Wintersemester 2004/2005

 


Änderungen im Wintersemester 2004/2005


Änderungen im Kursangebot


Die aktuellen Änderungen und Berichtigungen sind auf der homepage des Seminars unter der Rubrik "Aktuell" verzeichnet.



Wichtige Informationen


Zentrale Termine

- Beginn der Vorlesungen: Montag, 18. Oktober 2004

- Ende der Vorlesungen: Samstag, 19. Februar 2005

Vorlesungsfreie Tage

- Montag, 1. November 2004 (Allerheiligen)

- Weihnachtsferien

- Freitag, 24. Dezember 2004 bis Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 (je einschliesslich)

- "Dies Universitatis": Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004, ab 17 Uhr; Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2004, ab 14 Uhr.

Beginn der Lehrveranstaltungen

- Montag, 25. Oktober 2004, falls kein anderer Termin bekanntgegeben ist.

Zentralklausur für Studierende im Bachelor- und Magisterstudiengang

- Freitag, 18. 2. 2005, 14-17 Uhr

- Freitag, 8. 4. 2005, 10-13 Uhr (Nachholtermin).


Postanschrift des Seminars:

Seminar für Englische Philologie

Wilhelmstrasse 50

72074 Tübingen

Postanschrift der Abteilung für Amerikanistik:

Seminar für Englische Philologie

Abteilung für Amerikanistik

Wilhelmstrasse 50

72074 Tübingen

Internet-Adressen

Homepage der Universität Tübingen:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/

Homepage der Neuphilologischen Fakultät:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/Neuphil-Dekanat/

Homepage des Seminars für Englische Philologie:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/index.html

Homepage des Englischen Seminars, Abt. Amerikanistik:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/ame/

Homepage des Dekanats:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/Neuphil-Dekanat/dek.html


Studienanfänger

Für Studienanfänger gibt es am

Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004, 10 Uhr, Raum 036

eine Einführungsveranstaltung. In dieser Veranstaltung erhalten Sie Ratschläge zum Studienaufbau und zur Organisation des Studiums (Modellstundenplan).

Anfängerkurse sind:

- Language and Use

- Proseminar Linguistik

- Proseminar I Literatur

- Proseminar I Mediävistik.

Wir empfehlen Ihnen, im ersten Semester die Veranstaltungen "Language and Use" sowie das PS I Literatur zu belegen. Die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung besteht auch noch nach der Einführungsveranstaltung bis zum Semesterbeginn.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass eine Anmeldung nach Semesterbeginn (Nachzüglerverfahren) lediglich für Studierende vorgesehen ist, die ihren Zulassungsbescheid erst nach dem offiziellen Semesterbeginn erhalten haben! Weitere Informationen hierzu finden Sie auf der Webseite für die Anmeldung:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/anmeldung.html.

Studierende im Grundstudium

Bitte beachten Sie:

Die Anmeldung für alle Kurse im Grundstudium

erfolgt ab dem Sommersemester 2004 über ein neues, webbasiertes Anmeldeverfahren. Informationen dazu finden Sie ab der letzten Semesterwoche des SS 2004 unter:

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nes/anmeldung.html.

Studierende im Hauptstudium

Zu den Kursen im Hauptstudium melden Sie sich persönlich an - in der letzten Semesterwoche in den Sprechstunden der Lehrenden bzw. wie im Veranstaltungsverzeichnis bei den einzelnen Kursen angekündigt. Bitte bringen Sie Studentenausweis und Zwischenprüfungszeugnis mit.

Informationen zur Internationalen VWL

Studierende des Studiengangs "Internationale VWL" mit Schwerpunkt Regionalstudien, Anglo-Amerikanischer Raum und Region Westeuropa B: bitte beachten Sie die folgenden Informationen.

Für Studierende dieses Studienganges werden vom Seminar für Englische Philologie Lehrveranstaltungen angeboten. Die Themen, Zeiten, Räume und Namen der Lehrenden entnehmen Sie bitte den Angaben auf den folgenden Seiten - und nicht dem offiziellen Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Universität - wegen erfolgter Änderungen.

Wegen Veränderungen im Studienplan des Seminars werden die Studierenden in den Regionalstudiengängen gebeten, die Übung Language and Use (2 st.) zu besuchen.

Studienberatung und Rückfragen bei Prof. Chris Harvie, Ph.D., Raum 359. Dort ist auch ein Informationsblatt zum Studienaufbau erhältlich.

Anmeldung zu den Lehrveranstaltungen: Bitte melden Sie sich zu den Lehrveranstaltungen gemeinsam mit allen Studierenden der Anglistik an; es gibt kein gesondertes Anmeldeverfahren.


Die vorliegende Veranstaltungsbroschüre gibt den Stand der Planung vom Juni 2004 wieder. Es ist daher möglich, dass bis zu Beginn des Wintersemesters noch Ergänzungen und Änderungen vorgenommen werden müssen. Die Studierenden werden deshalb gebeten, sich regelmässig über den aktuellen Stand am Informationsbrett in der Eingangshalle zu informieren. Änderungen werden rechtzeitig angeschlagen. Änderungen im Angebot werden ausserdem per Aushang an den Dienstzimmern der Kursleiter bekanntgegeben.

Die Lehrveranstaltungen beginnen ab Montag, 18. Oktober 2004, falls kein anderer Termin bekanntgegeben ist.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass Ihre Anwesenheit in der ersten Sitzung verbindlich ist, da insbesondere in stark nachgefragten Seminaren Teilnehmer bereits in der ersten Sitzung nachrücken können.

Eine Kurszuteilung im Zentralen Anmeldeverfahren und bei der persönlichen Anmeldung garantiert Ihnen daher nicht die Teilnahme am Seminar, wenn Sie in der 1. Sitzung nicht anwesend sind.


Fachstudienberater:

- Neuere englische Literatur: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen (R. 361)

- Amerikanistik: Dr. Günter Leypoldt (R. 563)

- Linguistik: Sabine Braun (R. 469)

- Mediävistik: Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)

- Sprachpraxis: Stuart Watts, BA, MA, Adv.Dip.Ed. (R. 466)

- Internationale VWL: Prof. Chris Harvie, Ph.D. (R. 359)

Zwischenprüfungsbeautragte:

- PD Dr. Susanne Winkler (R. 564)

Magisterangelegenheiten:

- Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen (R. 361)

Staatsexamensangelegenheiten:

- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)

Baccalaureusangelegenheiten:

- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)

Masterangelegenheiten:

- Dr. Fritz Kemmler (R. 407)

Auslandsaufenthalte:

- Brendan Donnellan, Ph.D. (R. 466)

Studienberatung des Englischen Seminars zu Semesterbeginn

Diese Studienberatung findet in der Woche vor Beginn der Vorlesungen statt. Gleichzeitig können Sie sich im Computerpool für die von Ihnen gewünschten Kurse anmelden.

- Mittwoch, 12-14 Uhr, Raum 128 (Computerpool)

- Donnerstag, 10-12 Uhr, Raum 128 (Computerpool)

- Freitag, 10-12 Uhr, Raum 128 (Computerpool)

bitte nutzen Sie dieses Beratungsangebot.


Allgemeiner Hinweis

Bitte beachten Sie, dass Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Bescheinigungen, Zeugnissen und der Anerkennung von Studienleistungen in der Regel ein persönliches Gespräch mit dem jeweils Zuständigen erfordern; bitte nutzen Sie deshalb dessen Sprechstunden. Sollten Sie dennoch vorab eine Auskunft per E-mail wünschen

- wenden Sie sich bitte gezielt an den zuständigen Ansprechpartner

- schildern Sie Ihr Anliegen bitte kurz und strukturiert.

Bitte beachten Sie auch, dass Sie alle eventuellen Fragen rechtzeitig klären.

Orientierungsprüfung und Zwischenprüfung:

Die Ausstellung der OP und des ZP-Zeugnisses sowie die Anerkennung auswärtiger ZP-Zeugnisse erfolgt durch die ZP-Beauftragte, PD Dr. Susanne Winkler (R. 564).

Bitte lesen Sie die Informationen am Büro der ZP-Beauftragten.

Bitte beachten Sie: Wenn für Ihr ZP-Zeugnis auch einzelne Studienleistungen auswärtiger Universitäten angerechnet werden sollen, so klären Sie die Anerkennung bitte vorher mit dem (den) betreffenden Fachstudienberater(n).

Anerkennung auswärtiger Studienleistungen

Für die Anerkennung (Grund- und Hauptstudium) sind die Fachstudienberater zuständig (vgl. Studienberatung). Die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen aus unterschiedlichen Teilgebieten (z.B. Literaturwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft) erfordert demzufolge eine Konsultation verschiedener Fachstudienberater.

Die erbrachten Studienleistungen müssen durch Zeugnisse bzw. Dokumente belegt sein. Bitte lesen Sie auch die "Richtlinien für die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen an ausländischen Universitäten".

Die Anrechnung des Sprachpraxis-Kurses "Language and Use" ist nur in Ausnahmefällen möglich.

Anrechnung von Studienzeiten ("Semestereinstufung") und Pflichtberatung bei Fach- und Studiengangwechsel

Bitte lassen Sie sich vom Fachstudienberater Ihres (ersten) Hauptfachs oder vertretungsweise bei den anderen Fachstudienberatern oder der ZP-Beauftragten beraten.

Sonstige Bescheinigungen

- Sprachzeugnisse: bei Stuart Watts nachfragen, wer im laufenden Semester beauftragt ist

- Gutachten für Bewerbungen um Assistant-Teacher-Stellen und Auslandsstipendien: alle Lehrenden

- Bescheinigung über erfüllte Voraussetzungen für das Magisterexamen:

   - in Neuerer Englischer Literatur, Mediävistik und Linguistik des Englischen: Herr Auberlen

   - in Amerikanistik: Herr Stievermann

- Überprüfung erfüllter Voraussetzungen für das Staatsexamen: Herr Schwägerle (Oberschulamt, Keplerstrasse 2)

- Bescheinigung für BAFöG: Herr Auberlen und Herr Stievermann

- Bescheinigung der Dringlichkeit eines Auslandsstudiums im Fach Anglistik (für andere Behörden als BAFöG): Studentensekretariat, Wilhelmstrasse 11

- Bescheinigung über die Durchführbarkeit eines Doppelstudiums (von der zeitlichen Belastung her): Herr Kellner (Dekanat der Neuphilologie, R. 219)

- Transkript über in Tübingen erbrachte Studienleistungen für die Heimatuniversität ausländischer StudentInnen: Akademisches Auslandsamt

- Anerkennung ausländischer Studienabschlüsse für die Zulassung zur Promotion: Dekanat der Neuphilologie.

Informationsbroschüren

Im Sekretariat des Seminars für Englische Philologie (Zimmer 208) und im Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558) können Sie ausserdem folgende Informationsmaterialien erhalten:

- Studienplan für den Baccalaureus-Artium-Studiengang, #(E) 1,--

- Studienplan Englisch (Staatsexamen), #(E) 1,--

- Studienplan für die Magisterstudiengänge, #(E) 1,--

- Lektüreliste, #(E) 1,30.


Leistungspunkte (Credits)


Leistungspunkte (Credit points)

Am Seminar für Englische Philologie und an der Abteilung für Amerikanistik sind den einzelnen Veranstaltungstypen die folgenden Leistungspunkte nach dem ECTS ("European Credit Transfer System") zugeordnet:

- Vorlesungen: 2 Punkte je Semesterwochenstunde

- Sprachpraktische Übungen: 2 Punkte je Semesterwochenstunde

- Proseminare (I/II/III/LPS): 8 Punkte

- Hauptseminare: 10 Punkte

- Oberseminare: 10 Punkte.


Studienbegleitende Bachelor- und Magisterabschlussklausur


Studienbegleitende Bachelor- und Magisterabschlussklausur

Die verbindliche Meldung zur Bachelor- und Magisterabschlussklausur erfolgt in den Haupt- bzw. Oberseminaren. Der Termin für die Bachelor- und Magisterabschlussklausur ist i.d. R. der letzte Freitag des Semesters (Prüfungswoche). Sollten Sie durch Krankheit verhindert sein, müssen Sie ein ärztliches Attest vorlegen, andernfalls gilt die Klausur als nicht bestanden.

Bei Nichtbestehen der Klausur (ab Note 4,3) haben Sie die Möglichkeit, nach Rücksprache mit dem Seminarleiter eine Hausarbeit anzufertigen oder an der Nachholklausur teilzunehmen. Die Meldung zur Nachholklausur erfolgt ebenfalls über den Seminarleiter. Der Termin für die Nachholklausur ist i.d. R. der Freitag in der Woche vor dem Beginn des folgenden Semesters.

Bitte beachten Sie: Die Wiederholung einer bestandenen Prüfungsleistung (z.B. zur Verbesserung der Note) ist nicht zulässig (vgl. Magisterprüfungsordnung, § 20 Abs. 1).

Für die Klausur sind drei Fragen aus dem Themenbereich des Haupt- bzw. Oberseminars zu stellen, von denen eine zu bearbeiten ist. Die Klausur ist i.d. R. in englischer Sprache abzufassen. Studierende im Studiengang "Internationale VWL" müssen die Klausur in englischer Sprache abfassen. Zugelassene Hilfsmittel sind das Collins English Dictionary oder das American Heritage College Dictionary.


Plagiate


Plagiat: Abschreiben aus dem Internet und anderen Quellen

Alle schriftlichen Arbeiten, die Sie im Verlauf Ihres Studiums im Rahmen von Lehrveranstaltungen einreichen, müssen Sie selbständig und ohne fremde Hilfe verfassen. Zitate sowie der Gebrauch von fremden Quellen und Hilfsmitteln müssen von Ihnen deutlich nach den Regeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentation markiert werden, so wie es in den einführenden Lehrveranstaltungen (PS I, Tutorium) gelehrt wird.

In der letzten Zeit sind eine Reihe von Fällen aufgetreten, wo Texte oder Teile von Texten vor allem aus dem Internet kopiert und als eigene Leistung ausgegeben und eingereicht wurden. Dies ist nicht nur ein gravierender Verstoss gegen die Grundregeln wissenschaftlicher Dokumentationspflicht. Schwerer noch wiegt, dass durch Plagiate ("Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums") die Lehrenden mit Absicht getäuscht und die Mitstudierenden benachteiligt werden.

Daher gilt am Englischen Seminar und an der Abteilung für Amerikanistik für alle Fälle nachgewiesenen Plagiats folgende Regelung:

1. Schriftliche Arbeiten, in denen Fremdtexte als Eigenleistungen ausgegeben sind (Plagiat), werden mit der Note "ungenügend" zurückgegeben. Eine Wiederholung der betreffenden Arbeit kann nicht gewährt werden.

2. Studierende, denen ein Plagiat nachgewiesen wird, werden aus dem betreffenden Kurs mit sofortiger Wirkung ausgeschlossen.


Vorlesungen


Lehrende des Seminars für Englische Philologie

Vorlesung: Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft

Di 9-11 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Diese Vorlesung richtet sich an Studierende in den ersten Semestern. Sie ist als eine Einführungsvorlesung konzipiert, die in Verbindung mit den literaturwissenschaftlichen Proseminaren I besucht werden sollte. Die Vorlesung vermittelt Grundlagenwissen zu zentralen Fragestellungen der anglistischen und amerikanistischen Literaturwissenschaft in ihrem gegenwärtigen Fragestellungen der anglistischen und amerikanistischen Literaturwissenschaft in ihrem gegenwärtigen Fachverständnis, das auch Fragen der Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft einbezieht. Insbesondere wird das begriffliche Instrumentarium zur Analyse von narrativen, dramatischen, lyrischen und expositorischen Texten vorgestellt und praktisch erprobt.

Literatur: Ein Reader mit relevanten Textauszügen kann in der ersten Sitzung erworben werden.

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N.N.

Vorlesung: The Victorian Novel in Context

Mo 10-12 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

In the 19th century, the English thought of themselves as a novel-reading nation - "from the Prime Minister to the last-appointed scullery-maid", as Anthony Trollope put it in 1870. This lecture course seeks to place the Victorian novel in its contexts, trying to cover a broad range both of the novel's subgenres and of aspects with which narrative fiction interacted in the Victorian era: social, ideological, political, economic, technological, etc. A number of theoretical approaches to the relationship between literature and society will be discussed.

Since the lectures will attempt to cover a great variety of Victorian novels, students ought to acquaint themselves with as many texts as possible; the reading list of the English Seminar (available from the Sekretariat) will help you choose. Texts to be discussed in the sessions will include work by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Benjamin Disraeli, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

Vorlesung: Tragedy in Shakespeare's Time

Mi 16-18 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

The lecture course will focus on three major Shakespearean tragedies, Hamlet (c. 1601), Othello (c. 1602), and Macbeth (c. 1605), which will be considered as individual plays as well as read in the context of the genre and its development in England. This context will be represented by Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (c. 1588), Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (1589) and George Chapman's Bussy d'Ambois (c. 1598/1607). Themes to be discussed will include the concept of the human soul and psyche in relation to the state, society and individual human beings; the literary, religious and cultural concepts of ambition and revenge; and the verbal representation of characters and ideas.

The attempt will be made to address the needs and interests of beginners as well as those who will choose the subject as a topic for their final exams.

Texts: The Arden, Oxford World's Classics, or New Cambridge editions of Shakespeare's tragedies; the Oxford World's Classics ed. of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Other Plays; The Spanish Tragedy and The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois are available in the Oxford World's Classics volume Four Revenge Tragedies, ed. Katharine Eisaman Maus.

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Prof. Dr. Christopher Harvie

Vorlesung: Industry after Marx: Regionalism, Society and Culture in Wales, Scotland and Baden-Württemberg

Do 14-16 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This lecture-series (for those who want it with an associated Hausarbeit or Klausur) deals with the evolution of industrial society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also acts as a way of connecting cultural and literary studies with the way in which we earn our living. It will therefore have three components: the classic Marxian presentation of industrial revolution as exemplified by Victorian Britain, and the way it was modified by constitutionalism, welfare and military organisation.

But we'll aslo analyse the industrial scene 'from ground level' in three different regions: Wales (farming, changing to coal), Scotland (engineering to oil and services) and Baden-Württemberg (farming and forestry to motor manufacturing) from its situation in the present period.

Lecture Timetable:

Viewing the World:

1 21 Oct The Britain that Karl Marx Knew, 1851-1914 (with slides)

2 28 Oct Europe in the Century of Total War, 1914-1990

Industrial Views:

3 4 Nov The Evolution of the Global

4 11 Nov Swabia from the 'Comical Animals' of 1851 to the 'A'-Class

5 18 Nov Three Views of Wales: Y For Cymraeg; Welsh Wales; British Wales

6 25 Nov Scotland from Adam Smith to North Sea Oil

Viewing the Regional:

7 2 Dec Agricultural Society

8 9 Dec The Evolution of 'Paleotechnic' Industry, 1750-1914

9 16 Dec Urban and Rural Life

10 13 Jan Family, Religion and Education

Viewing Change:

11 20 Jan Film: 'The Man in the White Suit' (1950), directed by Sandy McKendrick with Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Ernest Thesiger

12 27 Jan Regions and Technology

13 3 Feb Regions and Money

14 10 Feb The Identity and Prospects of the Region

15 17 Feb Klausur: from 14-17 or at other times to be announced.

Texts: Compulsory Reading:

     Harvie, Christopher, Mending Scotland: Essays in Regional Economics (Argyll, 2004: forthcoming in August 2004.

Requirements: for an LPS-equivalent Schein: attendance plus a Hausarbeit (c. 2500 words) or a 3-hour Klausur.

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Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn / Stu Watts, BA, MA / PD Dr. Susanne Winkler

Vorlesung: Introduction to Applied English Linguistics

Do 8:30-10 · Raum 036 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

The main goal of this lecture is to bring together the core areas of linguistic research with the main aim of showing how the individual components work together when people use language to communicate. The lecture consists of three parts. The first part will review the main trends in the development of modern linguistic theory: structuralism, generative grammar, pragmatics, discourse analysis. Particular attention will be given to models of language (system, knowledge, use) with an emphasis on cognitive approaches. The second part will focus on phonetics and phonology. The third part will concentrate on the structural aspects of meaning with a special emphasis on the formation and interpretation of words (morphology), phrases and sentences (syntax). In doing this, we will discuss different approaches to the study of language (traditional, formal, cognitive, minimalist) and relate them to different resulting grammars (types of theoretical adequacies).

Attention: A final web-based test will be part of the "Zwischenprüfung" for English Linguistics.

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Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt

Vorlesung: Literary History: A Systematic Approach

Do 9-11 · Raum 027 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

The aim of this course of lectures is two-fold: On the one hand it will present a systematic overview of the historical development of English literature which should come in handy as background knowledge for all kinds of seminars and for preparing exams. On the other hand it will discuss the criteria and premisses on which the construction of literary or cultural histories is inevitably based. Thus, students will be alerted to the cultural factors which have governed the writing of literary history in the past, and the lecturer will try to be as explicit as possible with regard to the construction principles underlying his story.

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz

Vorlesung: Die englische Literatur Indiens

Do, Fr 9-10 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Anders lautenden Absichten und Prognosen zum Trotz ist die englische Sprache in Indien nach mehr als fünfzigjähriger Unabhängigkeit eine "lingua franca" und ein "Fenster zur Welt" geblieben. Entsprechend wandelte ich die englische Literatur Indiens von einem umstrittenen Produkt kolonialer Machtentfaltung zu einem wichtigen Medium der kulturellen Integration von über einer Milliarde Menschen in Südasien und darüber hinaus zu einem weithin anerkannten Instrument indischer Selbstdarstellung und Selbstbehauptung. Die Vorlesung gibt eine Einführung in diese erstaunliche Geschichte und ihre Zusammenhänge von der frühen Kolonialzeit zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. In der Form eines Überblicks werden zunächst Textbeispiele der kolonialen Literatur des "Raj" (der "anglo-indischen" Herrscherkaste) mit Texten der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung kontrastiert. Abschliessend werden exemplarische Werke zeitgenössischer "indo-englischer" Schriftsteller(innen) sowie von Autorinnen und Autoren der indischen Diaspora in ihrem geschichtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext verständlich gemacht. Die Vorlesung liefert wichtige Grundlagen für mein Proseminar zu Rudyard Kipling sowie für mein Hauptseminar "English Writing in India / Indian Writing in English".

Literatur: Die Texte für den historischen Rückblick werden in zwei Anthologien vorgelegt. Darüber hinaus sind über den Buchhandel erhältlich:

     Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills (Penguin) ISBN 01401.83124

     E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (Penguin) ISBN 01401.80761

     Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable ISBN 01401.83957

     G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr (Penguin/McPherson)

     Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Picador) ISBN 0330 267140

     Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Vintage PB)

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Übungen im Grundstudium


Achtung: Ab dem Sommersemester 2003 greift im Bereich der Sprachpraxis folgende Regelung:

Die erfolgreiche Teilnahme am Kurs Language and Use (früher: English Grammar and Usage I) ist Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an allen weiteren Sprachpraxiskursen, den Proseminaren II/III und den landeskundlichen Proseminaren (LPS).

Bei der Anmeldung zu den weiterführenden Kursen müssen Sie einen mit mindestens "ausreichend" benoteten Teilnahmeschein für Language and Use bzw. English Grammar and Usage I vorlegen.

Kurse ab dem 1. Semester

Language and Use (2 st.) (früher: English Grammar and Usage I) Vorlesung: Lethbridge, Mittwoch, 18-20 Uhr, Raum wird angekündigt.

Bitte beachten Sie: Der Besuch dieser Vorlesung ist für alle Teilnehmer der Kurse verbindlich.

Die Termine für die Abschlussklausur (i.d. R. letzte Semesterwoche) werden per Aushang bekannt gegeben - bitte informieren Sie sich in der Eingangshalle.

A10: Donnellan Mo 18-19 · Raum 108

A11: Donnellan Mo 19-20 · Raum 108

A12: Donnellan Di 20-21 · Raum 108

A13: Donnellan Di 21-22 · Raum 108

A14: Löffler Fr 8-9 · Raum 206

A15: Löffler Fr 9-10 · Raum 206

A16: Löffler Fr 10-11 · Raum 206

A17: Löffler Fr 11-12 · Raum 206

A18: Matley Mo 10-11 · Raum 306

A19: Matley Mo 11-12 · Raum 306

A20: Matley Mi 10-11 · Raum 05

A21: Matley Mi 11-12 · Raum 05

A22: N.N. Mo 12-13 · Raum 406

A23: N.N. Mo 13-14 · Raum 406

A24: N.N. Do 10-11 · Raum 119

A25: N.N. Do 13-14 · Raum 119

Kurse ab dem 2. Semester

Diese Kurse können Sie nur belegen, wenn Sie den Kurs Language and Use bzw. English Grammar and Usage I erfolgreich absolviert haben.

Oral Communication I (2 st.) (früher: Oral Communication)

B10: Lethbridge Di 12-14 · Raum 119

B11: Matley Mo 14-16 · Raum 108

B12: Matley Mi 12-14 · Raum 05

B13: N.N. Mi 16-18 · Raum 119

B14: N.N. Mo 8-10 · Raum 206

Written Communication I (2 st.) (früher: Grammar and Usage II)

C10: Lethbridge Do 14-16 · Raum 206

C11: Lethbridge Mi 10-12 · Raum 119

C12: Löffler Fr 12-14 · Raum 206

C13: Matley Di 10-12 · Raum 108

C14: Matley Di 12-14 · Raum 108

C15: N.N. Di 8-10 · Raum 119

C16: N.N. Di 12-14 · Raum 206

Translation I (2 st.) (früher: Translation II bzw. Translation Grundstudium)

D10: Donnellan Di 18-20 · Raum 108

D11: Donnellan Mi 18-20 · Raum 108

D12: N.N. Do 8-10 · Raum 119

D13: Watts Fr 10-12 · Raum 119

D14: Watts Fr 12-14 · Raum 119

Siehe auch:

- Fachdidaktik Englisch

- Lektürekurs Mediävistik ("Mediävistik am Donnerstag")

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

Lektürekurs: Mediävistik am Donnerstag

Do 12-13 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Dieser Kurs wendet sich an alle an der (englischen) Mediävistik interessierten Studierenden. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Kurses liegt auf der intensiven Lektüre (kürzerer) alt- und mittelenglischer Texte aus ganz unterschiedlichen literarischen Gattungen. Zusätzlich soll auch der literatur- und sozialgeschichtliche Kontext der Texte erarbeitet werden.

Schwerpunktthema im Wintersemester: Medieval "Theories" of Literature.

Literatur: Ein Reader wird in der ersten Sitzung erhätlich sein.

Anmeldung: nicht erforderlich.

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Dr. Helga Korff, StD

Z10 Fachdidaktik: Colonial and post-colonial stories: Aspects of teaching short stories in the advanced EFL-classroom

Fr 11-13 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 29. 10. 2004

Teaching this most widely used literary form in the classroom offers a wide range of creative and analytical methods and strategies which will be explored in this class. The choice of stories is that of the new Sternchenthema for the Abitur in BW and includes authors like Conrad, Orwell, Lessing, Kureishi, Rushdie et al.

This class will also provide a general introduction to the teaching of English at school (advanced level). It is intended for students who have finished their Praxissemester.

Texts: A reader will be available in the first session.

Requirements: active participation, oral presentation of a lesson-plan and written exam.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.

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Harald Weisshaar, StD

Z11 Fachdidaktik: Introduction to Fachdidaktik Englisch

Mo 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar is intended for students who have just started or finished their Praxissemester. It is designed to introduce a number of methods to transfer University knowledge to the classroom. Some of the topics touched upon will be motivation, communicative competence, vocabulary, grammar, cultural studies, listing comprehension, literature and creative writing. Using the example of "film" in the classroom we will concentrate on the following questions: how can we use film to illuminate literature? Where and how could we use films? How do we read a film in the classroom? What are the main benefits and/or problems? Students will get a chance to practice and evaluate their presentation skills. As an integral part of the course, we will also attend a film shown at the DAI, Museum or Film Club and discuss its "usefulness" for teachers.

Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.

Literatur: A Handapparat will be made available at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, an oral report, preparing for and evaluating a film evening. Instead of a final exam or Hausarbeit, students will be required to keep a Learning Portfolio throughout the term. More detailed information will be made available at the first session.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Linguistik PS


Linguistische Proseminare

Im Wintersemester wird es keine Unterscheidung zwischen PS I und PS II Linguistik geben. Es wird nur ein Typ von Proseminar angeboten: "PS Linguistik". Für die StudentInnen, die schon ein PS I "Introduction to Linguistics" besucht haben, wird der angebotene Kurs als PS II gelten, d.h. sie müssen am Ende eine Zwischenprüfungsklausur schreiben, in die auch Inhalte der Vorlesung einbezogen werden. Für die StudentInnen, die noch kein linguistisches Proseminar gemacht haben, wird der angebotene Kurs als PS I gelten. Die Endqualifikation wird dann vom Seminarleiter/ von der Seminarleiterin bestimmt.

Sabine Braun

J10 Proseminar English Pragmatics

Mo 12-14 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

Pragmatics is the (vast) subfield of linguistics that is concerned with language use: People use language to communicate ideas or beliefs (or to express emotion), and they do so as part of social events, e.g. in such contexts as an encounter with friends, a phone call, a job interview, or when writing or reading a news report.

In this course, the focus is on how people go about producing and understanding talk and text and how they organise their talk or text in accordance with whom they are talking or writing to, where, when, and under what circumstances.

The goals of this course are to give students a basic understanding of pragmatics as well as to promote a general approach to the study of linguistic phenomena which is based on the analysis of naturally-occurring data.

The syllabus includes Grice's contribution to modern pragmatics, the foundations of relevance theory, explicit and implicit communication, metaphor and irony. The course involves in-class discussion of the different approaches, group presentations of selected topics as well as data analysis exercises.

Texts:

     George Yule. Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.

     Diane Blakemore. Understanding Utterances. An Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell.

     Additional papers and articles from selected books.

Requirements: regular attendance, active participation in class activities, oral group presentation, Klausur

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Sabine Braun

J11 Proseminar English Pragmatics

Mo 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

Pragmatics is the (vast) subfield of linguistics that is concerned with language use: People use language to communicate ideas or beliefs (or to express emotion), and they do so as part of social events, e.g. in such contexts as an encounter with friends, a phone call, a job interview, or when writing or reading a news report.

In this course, the focus is on how people go about producing and understanding talk and text and how they organise their talk or text in accordance with whom they are talking or writing to, where, when, and under what circumstances.

The goals of this course are to give students a basic understanding of pragmatics as well as to promote a general approach to the study of linguistic phenomena which is based on the analysis of naturally-occurring data.

The syllabus includes Grice's contribution to modern pragmatics, the foundations of relevance theory, explicit and implicit communication, metaphor and irony. The course involves in-class discussion of the different approaches, group presentations of selected topics as well as data analysis exercises.

Texts:

     George Yule. Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.

     Diane Blakemore. Understanding Utterances. An Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell.

     Additional papers and articles from selected books.

Requirements: regular attendance, active participation in class activities, oral group presentation, Klausur

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Edward Göbbel

J12 Proseminar English Syntax

Mi 10-12 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This seminar offers an introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, usually referred to as the Minimalist Program. Topics to be discussed include the structure of phrases and sentences, different complementation patterns, questions, passive sentences and various other syntactic phenomena. The major aim is not only to formulate rigorous syntactic rules, but to develop an explanatory account. This means that we will also be concerned with explaining why certain constructions are ungrammatical in English and how English differs from other languages.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Edward Göbbel

J13 Proseminar English Syntax

Do 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This seminar offers an introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, usually referred to as the Minimalist Program. Topics to be discussed include the structure of phrases and sentences, different complementation patterns, questions, passive sentences and various other syntactic phenomena. The major aim is not only to formulate rigorous syntactic rules, but to develop an explanatory account. This means that we will also be concerned with explaining why certain constructions are ungrammatical in English and how English differs from other languages.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Alexia Kallia, M.A.

J14 Proseminar English Syntax

Mi 8-10 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

The aim of this seminar is to offer an introduction to generative syntax. Students will have the opportunity to acquire the theoretical concepts used in generative approaches and to apply them in the syntactic analysis of English sentence structure. We will start with phrase and sentence structure and then we will study binding and movement (questions and passive sentences). We will deal both with the abstract rules that underly these phenomena and with their practical applications. The main emphasis will be on Modern English but we will also have a look at other languages and Early Modern English.

Texts: Selected chapters from introductory books.

Requirements: Regular attendance, weekly exercises, one short oral report, Klausur.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Alexia Kallia, M.A.

J15 Proseminar English Pragmatics

Mi 12-14 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

In a nutshell, pragmatics deals with the meaning of language in the context in which it occurs. So what this introductory course is about is how we use utterances in conversation and what they do, how the same utterance produced in different contexts acquires different meanings, how speakers realize their intentions in speaking so that they do not always mean what they just say but usually something more (and sometimes something else) and how hearers are able to work out the intended meaning each time. We will have a look at key notions of pragmatics that contribute to the generation and itnerpretation of meaning, like context, background knowledge, appropriateness, relevance, etc. Then we will discuss major pragmatic theories (Grice's theory of conversational implicature, Austin's and Searle's Speech Act theories, and pragmatic theories of presupposition).

Texts:

     Thomas, Jenny. Meaning in Interaction. London: Longman, 1995.

     Yule, George. Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP, 1996.

     Brown, Gilian and George Yule. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.

     plus selected chapters from other introductory books when necessary.

Requirements: regular attendance, weekly exercises, one short oral report, Klausur.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv. Dip. Ed.

J16 Proseminar English Pragmatics

Di 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2003

"Meaning is Use." Wittgenstein.

"When I use a word ...... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Humpty Dumpty.

After a brief introductory phase dealing with some of the (philosophical) origins of modern Pragmatics, we will move on to thoroughly investigate the two major themes explored by this subject - how we mean and understand more than is explicitly communicated, and how we actually 'do' things with language. At the end of the course, by means of brain-storming and mind-mapping, we will attempt to find the common ground created by the different ideas and theories we have examined.

This seminar will mainly consist of classroom presentations by students, which should lead to a lively and extensive discussion of the topics at hand. If you feel you're curious, opinionated, loquacious and self-reliant, well, come on in, the water's great!

Please purchase and read Yule, G (1998) Pragmatics before the course begins.

Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation; classroom presentation, exercises and a handout; final exam.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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PD Dr. Susanne Winkler

J17 Proseminar English Syntax

Mo 12-14 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar offers an introduction to recent developments in generative syntax, usually referred to as the Minimalist Program. Topics to be discussed include the structure of phrases and sentences, different complementation patterns, questions, passive sentences and various other syntactic phenomena. The major aim is not only to formulate rigorous syntactic rules, but to develop an explanatory account. This means that we will also be concerned with explaining why certain constructions are ungrammatical in English and how English differs from other languages.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Literaturwissenschaft I


Lehrende des Englischen Seminars

Propädeutikum: Grundlagen des literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens

Di 18-20 · Raum 037 · Beginn: 02. 11. 2004

Diese Veranstaltung ist verpflichtend für alle Studierenden, die ein Proseminar I Literatur besuchen. Sie bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die grundlegenden Arbeitstechniken, die in den literaturwissenschaftlichen Seminaren im weiteren Studienverlauf vorrausgesetzt werden: Dies betrifft etwa Tipps zur Vorbereitung und Präsentation von Referaten, Hinweise zur Bibliotheksbenutzung und Literaturrecherche, Lesetechniken, Vorgaben zur formalen und inhaltlichen Strukturierung von Hausarbeiten, Zitierregeln, Tipps fürs Auslandsstudium u.v. m.

Ein Reader zur Vorlesung wird zu Beginn des Semesters zur Verfügung gestellt.

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Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen

N10 PS I: Introduction to Drama

Di 16-18 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

The aim of this proseminar is to introduce students in the Grundstudium to techniques and critical terms useful for the analysis of drama. The texts selected for analysis belong to different genres: morality play, tragedy, comedy, epic drama, Theatre of the Absurd. Special attention will also be paid to practical things like the presentation of oral reports and the writing of term papers.

Texts:

     Anon., Everyman (Norton Anthology, vol.1)

     William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Arden)

     William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Arden)

     Thornton Wilder, Our Town (Reclam Fremdspracheentext 9168)

     Samuel Becket, Play (Faber)

Requirements: The minutes (Protokoll) of one session, oral report, mid-term Klausur, term paper (7-8 pages)

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Lars Eckstein

N11 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies

Mi 12-14 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This seminar is intended for first year students. We will explore several concepts and methods of the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. This will involve careful readings of poems, prose texts and plays, which in our case will be mainly works either written about, or from Africa.

Texts: Please buy and read:

     Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures. Tübingen/Basel: Francke (UTB), 2004.

     Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critcal Edition)

Requirements: Regular active attendance, oral presentation(s), short mid-term exam and essay, term paper

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler

N12 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature)

Mo 10-12 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar is designed as an introductory course. It will explore the central concepts and methods of the analysis and interpretation of literary texts (fiction, drama, poetry). The selection of texts will cover canonical texts of American literature and some of the major literary epochs from the 16th century to the present.

Texts:

     Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (Bantam)

     Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth - A Streetcar Named Desire - The Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays).

     A reader with additional texts will be supplied at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance (of both class and tutorial), active class participation, short oral reports, essays.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Dr. Günter Leypoldt

N13 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies

Mo 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This beginner's course will serve as an introduction to basic categories and tools relevant to the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. Covering all genres, we will explore questions of narrative, poetic, and dramatic form as well as cultural and historical context.

Texts: Please buy the following books:

     Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures (ISBN 3-8252-2526-7)

     Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3577-3)

     Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (Vintage. ISBN: 0-6797-3477-5).

     The remaining material will be supplied in a reader.

Requirements: Regular attendance at class and tutorial, oral presentation, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt

N14 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies

Mi 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

The course provides a general survey of the field of literary studies and introduces a terminological and methodological 'tool kit' for analysing literary texts. Towards the end of term we will also have a look at recent developments in the field such as increasing importance of literary theory, media students and cultural studies. The course will be based on the following books:

Texts:

     Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures. Tübingen/Basel: Francke (UTB), 2004.

     Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, Oxford UP, 2000.

As these will be helpful in all your future studies, it is strongly recommended that you buy your personal copies.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation and 'Klausur'.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Annika Requardt, M.A.

N15 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature)

Mi 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This seminar is intended for first year students. It will introduce students to the study of American Literature. In the course of the semester students will be provided with techniques for analyzing and interpreting literary texts. These techniques will be applied to various poems, prose texts and plays from different epochs in American literary history.

Texts: A reader with additional texts will be supplied at the beginning of the semester. Please buy the following text:

     Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures, Francke, 2004.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral presentation, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Dr. Ralf Schneider

N16 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies

Di 14-16 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

This seminar, which is intended for beginners, will introduce students to the study of literature, the techniques of analysis and interpretation of texts. We will read poetry, prose (a novel) and drama, and we will analyze a filmed version of the theatre play. The texts will be chosen from different epochs in literary history in order to demonstrate the varying relationships between texts and contexts.

Texts: Some of the texts will be provided at the beginning of the semester. In addition, please buy the following texts (any edition, except bilingual ones):

     William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

     Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton

Requirements: Regular participation in the seminar and the Propädeutikum, short mid-term essay, oral presentation ( Referat, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Jan Stievermann

N17 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (American Literature)

Mi 9-11 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This beginners' course is designed to introduce basic critical concepts and interpretative approaches relevant for the analysis of literary texts. These theoretical tools will be applied to a representative selection of American writings (fiction, drama, poetry) from the colonial period to the present which will give participants a general overview of the historical development of literature in the U.S..

Texts: Please buy the following books:

     Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures

     Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire And Other Plays. London: Penguin Classics, 2000.

     The remaining material will be supplied in a reader.

Requirements: Regular attendance at class, examination, two short essays.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Horst Trossbach

N18 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies

Do 18-20 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This beginner's course is designed as an introduction to literary terms and techniques of the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. The selection of texts will cover fiction, drama and poetry from several major literary epochs.

Texts:

     Bernard Shaw, Plays Unpleasant (Penguin)

     Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin)

     Additional texts (fiction and poetry) will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance, oral presentation, mid-term test and essay, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Angelika Zirker

N19 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (English Literature)

Mi 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This course aims at the introduction of basic critical concepts as well as the analysis and interpretation of a selection of literary texts from poetry, drama and fiction. Furthermore, a general overview of the history of English literature will be provided.

Texts:

     William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden, Oxford or Cambridge edition)

     Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)

     Some of the poems will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation, oral presentation, short mid-term essay and term paper

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Angelika Zirker

N20 PS I: Introduction to Literary Studies (English Literature)

Di 14-16 · Raum 120 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

This course aims at the introduction of basic critical concepts as well as the analysis and interpretation of a selection of literary texts from poetry, drama and fiction. Furthermore, a general overview of the history of English literature will be provided.

Texts:

     William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden, Oxford or Cambridge edition)

     Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)

     Some of the poems will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation, oral presentation, short mid-term essay and term paper

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

A Propädeutikum, in which students will be introduced to elementary study skills, will accompany this course. Details will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Participation in both the seminar and the Propädeutikum is obligatory.

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Literaturwissenschaft: Proseminare II


Literaturwissenschaft II


Bitte beachten Sie: Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an diesen Proseminaren ist die erfolgreiche Teilnahme am Proseminar Literatur I sowie Language and Use!

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen

O10 PS II: James Joyce

Di 8.30-10 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

This advanced seminar will focus on the transition from natrualism to modernism in James Joyce's Dubliners. Special attention will be paid to the thematization of Irish society and politics in this collection of short stories. The study of Joyce's autobiographical "Künstlerroman", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, will consider the transition from aestheticism to modernism and the innovations in narrative technique.

Texts:

     James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin)

     James Joyce, A Protrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin)

Requirements: oral or written report, term paper (12 pages), regular attendance; opportunity will be given for the oral exam required for the intermediate examination.

Registration: at my office (r. 361 during my office hours)

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

O11 PS II: The Brontë Sisters

Do 8.30-10 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Tutorium Do 13-14; mind the special announcement

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights became classics of English literature soon after their publication in 1847 and 1848 while many other works of contemporary women writers were equally soon forgotten. Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853) and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) have received an increasing amount of attention over the past decades. In this course, we will try to account for this popularity and fascination by reading the four novels closely in their literary and cultural contexts. In particular, we will focus on the various ways in which the human being is represented: as a child, a woman, a madwoman, a man, a lover, a teacher, a storyteller ... Generalized notions of 'Romantic' versus 'Victorian' concepts of the individual (from the Byronic hero to the self-made woman) will not be ignored but used only to be refined and corrected by the results of our critical analyses.

Texts: The Penguin Popular Classics eds. present reliable texts; explanatory notes will have to be copied from other editions.

Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation/session chair, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Prof. Matthias Bauer

Tutorium zu den Seminaren von Matthias Bauer

Do 13-14 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

This is a joint tutorial for all my courses in English literature. Questions to be answered include: how to prepare an oral report, to structure a discussion, to take minutes, to read scholarly work, to write a term paper, to prepare for ZP or final exams. These topics will not be discussed in the abstract but by addressing the specific needs of students concerned with specific subjects.

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Lars Eckstein

O12 PS II: East / West: Postcolonial Versions of London

Mi 16-18 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

During the days of the British Empire, London was seen as the imperial centre and glorious home of the colonisers, while the colonised Indians, West-Indians, Africans, etc. were rightfully settled at the margins. London was of course already a fairly diverse place during the 18th and 19th centuries, but especially since the first wave of mass immigration after WW II, this old conception no longer held. During the second half of the 20th century, London became a truly transcultural place, a multi-ethnic urban contact zone challenging the idea of anything like a "pure" English identity. In this seminar, we will look at three novels (and one or the other movie) covering the experiences of the first wave of immigrants to the problems and opportunities of the second generation in the 1990s. Some elements of postcolonial theory will help us to make better sense of their negotiations of memories, traditions and identity.

Texts: You won't be able to catch up with around 1000 pages of reading during the term; therefore, please try and read the following novels in advance:

     Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (Heinemann)

     Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album (Faber)

     Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette (Reclam)

     Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Penguin)

Requirements: Regular active attendance, oral presentation(s), term paper

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung); pre-registration meeting on Thursday, 22.07.2004, 16 ct in room 465

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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies

O13 PS II: Seafaring Novels of the 19th and 20th Century

Di 12-14 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Seafaring stories are stories in which a ship's crew is used as a testing ground for a debate on key social issues such as the legitimacy of conquest, the role of 'nature' in human action and thought, the problems of hierarchical structures, the 'nature' of the 'human'. At the same time, however, seafaring stories are men's stories, specifically directed at and almost exclusively written by men. These texts create all-male universes in which the binary gender system appears, for the duration, suspended. This seminar will focus both on the debates generated by selected seafaring novels and on the constructions of 'masculinity' as they emerge in a symbolic universe without women. We will focus on the following texts by Stevenson, Conrad, Melville, London, and Golding. Any reliable edition will do.

Texts:

     Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

     Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     Jack London, The Sea Wolf

     William Golding, Rites of Passage

Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation, term paper

Registration: Registration now in my office hours or by e-mail

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Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt

O14 PS II: Key Texts in English Literary History

Do 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This Proseminar will run in parallel to the lecture course "Literary History: A Systematic Approach" and open up an opportunity for in-depth discussion of the key texts mentioned there on a week-to-week basis. Particular attention will be paid to the question as to how knowledge of literary and/or cultural history affects our reading of texts.

A reading list and a reader with texts otherwise unavailable will be ready at the beginning of the term. Please note that attending the lecture course "Literary History: A Systematic Approach" is obligatory.

Requirements: regular attencance, oral presentation, term paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Ralf Schneider

O15 PS II: English Comedy 1660-1800: From Laughter and Wit to Tears and Sentiment

Mo 14-16 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

After the Puritans had banned theatrical performance for eighteen years in the Interregnum, in the 1660s English comedy returned to the stage with the Restoration of Charles II to the throne - and it returned with a vengeance. Wit and licentiousness, the fashions of an elegant and stylish society and their excesses were portrayed and satirized in this new type of comedy of manners. However, in the 18th century the structure of society and the economy changed, as did, accordingly, cultural value systems. The result was a more bourgeois comedy, in which the attitudes of a new mercantile class were negotiated, in which virtue replaced vice, and in which tears rather than laughter were aroused. In this seminar, we will read four comedies which cover the period between the Restoration of the monarchy and the end of the 18th century and through which we will trace the major developments in contents and style from Restoration Comedy to Sentimental Comedy.

Texts: A reader containing the four texts will be available upon registration:

     George Etherdge, The Man of Mode (1676)

     Aphra Behn, The Rover (1681)

     Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers (1722)

     Richard Cumberland, The West Indian (1771)

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation, oral presentation (Referat), term paper.

Registration: Please register for this course in my office hours (even if there is an additional computer registration).

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Jan Stievermann

O16 PS II: Beat Literature

Mi 15-17 · Raum 120 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

The phrase "Beat Generation" - invented by Jack Kerouac in 1948 - was introduced to the general public in 1952 when John Clellon Holmes wrote an article, 'This is the Beat Generation,' for the New York Times Magazine. Initially it only referred to a small group of befriended artists in Manhatten but gradually came to represent a larger literary movement which was formative in creating the cultural consciousness for an entire generation. In order to explore why and how the literary works of the Beats became such an influence in the rise of the new counter-culture of the 60s, we will discuss their revolutionary poetics as well as their religious and social ideas. Designed to provide for a general survey, this class will, one the one hand, focus on the central texts of the original core group comprising - besides Kerouac and Holmes - Allan Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke. On the other hand, it will also cover the major representatives of the 'San Francisco-branch,' namely Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure.

Texts: Please buy and read

     Ann Charters, ed. The Portable Beat Reader London: Penguin Classics, 2003

     Jack Kerouac, On the Road London: Penguin Classics, 1998.

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation; oral presentation, term-paper.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz

O17 PS II: Rudyard Kipling

Fr 11-13 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 29. 10. 2004

Rudyard Kipling is today best known as an author of books for children and juveniles. Without ignoring this fact, our seminar sets out to review a number of outstanding short stories and poems which have made his reputation as a versatile and powerful but highly controversial spokesman of the British Empire. On close analysis, it may be found out that some of Kipling's texts are not at all easy to categorize in a simple manner. Starting from such observations, the seminar aims at discussing the complexities found in Kipling's work by contextualising his political, his artistic and his philosophical leanings and anticipations. For basic knowledge concerning Kipling's cultural background my lecture on Indian writing in English (Thurs, Fri, 9-10) will be helpful.

Texts:

     Rudyard Kipling, A Choice of Kipling's Prose sel. with an introduction by Craig Raine. London: Faber and Faber, 1987

     Rudyard Kipling, A Choice of Kipling's Verse sel. with an introduction by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber and Faber, 2001.

Requirements: All participants will contribute two short reports and hand in a written paper at the end of term.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Landeskunde


Bitte beachten Sie: Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an diesen Proseminaren ist die erfolgreiche Teilnahme an Language and Use!

Prof. Dr. Christopher Harvie

H10 LPS/LHS: The Victorian Age: 1830-1900, its Wealth, Work and Culture

Mi 14-16 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This seminar will discuss in greater detail the career of Britain as the first major industrial power. Topics to be analysed will include the manufacturing, communications and service industries and urbanisation, social class, popular culture, literature and society, the visual arts and architecture.

The seminar won't confine itself to England, but will try to compare the UK experience across the regions and nations, and contrast it with developments in Europe. Stress will also be laid on the implications of the 'Victorian experience' for Britain at the present day, in particular the cultural explanations subsequently produced to account for Britain's industrial decline.

Texts: Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew, Nineteenth Century Britain.

Requirements: You will be expected to take part in referats, and to write a final Klausur or a Hausarbeit of 2500 words (LPS) or 3500 words (LHS).

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Prof. Dr. Christopher Harvie / Christine Frasch M.A.

H11 LPS: Contemporary Irish Historical Drama

Di 18-20 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

History, as Christopher Murray once pointed out during a lecture in Tübingen, is one of the fundamental themes of Irish drama, together with land, and identity. This course intends to provide both an introduction to the diversities of the contemporary Irish history play since the 1960s, and to the complexities of the study of Irish history. The development of the history play in the second half of the twentieth century is of particular interest, because the 1960s were a watershed in the development of Irish historiography, when the Northern Irish civil rights movement and the upsurge of violence in its wake undermined the founding myths of the Irish Republic and led to a re-evaluation of Irish history - the so-called revisionist controversy.

We will discuss four contemporary plays on Irish history which highlight crucial periods that have contributed to the shaping of the Irish national consciousness and to the creation of the Irish nation state, but also to the partition of the island into a predominantly Catholic South and a British North shaped by Protestant ideology and culture. We will focus on how and why the plays re-examine nationalist conventions and national heroes, and address the question to what degree the public debate among Irish academics and intellectuals has influenced, and contributed to, contemporary historical drama.

Texts:

     Plays:

     Thomas Murphy, Famine (1968)

     Brian Friel, Translations (1980)

     Stewart Parker, Northern Star (1984)

     Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985).

     (Parker's Northern Star is available in Stewart Parker, Three Plays for Ireland (1989), available in the FB. Please try and read the plays before the beginning of classes).

     Background Reading:

     Roy F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988)

     Christopher Murray, Twentieth Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation (1977)

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Requirements: Class participation, a 'Referat' and a final essay of about 2500 words.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Christiane König

LPS: Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality - Genderaspekte filmischer Entwürfe von Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen

Kompakt, siehe unten · Raum 033 · Beginn: 14. 1. 2005

Der Traum des Menschen, ein Wesen nach eigenem Abbild zu entwerfen, ist in der Geschichte westlicher Kulturen uralt. Bereits Ovid verhandelt das Thema der Belebung von toter Materie in seinen Metamorphosen. In allen Epochen hat dieser Traum vom Automaten zwar in sämtlichen vertrauten Medien Gestalt angenommen, im computertechnologischen Zeitalter hat er sich aber vermehrt konkretisiert. Mit der übermächtigen Verselbständigung der Maschinen sind vielfältige kultutrelle und kollektive Vorstellungen verbunden, die sich als euphorische Zukunftsmaginationen, apologetische Phantasmen, insbesondere aber auch als fundmentale Ängste und apodiktische Dystopien in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen ebenso wie in künstlerischen Praktiken manifestieren. Massiv konfrontiert mit Artificial Intelligence, WWW, Virtual Reality und Cyberspace steht der Status des Subjekts zur Disposition, müssen die Grenzverläufe zwischen Maschinellem auf der einen, aber auch dem Tierischen auf der anderen Seite neu ausgelotet und abgesteckt werden, zwischen denen sich das Subjekt tradionellerweise positioniert. Die dazu aufgewendeten, kulturellen Mechanismen von Ausschluss und Stabilisierung sind seit Jahrhunderten geschlechterspezifisch strukturiert. Im Kompaktseminar versuchen wir zunächst einen Überblick über das Thema Schnittstelle Mensch-Maschine zu bekommen. Wir versuchen weiterhin, seine geschlechterspezifische Unterströmung freizulegen. Im dritten Schritt werden wir an Beispielen verfolgen, auf welche spezielle Weise Filme dieses Problem jeweils zeitspezifisch umzusetzen: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, D 1927), 2001: Space Odessey (Stanley Kubrick, USA 1968), Alien (Ridley Scott, USA 1979), Tron (Steven Lisberger, USA 1982), Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, USA 1982), Terminator: Judgement Day (James Cameron, USA 1991), Crash (David Cronenberg, USA 1996), Das Fünfte Element (Luc Besson, USA 1997), The Matrix (Andy & Larry Wachowski, USA 1999), Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA 2002) sowie AI (Steven Spielberg, USA 2001).

Qualifikation: Moderation einer Sitzung, Ergebnispapier, Hausarbeit

Anmeldung: Die Anmeldung erfolgt per E-Mail bis spätestens zum 30. September. Vorbesprechungstermin ist der 11. Oktober, 13-14 Uhr, Raum 033. Dann werden die Themen verteilt und die Lektüre besprochen. Der Kurs ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet, daher werden die Filme in der Originalversion (mit deutschen Untertiteln) angeschaut, Kurssprache ist Deutsch.

Sprechstunde: per e-mail, christiane.koenig^@uni-tuebingen.de

Termine: Fr. 14. 01. 05 (12-19 Uhr), Fr-Sa 28./29. 01. und 11./12. 02., jeweils 10-12 u. 13-17 Uhr, in Raum 033

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Annika Requardt, M.A.

H13 LPS: America at the turn-of-the-century, 1865-1914

Mo 10-12 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This course traces cultural and political processes that transformed America in the post-Civil War years from an agrarian to a modern, industrial society. By looking at a selection of representative texts we will be exploring how changes in industry, business and politics affected the culture of American society during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. We will, furthermore, examine in detail how these changes influenced America's self-perception at the turn of the last century.

Texts: A reader will be supplied at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral presentation, term paper.

Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning July 19.

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Mediävistik I


Christine Baatz, M.A.

R10 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur

Do 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Das Proseminar soll einen Zugang zur reichen und vielfältigen Literatur der mittelenglischen Epoche (ca. 1100 bis 1500) eröffnen, indem es die Merkmale der englischen Sprache vor und in mittelenglischer Zeit in Grundzügen erläutert. Es soll einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des Englischen von einer synthetischen zu einer analytischen Sprache und die dabei auftretenden morphologischen, syntaktischen und phonologischen Veränderungen vermitteln. Anhand ausgewählter Texte aus verschiedenen Genres werden dialektale Eigenheiten des Mittelenglischen erklärt.

Literatur:

     J. O. Fichte/F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung. 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen: Narr, 1994).

Qualifikation: Regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 2 Klausuren.

Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)

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Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte

R11 PS I: Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur

Mo 10-12 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

Aufgabe des Proseminars "Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur" ist es, die Studenten mit westsachsischer Phonologie, Morphologie, Flexionslehre und Syntax vertraut zu machen. Dabei wird die Betrachtungsweise vorwiegend synchronisch sein, enthält aber auch im Rahmen einer historischen Festlegung des Altenglischen diachronische Hinweise auf das Indo- und Urgermanische.

Literatur:

     Joerg O. Fichte / Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen, 1994.

Qualifikation: Scheinerwerb durch Klausur

Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)

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Prof. Dr. J. O. Fichte

R12 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur

Di 10-12 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Das Proseminar "Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur" setzt sich zwei Ziele: Erstens sollen Studenten mit den sprachlichen Entwicklungen bekanntgemacht werden, die Englisch von einer synthetischen zu einer analytischen Sprache werden liessen, was auch Hinweise auf phonologische, morphologische und syntaktische Veränderungen einschliesst. Zweitens sollen dialektale Eigenarten (Kentish, Southern, London Standard, East und West Midlands, Northern) anhand von ausgewählten Texten dargestellt und erläutert werden.

Literatur:

     Joerg O. Fichte / Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen, 1994.

Qualifikation: Scheinerwerb durch Klausur

Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

R13 PS I: Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur

Mi 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

Dieses einführende Proseminar soll die Studierenden mit den phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Merkmalen des Altenglischen (vornehmlich des Westsächsischen) vertraut machen und zur Lektüre von westsächsischen Prosatexten befähigen.

Literatur: J. O. Fichte / F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung, 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen: Narr, 1994).

Qualifikation: regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 6 Tests.

Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

R14 PS I: Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur

Di 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Dieses einführende Proseminar soll die Studierenden mit den phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Merkmalen der mittelenglischen Dialekte vertraut machen und zur Lektüre von mittelenglischen Texten in Vers und Prosa befähigen.

Literatur: J. O. Fichte / F. Kemmler, Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung, 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen: Narr, 1994).

Qualifikation: regelmässige und aktive Teilnahme, 6 Tests.

Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)

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Mediävistik II


Bitte beachten Sie: Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an diesen Proseminaren ist die erfolgreiche Teilnahme am Proseminar Mediävistik I sowie Language and Use!

Christine Baatz, M. A.

S10 PS II: Beowulf: Texts and Contexts

Do 10-13 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Since the publication of J. M. Kemble's edition and translation in the 1830s, Beowulf has been regarded as the major surviving heroic poem in Old English. In the first part, the young hero overcomes a man-like monster called Grendel (and Grendel's mum!); in the second part, Beowulf, after a long and peaceful reign, once more takes up his sword in order to fight a fire-breathing dragon. The poem ends with the aged hero's death and funeral. In a complex 'interlace' structure, the story of Beowulf is interwoven with a wealth of material drawn from Germanic history and legend.

In this seminar we will discuss topics such as manuscript and dating, form and style, place and date of origin, Christian and pagan elements, 'digressions' and allusions, and archaeology. There will also be in-class translations of set passages.

Furthermore, we will look at the reception of Beowulf in Britain and abroad, e. g. in novels (such as John Gardner's Grendel of 1971), or film adaptations, such as The Thirteenth Warrior (1997; with Antonio Banderas; an adaptation of Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead) and Beowulf with Christopher Lambert (1999).

Participants should have a basic knowledge of Old English. A list of topics for presentations and a bibliography will be available via e-mail or directly from my office from 12 July.

Texts:

     Beowulf: A Student Edition, ed. by George Jack, Oxford: OUP, 1994, repr. with corr. and rev. 1995, 1997.

     Recommended translation: Beowulf: A New Prose Translation by E. Talbot Donaldson. New York/London: Norton, 1966, or the translation in Anglo-Saxon Poetry, trsl. and ed. by S. A. J. Bradley, London: Dent; Rutland: Tuttle, 1995 (Everyman).

Requirements: Regular attendance, oral presentation, term paper (10 pages), one in-class translation test.

Registration: In my office hours and by e-mail.

Im Rahmen dieses Seminars kann die mündliche Zwischenprüfung in Literaturwissenschaft abgelegt werden.

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

S11 PS II: Middle English Romances

Mo 14-16 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

In this advanced course we shall read Middle English Romances - both Arthurian and non-Arthurian. We shall analyse and interpret these texts with reference to their historical and literary context(s). Students wishing to participate must have attended the PS I Einführung ins Mittelenglische.

Texts: Texts will be available towards the beginning of October.

Qualifikation: regular attendance, active participation, short presentation in class, term paper (Hausarbeit).

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

Im Rahmen dieses Seminares kann die mündliche Zwischenprüfung in Literaturwissenschaft abgelegt werden.

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Übungen im Hauptstudium


Siehe auch das Angebot zusätzlicher Kurse im Grundstudium.

Anmeldung für Oral Communication II und Written Communication II: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren.

Anmeldung für Phonetics, Translation II und Interpretation and Essay: persönliche Anmeldung.

Oral Communication II Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung

E10: Lethbridge Di 18-20 · Raum 119

E11: N.N. Mi 18-20 · Raum 119

E12: Watts Mo 10-12 · Raum 108

Written Communication II Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung

F10: Donnellan Mo 20-22 · Raum 108

F11: Lethbridge Mi 12-14 · Raum 119

F12: Matley Di 18-20 · Raum 120 (t.b. c.)

Phonetics Voraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung

Watts Mo 14-16 · Raum 05

Watts Di 10-12 · Raum 306

Interpretation and Essay for Candidates Voraussetzung: Meldung zur Lehramtsprüfung

Auberlen Mo 14-16 · Raum 306

Translation II Bitte beachten: der Kurs "Translation II" ist nur für den Studiengang Staatsexamen vorgesehen.

Voraussetzung: ZP.

Geppert-Jolly Do 10-12 · Raum 108

Matley Mo 16-18 · Raum 206 (for Candidates only)

Watts Mi 10-12 · Raum 108 (for Candidates only)

Siehe auch:

- Fachdidaktik Englisch

- Lektürekurs Mediävistik ("Mediävistik am Donnerstag")

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Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen

Interpretation and Essay (Hauptstudium)

Mo 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This class is intended for students near the end of their Hauptstudium who wish to review their critical tools of analysis and practise 'close reading' on an advanced level which also includes the study of texts in their social and literary context. The course also deals with selected aspects of theory as well as problems and strategies of essay writing.

Texts:

     S. Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction (Routledge)

     Manfred Pfister, Das Drama (UTB)

     Christoph Bode, Einführung in die Lyrikanalyse (WVT)

Requirements: two interpretations (mock exams)

Registration: Mon 16-17, Tue 14 in 361

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

Lektürekurs: Mediävistik am Donnerstag

Do 12-13 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Dieser Kurs wendet sich an alle an der (englischen) Mediävistik interessierten Studierenden. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Kurses liegt auf der intensiven Lektüre (kürzerer) alt- und mittelenglischer Texte aus ganz unterschiedlichen literarischen Gattungen. Zusätzlich soll auch der literatur- und sozialgeschichtliche Kontext der Texte erarbeitet werden.

Schwerpunktthema im Wintersemester: Medieval "Theories" of Literature.

Literatur: Ein Reader wird in der ersten Sitzung erhätlich sein.

Anmeldung: nicht erforderlich.

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Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.

British and American Phonetics (1)

Mo 14-16 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This course is designed both for students who wish to revise for their coming exams, as well as for students who wish to gain more experience/knowledge in the subject area for the first time. It will be an examination of the two main standard varieties of spoken English: BBC English or Received Pronunciation (RP), i.e. British English (BE); and General American, i.e. American English (AE). The sound system of these two varieties (i.e. their individual vowels and consonants, and how they interact) will be studied. Learning how to transcribe these sounds will be another important aim of this course. Where appropriate, English and German will also be compared/contrasted with each other, in order to highlight teaching difficulties (and possible solutions to them).

Requirements: Regular attendance and weekly exercises; a course-final exam must be taken and passed in order to receive the 'Schein'.

Registration: Add your name to the appropriate class list, which will be hanging next to my office door from the beginning of the 'vorlesungsfreie Zeit'.

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Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.

British and American Phonetics (2)

Di 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

See above description.

Requirements: Regular attendance and weekly exercises; a course-final exam must be taken and passed in order to receive the 'Schein'.

Registration: Add your name to the appropriate class list, which will be hanging next to my office door from the beginning of the 'vorlesungsfreie Zeit'.

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Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.

Oral Communication II

Mo 10-12 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

The aim of this course is to improve your presentation skills. After a brief introductory phase in which we will examine comportment (stance in the classroom, body language, use of voice, etc.) and the purpose and structure of presentations and handouts, the remainder of the course will consist of oral reports given by students. These reports generally (but do not have to) fall into one of the following four categories: 'Dry-runs'; 'Presentations about Presentations'; Presenting the 'New'; and Formal Debates. Every report will be subject to peer criticism: its positive and negative aspects will be illuminated upon in a short discussion, allowing students to benefit from the insight of the class.

Requirements: Regular attendance; participation in all discussions; one presentation.

Anmeldung: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Dr. Helga Korff, StD

Z10 Fachdidaktik: Colonial and post-colonial stories: Aspects of teaching short stories in the advanced EFL-classroom

Fr 11-13 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 29. 10. 2004

Teaching this most widely used literary form in the classroom offers a wide range of creative and analytical methods and strategies which will be explored in this class. The choice of stories is that of the new Sternchenthema for the Abitur in BW and includes authors like Conrad, Orwell, Lessing, Kureishi, Rushdie et al.

This class will also provide a general introduction to the teaching of English at school (advanced level). It is intended for students who have finished their Praxissemester.

Texts: A reader will be available in the first session.

Requirements: active participation, oral presentation of a lesson-plan and written exam.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.

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Harald Weisshaar, StD

Z11 Fachdidaktik: Introduction to Fachdidaktik Englisch

Mo 18-20 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar is intended for students who have just started or finished their Praxissemester. It is designed to introduce a number of methods to transfer University knowledge to the classroom. Some of the topics touched upon will be motivation, communicative competence, vocabulary, grammar, cultural studies, listing comprehension, literature and creative writing. Using the example of "film" in the classroom we will concentrate on the following questions: how can we use film to illuminate literature? Where and how could we use films? How do we read a film in the classroom? What are the main benefits and/or problems? Students will get a chance to practice and evaluate their presentation skills. As an integral part of the course, we will also attend a film shown at the DAI, Museum or Film Club and discuss its "usefulness" for teachers.

Für Studierende des Lehramts gehört das Seminar nach der neuen Prüfungsordnung zu den Pflichtveranstaltungen.

Literatur: A Handapparat will be made available at the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, an oral report, preparing for and evaluating a film evening. Instead of a final exam or Hausarbeit, students will be required to keep a Learning Portfolio throughout the term. More detailed information will be made available at the first session.

Registration: central (Computeranmeldung)

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Linguistik


Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn

HS: Language Testing

Do 10-12 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

In this seminar, we will analyse approaches in language testing within the broader context of second-language learning and acquisition. Relevant dimensions of language competence and proficiency will be covered with regard to appropriate testing methods and statistical procedures. Particular emphasis will be on language testing in the context of computer assisted language learning. Multimedia and web-based language tests will be constructed and evaluated.

Texts:

     Heaton, J.B. (1996 2). Writing English Language Tests. London: Longman

     Hughes, A. (1989). Testing for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.; Weir, C. (1995).

     Understanding & Developing Language Tests. New York etc.: Phoenix ELT; Council of Europe (2004).

     Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Cambridge: CUP.

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation in class activities, participation in a work group; term paper or written exam (Magister only).

Registration: By e-mail to kurt.kohn^@uni-tuebingen.de. Please provide the following data: name address, phone, email, study program, subjects, semester.

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Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn / Stu Watts, BA, MA; Adv.Dip.Ed.

HS: Theory and Practice of Translation

Mi 14-16 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

Against the background of a critical review of main trends in modern translation theory, the nature and potential of a cognitive discourse model of translation will be explored and discussed. Translation analyses will be carried out for English/German translations from different fields of translation practice. Relevant models and methods of linguistic analysis will be introduced. In addition, "thinking aloud" case studies will be used to investigate translation problems and strategies.

Texts:

     Koller, W. (1992). Einführung in die Übersetzungswissenschaft. 4. Auflage. Wiesbaden: Quelle & Meyer (UTB 819)

     Gerzymisch-Arbogast, H. (1994). Übersetzungswissenschaftliches Propädeutikum. Tübingen & Basel: Francke (= UTB 1782)

     Hatim, B. & Mason, I. (1990). Discourse and the Translator. London and New York: Longman.

Requirements: Regular attendance and participation in class activities, participation in a work group; term paper or written exam (Magister only).

Registration: By e-mail to kurt.kohn^@uni-tuebingen.de. Please provide the following data: name address, phone, email, study program, subjects, semester.

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PD Dr. Susanne Winkler

HS: Ellipsis and Coordination in the Grammar of English

Do 10-12 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Syntaxpraktikum: Do 12-13, Raum: t.b. a.

The term ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The elliptical statement Manny called Ben an idiot but I don't know who else leaves the listener puzzled, as to the exact meaning of the reconstructed phrase. The main goal of this seminar is the development of an interdisciplinary account of ellipsis and coordination. In doing this, will start out with an investigation of the diffent types of ellipsis in English, those which must occur in coordinate constructions, such as gapping, stripping, right node raising and those which don't VP-ellipsis and NP-ellipsis. A third type comprises nonsentential expressions, such as I will if you will, and Down with the dictator!, as well as fragmentary sentences Not this one!, whose interpretation depends on the discourse context only. We will also consider different accounts of coordination with the aim of explaining its reduced forms in English.

Requirements: oral report, corpus work, term paper or project.

Anmeldung: Montag, 19.07.04, 14 Uhr, Raum 464. Dann erhältlich: Themenliste und Bibliographie.

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Literaturwissenschaft


Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen

HS: Colonial and Postcolonial African Novels in English

Mi 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This course starts with a study of Equiano's Travels, the autobiography of a Nigerian who was captured as a slave and taken to an American plantation. Problems of colonialism are trenchantly thematized in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novel which, however, in recent years has come under attack as the work of a racist. Next we will investigate Doris Lessing's deep-searching critique of Rhodesian colonial society in The Grass is Singing. The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe composed his novel Things Fall Apart as an answer to Conrad and presented a complex picture of pre-colonial African society and of how European colonists disrupted important indigenous developments. Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat deals with the painful tensions within Kikuyu society caused by the struggle for independence. Tsitsi Dangarembga investigates the unsettling consequences of modernisation in African society from a feminine perspective. Bessie Head's A Question of Power also deals with 'nervous conditions' in a racist society. This course will include an introduction to the history of pre-colonial and colonial West Africa as well as to the history of colonial and postcolonial East Africa. Read all these novels during the vacation period.

Texts:

     Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Penguin USA)

     Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin Popular Classics)

     Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (Flamingo)

     Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Anchor Random House)

     Ngugi wa Thiongo, A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Classics)

     Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Women's Press)

     Bessie Head, A Question of Power (Penguin)

Requirements: Regular attendance; oral or written report; term paper (16 pages); for Magister students either term paper or Klausur.

Registration: Mon 16-17, Tues 10 in room 361

There will be a short preliminary meeting on Mon 19 July 17 s.t. before my office.

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

HS: Adam and Eve in English Literature

Di 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Tutorium Do 13-14; mind the special announcement

The title of this seminar is not merely an attempt to lure students into reading Milton's Paradise Lost; but of course this epic poem on the drama of Adam's and Eve's love, temptation and fall will be the focus of our attention. It will be counterbalanced or supplemented by another major work of English literature in which the subject of Adam and Eve looms large, Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (1849), as well as by selected perspectives on the subject in American literature (e.g. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The New Adam and Eve'; Mark Twain 'The Diary of Adam and Eve'), in twentieth-century fiction (e.g. Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve), in poetry and the visual arts. Discussions will be guided by questions such as the transformation of a biblical story or myth into literature, Adam and Eve as archetypes of the relation between the sexes, the myth of origin(s), or the history of such concepts as curiosity and corruption.

Texts: All participants should be provided with a copy of Paradise Lost and Shirley (both available in the Penguin Classics series) and should have read Charlotte Brontë's novel and at least Books 4 and 9 of Milton's epic poem by the beginning of the semester.

Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation/session chair, term paper.

Registration: Those who are interested in taking part should send a message to m.bauer^@uni-tuebingen.de.

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Prof. Matthias Bauer

HS/OS: The Sonnet

Do 11-13 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Tutorium Do 13-14; mind the special announcement

In this course, the history of the sonnet in English will be traced from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present day. Emphasis will be given to Elizabethan sonnet sequences, in particular Sidney's Astrophel and Stella, Spenser's Amoretti and Shakespeare's Sonnets, but also to major 17th-century examples (Donne, Herbert, Milton) and to transformations of the genre in the 19th century (Gerard Manley Hopkins) and beyond. Apart from individual works and their place in literary history questions of genre theory and the relation of literary form to ideas and cultural contexts will be addressed. This is one of the reasons why sonnets on sonnet-writing will receive special attention.

Texts: All participants should be provided with a copy of (and have read) Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden ed.) and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella included in the Oxford World's Classics ed. of Sir Philip Sidney, The Major Works). All other sonnets will be included in a reader to which additions will be made during the semester. Suggestions by participants are welcome.

Requirements: regular attendance, oral presentation/session chair, term paper.

Registration: Those who are interested in taking part should send a message to m.bauer^@uni-tuebingen.de.

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Prof. Matthias Bauer

Tutorium zu den Seminaren von Matthias Bauer

Do 13-14 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This is a joint tutorial for all my courses in English literature. Questions to be answered include: how to prepare an oral report, to structure a discussion, to take minutes, to read scholarly work, to write a term paper, to prepare for ZP or final exams. These topics will not be discussed in the abstract but by addressing the specific needs of students concerned with specific subjects.

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler

HS: The Historical Imagination in American and Canadian Short Fiction

Di 15-17 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Since its beginnings in the early 19th century, American literature abounded in texts which explicitly deal with historical topics. In many short stories authors tried to define American identity in terms of the new nation's history, and in doing so they constantly revised the various models of 'history making' at their disposition. This seminar will explore the different historiographic and fictional strategies American authors employed in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the one hand, these strategies take up the tradition of historical writing, on the other hand, they parody and subvert the fundamental premises and claims of an objective and authentic representation of the past. In addition, historiographic Canadian short fiction of the 20th century will serve as a means of contrasting colonial and post-colonial versions of 'history making'. The course will examine a comprehensive selection of 19th- and 20th-century American and Canadian authors.

Texts: A reader will be supplied by the beginning of September.

Requirements: Oral report and term paper or written exam.

Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning July 19.

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Prof. Dr. Joerg O. Fichte

HS: The Grail (and Galahad) in 19th- and 20th-Century English and American Literature

Mo 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

A multi-faceted symbol of unclear size and shape, the grail not only inspired the imagination of medieval writers but also that of modern authors. In the original Old French Queste del Saint Graal, a number of Arthurian knights (most of them unworthy) engage in the quest for this holy object, foremost amongst them Lancelot and Galahad, the latter together with Percival and Bors experiencing the full vision of the grail. The grail makes its way into English literature via Malory's Morte Darthur, who drastically reduced the allegorical apparatus of the Queste, making the grail more elusive, a tendency also found in 19th- and 20th-century adaptations of the Morte Darthur, where it represents an ideal that has largely lost its currency in a despiritualized world. The seminar will follow the fortunes of the grail and the grail seekers in Victorian literature (Tennyson, "Sir Galahad" and "The Holy Grail" in The Idylls of the King and Morris, "Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery"), in English poetry between the wars (Eliot, Waste Land, and Williams, Taliessin Through Logres), in post-World-War-II English and American Arthurian fiction (White, The Once and Future King, Berger, Arthur Rex, Zimmer-Bradley, The Mists of Avalon), and in loose adaptations of Arthurian themes and characters (Lewis, That Hideous Strength, Deal, The Grail, Percy, Lancelot, Lodge, Small World). There will also be a brief analysis of adaptations of the grail theme in modern films (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Excalibur, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and The Fisher King).

Literatur: anthology of texts

Requirements: "Referat" and either "Hausarbeit" or "Klausur".

Registration: during office hours in rooms 408 and 409.

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PD Dr. Hartmut Grandel

HS: African-American Women Writers

Mi 11-13 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

This seminar will focus on novels written by African-American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Exploring the themes and literary strategies of these texts, we will discuss their uses and functions in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. Writers to be discussed will include Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. A list of texts will be available on registration.

Requirements: Regular attendance, an oral report, and a term paper or written exam.

Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning July 19.

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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies

HS/OS: Gender and the Early Modern Woman Writer

Di 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Thought to be all but non-existent well into the 1970s, they are now back in full force: the women writers of the 17th century. With their re-emergence, we find ourselves confronted with an exceptionally rich and varied, usually quietly subversive and often downright provocative collection of texts: eloquent reminders that many early modern women refused to be constrained by a gender ideology which required them to be 'chaste, silent, and obedient'. In this seminar, we will discuss a wide variety of texts in which women boldly develop ideas of female agency and voice, stances which might provocatively be called 'desirous, loud, and disobedient' and which we will try to place in the context of both their own and our theories of gender. The following texts should be purchased. In addition, there will be a reader at the beginning of term offering selections of the works of Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, and some lesser known authors.

Texts:

     Aphra Behn, Oroonoko and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics

     Aphra Behn, The Rover and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

     Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin)

Requirements: Precondition for registration: Zwischenprüfung; Course requirements for a 'Schein': regular attendance, oral presentation, term paper OR 'Klausur'.

Registration: Registration now in my office hour or by e-mail

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Dr. Günter Leypoldt

HS/EPGII: Literature and Ethics

Di 10-12 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Literary autonomy (from ethical, moral, or political constraints) is an enlightenment invention that is often perceived as a mixed blessing. While it frees literary practices from ideological dogmatism (allowing for a definition of "literariness" based on text-internal criteria of excellence), it also tends to inspire a nagging sense of marginality, since it can be taken to suggest that professional writers "merely" deal in aesthetics, while others (moral philosophers or political scientists, for instance) do the more "serious," socially significant work. Given these dual implications of autonomy (as freedom and as insignificance), it is hardly surprising that there has been little agreement on how the literary intersects with ethics or morality. This question has reemerged recently as critics have become interested in the ways in which literary experience can be said to be rooted in moral or ethical reflection, and as philosophers have portrayed the literary imagination as a necessary corrective to the abstractions of moral philosophy.

In this seminar, we will trace the recent revival of ethical criticism and examine its key concepts. Our emphasis will lie on Martha Nussbaum's and Richard Rorty's ideas on how aspects of literature (the metaphorical, fancy, empathy, etc.) are implicated in ethics and justice. After exploring their theories in some depth, we will also test them on a selection of literary texts.

Texts: All texts will be provided in a reader available at the beginning of the term.

     As introductory reading I suggest: Marshall Gregory, "Ethical Criticism: What It Is and Why It Matters," Style 32:2 (Summer 1998): 194-220 [Fakultätsbibliothek: Allg Z/Sty 2]; and Richard Rorty, "Introduction," Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge, 1989) [FB: PP 374 426].

Requirements: for a Hauptseminarschein: regular attendance, presentation, term paper. For an EPGII-Schein: regular attendance, presentation, term paper, oral exam.

Registration: at the Amerikanistik office (room 558) beginning July 19.

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Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt

HS: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling: John Berger and the Politics of Narrative

Mi 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

Novelist, poet, dramatist, film scriptwriter, art critic and cultural critic - there are many facets to the work of the London-born writer John Berger, who has, however, spent most of his life abroad and now lives and works in a small peasant community in the French alps. An outright political writer of Marxist persuasion, Berger has always been preoccupied with the ideological implications of artistic modes of representation, and many of his essays deal with this topic in a very acute way, most prominently so in his television series Ways of Seeing and the resultant book of the same title (1972). At the same time, Berger's aesthetic practice has become increasingly undogmatic in the course of his long career, and it is, in its spirit of experimentation, frequently at odds with his political stance. At the heart of the seminar will be the volumes that make up his trilogy Into Their Labours (1979-1990), a literary inquiry into the historical fate of the peasantry under modern conditions.

Texts:

     John Berger, Pig Earth (1979)

     John Berger, Once in Europe (1989)

     John Berger, Lilac and Flag (1990)

     All titles should be available as either Bloomsbury (GB) or Vintage (US) paperbacks.

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral presentation, term paper or 'Klausur'.

Registration: From Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at the central office (208) until Friday, October 15, 2004.

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Professor Dr. Christoph Reinfandt

HS: An Epic of Human Consciousness: William Wordsworth, The Prelude

Do 16-18 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

In spite of the fact that he was working in a long tradition of autobiographical writing William Wordsworth rightly sensed with regard to his long autobiographical poem that it was scandalous and "unprecedented in literary history that a man should talk so much about himself." In this seminar we will discuss the newness of Wordsworth's approach to autobiography in the light of its conscious engagement with earlier modes of autobiographical writing on the one hand and with the epic tradition in general and Milton's Paradise Lost in particular on the other. Furthermore, The Prelude will be read in the light of the emerging new mode of poetry writing that marked the beginnings of a new Romantic and modern understanding of 'literariness'. As we will see, Wordsworth's poem on "the growth of a poet's mind" introduces a narrative blueprint for identifying the origins of the adult personaltiy in formative moments of childhood and youth, a blueprint that has not lost its appeal to this day.

Texts:

     William Wordsworth, The Prelude: The Four Texts (1978, 1799, 1805, 1850) Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth. London: Penguin, 1995 (Penguin Classics)

Requirements: Regular attendance, active class participation, oral presentation, term paper or "Klausur".

Registration: At the Anglistik office (room 208) beginning Tuesday, July 13, 2004 until Friday, October 15, 2004.

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz

HS: English Writing in India / Indian Writing in English

Do 12-14 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

What happens when a language is made a "world language" by its imposition upon other cultures? How did and how does cultural imperialism work in practice? Take India. This seminar will probe into the interface of colonial and postcolonial literature written in English during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Participants will learn how to handle theoretical concepts (such as "mimicry", "hybridity" or "identity") and to apply them critically in the analysis and interpretation of selected texts. Some rarer texts will be taken from the anthology which will also be used in my lecture. The more easily accesible ones include novels such as Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901); E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924); Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935); Raja Rao, Kanthapura (1938); Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981); Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines (1988). For classical contexts we will take recourse to: Gerhard Stilz, Grundlagen zur Literatur in englischer Sprache: Bd. 4: Indien (München: Fink: 1982) which is out of print but will be made available to seminar participants.

Requirements: 1. Regular contributions to seminar meetings, 2. paper to be read and discussed in one of the meetings; 3. term paper [15 pp.] to be completed by the end of term.

Registration: Registrations for this seminar can be made from the end of summer semester, when a special meeting will be announced.

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Landeskunde


Prof. Dr. Christopher Harvie

LHS: Spies, Fiction and Society: The British Political Thriller

Do 16-18 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

The political thriller has always been an important literary genre in Britain - something of a paradox, as the country prides itself on its stability. Writers of political thrillers have included Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, John Le Carré, and a recent British Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd. Does this represent what Richard Hofstater called the 'paranoid style' in politics, or is it a legitimate means of blending entertainment and political discourse?

This seminar will examine the genre both as an advertisement for British political institutions and as a type of social criticism. Participants will be required to read three novels: one will be a 'run of the mill' example of the genre (Tübingen University has, in the FBB Magazin, a representative collection compiled by myself, which is probably unparalleled in Europe); John Buchan's 'classic' of 1914, The Thirty-Nine Steps; and a third, drawn from the various attempts to attach the genre to serious political argument, which range from Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands (1903) to Chris Mullin's A Very British Coup (1982).

Texts:

     John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (Oxford U.P., 1993 edition with an introduction by CTH);

     Christopher Harvie, The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present (e-book version available)

     Kenneth Morgan, ed., The Oxford History of Britain (Oxford, 1983: many editions available).

     A reading list of other thrillers will be available by the end of SS 2004.

Requirements: Participants will have to do two referats, and a hausarbeit of 3500 words or a Klausur

Registration: by e-mail via website www.intelligent-mr-toad.de or contact Prof. Harvie as soon as possible after reading the VLV announcement in Room 359, Tel. 293257. A booklist and reading recommendations will precede the first session.

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Prof. Dr. Christopher Harvie

LHS: The Atlantic: Culture and Society, 1880-1920

Di 14-16 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

This Hauptseminar will deal with the rise of an urban maritime civilisation on the Western seaboard of the British Isles in the latter part of the nineteenth century, which was rooted in the travel patterns and technology associated with steamers, ports, railways and the coal trade. It flourished in particular between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I. Thereafter its decline was rapid because of the international recession and the Wall Street Slump.

Students will in particular be required to study the imaginative expression of the identity of the region, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and its relationship to 'modernistic' trends in literature, architecture, art and drama.

This involves writers from Walt Whitman to James Joyce, including Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary, Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and Jack London. Among the cultural critics featured will be Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford.

Students will also be required to work in three areas: (1) to study Joseph Conrad's 'long short story' Typhoon; (2) to study aspects of the popular or material culture of the region - i.e. changes in shipping, journalism, and mass-marketing; and (3) to do an individual project on a 'classic' interpretation of the culture of the period, i.e. Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island or Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, which will have to be written up as a Hausarbeit of c. 3500 words.

Texts:

     Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford History of Britain

     Christopher Harvie, Travelling Scot.

     A full bibliography and course description should be available by the middle of July.

Registration: Either in Prof. Harvie's Sprechstunde, or by e-mail to

christopher.harvie^@uni- tuebingen.de.

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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies / Friederike Herrmann

LHS: Inszenierungen von Scham und Erniedrigung in Literatur und Medien des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Mo 18-20 · Raum 206 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

Enthüllungsjournalismus, Bekenntnis-Talk-Shows, Reality t.v., Peinlichkeiten im Dschungelambiente, nackte Tatsachen, Bilder, die nichts verschweigen: die zeitgenössische Kultur schafft mannigfaltige mediale Kontexte, innerhalb derer immer wieder Schamgrenzen überschritten und als überschreitbar inszeniert werden. Schlägt sich hier eine fatale Enthemmung der zeitgenössischen Gesellschaft nieder? Erfüllen diese Inszenierungen von Scham und Erniedrigung einen kulturellen Zweck? Was wäre dieser? In dieser gemeinsamen anglistisch-/amerikanistischen und medienwissenschaftlichen Veranstaltung soll diesen Fragen anhand von ausgewählten Phänomenen nachgegangen werden. Die Diskussion um die Publikation von Folterphotos aus dem Irak; die literarische Verarbeitung von Enthemmung und Scham; die im Fernsehen zur Schau gestellte Schamverletzung - dies werden die Hauptthemen sein, die mit Hilfe theoretischer Ansätze und anhand einer vielseitigen Sammlung von Texten aus den Bereichen Journalismus, Fernsehen und Literatur diskutiert werden. Hierzu wird es zu Beginn des Semesters einen Reader geben. Zusätzlich lesen wir den Roman Money von Martin Amis (für Nicht-Anglisten: dt. "Gierig"). Dieser empfiehlt sich zur Anschaffung.

Literatur:

     Martin Amis, Money

Qualifikation: Voraussetzung zur Anmeldung für Anglisten/Amerikanisten: bestandene Zwischenprüfung. Anforderungen für einen Schein: aktive Anwesenheit, Referat, Hausarbeit.

Anmeldung: Ab sofort in meinen Sprechstunden oder per e-mail

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Mediävistik


Prof. Dr. Joerg O. Fichte

HS: The Grail (and Galahad) in 19th- and 20th-Century English and American Literature

Mo 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

A multi-faceted symbol of unclear size and shape, the grail not only inspired the imagination of medieval writers but also that of modern authors. In the original Old French Queste del Saint Graal, a number of Arthurian knights (most of them unworthy) engage in the quest for this holy object, foremost amongst them Lancelot and Galahad, the latter together with Percival and Bors experiencing the full vision of the grail. The grail makes its way into English literature via Malory's Morte Darthur, who drastically reduced the allegorical apparatus of the Queste, making the grail more elusive, a tendency also found in 19th- and 20th-century adaptations of the Morte Darthur, where it represents an ideal that has largely lost its currency in a despiritualized world. The seminar will follow the fortunes of the grail and the grail seekers in Victorian literature (Tennyson, "Sir Galahad" and "The Holy Grail" in The Idylls of the King and Morris, "Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery"), in English poetry between the wars (Eliot, Waste Land, and Williams, Taliessin Through Logres), in post-World-War-II English and American Arthurian fiction (White, The Once and Future King, Berger, Arthur Rex, Zimmer-Bradley, The Mists of Avalon), and in loose adaptations of Arthurian themes and characters (Lewis, That Hideous Strength, Deal, The Grail, Percy, Lancelot, Lodge, Small World). There will also be a brief analysis of adaptations of the grail theme in modern films (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Excalibur, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and The Fisher King).

Literatur: anthology of texts

Requirements: "Referat" and either "Hausarbeit" or "Klausur".

Registration: during office hours in rooms 408 and 409.

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Prof. Dr. Joerg O. Fichte

HS: Medieval Dream Poetry

Di 16-18 · Raum 05 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

The purpose of this seminar is the investigation of the nature and the conventions of Middle English dream poetry after Chaucer. The proposed analysis will deal with the following aspects: 1. A presentation of the themes, topics, and rhetorical topoi lifted from Chaucer's dream visions. 2. A discussion of the role of the dreamer as observer, chronicler, participant, and protagonist of the action described by him. 3. An investigation of the artistic possibilities inherent in the genre of the dream vision. 4. An analysis of the dream vision as a vehicle suitable for the expression of advice or personal criticism. The works read will be Lydgate's Temple of Glas, the anonymous Assembly of Ladies, King James' Kingis Quair, Dunbar's Golden Targe, Douglas' Temple of Honour, Dunbar's The Thrissil and the Rois, and Skelton's Bowge of Court.

Literatur: Anthology of texts

Requirements: Depending on the topics of the papers or final exams (Klausuren), Scheine can be acquired in either historical linguistics or in literature.

Registration: during office hours in rooms 408 and 409.

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Dr. Fritz Kemmler

HS: From Old to Middle English and Beyond

Mo 10-12 · Raum 119 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

Tutorium: Di 9-11, R. 136

Based on a representative corpus of Old English prose texts we shall study the major areas of historical grammar: sounds, accidence, and syntax. Students wishing to participate in this course should have attended the 'Proseminar I: Altenglisch'.

Texts: A course-reader will be available in the first meeting.

Requirements: active participation; 'Hausarbeit' (or 'Klausur').

Registration: In my 'Sprechstunde', Monday, July 19, 12.15-13.30 h, R. 407

Dieses Hauptseminar eignet sich für Studierende im Lehramtsstudiengang, die beabsichtigen, im Staatsexamen die sprachhistorische Klausur zu bearbeiten, wie auch für Studierende im Magisterstudiengang Linguistik des Englischen (HF und NF), die sich einen Schwerpunkt in der historischen Linguistik erarbeiten möchten.

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Oberseminare und Kolloquien


Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn

OS: Topics for Candidates

Di 20-22 (14tägig) · Raum 206 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Exam candidates (Staatsexamen and Magister) are given the opportunity to present and discuss linguistic topics suitable for the oral exam.

Registration: By e-mail to kurt.kohn^@uni-tuebingen.de. Please provide the following data: name address, phone, email, study program, subjects, semester.

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Prof. Dr. Kurt Kohn

OS: Topics in Applied English Linguistics

Mi 18-20 (14tägig) · Raum 206 · Beginn: 27. 10. 2004

PhD students are given the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects.

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PD Dr. Susanne Winkler

OS: Computer-Assisted Intonation Analysis

Mo 14-16 · Raum 464 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar discusses the phonological representation of sentence accentuation and intonation. In the first part of the seminar, we will concentrate on intonational phonology and its application in ToBI (Tones and Break Indices). In the second half of the seminar we will employ specific computer software (computerized speech lab) which isolates pitch extraction contours and practice the application of the descriptive tools. Each student will design a small intonational experiment concentrating on intonational differences in constructions which may include: elliptical vs. deaccented structures, resultatives vs. depictives, transitive vs. ditransitive sentences, fragmentary vs. complete answers, sentential vs. constituent negation, among others.

Texts:

     Ladd, R. D. (1996) Intonational Phonolgy. Cambridge University Press.

     Beckman, M. E. & G. M. Ayers (1997) Guidelines for ToBI Labelling. Ohio State University.

Registration: 19. 07. 04, 15 h in R. 464 or via email to susanne.winkler^@t-online.de by 30 September 2004.

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PD Dr. Susanne Winkler

Examenskolloquium

Do 14-16 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This colloquium is offered to students who have signed up for the 2005 exam period. We will concentrate on the preparation and presentation of exam topics, and on grammatical issues that may be addressed in the general part of the oral exam. Students who are planning to write their Staatsexamensarbeit or Magisterarbeit in the area of linguistics are also invited to sign up for this course.

Registration: Monday, 19.07.04, 15 h, R. 464. Please also register for the exam in R. 507.

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Prof. Dr. Eckhard Auberlen

OS: The English Renaissance in the European Context

Mo 12-14 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This Oberseminar is intended for students who have already attended a Hauptseminar. It starts with a survey of the scholarly debate which Jacob Burckhardt's conceptualization of the Renaissance in his famous Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien has given rise to. Thomas More's Utopia is examined for its 'utopian' approach to contemporary social problems. The Tudor translation of Castiglione's Cortegiano leads further into the question of the relationship between the humanist poet and the court, a major issue in Edmund Spenser's "Prothalamion", "Colin Clouts Come Home Again" and The Faerie Queene Book VI. Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing also problematizes the courtly ideal of a civilized society from a different perspective. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus dramatizes the conflict between medieval and Renaissance notions of magic. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew epitomizes the fusion of the English popular tradition with elements of Italian comedy and lends itself to a thematization of gender issues of the period. Shakespeare's Hamlet is studied as a tragedy standing on the threshold between the Renaissance and the early modern period. The course ends with an investigation of Francis Bacon's vision of the rise of a new natural science, which broke away from the Aristotelian tradition.

Texts:

     Susan Bruce, ed. Three Early Modern Utopias (Oxford World's Classics)

     Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (Penguin)

     Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (World's Classics)

     William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Arden)

     William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Arden)

     William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden)

Requirements: Regular attendance; oral or written report; term paper (16 pages); for Magister students: term paper or Klausur optional.

Registration: Mon 16-17, Tues 10 in room 361

There will be a short preliminary meeting on Monday, July 19 at 17.30 before my office (room 361).

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler

OS: Theories of Realism / American Realism

Do 16-19 · Raum 406 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

This course will deal with the emergence of theories of realistic art in the course of the late 18th-century, and it will then trace the further development these theories took in 19th-century literary criticism and literature. In addition to this 'historical' perspective we will also explore some of the strategies which recent critics employ in their attempts at theorizing the development of realism in terms of functional concepts of art.

Texts:

     William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham (Norton Critical Edition; this edition only!).

     Additional texts will be provided in a reader.

Requirements: Active class participation, oral report, term paper.

Registration: At the Amerikanistik office beginning July 19.

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler

Doktorandenkolloquium

Di 18-20 (14-tägig) · Raum 406 · Beginn: 26. 10. 2004

Das Kolloquium dient der Vorstellung und Diskussion der Dissertations-Projekte von mir betreuter DoktorandInnen.

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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies

Kandidatenkolloquium

Mo 16-18 · Raum 108 · Beginn: 25. 10. 2004

This seminar is directed at students who wish to discuss their emerging theses (M.A., Zulassungsarbeit and PhD), develop strategies for oral examinations, develop schedules and methods for the preparation of examination topics, etc. Every effort will be made to develop this course in accordance with students' needs, so suggestions, demands, and independent agendas are welcome.

Requirements: This seminar is directed at students who wish to do their exams with me. But this is no prerequisite. The only thing that is really required is the ability and willingness to work in teams and to contribute actively to classroom discussions.

Registration: Registration now in my office hours or by e-mail

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stilz

OS: Literary Theory and Critical Practice

Do 16-18 · Raum 306 · Beginn: 28. 10. 2004

Ziel dieses Oberseminars ist eine grundlegende Orientierung in dem grossen Feld zeitgenössischer Ansätze zur Theorie und Methodik der Literaturwissenschaft und Textkritik. Wichtige Schlüsseltexte sollen zu diesem Zweck nebeneinandergestellt und auf ihre unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen, auf ihre innere Kohärenz, auf ihre expliziten Ziele im Umgang mit literarischen Texten und auf ihren mutmasslichen Nutzen in unserer Lebenspraxis befragt werden. Ausgewählte Positionen werden gemeinsam gelesen und in zusätzlich referierten Zusammenhängen erörtert. Als Lesebücher dienen David Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (London: Longman, 1992) und Lawrence E. Cahoone, From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996). Zur grundlegenden Orientierung empfohlen wird Ralf Schneider (ed.), Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis (Tübingen: Narr, 2004)

Qualifikation: Alle Seminarmitglieder nehmen aktiv - nach Möglichkeit in Kleingruppen - an der Vorbereitung der Seminarsitzungen teil. Jede(r) Teilnehmer(in) fertigt im Laufe des Semesters eine Arbeit im Artikelformat, in der ein theoretischer Ansatz auf seine praktische Ergiebigkeit für ein konkretes literarisches Werk erörtert wird. Alternativer Abschluss für Magisterstudium: Klausur in der letzten Semesterwoche.

Anmeldung: 15 Teilnehmer ab Vorbesprechung zu Ende SS 2004 (der genaue Termin wird durch Aushang bekanntgegeben).

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Sonstige Veranstaltungen


Culture Club

Der Culture Club des Seminars für Englische Philologie trifft sich während des Semesters mittwochs von 18-22 Uhr in Raum 306. Regulärer Beginn der Veranstaltungen ist 20 Uhr; einzelne Veranstaltungen beginnen bereits früher. Genaueres erfahren Sie aus den Aushängen am Schwarzen Brett im Foyer.

Der Club soll ein Forum sein, auf dem Studierende wie auch Lehrende und Gäste des Seminars ausserhalb des üblichen Lehrangebots Themen aus dem Bereich der englischsprachigen Kultur(en) zur Sprache bringen können - in Vorträgen, Dia-Vorträgen, Diskussionsrunden, Filmvorführungen usw. (meist in englischer Sprache).

FilmClub

FilmClub shows films approximately every two weeks during the semester. Films are usually in English; they are always in their original language version. For specific details of the current programme and any other 'special' events, please check the posters all about the 'Brecht-Bau' or visit our website:

http://www.geocities.com/filmclub_tuebingen

Theater am Brechtbau

Es gibt am Brechtbau schon seit Jahren verschiedenste Theatergruppen, die sich jedes Semester zu mindestens einer Produktion pro Gruppe - meist hier im Brechtbau-Foyer, im Theater - zusammenfinden.

Auch kommen jedes Semester neue Leute dazu, nicht nur SchauspielerInnen, sondern auch Technik-Interessierte, Bühnenbau-Neugierige oder Kostümbilden-Wollende, und auch viele ganz theaterunerfahrene Interessierte, die einfach nur mal gucken wollen. Leute brauchen wir alle immer!

Jede/r kann einfach mal bei den Proben auftauchen - Kontaktadresse siehe unten - oder mal einen Blick auf das "Theaterbrett" - direkt vorm Theater, unten im Foyer - werfen.

Jeden Mittwoch 13 s.t. Uhr ist im Theater ein Jour Fixe aller Hausgruppen. Wer mit einem neuen Projekt hier einsteigen möchte oder einfach nur mal reinschauen will, ist hier richtig!

Anfang der Semester auch auf den Spielplan achten!

Kontaktadresen der Theatergruppen im Wintersemester 2004/2005

- Tina Steiner (Theaterbeauftragte)

Tel.: 07071-2972910

e-mail: tiburon1^@web.de



Sonstiges


Anmeldefristen für das Staatsexamen

Die Anmeldung für die mündliche Prüfung im Staatsexamen bei den einzelnen Prüferinnen und Prüfern erfolgt frühestens etwa ein Jahr im voraus in den beiden letzten Vorlesungswochen eines Semesters.

Das heisst: im Februar für mündliche Prüfungen im April des jeweils folgenden Jahres, im Juli für mündliche Prüfungen im Oktober des jeweils folgenden Jahres.

Hinweis zur Zwischenprüfung

Die für die Zwischenprüfung relevanten Prüfungsleistungen (ob mündlich oder schriftlich) sind unmittelbar im Anschluss an die jeweiligen Verantstaltungen zu erbringen.

Scheine

Seminar- und Übungsscheine bitte grundsätzlich beim Dozenten bzw. dem Lehrstuhlsekretariat abholen.

Prüfungsordnungen

- Lehramt/Staatsexamen: Oberschulamt

- Magister: Dekanat

Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik

Die Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik besteht aus einer Gruppe von Studierenden, die sich für Eure Interessen, Sorgen und Belange anderer Art einsetzen. In den Sitzungen der Fachschaft, die jeden Donnerstag von 18-19 Uhr in Raum 139 stattfinden und zu denen Ihr herzlich eingeladen seid, werden fachspezifische Probleme und Lösungsvorschläge diskutiert.

Ihr könnt bei uns alte Klausuren und Examensprotokolle einsehen, mit allen Fragen, die das Studium betreffen, zu uns kommen und/oder einfach vorbeischauen und mitmachen.

Allgemeinere hochschulpolitische Fragen werden zusammen mit den anderen Fachschaften der Neuphilologie im Brecht-Bau-Plenum besprochen, das sich jeden Donnerstag um 19 Uhr in Raum 137 trifft. Auch hier seid Ihr jederzeit herzlich willkommen.

Studienberatung

Studienberatung der Fachschaft Anglistik/Amerikanistik für Erstsemester im Foyer des Brecht-Baus:

- in der Woche vor Semesterbeginn:

   - Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag: 10-12 Uhr

- in der ersten Semesterwoche:

   - Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch: 10-13 Uhr

AnglistInnen-Erstsemesterfrühstück der Fachschaft:

- siehe Fachschaftszettel



Richtlinien für die Anerkennung von Studienleistungen an ausländischen Universitäten


1. Studienleistungen und Scheine, die im Ausland erworben worden sind, können auf der Grundlage einer individuellen Äquivalenzprüfung auf die Anforderungen der Prüfungsordnungen für das Lehramt und für den Magister angerechnet werden.

2. Die Anrechnung erfolgt nach einer individuellen Äquivalenzprüfung durch Beauftragte des Seminars für Englische Philologie und der Abteilung für Amerikanistik.

3. Bei diesem Verfahren wird zu ermitteln versucht, welchem Tübinger Veranstaltungstyp (PS I, PS II, PS III, HS) die im Ausland absolvierten Lehrveranstaltungen aufgrund der Themenstellung, der Lernziele, der Arbeitsanforderungen und der erbrachten schriftlichen Leistungen entsprechen. Wenn die Äquivalenz auf der Grundlage dieser Kriterien gegeben ist, kann die Anrechnung erfolgen.

4. Zur Feststellung der Äquivalenz sind folgende Unterlagen vorzulegen:

   - das "Transkript" der auswärtigen Universität, in dem die besuchten Lehrveranstaltungen mit den Noten aufgelistet sind;

   - Angaben über die gewählten Lehrveranstaltungen (z.B. Ankündigungen, Kursbeschreibungen, Lektürelisten etc.);

   - alle schriftlichen Arbeiten mit Beurteilung und Note;

   - Notenskala der ausländischen Universität.

5. Von besonderem Interesse ist die Frage, inwieweit auswärtige Leistungen als Hauptseminare anerkannt werden können. In diesem Falle sollten die angefertigten schriftlichen Arbeiten folgende Kriterien erfüllen:

   - komplexe Themenstellung, die aus dem Titel der Arbeit ersichtlich ist;

   - Auseinandersetzung mit der einschlägigen wissenschaftlichen Literatur;

   - linguistische Arbeiten sollten eine empirische Komponente beinhalten (Corpusanalyse, Beispielauswertung, Informantenbefragung oder ähnliches);

   - Umfang von 15-18 Seiten; statt einer Arbeit können zwei kürzere Arbeiten von mindestens jeweils 8 Seiten vorgelegt werden;

   - basiert der ausländische Schein auf einer Klausur, so sollten Sie zusätzlich zu Ihrem "Transkript" eine Kopie der Klausuraufgaben und eine Kopie Ihrer Klausur vorlegen;

   - die Arbeit muss auf englisch abgefasst sein.

In der Regel werden im amerikanischen Universitätssystem die Studienleistungen in Veranstaltungen mit der Kursziffer 400 aufwärts ("senior courses" bzw. "graduate courses") diesen Anforderungen gerecht.

Besondere Hinweise:

- Es ist möglich, im Ausland erworbene Leistungen auch als literaturwissenschaftliche, linguistische und mediävistische Proseminare II anrechnen zu lassen. Beachten Sie aber bitte, dass Sie im Falle des literaturwissenschaftlichen Proseminars die für die Zwischenprüfung erforderliche mündliche Prüfung in Tübingen ablegen müssen. Auch in der Linguistik wird für die ZP eine zusätzliche Leistung erbracht werden müssen.

Im Hinblick auf die Staatsexamensprüfung und die Magisterprüfung (neue Prüfungsordnung vom 1. 1. 2002) gilt, dass ein im Ausland erworbener Hauptseminarschein in Linguistik, Literaturwissenschaft oder Mediävistik auf die Zahl der erforderlichen Scheine angerechnet werden kann.