  • 17301 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17301x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts: Working with Literary Texts (Lukas Lammers)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17302 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Matilda Jones)
    Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: 002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 35 )
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17303 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (James Daniel Mellor)
    Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17303x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts (James Daniel Mellor)
    Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17304 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
    Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 18.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17304x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
    Zeit: Fr 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 18.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17305 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Peter Löffelbein)
    Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    Registration

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar. Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    Requirements

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    Blackboard

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

  • 17305x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts (Peter Löffelbein)
    Zeit: Do 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17306 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Lenka Filipova)
    Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 18.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17306x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts (Lenka Filipova)
    Zeit: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 18.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.
    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17307 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Literary Studies: Working with Literary Texts (Sophie Kriegel)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.

    
    

    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

  • 17307x Proseminar
    PS-Working with Literary Texts (Sophie Kriegel)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is designed to be taken in conjunction with the lecture “Introduction to Literary Studies: Basic Questions, Concepts, and Methods.” The two courses follow a similar structure and are closely connected. The seminar provides a space to explore in more detail concepts presented in the lecture and apply them by engaging with a variety of lyrical, narrative, and dramatic texts. In addition, students will read a small selection of critical texts which introduce them to some of the central theoretical frameworks in literary studies. Finally, the class will also include a section on academic writing and research techniques, anticipating the term papers to be written in the Aufbauphase. Overall, the seminar thus aims to enable students to understand and contextualise a historically and generically diverse range of texts and to speak and write about them in structured ways. Most of the readings as well as a full list of required texts and other important information will be made available in the first session. The class will be conducted in English.

    
    
    

    Registration

    
    

    To be able to participate in a course you will need to sign up for it in Campus Management. There are several parallel seminars for this module (17301, 17302 …), which are identical in terms of content/materials.

    
    

    The number of participants per class is limited (Teilnahmebeschränkung). Therefore, unlike in most other modules, you cannot immediately enroll in one of the seminars. Instead, you will be prompted to select preferences. Places will be assigned by the system based on your choices. Please note that individual lecturers cannot enroll you in a seminar.

    
    

    Before the first session, make sure to check which seminar you have been assigned to. For deadlines and further information on the process see here: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/campusmanagement/N3InfoStudenten/Anmeldezeitraum/index.html

    
    
    

    Requirements

    
    

    To complete the module and receive the full credits students will have to attend regularly, participate in in-class discussions, submit three short written assignments and pass the final exam (90 minutes; at the end of term; based on both the lecture and the seminar).

    
    
    

    Blackboard

    
    

    There will be a Blackboard site for this course. Normally, courses which you sign up to via Campus Management should be added to your Blackboard account automatically. Please doublecheck. Also note that the individual Blackboard sites will become available only shortly before the start of the seminar.

    
    

• BM2 Introduction to English Linguistics

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  • 17308 Vorlesung
    V-Introduction to English Linguistics (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: HFB/A Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37)
    
  • 17309 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17309x Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Linguistics (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17311 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics II (Arne Werfel)
    Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.

    
    

    The seminars will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.

    
    

    Credit requirements are:

    
    
    
    
    • regular attendance
      
    • regular active participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and homework
      
    • a written exam
      
    
    
    

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

    
    
    

  • 17311x Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Linguistics (Arne Werfel)
    Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.

    
    

    The seminars will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.

    
    

    Credit requirements are:

    
    
    
    
    • regular attendance
      
    • regular active participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and homework
      
    • a written exam
      
    
    
    

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

    
    
    

  • 17312 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to English Linguistics (Rosa Hesse)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.

    
    

    The seminars will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.

    
    

    Credit requirements are:

    
    
    
    
    • regular attendance
      
    • regular active participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and homework
      
    • a written exam
      
    
    

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

    
    

  • 17312x Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Linguistics (Rosa Hesse)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The aims of linguistics are to understand human communication, cognition and psychology and the evolution of languages as communication systems. Language is fascinating to study for its own sake, but a knowledge of linguistics is also extremely helpful for a range of other activities, for instance language teaching or translating/interpreting.

    
    

    The seminars will introduce you to basic concepts and methods in linguistics. We will study phenomena on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax), with English as our primary object of investigation and occasional glances at other languages. You will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to read academic literature and to carry out linguistic analyses of your own in more advanced modules, and to pursue further studies in the discipline.

    
    

    Credit requirements are:

    
    
    
    
    • regular attendance
      
    • regular active participation in discussions, based on weekly reading assignments and homework
      
    • a written exam
      
    
    

    The seminar is complemented by an obligatory lecture course and a tutorial.

    
    

• AM1 Surveying English Literatures

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  • 17318 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Queer Modernist Biographical Writing (Karoline-Rosina Strauch)
    Zeit: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    In 2020, biographer Diana Souhami published the book “No Modernism Without Lesbians” (Head of Zeus, 2020) emphasising the importance of queer women and gender non-conforming people in the modernist literary landscape. Souhami briefly traces the lives of four influential modernists: Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, and Bryher to illustrate their queerness and achievements. Her book challenges the androcentric modernist canon and attempts to reframe modernist history. This however is not the only attempt to remember or to be remembered, as many queer modernists themselves turned to modes of biographical writing to make sure they, their peers, and their work would not be forgotten.

    
    

    This course looks at different sub-genres of life-writing and how different modernists used them to write (queer) history. We examine the differences between biography, (fictionalised) autobiography, memoir, roman à clef, etc. and explore what censorship and libel laws of the early twentieth century meant when it came to publishing (explicitly) queer biographical content. Moreover, we will talk about the issue of fact vs. fiction in biographical material and investigate queer memorial practices through ‘archival activism’.

    
    
    

    In addition to material made available on Blackboard during the semester, we will read:

    
    

    Barney, Natalie. Women Lovers, or the Third Woman. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. (The book is available online via Primo)

    
    

    Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Combined Academic Publishing, 1991. 

    
    

    Souhami, Diana. No Modernism Without Lesbians. Head of Zeus, 2020.

    
    

    Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Vintage Classics, 2016. (Other editions of the novel are also fine)

    
    

    Please read the section on Sylvia Beach in Diana Souhami’s No Modernism Without Lesbians before the first class.

    
    

  • 17319 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Forming Poetry (Jordan Schnee)
    Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Against the backdrop of the rise of free verse, the 20th century also saw a movement towards extremely constrained writing. This seminar examines form writing in English with a focus on contemporary manifestations. Some questions we will explore in the course are: How does form potentiate poetry? Does form help writers address traumatic topics? How do “difficult” constraints paradoxically create bountiful possibilities for writers and readers?

    
     
    

    In this course, after a review of different poetic forms and how to identify them, we will read the books Darkling by Anna Rabinowitz and parts of Eunoia and The Xenotext I by Christian Bök. We will also get acquainted with Roland Barthes’ theories and look at contemporary English form poetry publisher Penteract Press.

    
    

  • 17320 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures: Wilkie Collins (Jan-Peer Hartmann)
    Zeit: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17321 Proseminar
    PS-Surveying English Literatures (Marie Catherine Menzel)
    Zeit: Di 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• AM2 Introduction to Cultural Studies

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  • 17324 Grundkurs
    GK-Introduction to Cultural Studies (Sabine Schülting)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: Hs 1a Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The course will give an overview of the questions, main approaches, and terminology of Cultural Studies. After a clarification of what we mean when we speak of ‘culture’ and a brief sketch of the historical development of (British) Cultural Studies, the course will focus on contemporary cultural phenomena (e.g. Britishness, cultural identity, constructions of gender and race, popular culture, etc.) as represented in different genres and media. These topics will serve as examples for an introduction to the basic theories and methods in Cultural Studies. The course will thus lay the foundation for the seminars in this module as well as in the “Culture – Gender – Media” module.

    The course will be organised as a series of weekly lectures with discussion.

  • 17326 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Scotland today (Cordula Lemke)
    Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17327 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Remediating Jekyll and Hyde (Cordula Lemke)
    Zeit: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/102 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Scottish folk tales have always been haunted by ghosts, witches or the devil – and these creatures haunt Scottish literature up to this day. One of the most persistent is the Doppelgänger. It has always been fascinating to writers, but it certainly reached a peak in the nineteenth century. In this period of high moral standards and utilitarian business acumen, questions of how to distinguish between good and evil became more and more pertinent to society – and incidents where moral categories collapsed were as much feared as a financial break-down. In this seminar we will follow the most famous pair, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, through different media.

    
    
    

    Text:

     
    

    Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    
    
    

  • 17328 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Screen Adaptations: Tracing Theories and Trajectories from the Cinema to Streaming Platforms (Maximilian Stobbe)
    Zeit: Do 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    As a field in which to practice working with the toolkit of cultural studies, screen adaptations offer a uniquely rich nexus – not least due to their enduring ubiquity and popularity, but also because they intersect with numerous different dimensions of cultural production. An in-depth look at any screen adaptation invites an engagement not only with the final audiovisual product, but also with questions of its medium specificity, its cultural capital, its imagined audience, its historical context, its position among other related adaptations, and its degree of “fidelity” – a highly contested notion in and of itself. Is there such a thing as a faithful adaptation? How are source texts transformed in their move from one medium to another? And on a broader scale: How has the practice of screen adaptation itself transformed in recent times? Are social media and platforms such as Netflix responsible for, as Harper Bullard (2023) puts it, “chang[ing] the world of book adaptation”? Before delving thoroughly into these and related questions, this seminar will start by familiarizing students with influential approaches to the study of adaptation by theorists such as Linda Hutcheon, Sarah Cardwell, and Eckart Voigts. We will then move through a selection of adaptations with different textual constellations, comprising media transfers such as: Booker prize novel to (heritage) film, children’s book to film, short story to short film, canonical novella to Netflix series, and graphic novel to Netflix series. The curriculum will explore, but is not limited to: The Remains of the Day (1993 film based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 novel), Coraline (2009 film based on Neil Gaiman’s 2002 children’s book), The Sense of an Ending (2017 film based on Julian Barnes’s 2011 novel), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020 Netflix miniseries based on Henry James’s 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw), season 1 of Heartstopper (2022 Netflix adaptation of Alice Oseman’s 2016 graphic novel), and the 2023 Netflix collection of short films The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (based on a number of Roald Dahl short stories from the 1970s). In class, we will also try to identify at least one other recent adaptation that the majority of students would like to examine later in the semester.

    
     
    An organizational note: Many of the adaptations we will focus on are found on Netflix; students are therefore advised to ensure access to it to adequately participate in this course. Given the sizeable number of texts and adaptations we will consider, students are also encouraged to read and watch as much of the abovementioned material as possible before the third week of the semester.
    
    

  • 17329 Proseminar
    PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies and Sexuality: Philosophy of the Bedroom (Claudia Lorraine Rumson)
    Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    What could be sexier than a big thick juicy book of cultural theory? Since the beginning of cultural studies as a discipline, issues of sexuality have occupied a place of particular interest. When and why is sex taboo? Who gets to determine what kind of sexuality is acceptable? How does sex relate to power? How do representations of sex in media affect people’s wellbeing?

    
    
    

    In this course, we will be unpacking the work of philosophers and cultural studies theorists who have written about sex, and asking what they can tell us about culture today. We will be giving a particular focus to cultural theory and narratives related to monogamy and non-monogamy. You will practice reading and interpreting cultural theory, while also becoming familiar with different schools of thought about sexuality, and applying theory to your own analysis of cultural texts.

    
    
    

    Readings will be made available on Blackboard prior to the start of the course. Full credit can be obtained on the basis of regular participation in class discussions, reflection assignments, and the eventual submission of a research paper of approximately 2000 words.

    
    

• AM3 Medieval English Literatures

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  • 17330 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Medieval Short Poems (Wolfram Keller)
    Zeit: Di 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar is meant to familiarize students with a variety of short medieval poems, both in Old English and Middle English. Following a few sessions devoted to literary-historical and generic questions, we shall start discussing Old English riddles and elegies, such as The Ruin and The Wanderer/i>. We shall then consider different kinds of Middle English poetry, including both secular (courtly lyrics and love poetry) as well as moral/devotional poetry. The discussions of the individual poems will be primarily text based (close reading), occasionally supplemented by relevant critical essays. A preliminary reading list will be available at the beginning of the semester.

  • 17331 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Old English Verse (Lea von der Linde)
    Zeit: Do 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Old English was the language spoken and preserved in written texts up to the mid-eleventh century CE in the regions of the British Isles that today make up England and parts of Scotland. It developed from the languages spoken by Germanic peoples from the continental mainland and presents the earliest precursor of Modern English.

    
    

    In this course, we will focus on Old English texts written in verse, exploring their themes, styles, meanings, and the challenges of dealing with a language surviving only in a small number of often unique and damaged manuscripts. Texts we will be reading include heroic poetry, such as Beowulf, elegies, as well as Old English versions of Biblical texts. Students will be introduced to the grammar and pronunciation of Old English and will use their knowledge to work with the original texts alongside Modern English translations. Over the course of the semester, students will also produce short translations of their own.

    
    

  • 17332 Proseminar
    PS-Medieval English Literatures: Medievalism (Peter Löffelbein)
    Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• AM4 Levels of Linguistic Analysis

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  • 17335 Vorlesung
    V-Levels of Linguistic Analysis (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: HFB/C Hörsaal (Garystr. 35-37)
    
  • 17337 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: From Lexicon to Grammar (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17339 Proseminar
    PS-Levels of Linguistic Analysis: From Lexicon to Grammar (Elif Kara)
    Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• VM-A1 Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain

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  • 17350 Vorlesung
    V-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Canterbury Tales (Andrew James Johnston)
    Zeit: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17351 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Medieval English Dream Visions (Wolfram Keller)
    Zeit: Di 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries, dream poetry was one of the most popular insular genres. Besides longer allegorical dream visions, such as William Langland’s Piers Plowman, most late-medieval English poets (including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, William Dunbar, John Skelton) penned dream poetry. Based loosely upon twelfth- and thirteenth-century continental models, medieval English dream poetry frequently offers sustained reflections both about meta-poetic and epistemological issues. Following a couple of sessions concerned with literary-historical and generic questions, we will discuss Chaucer’s dream poetry (Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, House of Fame, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women). In the second part of the semester, we shall then read fifteenth- and sixteenth-century dream poetry, especially with a view to how poets engage with the Chaucerian models. A detailed reading list will be available at the beginning of the semester.

• VM-A2 Literary Studies: Periods-Genres-Concepts

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  • 17353 Vorlesung
    V-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Modern Poetry (Stephan Laqué)
    Zeit: Do 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17354 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Scottish Hospitality (Cordula Lemke)
    Zeit: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/110 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Today's image of Scotland is still dominated by the myth of peaty and moss-covered Highlands and their tartan-wearing hospitable inhabitants who entertain weary travellers with tales of ghosts and murderers. These apparently authentic traditions can often be traced back to the need to invent a Scottish national identity that was and still is used to claim independence. Not only have these inventions found their way into the novels of the time, but writers like James Macpherson, Robert Burns and Walter Scott can indeed be seen as the source of this mythical image of Scotland. In this seminar we will look at the myths these writers employ and construct, at how these inventions affect the image of a Scottish nation and why these myths use concepts of hospitality.

    
    
    

    Texts:

    
    

    Most texts will be made available on Blackboard
    Please purchase Walter Scott’s Waverley (Penguin Classics)

    
    
    

  • 17356 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Nineteenth-Century Realism: Theory and Practice (Stephan Karschay)
    Zeit: Di 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The term ‘realism’ refers to style of representation characterized by a particular set of conventions, all of which aim at the verisimilitude (‘resemblance to reality’, ‘appearance of truth’) of the artistic work. These conventions of realist aesthetics in literature include, among other things, a richly detailed depicted world, the logical plausibility of plot and action, the complex psychology of the characters, as well as the intellectual reflection on the scientific and material conditions of empirical reality. At the same time, Realism also refers to the dominant literary epoch of the nineteenth century, whose literature was shaped by these very writing conventions. However, the term ‘realism’ often glosses over significant and subtle differences between the national forms of Realism in France, England, America, Russia, and Germany. In this seminar, we will focus on realism as a general aesthetics and an epistemological programme, and then move on to illuminate English realism in the 19th century (which, unlike French or German – ‘bourgeois’ or ‘poetic’ – realism, is less often at the centre of literary-historical discussion). In addition to important voices of English realism (e.g. George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope), we will engage with concepts that are central to any debate on realism (such as ‘mimesis’ and Roland Barthes’ ‘reality effect’) and can help distinguish realism from its later, more intensified form – naturalism.

    
    
    

    Voraussetzungen

    
    
    

    Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Moduls „Surveying English Literatures“.

    Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung).

    Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.

    
    
    

    Literaturhinweise

    
    
    

    Introductory Reading

    
    

    Mahler, Andreas. “Uses of ‘Realism:’ A Term in History and the History of a Term,” in Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics, ed. Jens Elze (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), pp. 29-40.

    
    
    

    Set Texts

    
    

    Earnshaw, Steven. Beginning Realism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).

    
    

    Eliot, George. Adam Bede [1895]. Penguin Classics or Oxford World’s Classics.

    
    

    Moore, George. Esther Waters [1894]. Ed. Stephen Regan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

    
    

• VM-A3 Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

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  • 17360 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Postcolonial London (Stephan Laqué)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17361 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Narrating Ocean Worlds, The Indian Ocean (Lenka Filipova)
    Zeit: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 18.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    
  • 17362 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Post-Mabo Australian Cinema (Jennifer Wawrzinek)
    Zeit: Termine siehe LV-Details (Erster Termin: 17.02.2025)
    Ort: KL 32/202 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    In 1992, the Australian High Court officially recognised native title and thus the occupation of the Australian continent by indigenous Australians prior to European settlement. This landmark decision, known as the Mabo decision, effectively overturned the precept of terra nullius (empty land belonging to no one) that grounded European colonial expansion on the continent, thus rewriting Australian colonial history as one of invasion, dispossession, genocide and deracination. Yet the retelling of Australian colonial history was not left uncontested. The years following the Mabo decision also witnessed the proliferation of tensions between ‘black Armband’ and ‘white Blindfold’ views of history as the Australian nation attempted to deal with the legacies of a traumatic and violent past. This course examines the ways in which various Australian filmmakers have attempted to negotiate relations between Aboriginal Australians and European settlers in the wake of Mabo. Over the course of the semester, students will critically interrogate a range of films by both black and white Australians in order to assess not only the ways in which the recognition of Aboriginal land rights and the revision of history has been negotiated in filmmaking at the turn of the new millennium, but similarly to consider the ways that these films attempt to forge a future that admits of difference and equality.

    
    
    

    Please Note: This course will be conducted as a block seminar over the course of one week (five days) immediately after the end of semester.

    
    
    

    Films will be made available for viewing on VBrick prior to the block seminar week..

    
    
    

    Set Texts:

    
    

    
    

    • Luhrmann, Baz, dir. Australia (2008)
    
    
    • Moffatt, Tracey, dir. bedevil (1993) )
    
    
    • Perkins, Rachel, dir. Bran Nue Dae (2010) )
    
    
    • Thornton, Wawrick, dir. Samson and Delilah (2011) )
    
    
    • Weir, Peter, dir. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1992) )
    
    
    
    

• VM-A4 Culture-Gender-Media

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  • 17367 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Culture - Gender - Media: The Fin de Siecle (Stephan Karschay)
    Zeit: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: JK 27/106 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The subject of our seminar will be the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle(ca. 1880-1900) in Britain, a short, but central, period in British cultural history that marked the end of one epoch and hailed the beginning of another. Uncomfortably situated between two centuries, it was long regarded as being ‘lost in transition’, alternatively interpreted as the tail-end of the Victorian age or as a period foreshadowing the Modernist onslaughts of the early twentieth century. In line with these assumptions, late-nineteenth century cultural commentators can largely be divided into two camps: those that feared the prospect of a dying age, envisioning not only a fin de siècle, but an imminent fin du globe, and those that delightedly greeted the dawning century as an exhilarating time of new beginnings. Twenty-first-century critics have righty emphasised the period’s modernity by pointing to the many cultural configurations and developments that can be perceived as palpably novel at the fin de siècle: the ‘New Woman’ questioned traditional conceptions of femininity; ‘New Men’ (such as aesthetes and decadents) relished a lifestyle far removed from bourgeois notions of masculinity; developments in foreign policy and rebellions in select areas of the British Empire resulted in an aggressive ‘New Imperialism’; a sensational form of newspaper reportage came to be labelled the ‘New Journalism’; and literary reviews registered a ‘New Realism’ in fiction by George Gissing, Arthur Morrison and George Moore. In this seminar we will read a wide variety of texts (scientific, literary, visual and expository) to appreciate the sheer variety of cultural concerns at the Victorian fin de siècle. We will critically engage with the many intellectual issues (concerning race, gender, sexuality, technology, science and the arts) which challenged the ‘Victorian frame of mind’. Our approach will be of the textual-historicist variety: rather than summarising the cultural strands of the period through recourse to secondary material, students will be encouraged to analyse a large amount of primary texts by journalistic, scientific, political and imaginative writers as diverse as H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, Charles and William Booth, Arthur Symons, Sarah Grand, ‘Mona Caird’, Andrew Lang, Joseph Chamberlain, William Morris, T. H. Huxley, F. W. H. Myers, Havelock Ellis and Karl Pearson. Furthermore, we will read at least one full-length novel, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and relate it to the rich cultural context provided by the fin de siècle. Students must own a copy of the following volume, around which this seminar is built: Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst, eds. The Fin de Siècle. A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

     

    Voraussetzungen

     

    Erfolgreiche Absolvierung des Moduls „Introduction to Cultural Studies“. Regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme, Lektüre aller im Seminar diskutierten Texte, seminarbegleitende Studienleistungen (wie z.B. response paper, Gruppenpräsentation, Expertengruppe), abschließende Seminararbeit (abhängig von Modulbelegung). Auch die ersten Wochen der Veranstaltung zählen zur regelmäßigen Teilnahme.

     

    Literaturhinweise

     

    Set Texts

    Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst, eds. The Fin de Siècle. A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

    Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891], ed. Robert Mighall (London: Penguin, 2003).

     

    Introductory Reading

    Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst. “Reading the ‘Fin de Siècle’”. Introduction. The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900, ed. S. L. & R. L. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. xiii-xxiii.

    Potolsky, Matthew. “Fin de Siècle.” Victorian Literature and Culture 46:3/4 (2018): 697-700.

     

  • 17368 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Culture - Gender - Media: Food Studies (Sabine Schülting)
    Zeit: Di 16:00-18:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
    Ort: J 27/14 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    Food is not just essential for human survival, it is also a fundamental part of individual and cultural identities. Food preferences are shaped by national or regional traditions and religious dietary restrictions or other ethical criteria, by individual family rituals, by class and sometimes also by gender. Food from other parts of the world can serve as a means of cultural encounter and (imaginary) travel. In turn, together with people on the move, food also migrates and merges with other culinary traditions. Food therefore carries meaning and functions as a means of communication, but cooking and eating rituals also form the basis of fundamental cultural practices that establish community, hospitality and conviviality. The course will give an introduction to the transdisciplinary field of Food Studies, including theoretical approaches to thinking about food. Our discussion will then move on to representations and negotiations of food in a variety of literary and non-literary genres and media (poetry, short stories, essays, films, cookbooks) from different Anglophone countries.

    Texts will be uploaded on Blackboard.

    Assessment will be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation in class activities (such as response papers, short presentations, group work) and the submission of an essay (c. 4000 words).

• VM-A5 Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

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  • 17371 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Socioling. and Varieties of English: English for Specific Purposes (Antje Wilton)
    Zeit: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: J 32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    This seminar introduces students to the field of ESP (English for Specific Purposes), commonly defined as the teaching of English to nonnative speakers in a specific professional domain. The seminar is based on the notion of English as an international language (EIL) with an important (and sometimes critical) role in professional communication. We will discuss the theoretical foundations of linguistic research into EIL, then move on to the particular requirements and challenges of teaching specialized English to adult professionals and finally explore the use of English in a number of professional fields, such as aviation, medicine, law, academia, tourism and others. Students will be required to design and participate in student-led thematic sessions.

• VM-A6 Structure of English

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  • 17373 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS- Corpus-Based Approaches to Semantics: Grammatical Alternation (Anatol Stefanowitsch)
    Zeit: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/208 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

• VM-A8 Language Change

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  • 17380 Übung
    Ü-Language Change I: Introduction to Language Change (Antje Wilton)
    Zeit: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Erster Termin: 16.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
    

    Kommentar

    The lecture will address issues of language change from a sociolinguistic perspective and with a focus on the social developments that shaped the English language throughout its history. We will explore the reasons for and types of language change, the ways to investigate it and particularly its social relevance for language users.

  • 17381 Vertiefungsseminar
    VS-Language Change II (Kirsten Middeke)
    Zeit: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Erster Termin: 14.10.2024)
    Ort: KL 29/207 Übungsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)