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  • Ausgewählte Themen der Englischdidaktik GS

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    • 17477 Seminar
      Digital Tools in English Language Teaching (Christian Ludwig)
      Zeit: Di 14:00-16:00 (Erster Termin: 15.10.2024)
      Ort: , 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse)

      Kommentar

      Welcome to the Digital Age: Integrating Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence in the EFL Classroom Since the 2000s, digital technology has emerged as a significant force in education, both embraced and resisted. This course delves into the untapped potential of technology tools in foreign language education through practical, hands-on activities and projects. It covers various topics including methodological approaches to technology, syllabus development, materials selection, and task design in technology-driven learning environments. Additionally, it critically examines artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, as a key technology for future foreign language learning. Lastly, it addresses often overlooked aspects such as reflection, evaluation, and assessment when incorporating technology in the foreign language classroom. Please make sure you acquire a copy of the following book before term begins: Ludwig, Christian (2022): Digital Englisch Unterrichten: Grundlagen, Impulse und Perspektiven. Friedrich.

    • 17478 Seminar
      Short and Sweet!? – Shorties in English Language Teaching (Christian Ludwig)
      Zeit: Do 12:00-14:00 (Erster Termin: 17.10.2024)
      Ort: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)

      Kommentar

      Short-form video content is becoming increasingly popular. Despite their widespread use in everyday life, they are not commonly integrated into foreign language classrooms. To address this issue, we will explore the benefits of using short texts in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction. Additionally, we will examine various traditional and modern short formats, including fables, short stories, videos, weather reports, urban myths, proverbs, perverbs, as well as digital and multimodal texts like twitterature and Instagram stories.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D4 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).

  • Vertiefungsmodul D5 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.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D7 Semantics and Pragmatics

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  • Vertiefungsmodul D8 Language Change

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    • 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)

  • Vertiefungsmodul D1 Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Britain

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    • 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.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D2 Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

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    • 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).


  • Vertiefungsmodul D3: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures

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  • Vertiefungsmodul D4: Culture - Gender - Media

    0546bA1.11
    • 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).

  • Vertiefungsmodul D5: Sociolinguistics and Varieties of English

    0546bA1.12
    • 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.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D7: Semantics and Pragmatics

    0546bA1.14

  • Vertiefungsmodul D8: Language Change

    0546bA1.15
    • 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)

  • Vertiefungsmodul D1: Modernity and Alterity in the Literatures of Medieval Brit ain

    0546bA1.8
    • 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.

  • Vertiefungsmodul D2: Literary Studies: Periods - Genres - Concepts

    0546bA1.9
    • 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.

    • 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).