Professor Dr. Bernd Engler
V: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1865-1910
Dienstag, 09-11 Uhr Raum 036 Beginn: 21.10.97
This course of lectures will survey the development of American literature from the end of the Civil War in 1865 thru the first decade of the 20th century. Its prime focus will be on the historical and social context, and the intellectual and philosophical background of a literature which is commonly characterized by terms such as Literary Realism and Naturalism. Although representative texts of major authors of the literary period will be analyzed in some detail, lecture will be primarily concerned with the discussion of the development of intellectual and aesthetic concepts and the various extraliterary factors which shaped the quest for "the real" during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Professor Dr. Lothar Fietz
V: STRUKTURELLE ASPEKTE DES ENGLISCHEN ROMANS I:
18. JAHRHUNDERT
Mo, Di 17-18 Raum 037 Beginn: 20.10.97
Diese Vorlesung bildet den Auftakt einer dreisemestrigen Vorlesungsreihe, in der Strukturprobleme des englischen Romans vom 18. zum 20. Jahrhundert behandelt werden. Im ersten Teil dieser Vorlesung werden die extraliterarischen Bedingungen der Entstehung des "neuen" Romans novel und dessen Ablösung von der romance unter sozial-, philosophie- und literaturgeschichtlichen Aspekten behandelt. Der zweite Teil ist dem Romanwerk Daniel Defoes gewidmet, wobei die Probleme von bürgerlicher Mittelschicht, Protestantismus und Romankunst im Mittelpunkt stehen. Ein dritter Teil beschäftigt sich mit Jonathan Swift unter dem Aspekt von Parodie und Satire. Samuel Richardson steht im Mittelpunkt des vierten Kapitels und wird unter dem Aspekt des Tugend- und Wertesystems besonders im Hinblick auf die Empfindsamkeit des 18. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Ein fünfter Teil ist Henry Fielding unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Theorie des comic epic poem in prose und der Funktion des Komischen im Roman gewidmet. Die Vorlesung schliesst mit Laurence Sterne und der Erscheinung und Degeneration des Sentimentalismus im englischen Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts.
Teilnehmern an meinem Hauptseminar Major English Novelists: Modes of First-Person Narrative in the 18th Century wird diese Vorlesung zur Vertiefung der Hintergrundkenntnisse empfohlen.
Bibliographie: A. E. Dyson, ed., The English Novel: Select Bibliographical Guides (Oxford, 1974) und weiterführende Jahresbibliographien von MLA .
Privatdozent Dr. H. Grandel
V: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT: AMERIKANISTIK
Di/Do 16-17 Uhr Raum 036 Beginn: 16.10.97
Diese Vorlesung wendet sich an Studierende der Amerikanistik und Anglistik. Sie ist als eine Einführungsvorlesung konzipiert, die in Verbindung mit den amerikanistischen und anglistischen Proseminaren I in den ersten beiden Studiensemestern besucht werden soll. Ihr Ziel ist es, anhand von Texten vorwiegend aus der amerikanischen Literatur von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart, Grundlagenwissen zu vermitteln und die Studierenden mit wichtigen Problemen und Arbeitsweisen der Literaturwissenschaft bekannt zu machen.
Folgende Themen stehen auf dem Programm:
- die Klärung des Begriffs Literatur und die Frage nach den an Prozessen literarischer Kommunikation beteiligten Instanzen und Instititutionen;
- die Frage nach den Klassifizierungsprinzipien von Literatur in ihren historischen Wandlungen (Kanonbildung, Mündlichkeit - Schriftlichkeit, Literatur und Medien, Textsorten und Gattungen);
- die Einführung in die Gattungstheorie und die Erarbeitung eines Instrumentariums wichtiger Begriffe zur Analyse von narrativen, dramatischen, lyrischen Texten, nebst einer Einführung in Grundbegriffe der Rhetorik und die Analyse expositorischer Genres (z.B. Essay, Rede);
- die Reflexion auf die hermeneutischen Probleme von Textverstehen und
-interpretation, in Verbindung mit einer Hinführung zu gegenwärtig relevanten Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft (z.B. Strukturalismus, Rezeptionstheorie, feministische Literaturwissenschaft, "New Historicism").
Der Lektüreaufwand ist so bemessen, dass er von Vorlesung zu Vorlesung zu bewältigen ist. Die Vorlesung wird von einstündigen Tutorien begleitet, in denen aktuelle Fragen der Vorlesung weiterverfolgt werden.
Zur Anschaffung empfohlen wird:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter . Oxford: World's Classics, 1990.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., 1990. Vol. 2.
Diese Anthologie ist auch in mehreren Exemplaren in der Fachbereichsbibliothek und in der Lehrbuchsammlung der Universitätsbibliothek vorhanden.
Professor Dr. Barbara Korte
V: LITERARY HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES: EARLY MODERNISM TO ROMANTICISM
Do 09-11 Raum 037 Beginn: 23.10.97
This survey lecture (to be continued next term) is primarily addressed to first and second year students. Central developments in the literatures of the British Isles will be considered within the broad cultural context (social and political history, architecture, visual arts, music etc.) of their time.
Many texts to be considered will be taken from The Norton Anthology of English Literature , vol. I.
Recommended complementary reading:
Hans Ulrich Seeber (ed.), Englische Literaturgeschichte Stuttgart: Metzler, 2nd ed., 1993.
Professor Dr. Christopher T. Harvie
V: KARL MARX'S BRITAIN
Do 14-16 Uhr Raum 037 Beginn: 17.10.97
This lecture-course is an introduction of the industrialisation of Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries and its implications for modern history, partly through the influential analysis made of it as revolutionary and exile in London by Karl Marx in The Communist Manifest (1848) and Capital (1867-82). The lectures will cover the economic, political and cultural history of Britain, using also slides and feature films.
PROVISIONAL SYLLABUS
1. Oct. 16 Introduction: 'Facing Revolution': History to 1851
2. Oct. 23 'A Bourgeois Proletariat': History 1851-1914
3. Oct. 30 Lecture 2: The Railway Age, 1850-1914
4. Nov. 6 Industrial Britain: Labour and Trade Unionism.
5. Nov. 13 Film: Kind Hearts and Coronets
6. Nov. 20 Marx: Career and Ideas
7. Nov. 27 Britain and Europe: foreign relations
8. Dec. 4 Social Criticism and Literature, from Carlyle to William Morris
9. Dec. 11 The Nations of the United Kingdom
10. Dec. 18 Britain, America and Imperialism
11. Jan. 8 The Idea of Democracy: from the Chartists to the Franchise
12. Jan. 15 Marx's London (with slides)
13. Jan. 22 The Duel of Gladstone and Disraeli
14. Jan. 29 The British Socialists: Owen to the Fabians
15. Feb. 5 The Rise of the Labour Party
16. Feb. 12 Industrial Britain in the 20th Century: the Victorian legacy
Reading: Kenneth O Morgan, ed. Oxford History of Britain is basic; for Marx's career and influence Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station is still readable and very stimulating.
Elsa Lattey, Ph.D.
V: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
Mi 09-11 Raum 037 Beginn: 22.10.97
This lecture is recommended to all students in their first two semesters. It provides historical and theoretical background for the practical work of the PS I and PS II (required Schein-courses) in linguistics.
Topics to be discussed include:
- basic linguistic concepts (language, grammar)
- levels of description (phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)
- language variation, language change
- speech production and perception
- language and cognition
- language acquisition
- language contact
"A"-Kurse
1. für das 1. Semester
ORAL COMMUNICATION (2st.)
A10 1. Gruppe: N.N. Mo 12-14 Raum 108
A11 2. Gruppe: Lethbridge Mo 10-12 Raum 108
A12 3. Gruppe: Matley Mi 09-11 Raum 04
A13 4. Gruppe: Maier (amerik. Aussprache) Mo 08-10 Raum 406
A14 5. Gruppe: Scholz (amerik. Aussprache) Mi 08-10 Raum 406
PHONETICS (1st.)
B10 1. Gruppe: Watts Mo 14-15 Raum 206
B11 2. Gruppe: Watts Mo 15-16 Raum 206
B12 3. Gruppe: Watts Di 14-15 Raum 05
B13 4. Gruppe: Watts Di 15-16 Raum 05
B14 5. Gruppe: Westney Do 13-14 Raum 108
B15 6. Gruppe: Westney Fr 08-09 Raum 05
2. für das 2. Semester
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE I (2st.)
D10 1. Gruppe: Westney Do 14-16 Raum 04
D11 2. Gruppe: Donnellan Fr 11-13 Raum 04
D12 3. Gruppe: Lethbridge Mo 12-14 Raum 04
D13 4. Gruppe: Westney Fr 10-12 Raum 108
3. für das 3. Semester
ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE II (2st.)
(Voraussetzung: English Grammar and Usage I)
(siehe auch B-Kurs: Systematic Review of English Grammar)
E10 1. Gruppe: N.N. Mi 09-11 Raum 306
E11 2. Gruppe: Lethbridge Di 10-12 Raum 04
E12 3. Gruppe: Lethbridge Mi 13-15 Raum 206
E13 4. Gruppe: Matley Mo 12-14 Raum 206
E14 5. Gruppe: N.N. Mi 13-15 Raum 306
E15 6. Gruppe: Scholz Di 16-18 Raum 406
E16 7. Gruppe: Scholz Do 12-14 Raum 04
TRANSLATION I (1st.)
F10 1. Gruppe: Maier Di 15-16 Raum 406
F11 2. Gruppe: Maier Di 18-19 Raum 406
F12 3. Gruppe: Matley Mo 09-10 Raum 05
F13 4. Gruppe: Matley Mo 11-12 Raum 206
F14 5. Gruppe: Watts Do 15-16 Raum 05
F15 6. Gruppe: Watts Mi 15-16 Raum 306
4. für das 4. Semester
TRANSLATION II (2st.)
(Voraussetzung Translation I)
G10 1. Gruppe: N.N. Di 12-14 Raum 04
G11 2. Gruppe: N.N. Mo 08-10 Raum 108
G12 3. Gruppe: Maier Mo 12-14 Raum 406
G13 4. Gruppe: Matley Di 08-10 Raum 206
G14 5. Gruppe: Matley Mi 12-14 Raum 108
"B"-Kurse (für Studenten im Grund- und Hauptstudium)
Donnellan
S10 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
(Schein kann auch als Nachweis für Grammar and Usage II verwendet werden)
Di 12-14 Raum 108 Beginn: 21.10.97
The course is intended to give participants an opportunity to revise and deepen their understanding of English grammar, using Quirk/Greenbaum, A University Grammar of English and the accompanying Übungsbuch by Close/Bald. Because of the limited amount of time available, we shall have to concentrate on topics dealt with in the latter parts of the books, including: prepositions; the simple sentence; adjuncts, disjuncts, conjuncts; coordination, apposition and ellipsis; sentence connection. The grade for the course is assessed from a Klausur. Copies of the relevant exercises will be made available in the course of the first session.
Donnellan
J10 CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION: SHORT STORIES
Do 13-15 Raum 05 Beginn: 16.10.97
This course will consist of reading and discussing a selection of short stories by
well-known writers in this genre, including Isaac Bashevis Singer, John O'Hara, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Mary Levin, Irwin Shaw, Saul Bellow, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, Peter Taylor, Doris Lessing, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor. Copies of the texts will be made available during the first meeting.
J.B. Lethbridge
R10 CLOSE READING AND DISCUSSION
Mo 16-18 Raum 05 Beginn: 20.10.97
In this informal seminar we shall examine (and discuss) the close reading of English Poetry. The point of reading poetry closely is to get more pleasure from it. However there is also the question of passing Important Exams, and there are certain quite specific demands that exams tend to make. We shall therefore work hard at explaining and mastering basic techniques of poetry analysis. Once we have these fairly straight-forward bits and pieces of practical criticism mastered, we shall be able to broaden the analyses and discussions into other areas.
As the semester progresses and we get more practised and expert, we should be able to push back our chairs, unfold our legs and have out our civilised and well-informed talk over the poetry, which, like wine, is one of the most pleasurable and enduring of conversation topics.
We shall begin with some recent poets, Heaney and R.S. Thomas for example; later we can discuss whoever takes our fancy among the British poets. Those who require a Schein should pay particular attention to their discussion skills and be prepared to submit written work.
Virginia Maier, MA
W10 CREATIVE WRITING
Di 08-10 Raum 04 Beginn: 21.10.97
In this course you will have opportunity to write works of fiction for a workshop of your peers. You will be asked to complete writing assignments (stories and exercises), both in and outside of class, and to present them for consideration. You will also be asked to consider how various techniques (such as character, point of view, etc.) function in other writers' stories, and how you can best utilize these techniques in your own. Finally, it is expected that you rewrite some of these assignments after they have been discussed so that you can improve your revision skills.
Requirements: Completion of all writing assignments; revision of two writing assignments (to be completed by the end of the semester); regular attendance and active participation.
Texts: Information about texts will be available during the first class session.
Registration: Central
PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE (1st.)
P10 1. Gruppe: Westney Do 15-16 Raum 306
P11 2. Gruppe: Westney Fr 09-10 Raum 108
LINGUISTIK - Proseminare II (only offered in the WS) -
Übersicht
(Einzelkommentare siehe nachfolgend)
L10 Albl-Mikasa, Michaela Pragmatics Di 16-19 R. 05
L11 Braun, Sabine Pragmatics Mo 16-19 R. 306
L12 Gottschalk, K.-D. Syntax Fr 09-12 R. 05
L13 Kallia, Alexia Pragmatics Compact course
Time & place to be announced !!!
L14 Lattey, Elsa Lexicon Mi 15-18 R. 05
L15 N.N. Syntax Mo 18-21 R. 108
L16 Watts, Stu Conversation
Analysis Mo 10-13 R. 120
L17 Westney, Paul Syntax Do 17-20 R. 306
L18 Winkler, Susanne Compact
29.9.-14.10. to be announced !!!
L19 Winkler, Susanne Syntax Mo 09-12 to be announced
Dem Seminar für Englische Philologie wurde für das Wintersemester ein Tutorenprogramm bewilligt, an dem auch das Lehrangebot der Linguistik im Grundstudium beteiligt sein wird. Bei Redaktionsschluss dieser Broschüre war die Planung des Tutoreneinsatzes noch nicht abgeschlossen. Zusätze und Änderungen im Programm werden durch Aushänge bekanntgegeben.
Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.
Michaela Albl-Mikasa
Di 16-19 Raum 05 Beginn: 21.10.97
A pragmatic approach to language treats the meaning of a linguistic message as determined not solely on the basis of words and the structure of sentences but by our interpretation of what the producer intended to mean. It takes us from cohesion to coherence.
Other fundamental notions are presupposition, implicature, speech acts and inference.
The course will be based on selected passages from Levinson, S.C. (1983): Pragmatics . Cambridge, CUPM; as well as on chapters 7 in
Brown, G./Yule, G. (1983): Discourse Analysis Cambridge, CUP.
Sabine Braun
L11 PS II: ENGLISH PRAGMATICS
Mo 16-19 Raum 306 Beginn: 20.10.97
In the broadest sense, pragmatics is about understanding language, in particular meaning, from the perspective of communicative language use. Central topics in this course will include presupposition, implicature, speech acts, conversational and discourse structure. The course will be based on Stephen C. Levinson (1983): Pragmatics . Cambridge, CUP.
Selected articles and chapters from other publications will be integrated when appropriate.
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
L12 PS II: SYNTAX
Fr 09.30-12 Raum 05 Beginn: 17.10.97
This seminar will be based on the type of syntax theory introduced in the
Proseminar I. The book chosen will allow students preparing for a teaching profession (Lehramt) to present some of the syntactic topics in their oral finals (Staatsexamen), e.g. question formation, passive NP-movement, reflexives, infinitival clauses.
There will be a final test for the certificate of attendance.
L. Haegemann (1994): Introduction to Government and Binding Theory.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Alexia Kallia, M.A.
L13 PS II: PRAGMATICS COMPACT COURSE
Time and place to be announced
In a nutshell, pragmatics deals with the meaning of language in 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. In particular, we will discuss Grice's theory of conversational implicature, Sperber & Wilsons's Relevance theory, Austin's and Searle's Speech Act theories, and the notions of deixis and presupposition.
Texts: Green, Georgia M. (1989) Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding .
Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Thomas, Jenny (1995) Meaning in Interaction London: Longman
plus selected chapters from other introductory books when necessary.
Requirements: regular attendance, weekly exercises, one short oral report, Zwischenprüfungsklausur.
Elsa Lattey, Ph.D.
L14 PS II: LEXICON
Mi 15-18 Raum 05 Beginn: 22.10.97
In this course we will explore the structure and use of the lexicon in our grammar of English, beginning with the morphology and the processes of word formation, asking ourselves what indeed a word is, what kinds there are, and how people understand and use them. We will acquaint ourselves with the dictionary on the shelf and try to relate it to the one in the head.
The text material for this course will consist of selected readings. A primary text:
Aitchison, Jean. Words in the Mind: an Introduction to the Mental Lexicon. Oxford: Blackwell, 2nd ed., 1994.
plus assigned readings from other publications, including:
Bauer, Laurie. English Word-Formation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Requirements for a Schein: oral reports, exercises, Zwischenprüfungsklausur.
Before the first session of class, please reread the chapter on morphology from your introductory textbook and the section on lexical meaning.
Stu Watts, BA, MA
L16 PS II: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
Mo 10-13 Raum 120 Beginn: 20.10.97
Conversation Analysis (CA) has connections to a number of other linguistic disciplines, for example Phonetics and Pragmatics, and should appeal to students who are interested in these topics. Its field of investigation is the very real phenomenon of everyday talk. The two main aims of the course are: to describe conversation (i.e. work out a method of recording in detail what has been said, and how); and to discover in what ways speech is organised (e.g. turn-taking regulation).
Before Christmas we will deal with the basics of CA theory, look to a variety of data (both written and audio-visual); and briefly consider Discourse Analysis, a closely related subject. After Christmas, students will present extended seminar papers, in small groups, on a range of appropriate topics (e.g. the role of phonetics within CA; CA and non-oral communication; gender and conversation).
There is no set book for this Seminar. A list of relevant reading material will be issued during the first lesson.
Dr. Paul Westney
L17 PS II: SYNTAX
Do 17-20 Raum 206 Beginn: 16.10.97
This seminar is designed to provide an introduction to generative syntax in its most influential current form (Government and Binding theory, otherwise the Principles and Parameters approach). Reference will be primarily to English, and the course will involve the detailed investigation of several major aspects of English syntax.
Requirements: Regular exercises, at least one oral presentation, and the final Zwischenprüfungsklausur.
Textbook: Haegemann, Introduction to Government and Binding Theory , 2nd edition, 1994, Blackwell.
Preparatory reading: Thorough familiarity with the Syntax chapter in O'Grady et al., Contemporary Linguistics , which is used in the PS I courses (any edition), would be very appropriate.
Students who want to be on top of the relevant linguistic terminology are recommended to consult (perhaps even buy) Trask, A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics , Routledge, 1993.
Dr. Susanne Winkler
L18 PS II: INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT AND BINDING THEORY
Kompaktseminar: 29.9.97 - 14.10.97, Room 206
1. Mon, 9-29-1997 9 am - 1 pm 6. Tues, 10-07-1997 12 am - 4 pm
2. Tues, 9-30-1997 9 am - 1 pm 7. Wed, 10.08-1997 9 am - 1 pm
3. Wed, 10-01-1997 9 am - 1 pm 8. Thur, 10-09-1997 9 am - 1 pm
4. Thur, 10-02-1997 9 am - 1 pm 9. Fri, 10-10-1997 9 am - 1 pm
5. Mon, 10-06-1997 9 am - 1 pm
The aim of this seminar is to offer an introduction to generative syntax, usually referred as Government and Binding Theory 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. Major emphasis is placed upon the formulation of abstract rules and the syntactic representations they generate. Using Haegemann (1994) as a course book, the different modules of GB-Theory (X-bar theory, theta theory, case theory, binding theory, control theory and movement theory) will be thorougly investigated. Since Haegeman presupposes the ability to construct phrase structure representations, we will also read and discuss chapters 3-5 of Radford (1988) as preparation for the current theoretical discussions in GB theory.
Requirements: oral report, exercises, Zwischenprüfungsklausur.
Course books:
Haegemann, L. (1994) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory . Oxford: Blackwell, Chapters 1-7
Radford, A. (1988) Transformational Grammar: A First Course. Cambridge: CUP, Chpaters 3-5
Registration: July, 14th 1997, 9 am, Room: 555
LINGUISTIK Proseminare III
Professor H.B. Drubig
PS III: HISTORICAL SYNTAX
Do 14-16 Raum 306 Beginn: 23.10.97
The objective of this seminar is an introduction to historical linguistics which will prepare students for participation in a Hauptseminar on historical syntax to be offered by S. Winkler and H.B. Drubig in SS 1998. The seminar will begin with a discussion of the nature of language change and the kind of evidence that historical linguistics must take into consideration. Next we will discuss various types of linguistic change, such as lexical and semantic, phonological, morphological and especially syntactic change. Finally, we will discuss several theories of sound change and analogy, relatedness between languages and the most important methods of historical reconstruction, in particular the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction.
Textbook: R.L. Trask (1996) Historical Linguistics London: Arnold (paperback edition available).
Anmeldung: Ab 10. Juli 1997, 13 c.t., Raum 554.
Voraussetzung zur Teilnahme: PS I und PS II (Scheine).
Carol M. Geppert-Jolly, M.A.
PS III: STYLISTICS
Do 08-10 Raum 108 Beginn: 16.10.97
This seminar aims to give a broad picture of the stylistic and grammatical patterns of both written and spoken English. The texts and examples to be examined will be taken from actual situations so that it will be possible to distinguish between varieties of English and see how certain of them differ from the accepted norm.
Planned topics for discussion are, among others: features of conversation and certain dialects, scripted and unscripted commentary, news reports and the language of the press, public speaking, advertising and religion.
The seminar will begin by introducing the linguistic terms and techniques necessary for describing and classifiying the varieties of the language. Analysis of texts and examples and intensive treatment of topics will follow both in Referate and seminar discussions.
The following books are recommended as preparation for the course:
David Crystal & Derek Davy, Investigating English Style (Longman)
G.W. Turner, Stylistics (Pelican)
Registration during my office hours.
Elsa Lattey, Ph.D.
PS III: CODE-SWITCHING
Fr 09-11 Raum 306 Beginn: 17.10.97
Within the linguistic sub-fields of sociolinguistics and bilingualism, the topic of code-switching (alternate use of more than one language) has been accorded considerable attention in recent years. This course will sketch the general framework of these two disciplines and then concentrate on code- switching as a specific instance of language variation, contrasting the latter with such related topics as language mixing and borrowing.
Examples:
1. I'll remember you when it's so weit with me.
(Context: spoken to 12-year-old who said he wouldn't mind changing a baby's diapers.)
2. While I'm überleging all of this,.....
3. [nekst] mal fly i' als Ding - uh - unaccompanied minor .
We will look at the structures in which code-switches occur and investigate the theoretical claims about whether on can predict points in an utterance at which they can and cannot happen.
A preliminary reading list will be available at registration.
Registration: In my Sprechstunde: ab Di 1.7.97
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT Proseminare I
Professor Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
C10 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE TEXTS
Mo 14-16 Room 306 Begins: 20.10.97
This proseminar is intended to introduce beginners to literary terms and techniques of analysis useful for the interpretation of novels and short stories. The course will start with a study of narrative structures in historiography, autobiographes, biographies, diaries and letters and then turn to a close reading of short stories.
Required texts:
Christopher Dolley, ed. The Penguin Book of English Short Stories, vol I. ;
Doris Lessing, Collected Stories , Vol. I (Triad Granada)
Hans-Werner Ludwig, ed. Arbeitsbuch Romananalyse (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1982)
Qualificatons for a certificate: term paper (8-10 pages), the minutes of one session, regular attendance.
Register for this course at the beginning of the term (Zentrale Anmeldung).
PD Dr. Hartmut Grandel
C11 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE ANALYSE UND INTERPRETATION VON ERZÄHLENDER PROSA: Amerikanische Short Stories und Romane des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Mo 14-16 Raum 406 Beginn: 20.10.97
Dieses Proseminar richtet sich an StudienanfängerInnen der Amerikanistik und Anglistik. Die TeilnehmerInnen sollen in ihm mit den Fragestellungen der neueren Erzähltheorie bekannt gemacht werden, und es sollen wichtige Begriffe der Erzähltextanalyse geklärt und für die Analyse ausgewählter amerikanischer Short Stories und Romane fruchtbar gemacht werden. Neben ausgewählten amerikanischen Short Stories des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts steht Mark Twains Roman Adventures of Huckleberry Finn auf dem Programm.
Die Voraussetzungen für einen Schein (Teilleistung für die ZP) sind ein Protokoll, ein Kurzreferat und eine schriftliche Hausarbeit.
Das Seminar wird von einem einstündigen Tutorium begleitet. Der Termin des Tutoriums wird in der ersten Sitzung verabredet.
Texte: A. Walton Litz, ed. Major American Short Stories . 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1994
Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ist in Band 2 der Heath Anthology of American Literature , ed. Paul Lauter (Lexington, Mass, 1990) enthalten.
Hans-Werner Ludwig, Arbeitsbuch Romananalyse. Auflage. Tübingen: Narr, 1995.
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren.
Dr. Eveline Kilian
C12 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT AM BEISPIEL DES DRAMAS
Do 13-15 Raum 206 Beginn: 16.10.97
Dieses Seminar richtet sich in erster Linie an StudienanfängerInnen und soll an den literaturwissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Texten, in unserem Fall speziell mit Dramentexten heranführen. Die entsprechenden Grundbegriffe werden anhand des Arbeitsbuchs dargestellt und erörtert, sowie an ausgewählten Beispielen und Dramentypen praktisch erprobt. Des weiteren wird das Seminar den TeilnehmerInnen Gelegenheit geben, verschiedene Formen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens einzüben.
Arbeitsbuch: Elke Platz-Waury, Drama und Theater. Eine Einführung. (Tübingen:
Narr, neueste Auflage).
Primärtexte: William Shakespeare, Macbeth . Ed. Kenneth Muir (Arden Edition)
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan in: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays , ed. Peter Raby (OUP/World's Classics)
Pam Gems, Three Plays (Piaf, Camille, Loving Women) (Penguin)
Carly Phillips, Strange Fruit (Amber Lane Press, 1981)
Anforderungen für einen Schein: regelmässige Mitarbeit, Kurzreferat, Protokoll, Hausarbeit.
Anmeldung: beim zentralen Anmeldeverfahren zu Semesterbeginn.
Svenja Kuhfuss
C13 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
Tuesday 6-8 p.m. Room 108 First meeting 21 Oct 1997
back off from this poem
it is a greedy mirror
your are into this poem . from
the waist down
from Ishmael Reed, "beware : do not read this poem"
This Proseminar I , which will be held in English, is designed for first-year students. Those who have so far backed off from poetry might find it rewarding after all. For those who are already into it, this class can offer new insights. You will get an introduction to the critical terms, concepts and criteria relevant to the analysis and interpretation of poetry. We will discuss English and American poems from the 16th century to the present, thus covering the major literary epochs.
Each participant should buy the following books:
Texts: Arno Löffler & Eberhard Späth. English Poetry: Eine Anthologie für das Studium. Heidelberg: Quelle Mayer/UTB, 2. Auflage 1994
Hans-Werner Ludwig. Arbeitsbuch Lyrikanalyse. Tübingen: Narr, 3. Auflage 1990
Requirements: Regular attendance, minutes, short presentation in class, work in groups, termpaper (essay).
Registration: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren at the beginning of the term.
Dr. phil. Thomas Rommel
C14 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF PROSE
Wednesday, 9-11 Room 206 First meeting: 22.10.97
In this seminar we will be reading, analysing, discussing, and interpreting three novels that epitomize different aspects of writing in English. The analysis of some technical features such as a point-of-view, characterisation, structure, and the concept of time (to name only a few) will provide points of departure for an introduction to the analysis of prose. Additionally, this seminar is designed as an introduction to English literary studies in general.
reading list:
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
registration
- centrally at the beginning of the term
requirements
- active participation in class, report, term paper
Dr. Oliver Scheiding
C15 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN DRAMA
Mo 16-18 Raum 04 Beginn: 20.10.97
This course is especially designed for beginners. It introduces students to the analysis of drama in general. Specific emphasis will be put on critical terms and methods of interpretation as well as the functional changes of particular dramatic concepts such as tragedy. We apply our analytic knowledge to American plays of both the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, this class will also provide beginners with an overview on specific developments in American drama touching upon the melodrama and Indian play of the 19th century as well as modern forms such as the expressionist one act play or the theater of the absurd.
Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation in both class and tutorial, oral report, two typed papers.
Required reading: A reader will be posted by the beginning of October (Sekretariat Amerikanistik, room 558).
Registration: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren zu Semesterbeginn.
Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer
C16 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
Mi 11-13 Raum 04 Beginn: 22.10.1997
This seminar, which will be conducted in English, is intended for beginners. We will read and discuss a wide variety of poems, covering as many styles, forms and epochs as possible. We will emphasize formal analysis, but of course questions of reception, interpretation, recital &c. will not be ignored.
Please buy FERGUSON, Margaret, Mary Jo SALTER and Jon STALLWORTHY eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry New York and London: Norton, 4/1996. The book is not cheap, but it is useful and will last you a long time.
Requirements: one summary, one or two talks (depending on the size of the seminar), one essay, regular attendance. Registration is centrally at the beginning of term (Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren)
Dr. Hans-W. Schwarze
C17 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE ANALYSE ERZÄHLENDER PROSA
Mo 09-11 Raum 206 Beginn: 20.10.1997
This course will provide an introduction to the basic features and categories of narrative texts. Participants are expected to learn these characteristics and apply their knowledge to the reading and discussion of selected prose texts. This course will be conducted in English and German.
Requirements: summary, group work/talk, mid-term exam, end-of-term essay and exam.
Registration: at the beginning of the semester (Zentrale Anmeldung)
Texts and required reading:
Arbeitsbuch Romananalyse , ed. H.-W. Ludwig, 5th ed., Tübingen: Narr, 1995.
David Lodge, The Art of Fiction , Penguin Books
H.-D. Gelfert, Wie interpretiert man einen Roman ? Reclam.
James Joyce, Dubliners , Penguin Books
Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum Black Swan 1996.
Dr. Hans-W. Schwarze
C18 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE SPIELFILMANALYSE
Mo 14-16 Raum 108 Beginn: 20.10.97
This course which will be conducted in English, will introduce the participants to the range of techniques available to the film maker for the transmission of his story and message, and analyse the effects achieved by these techniques in feature films and television plays. The course will also discuss and evaluate the transformation of selected literary texts onto the small and large screen and deal with the basic differences of word-based and image-based media.
Students are asked to purchase the following books:
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Penguin or another publisher
Knut Hickethier, Film- und Fernsehanalyse Stuttgart: Metzler, 2. Auflage
Further literary texts will be announced in class.
Requirements: paper/talk on aspects of the workbooks, on the literary texts and filmed versions, a screen analysis (Filmprotokoll); end-of-term essay or Hausarbeit.
Registration: at the beginning of the semester (Zentrale Anmeldung).
Professor Dr. Gerhard Stilz
C19 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG TEXTANALYSE
Do 09-11 Raum 05 Beginn: 16.10.97
Teilnehmer: Studierende, die noch kein literaturwissenschaftlicher Proseminar der
Anglistik besucht haben.
Ziel: Dieser literaturwissenschaftliche Grundkurs macht mit Begriffen, Arbeitstechniken, Hilfsmitteln und Methoden vertraut, mit deren Hilfe sich englischsprachige Texte analytisch erfassen, sachgerecht beschreiben und im historischen Zusammenhang verstehen lassen. Dabei werden Texte aus verschiedenen Gattungen und Textsorten vorgelegt. Über die gemeinsam bearbeiteten Texte hinaus werden Anleitungen für längere Lektüren gegeben, Leseerfahrungen schriftlich eingeholt und im Blick auf kriterienfeste, professionell verfasste Artikel überarbeitet.
Die verbindliche Textsammlung ist The Norton Anthology of English Literature , Vol. 2 (6th edition, 1993).
Qualifikation für einen benoteten Schein:
1. Regelmässige Erledigung von Übungen zur wissenschaftlichen Arbeitstechnik, 2. Kurzbericht zu einer begrifflichen oder sachlichen Fragestellung, 3. Problemorientierte Analyse und Interpretation eines Textes.
Anmeldung: Allgemeines Anmeldeverfahren zu Semesterbeginn.
Professor Dr. Horst Tonn
C20 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT - AMERIKANISCHE KURZPROSA
Mi 14-16 Raum 120 Beginn: 22.10.97
Das Proseminar richtet sich an Studienanfänger. Ziel ist es, eine Einführung in die Techniken wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens sowie Grundkenntnisse im Umgang mit literarischen Texten zu vermitteln. Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und spezifische Verfahrensweisen literarischer Kommunikation sollen zur Sprache kommen. Eine Auswahl amerikanischer Kurzgeschichten vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart wird im Verlauf des Semesters behandelt werden.
Aktive Teilnahme, Mitarbeit in einer Arbeitsgruppe und zwei kleinere schriftliche Arbeiten sind Voraussetzung für einen Schein. Weiterhin ist die Teilnahme an einem seminarbegleitenden Tutorium verbindlich.
Literatur: Ein "Reader" der Kurzgeschichten steht ab 1. Oktober als Kopiervorlage im Sekretariat Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558) zur Verfügung.
Anmeldung: Zentrales Anmeldeverfahren
LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT Proseminare II
Dr. Eveline Kilian
PS II: JANE AUSTEN
Di 16-18 Raum 108 Beginn: 21.10.97
Now that you have probably all seen the various film versions of Jane Austen's novels, it is perhaps time to (re)read the books again ... In this course we shall discuss three of her novels in greater detail, look at their structural and stylistic features, narrative technique, presentation of character etc. We shall also try to situate these texts with respect to the social and literary conventions of the author's time, trace Jane Austen's entry and place within the canon of the English realist tradition and follow up the reception of her work in our century.
Students are asked to buy the following texts:
Jane Austen, Emma (OUP/World's Classics)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (OUP/World's Classics)
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon (OUP/World's Classics)
(students are expected to buy and read these books before the beginning of the semester)
Requirements: regular attendance and participation in seminar discussions, oral report and term paper.
Svenja Kuhfuss
PS II: PREACHING POETS ?
Wednesday 11-1 Room 306 First meeting 22 Oct 1997
Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish;
There'd be no kissing if he had his wish.
From: W.H. Auden, "Roman Wall Blues"
The aim of this Proseminar II is twofold. On the one hand, it offers a general introduction to the analysis and interpretation of poetry for those students who have so far only dealt with prose or drama. On the other hand, we want to look at the relationship between poetry and (dis)belief. From Herbert to Heaney, poets have written about the experience of transcendence, the idea of God, prayers, doubts, questions as to the existence of an ultimate reality and criticsm of the Christian churches. In this class, which will be conducted in English, we want to discuss the characteristics, limitations and changes of "religious poetry" from the Renaissance to the present. It is open for students who have successfully attended a Proseminar I Literatur. A reader of poems and critical texts will be available upon registration.
Requirements: Regular attendance, minutes, short presentation in classs, work in groups, termpaper (essay).
Registration: Tuesday, 8 July, 1.30 p.m. in room 366.
Dr. phil. Thomas Rommel
PS II: 18TH-CENTURY POETRY
Thursday, 9-11 Room 206 First meeting: 16.10.97
In this seminar we will be discussing a wide range of poems that were published in the 18th century. The notion of "The 18th Century" as an homogeneous period is an ideological construct, and our discussion of a variety of poems will have to take this into account. Historical, political, economic, aesthetic, and social (not to mention personal) motives as possible sources for poetry will be analysed to identify and discuss major developments of 18-th century poetry.
Background knowledge in poetry and poetics is useful - but if you have not been exposed to rhyme & rhythm before do not fear: part of this seminar is intended as an introduction to the formal aspects of the analysis of poetry.
- you may register for this seminar on Wednesday, July 9, 11-12 in room 370 and during all subsequent office hours
- required text: The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Dr. Oliver Scheiding
PS II: EARLY AMERICAN FICTION
Do 16-18 Raum 406 Beginn: 16.10.97
This seminar is designed as a survey course about early American fiction. We are
going to read various romances and novels persistently attacked by public authorities either as the "most dangerous kind of reading" for the nation's young readership or as "reveries of a perverted imagination". Thus, our goal will be to analyze the specific cultural function and literary dynamic of fiction in the early Republic (1790 -1815). We will ask whether early American fiction offers/allows for alternative readings in terms of cultural self-exploration and individual self-empowerment or whether it only imports and imitates Old World narratives in New World context. Accordingly, we are going to examine the particular "Americanness" and the narrative potential of fictional models such as romance and novel in shaping the new nation's cultural outlook. Finally, we will pose the question as to whether or not our texts provide a subversive message about the way Republican ideas have molded the cultural space within which early American fiction circulates.
Reading: The following books are to be purchased at local bookstores:
William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy Hannah Webster Foster,
The Coquette , 1797 (in one volume, Penguin Classics Pb 1996); Susanna Haswell Rowson, Charlotte Temple (Oxford Pb 1986); Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly (Penguin Classics Pb 1988).
Requirements: Regular attendance in class and tutorial, oral report two typed papers
Registration: Thursday, July 10, 1997, 1-3 pm, room 562.
Dr. phil. Peter Paul Schnierer
PS II: LITERARY DEMONIZATION AND DIABOLIZATION
Mi 20-22 Raum 05 Beginn: 22.10.97
Evil is one of the oldest literary subjects, and the evil antagonist possibly the oldest character in literature. English literature is no exception - in fact, some of Europe's most impressive devils and demons make their appearance in the pages of Marlowe, Milton, Blake, Conrad, and Golding. In this seminar we will concentrate on two aims: We will establish a diachronic axis: a little history of the devil in English literature. But more importantly, we will look at the functions of the literary devil: what sort of ideas get transported, who benefits and who gets hurt ? Demonization and diabolization have often been the prelude to extermination; in following their methods and effects, we may reach a more critical attitude towards the seemingly picturesque.
A project of this kind is not for the indifferent. No prior knowledge is required, and anybody from the second semester onward is most welcome, but you will have to do plenty of reading. We will predominantly deal with the following texts:
- Greene, Robert. [The Honourable History of] Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Ca. 1589.
- Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Ca. 1592.
- Milton, John. Paradise Lost. [Excerpts.]
- Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 93.
- Haggard, Henry Rider. She. 1887.
- Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1902.
- Auden, Wystan Hugh. Poems 1930-1939.
- Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. 1954.
- Weldon, Fay. The Life and Loves of a She-devil. 1983.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. 1988.
Requirements: PS I Literatur credit, regular attendance, one or two short oral presentations, written term paper and fluent English for all of the above. Registration is in person, July 9, 1997, 3-4 pm, Room 365. No written, prior or proxy registration.
Dr. Gerald Siegmund
PS II: FOP AND DANDY: THE BIRTH OF ECCENTRICITY
Do 12-14 Raum 306 Beginn: 20.10.97
His emergence in the second half of the 17th century caused a stir and raised a few eyebrows. And yet the figure of the Fop plays an essential part in the imagination of his time. This seminar will examine the function of Fod- and Dandy-figures in the construction of national and subjective identity from the Restoration period onwards to the late 19th century. Historically, we will trace the development and changes of this social and literary type up to his latest guise, that of the Dandy. Structurally, the seminar will try to highlight some of the theoretical implications Fops and Dandies have for the constitution of the literary text. In order to do so, we will concentrate on the analysis of the following three plays:
Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676)
Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake (1707)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Registration in my room (Zimmer 514) on Wednesday, July 9, 1997 from 12- 13.
Professor Christopher Harvie, Ph.D.
LPS: POLITICS, LITERATURE AND INDUSTRIALISATION IN BRITAIN FROM 1750 TO THE PRESENT
Mi 14-16 Raum 108 Beginn: 22.10.97
This seminar will study both the economic processes which created the first industrial nation, and the reactions to it both of the country's traditional rulers, of the developing working class, and of intellectuals and creative artists. The first sessions will be an introduction to concepts of industrialisation and sources for studying the industrial revolution and subsequent economic developments. Referats (usually organised cooperatively - see The Bumper Book of British Landeskunde ) will then deal with themes from this process - the business classes, politics and industrialisation, the creation of an industrial working class, accompanying religious and industrial changes -and their reflection in literature and art. Students will ultimately do a Hausarbeit essay (c 2.500 words) chosen from one of these themes.
Reading: Kenneth O Morgan, ed., The Oxford History of Britain is basic.
Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire is a good introduction from a Marxist standpoint, and Peter Mathias, The First Industrial Nation
from a Liberal one. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society , and Christopher Harvie, The Centre of Things deal with the intellectual and literary dimension.
Professor Christopher Harvie
LPS (Welsh Studies Centre Compactseminar)
URBAN LIFE, WORK AND CULTURE IN WALES
Dates: November 27-29 and January 30-31, 1998
Wales rose to economic importance long before it became predominantly an urban society. In the eighteenth century its biggest town was Wrexham, on the English border, and the centres of Welsh economic and cultural life were often to be found outside the country, in Shrewsbury, Bristol or even London. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the industrialisation of the country created a totally new sort of society, especially in the coalmining valleys of the South, which called traditional values and the Welsh language and culture itself in question, Tutor for this Compactseminar will be Neil Evans, Tutor in History, Director of Welsh Studies Centre at Coleg Harlech and editor of LLafor the Journal of the Welsh Labour History Society.
Students interested are asked to contact Professor Harvie by October 31 and perferably before the beginning of the semester.
Professor Christopher Harvie
LPS: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH
CENTURY BRITAIN
Do 16-18 Raum 108 Begins 16.10.97
In the early twentieth century Britain already possessed, in London, the largest city of Europe, yet much political power and certain of the critical aspects of the country's culture were closely tied to the land. This seminar will discuss the dialogue between town and country in the age of industrial development and mass-politics, paying particular attention to environmental change (through transport, power-generation, military demands) in its scientific and social aspects. It will also consider the evolution in the twentieth century of particular types of settlement - industrial, shopping- centres, ports and airports, 'planned towns' - and variations in urban developments within the nations of the British Isles. Students will also be encouraged to explore the presentation of environmental issues in the culture of the period - its architecture, literature and popular culture.
Students will be expected to organise a seminar session and to submit an essay of c. 2.500 words. For details of this see The Bumper Book of British Landeskunde .
Reading: Kenneth Morgan, ed., The Oxford History of Britain
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City , Chatto and Windus
Other Landeskunde lectures/seminars:
PD Dr. Hartmut Berghoff will also offer, in the Landeskunde area:
1. Vorlesung: Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Grossbritanniens 1851-1918
Montags, 14-16 Uhr
Hörsaal Keplerstrasse 2, alternativ Hörsaal Neue Aula 1 oder 2
Beginn: 20.10.97
2. Übung: Die britische Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft zwischen 'Great Exhibition' und Erstem Weltkrieg
Montags, 16-18 Uhr
Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Mohlstrasse 36, Raum E 04
Beginn: 20.10.97
3. Hauptseminar: Wirtschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des Massenkonsums. Grossbritannien vor 1914
Für das Hauptstudium: ab 5
Dienstags, 16-18 Uhr
Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Mohlstrasse 36, Raum E 04
Anmeldung bitte im Sekretariat der Abteilung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Nauklerstrasse 47, Zimmer 305 (8.30 - 12.30 Uhr).
Virginia Maier, MA
LPS: MEDIA IN AMERICA
Mo 10-12 Raum 406 Beginn: 20.10.97
The purpose of this course is to provide an introductory overview of the history and influence of mass media and mass communication in contemporary America. The main part of this course will consist of the examination of historical and theoretical aspects of the development of various print, visual electronic and film media. In addition, we will be considering certain controversial issues such as the credibility of the media, and the effects of the media on society. Finally, we will consider what changes may be in store for the media in the future.
Requirements for a Schein: a comprehensive essay to be completed at the end of the semester; leadership of one class session, completion of in-class writing assignments, regular attendance and active participation (including group-work).
Texts: Information about texts will be given both during registration and during the first class session.
Registration: In my office hours (Monday, 12-13 and Tuesday, beginning
July 7, 1997.
Anne-Marie Scholz, Ph.D.
LPS: GENDER IN U.S. CULTURE/LITERATURE
Thu 09-11 Room 120 Begins: 16.10.97
While the title of this course might suggest an exclusive emphasis upon "gender", it is impossible to seperate issues of gender, or constructions of the meaning of what it means to be male or female, from other areas of experience, such as class, race, age, and particularly, in the context of a course on America in Germany, from nationality. Through reading, discussion and film, we'll attempt to understand the term gender as both a method of analysis as well as a historical problem, and explore the ways contemporary popular culture raises questions about the future of gender identity - and whether we agree with the answers it provides.
Reading: will be based on themes students choose for theire presentations
Requirements: Referat, one 9-10 page essay, active participation
Registration: Wed. July 9, 1997, 13-14 Uhr, Room 556
Anne-Marie Scholz, Ph.D.
LPS: SOCIAL/CULTURAL HISTORY: Recent American History from the Gilded Age to the Present
Tue 10-12 Room 120 Begins: 21.10.97
This course surveys fundamental social, political, economic and cultural changes in the United States from the Gilded Age to the present. We will focus on such events and issues as the emergence of corporate capitalism, World Wars I and II, the post-war boom and the Cold War, the emergence of the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, consumer culture, and the turn to the right in the 1980's. We'll also explore the challenges facing the U.S. in a post-Cold War era: the information revolution, postmodernism, postindustrialism, and multiculturalism. Throughout, we'll pay particular attention to changing definitions of U.S. history and the uses to which these differing notions have been put.
Texts: Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation (4th edition) (Engl 03/Peo 1)
William Wheeler and Susan Becker, Discovering the American Past
(Engl 3/Whe 1)
Requirements: midterm exam, final essay, 10-12 pp. in length, and regular course participation.
Registration: Wed. July 9, 1997, 13-14 Uhr, Room 556.
Anne-Marie Scholz, Ph.D.
LPS: GENERATION X AND CONTEMPORARY U.S. CULTURE
Wed 12-14 Room 406 Begins: 22.10.97
Focusing closely upon market-generated images of Generation X and the alleged "generation gap" between Baby Boomers and 'Postboomers', we will compare and contrast contemporary ideologies of youth with our own experiences, emphasizing themes such as changing conceptions of identity, politics, nationality and community in "postmodern" society. Success in the course will depend upon students' willingness to do three things: to engage recent theorectical questions focusing upon the relationship between mass media and idenitity, to actively discuss contemporary issues, and finally, to engage in cultural analysis of film, as a good part of the course will be based upon recent films.
Requirements: leadership of one discussion session, one 9-10 page essay
Texts: one course reader, available at the beginning of the semester
Registration: Wed. July 9, 1997, 13-14 Uhr, Room 556.
MEDIÄVISTIK Proseminare I
Professor Dr. J.O. Fichte
M10 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE ALTENGLISCHE SPRACHE UND LITERATUR
Mo 10-12 Raum 04 Beginn: 20.10.97
Aufgabe des Proseminars "Einführung in die altenglische Sprache und Literatur" ist es, die Studenten mit westsächsischer Phonologie, Morphologie, Flexionslehre und Syntay 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.
Scheinerwerb durch Klausur.
Joerg O. Fichte/Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und Mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung . (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium Tübingen, Narr, 1994.
Professor Dr. J. O. Fichte
M11 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE MITTELENGLISCHE SPRACHE UND LITERATUR
Di 16-18 Raum 04 Beginn: 21.10.97
Das Proseminar "Einführung in die mittelenglische Sprache und Literatur" setzt sich zwei Ziele: Erstens sollen die Studenten mit den sprachlichen Entwicklungen bekannt gemacht 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 Eigenheiten (Kentish, Southern, London Standard, East und West Midlands, Northern) anhand von ausgewählten Texten dargestellt und erläutert werden.
Scheinerwerb durch Klausur.
Joerg O. Fichte/Fritz Kemmler. Alt- und Mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung.
(Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium 6). Tübingen: Narr, 1994.
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
M12 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE ALTENGLISCHE SPRACHE UND LITERATUR
Mi 14-16 Raum 04 Beginn: 22.10.97
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.
Lehrbuch: J.O. Fichte/F. Kemmler: Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung , 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen: Narr, 1994)
Qualifikation: regelmässige Teilnahme, 6 Tests
Anmeldung: zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
M13 PS I: EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE MITTELENGLISCHE SPRACHE UND LITERATUR
Di 14-16 Raum 04 Beginn: 21.10.97
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.
Lehrbuch: J.O. Fichte/F. Kemmler: Alt- und mittelenglische Literatur: Eine Einführung , 2. Auflage; Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, 6 (Tübingen, Narr 1994)
Qualifikation: regelmässige Teilnahme, 6 Tests
Anmeldung: zentrales Anmeldeverfahren (Computeranmeldung)
Dr. Richard J. Utz
M14 PS I: INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Do 14-16 Raum 04 Beginn: 16.10.97
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the phonological,
morphological, and syntactical features of Old English. Major diachronic and synchronic aspects will be discussed. The goal is to prepare participants for the competent literary and linguistic reading and studying of Old English texts. For the successful completion of the course, students will be required to make one classroom presentation and to complete a final written examination. Regular and active class participation is expected.
Textbook: Joerg O. Fichte/Fritz Kemmler, Alt- und Mittelenglische Literatur. Eine Einführung. (Literaturwissenschaft im Grundstudium, Tübingen, 1994.
MEDIÄVISTIK Proseminare II
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
PS II: ALTENGLISCH: LEKTÜRE UND GRAMMATIK
Mo 10-12 Raum 05 Beginn: 20.10.97
Dieses weiterführende Proseminar ist für Studierende (auch für Examenskandidaten) geeignet, die ihre Kenntnisse der altenglischen Grammatik erweitern und vertiefen wollen. Neben der Lektüre altenglischer Prosatexte werden die phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Veränderungen des Englischen diachron behandelt.
Arbeitsmaterialien werden in der ersten Sitzung erhältlich sein.
Qualifikation: regelmässige Teilnahme, Klausur
Anmeldung: 20 Plätze in meiner Sprechstunde am Montag, den 7. Juli 1997,
12-13.30 Uhr, Zimmer 407.
Dr. Fritz Kemmler
PS II: MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCES
Mo 14-16 Raum 04 Beginn: 20.10.97
In this advanced course we shall read some 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 PS I Mittelenglisch .
Texts will be available towards the beginning of October.
Requirements for a Schein: regular attendance, active participation, short presentation
in class, Hausarbeit.
Anmeldung: 20 Plätze in meiner Sprechstunde am Montag, den 7. Juli 1997, Zimmer 407.
Dr. Richard J. Utz
PS II: MEDIVAL AND CONTEMPORARY ARTHURIAN TEXTS
Mi 10-12 Raum 05 Beginn: 21.10.97
Taking the celebration of medival Arthuriana in the Romantic and Victorian eras as counterpoints of departure, this class will investigate the modern and postmodern creative tradition of retelling the story of Arthur and his court. Beginning with a famous modernist critic and admirer of Arthurian lore, Mark Twain, we will work towards T.H. White's anti-war narrative, C.S. Lewis's 'fairy tale', Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist reinvention, several shorter poems, and some film and comic strip versions. These 'contemporary' medievalist texts we will interrogate in their specific historical, social, and literary agendas as well as in their relationship with some of their medieval sources and/or intertexts, esp. that most famous 'melting-pot' of Arthurian narrative threads, Thomas Malory's late medieval Morte Darthur . The critical theories of Anglo-American "(New) Medievalism" and German "Mittelalterrezeption" will assist us in our efforts. All participants are required to make a twenty-minute in-class presentation as well as to write a final research paper (about 12 pages). Acitve participation during our meetings will also be part of the final grade. - This is a very reading-intensive course, but never forget: ample are the rewards for becoming an Arthurian scholar, as Martyn Skinner reminds us in The Return of King Arthur : "what savant won't respect you; /What journal won't devote a leading page; /What shop won't stock, what hostess won't collect you; /What library won't lend you?"
Preregistration is possible during my office hours, Th 4-5 pm.
Required texts: Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (Penguin). [Books I and II of the Morte Darthur have to be read by our first class meeting !]; Mark Twain, A Conneticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (Oxford); T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn (Ace Bks.); C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (Simon & Schuster); Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Penguin).
Additional readings will be provided in photocopy.
Professor Dr. H.B. Drubig
HS: VP SYNTAX I
Di 16-18 Raum 306 Beginn: 21.10.97
TUTORIAL:
Di 18-19 Raum 306 Beginn: 21.10.97
The overall orientation fo this seminar is descriptive. It is the first of two seminars which together offer an extensive overview of the syntactic properties of the predicate (VP) of the English sentence. After a short introduction to the functional and thematic structure of the VP, our discusson will fous on the following constructions: transitive and intransitive (unergative/unaccusative) verbs; voice and middle constructions; double object verbs; phrasal verbs; light-verb and cognate-object constructions; secondary predication; copula constructions; various infinitival constructions; adverbs and adverbials.
Anmeldung: Ab 10. Juli 1997, 13 Uhr c.t., Raum 554.
Zeitplan, Themenliste und Literaturhinweise ab 7.7.1997 in Raum (Aushang)!
Voraussetzung zur Teilnahme: PS II Syntax (oder gleichwertige Vorbereitung).
Professor Dr. H.B. Drubig und Dr. S. Winkler
HS: THE GRAMMAR AND INTERPRETATION OF ANAPHORA
Do 09-11 Raum 306 Beginn: 16.10.97
TUTORIAL:
Do 11-12 Raum 306 Beginn: 16.10.97
Within the framework of Government and Binding Theory this seminar will investigate the grammatical properties of anaphoric and elliptical expressions in English. Anaphoric devices are syntactic forms that cannot be interpreted on their own, but must be linked to an antecedent elsewhere in the sentence or discourse.
Particulary common anaphoric devices are the pronouns (he, she, it, they, etc.) , which do not select referents from the universe of discourse , but are coindexed with full nominals that refer independently (referential anaphora). Other proforms (one, so, etc.) establish an identity- of-sense relationship to their antecedents (descriptive anaphora). While proforms are typically reduced forms (short, unstressed words ("weak forms")), ellipsis can be seen as a more radical form of reduction (omission). Some types of ellipsis patterns with referential, others with descriptive anaphora, and still others appear to be distinct for either. The relationship between ellipsis and anaphora, which is complex and manifold, will be discussed in detail in this seminar, both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view.
Anmeldung: Ab 10. Juli 1997, 13 Uhr c.t., Raum 554
Zeitplan, Themenliste und Literaturhinweise ab 7.7.1997 in Raum (Aushang !)
Voraussetzung zur Teilnahme: PS II Syntax (Haegemann 1994, ch 1-9 plus 11).
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
HS: LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE TRANSLATION STUDIES
Mo 16-18 Raum 206 Beginn: 20.10.97
Various translations from German into English or from English into German or from other languages into English will be analysed. In lexical analysis, synonyms and idioms will be given special attention. In syntax, problems of word order will be studied. Pragmatic aspects of appropriate translations will also be discussed.
A written paper and its oral presentation are required for the certificate of attendance. In their papers, students may discuss published translations of their favourite texts. They are encouraged to select excerpts from J. Joyce's writings.
A list of titles dealing with the practice and theory of translation will be available.
Registration starts on Friday, July 4th 1997, during office hours.
Professor Dr. Kurt Kohn
HS:
Di 18-20 Raum 206 Beginn: 20.10.97
Professor Dr. Kurt Kohn
HS:
Mi 16-18 Raum 108 Beginn: 21.10.97
HAUPTSEMINARE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT
Professor Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
HS: RESTORATION COMEDIES
Mon 12-14 Room 306 Begins on 20.10.97
This Hauptseminar deals with the Restoration Theatre as a social institution quite different from the Shakespearean stage. The selected comedies will be studied in the social and political contexts of the post- Civil-War era and developments during the Restoration period and after the Glorious Revolution. An important context in the historyof ideas are the discussions aroused by Hobbes as well as the rise of sentimentalism. Special attention will be payed to the gender images in the studied plays.
Text editions: George Etherege, The Man of Mode William Wycherley, The Country Wife ; William Congreve, The Way of the World ; George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem (all in Everyman); Aphra Behn, The Rover (Regents Drama Series); John Vanbrugh, The Relapse (New Mermaids).
Requirements for a certificate: term paper (15-20 pages); oral report.
Registration: in room 361 during my office hours on Mondays 4-5 p.m. at the end of the summer semester. See note at my door for vacation period.
Professor Dr. Bernd Engler
HS: THE LITERARY CONSTRUCTION OF AUTHORITY IN 18TH- AND 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA
Mi 16-18 Raum 04 Beginn: 22.10.97
Thise course will deal with the (re-)formation of literary and public authority in post-revolutionary America (primarily from the 1770s thru the 1820s). We will focus on the cultural strategies that were employed as a means of responding to the revolution's fundamental questioning of all claims to authority (political, social, religious etc.),
and we will analyze the effects of cultural and social re-negotiations of authority had on the literary system and the profession of authorship in the early 19th century.
Texts: William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy and Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette (Penguin 2); Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple (Penguin 0-14-039080-4); Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (0-14-039079-0).
A reader with additional material will be supplied at the beginning of October.
Registration: Im Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558), ab dem 7. Juli 1997.
Professor Dr. Joerg O. Fichte
HS: ARTURIAN ROMANCE
Mo 16-18 Raum 108 Beginn: 20.10.97
The purpose of this seminar will be to analyze the romance tradition of Arthurian writings in Middle English literature. The extant corpus will be divided into five categories and discussed in reference to the structural models provided by both Chretien de Troyes and the Mort Artu The first group of works consists of translations of romances composed by Chretien. The second group is made up of romances once removed from the classical type by either some lost intermediary or a post-classical source. A third group of works comprises the alliterative romances (of Northern or North-West Midlands origin) critical of the Arthurian system of values. The fourth group consists of short romances, usually treatments of one episode, which make use of folklore motifs. The spirit of these narratives tends to be burlesque or grotesque. And the final group sketches the decline of Arthur's court and Arthurian society. Representative examples of these five groups will be read and studied, e.g. Ywain and Gawain Sir Perceval of Galles, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle , and the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur . In view of the linguistic problems posed by these romances (dialect, vocabulary, morphology, and the problems of adaption/translation) there will be some topics for those interested in these areas of investigation.
Text: An anthology of text will be provided.
Registration: During my office hours in rooms 408 or 409.
Professor Dr. Lothar Fietz
HS: MAJOR ENGLISH NOVELISTS: MODES OF FIRST- PERSON NARRATIVE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Mo 09-12 Raum 306 Beginn: 20.10.97
This seminar is designed for students who have successfully passed their Intermediate Examination. In the first part of the seminar the main emphasis will be placed on the theory of the first-person narrative and its typological place among other narrative modes. We will then proceed to an analysis of two major variants of first-person narration, the fictional autobiography and the epistolary novel, and the function of parodies in defamiliarizing the conventions of formal realism. The last part of the seminar will be dedicated to the analysis of a third phase in the history of the first-person and epistolary novel in the eighteenth century, i.e. the changes the sub-genre underwent in the second half of the century. The following novels will be dealt with:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Norton Critical Edition.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1735) - Norton Critical Edition.
Samuel Richardson, Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded Everyman's Library.
Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741) - Norton Critical Edition.
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1760 - 1767) - Norton Critical Edition.
Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker (1771) - Norton Critical Edition.
(Apart from Pamela the editions recommended above are critical editions presenting authoritative texts, critical notes, and selections of relevant criticism. Please, do make use of the texts recommended).
Registration for the seminar: 10 July, 1997, 09-10 a.m., Room 368.
Professor Dr. Barbara Korte
HS: VICTORIAN POETRY IN CONTEXT
Mi 15-18 Raum 206 Beginn: 22.10.97
The 'Victorian Age' (c. 1832-1901) was a period of economic expansion, technical progress (Macauley: "the age of the machine"), social troubles and reform (the Reform Bills, women's emancipation), and the heyday of Empire. It was also the age of religious crisis and controversy, sparked, among other factors, by the "dreadful hammering" (Ruskin) of the geologists and, of course, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The 'naughty' 'Nineties are associated with a notable change in attitudes and a breakdown of Victorian values; the aesthetic movement attempted to cultivate a distinct fin de siecle pose (see Dandyism) and style in the arts. The poetry written in England during Victoria's reign reflects, in a great variety of modes, all of these cultural tendencies. To understand and fully appreciate this poetry, one needs to consider it within the contexts from which it arose.
After two lecture-style, introductory sessions, the following issues will be addressed:
- (lyric) poetry of nature and religion (Tennyson, Arnold)
- Dramatic Monologue(s) (Robert Browning)
- (narrative) poems on the woman question (Tennyson, Patmore, Barrett- Browning and a selection of lesser-known women poets)
- poetry of Empire (Kipling)
- John Davidson: Poetry with a 'Programme'
- The Pre-Raffaelites: Poetry and Painting
- Aestheticism (Wilde, Dowson)
- 'Other' Victorians: nonsense poetry and new departures in poetic form: G. M. Hopkins
All participants are expected to give a 15-minute oral presentation related to one of these issues in class.
Many texts to be discussed are contained in The Norton Anthology of English Literature , vol. II. Additional texts will be made available in a reader well before the beginning of term.
Recommended preparatory reading: Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890: A Source Book of Contemporary Writings , ed. J. M. Golby, Oxford: Oxford University Press in ass. with The Open University.
Registration: 07 July 1997, 14-15 p.m., Room 308.
Professor Dr. Barbara Korte
HS: TWENTIETH CENTURY ADAPTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: FICTION AND FILM
Di 15-18 Raum 206 Beginn: 21.10.97
In an age of de-canonization and deconstruction, the plays of Shakespeare have continued to release the creative energy of writers and film-makers - in both 'highbrow' and 'popular' culture. This class will investigate possible reasons for Shakespeare's ongoing importance. In particular, however, we will discuss the strategies of adaptation (determined by medium, ideology, and, of course, a particular aesthetic) employed in various examples of 20th- century plays, novels, and films.
After two introductory sessions (on principles of adaptation, intertextuality, and canon formation), the following texts will be discussed:
- The Tempest and post-colonial re-writings: George Lamming, Water with Berries , Edward Kamau Brathwaite, The Arrivants , Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
Feminist tempests: Marina Warner: Indigo
The Tempest on screen: Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books and Derek Jarman, The Tempest
- Adapting history plays:
Henry V on screen: Olivier versus Branagh
Steven Berkoff, Sink the Belgrano (stage play)
Richard III : Ian McKellen's 'Nazi' version
- 'Shakespeare without the boring bits': The Animated Shakespeare (BBC)
All participants are expected to give a 15-minute oral presentation related to one of these issues in class.
Any edition of the Shakespeare plays will do; novels and plays that are no longer available through the bookseller will be made available in a Handapparat .
Registration: 07 July 1997, 14-15 p.m., Room 308.
Dr. Hans-W. Schwarze
HS: SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: HAMLET, OTHELLO, KING LEAR
Di 09-12 Raum 108 Beginn: 21.10.97
The aim of this course, which will be conducted in English, is to read, analyse and discuss three of Shakespeare's tragedies. Critical essays and contemporary documents provide further material for discussion and evaluation.
Required reading:
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear New Arden or New Cambridge edition.
Students are asked to purchase and read the texts before the beginning of term.
Requirements: paper/talk on critical and/or background aspects; two essays during term-time and one end-of-term essay or Hausarbeit.
Registration: after Monday, 30 June 1997, in my office hours, room 309.
Professor Ethel M. Smith
HS: THE SLAVE NARRATIVE AND ITS TRADITIONS
Wed 18-20 Room 04 Beginn: 22.10.97
The course will adress the history of African-American literature from its mid-eighteenth-century beginnings to the Civil Rigths Movement. We will examine transcripts of oral folk productions, slave narratives, speeches, autobiographies, essays, poetry and prose fiction in order to trace the rapid development of African-American literary culture from a primarily oral tradition. We will pay particulary close attention to the various rhetorical qualities of the works in order to identify key aspects of early African- American literary practice.
Texts: Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harvard UP); Keckley, Elizabeth, Behind the Scenes Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery (Norton); Morrison, Toni, Tar Baby ; Morrison, Toni, Beloved ; Gaines, Ernest Jr., The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Penguin)
Requirements: Regular participation, oral report, term paper
Registration: Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558), ab dem 7. Juli 1997.
Professor Ethel M. Smith
HS: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THEIR HEIRS
Fr 09-11 Room 406 Beginn: 17.10.97
The Harlem Renaissance, the literary artistic arm of a massive social movement, with roots in the broken promises of post-Reconstruction America, offers at least a decade of fairly clear communal and nationalist assertion, focused in the work of African-American artists. The Harlem Renaissance becomes, in fact, the most vivid outcome of a second Africa Diaspora, when large numbers of black people living in the southern United States fled the high tide of the "reign of terror", staged in the terrorist manoeuvres of the Ku-Klux Klan.
Though Harlem Renaissance poetry is more widely known than fiction, it is in the latter arena that significant women writers of the period made their appearance. Throughout the years it has also been the women's voices of the period that have been silenced. We will examine many of the Harlem Renaissance writers, to see what impact they have had on later Black women writers.
Texts: Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Larsen, Nella Passing and Quicksand Fauset, Jessie Plum Bun ; West, Dorothy The Living is Easy and The Wedding ; Petry Ann The Street ; Morrison Toni Jazz .
Requirements: Regular participation, oral report, term paper.
Registration: Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558) ab dem 7. Juli 1997.
Professor Dr. Gerhard Stilz
HS: LITERATURES IN ENGLISH DURING THE 19TH CENTURY:
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Thurs 11-13 Room 05 First meeting: 16.10.97
In this seminar we will read and discuss 19th century narrative prose texts from Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand, with the aim of finding out which patterns of "colonial discourse" might be identified and related to a general concept of "literary colonialism". It will be a major point of the seminar, however, to be critical of such generalizations and insist on the differences that might be apparent between literary texts from different colonies. For some introductory reading to our theoretical background I recommend:
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (London: Routledge, 1989); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto 1993, Vintage PB 1994); Elleke Boehmer, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995); Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds., Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995); Young, Robert J.C., Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, Race (London: Routledge, 1995).
A list of primary reading and a bibliography of criticism will be available at the end of the summer semester.
Registration: there will be a pre-registration meeting on Thursday, 17 July 1997. For the exact place and time see special announcement.
Professor Dr. Horst Tonn
HS: NORMAN MAILER
Di 18-20 Raum 120 Beginn: 21.10.97
Norman Mailer is one of the most prominent, productive and controversial writers in the United States. His literary and journalistic work spans the entire period from the end of World War II to the present. No other contemporary American writer has more persistently explored the vagaries and riddles of his society. His topics range from politics and science to sports and pop culture. His public image has been equally shaped by his books as by his decidedly iconoclastic appearances in various settings.
In this seminar we will read several of Mailer's novels as well as follow his career as a public figure with considerable skills for self-dramatization. The work in this seminar will be organized around group work. Active participation in a group is required.
Texts: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
An American Dream (1965)
The Armies of the Night (1968)
The Excutioner's Song (1980)
Registration: Sekretariat Amerikanistik, Raum 558, ab 7. Juli 1997.
Professor Dr. Horst Tonn
HS: CULTURE STUDIES: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Do 09-12 Raum 04 Beginn: 16.10.97
In this course we will study the variety of social forces and events that are commonly referred to as the Civil Rights Movement. Our explorations into the topic will center around the documentary TV series "Eyes on the Prize" (1985). The course will pursue two lines of inquiry: (1) based on readings and media sources we will construct our own version of the history of the Civil Rigths Movement, (2) by analyzing "Eyes of Prize" we will identify some of the strategies by which a culture can conceptualize its history in a popular medium.
The work in this seminar will be organized around group work. Active participation in a group is required. For methods of analysis John Fiske's Introduction to Communication Studies is required reading. A list of readings and media sources will be available at the beginning of the term.
Note ! - Staatsexamen-candidates can get credit only for their "Landeskunde"- requirement.
Registration: Sekretariat für Amerikanistik, Raum 558, ab dem 7. Juli 1997.
Professor Dr. Alfred Weber
HS: STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DER AMERIKANISCHEN KÜNSTLERERZÄHLUNG
Fr 13-16 Raum 406 Beginn: 17.10.97
Seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert entstanden in den USA eine zunehmende Zahl von sogenannten "Künstlererzählungen": Erzählungen in denen ein Künstler erscheint und in denen Probleme des künstlerischen Schaffens und der Rolle des Künstlers in der Gesellschaft thematisiert werden. Das Seminar kann sich auf umfangreiche bibliographische Vorarbeiten stützen und wird versuchen, anhand einer Auswahl wichtiger Short-Story-Autoren und ca. 45 ihrer repräsentativen Erzählungen den gattungsgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen nachzugehen, die sich im Laufe von 200 Jahren in diesem thematischen Bereich der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte feststellen lassen. Eine Stunde dieses dreistündigen Seminars wird jeweils für Vorträge des Seminarleiters und eingeladener Gäste sowie derjenigen Studenten reserviert, die sich in einer grösseren Hausarbeit auf einen Autor oder ein spezielles Thema konzentrieren wollen. Neben den aktiven Teilnehmern, die einen Seminarschein erwerben wollen und von denen am Ende des Semesters eine Hausarbeit erwartet wird, ist eine begrenzte Zahl von Gästen zugelassen, die bereit sind, das volle Lektüreprogramm zu absolvieren und regelmässig an den Seminardiskussionen teilzunehmen.
In der ersten Sitzung am 17. Oktober, in der über Teilnahme und den Arbeitsplan entschieden werden wird, sollten die Zwischenprüfungszeugnisse vorgelegt werden. Zu dieser Sitzung sind zwei Texte zu lesen: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Artist of the Beautiful , und Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro .
Das Seminar ist auf 25 Teilnehmer begrenzt und findet abwechselnd in deutscher und englischer Sprache statt.
Anmeldung: Im Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558) ab dem 7. Juli.
Professor Christopher Harvie
LHS: THE NOVEL OF POLITICS IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN: Disraeli and Trollope
Di 14-16 Raum 108 Beginn: 21.10.97
Political fiction - about the life of politics in parliament (Westminster), administration (Whitehall) and in the contituencies, has been an important genre in Britain for almost 200 years. As it is written not only by professional writers but by practising politicans and administrators, it both gives a valuable insight into the political process and on occasion has had a significant impact on that process.
Among the novels which may be studied and discussed are those of the Victorian Golden Age, when one novelist, Benjamin Disraeli, became Prime Minister. The course will be centred on his works - Sybil, Coningsby, Lothair - and Anthony Trollope's Palliser sequence of novels and twentieth-century works by Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells, C.P. Snow and William Cooper.
Students will be expected to produce a referat on one novel, its structure, narrative and argument, or (working as a group) on a particular theme in several novels - women and politics, elections, political language, etc. An essay of c. 2.500 words (HS-Schein) or 4.000 words (OS-Schein) will also be required.
Reading: A list of novels will be circulated to those interested. Christoper Harvie, The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present (Unwin Hyman) is essential.
Professor Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
OS: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Wed 11-13 Room 206 Begins on 22.10.97
This Oberseminar will deal with the rise of the new natural sciences (Galileo, Kepler, Newton) and with developments in philosophy (Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke) which led to radical changes in the world picture, the concept of Nature and the 'Menschenbild' during the 17th and early 18th centuries. The main fous of this course will be on literary texts which express attitudes towards the old and the new natural sciences such as Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest , Ben Jonson's The Alchemist Bacon's New Atlantis , John Donne's Anniversaries , Swift's The Battle of the Books and Gulliver's Travels , Pope's Essay on Man . Another area of interest will be the repercussions of the philosophical changes in poetic theory. A fuller description of this course and a list of text editions will be found at my office.
Requirements for a certificate: term paper (18-20 pages); oral report.
Registration: in room 361 during my office hours on Mondays, 4-5 p.m. at the end of the summer semester. See note at my door for vacation period.
Professor Dr. H.B. Drubig
OS: LINGUISTISCHES OBERSEMINAR
2 st., 14tägig Zeit nach Vereinbarung
Diskussion neuerer Arbeiten zur Grammatiktheorie und zur Beschreibung des Englischen.
Anmeldung: In der Sprechstunde des Seminarleiters.
Professor Dr. H.B. Drubig
KOLLOQUIUM FÜR STAATSEXAMENSKANDIDATEN
Di 19-21, 14tägig Raum 306 Beginn: wird durch Aushang bekanntgegeben !
Professor Dr. Bernd Engler
OBERSEMINAR: AKTUELLE PROBLEME DER AMERICAN STUDIES: Diskussion laufender Forschungsarbeiten
Do 18-20 Raum 406 Beginn: 16.10.97
Unter Mitwirkung der amerikanistischen DoktorandInnen und MagisterkandidatInnen werden in diesem Oberseminar laufende Forschungsarbeiten der Abteilung für Amerikanistik in Form von Arbeitsberichten präsentiert und kritisch diskutiert. Das genaue Semesterprogramm wird Anfang Oktober durch Aushang bekanntgegeben.
Teilnehmer: Studierende der Anglistik, die sich zum Examen angemeldet haben.
Anmeldung: Im Sekretariat der Abteilung für Amerikanistik (Zimmer 558) ab dem 7. Juli.
Professor Dr. Bernd Engler, Professor Dr. Klaus-Detlef Müller
OBERSEMINAR: DARSTELLUNGSFORMEN UND WIRKLICHKEITSKONZEPTIONEN IM VORFELD DES REALISMUS
Mo 18-20 Raum 04 Beginn: 20.10.97
Das Oberseminar ist ein Schwerpunktkolleg für die Teilnehmer des Graduiertenkollegs Pragmatisierung/Entpragmatisierung. Gegenstand sind Diskussionen und literarische Erscheinungen im Vorfeld und am Rande der Realismusdiskussion in der deutschen und englischen/amerikanischen Literatur.
Im Teilbereich der Germanistik (5-6 Sitzungen) geht es um wirklichkeitspoetische Begründung der Mimesis im 18. Jahrhundert und ihr vorläufiges Scheitern. Es soll untersucht werden, wie sich das Gattungssystem durch die Einbeziehung literarischer Zweckformen pragmatisch erweitert und wie diese Entwicklung durch Tendenzen zur Trivialisierung in Frage gestellt und durch einen emphatischen Kunstanspruch aufgehoben wird. Aus dem breiten Spektrum möglicher Zeugnisse werden nach Rücksprache mit den Teilnehmern geeignete Texte für eine exemplarische Analyse ausgewählt. Vorläufig schlage ich vor: Johann Jacob Breitinger, Critische Dichtkunst ;
Lessing, Hamburgische Dramaturgie ; Die Werther-Wirkung in Rezensionen und Kritiken; Johann Jakob Engel, Herr Lorenz Stark ; Schillers Bürger-Rezension; das Familiendrama bei Iffland; Wilhelm von Humboldt, Über Göthes Hermann und Dorothea .
Im Teilbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik (5-6 Sitzungen) werden zunächst Entwürfe einer dem Primat der Mimesis verbundenen neoklassizistischen Ästhetik und Versuche der Überwindung eines primär an präskriptiven Gattungspoetiken orientierten literarischen Systems diskutiert. In den vielfachen Bezügen auf Shakespeares Werk als konsequentesten Ausdruck solcher Überwindung zeigt sich freilich bereits früh jene Dichtomie zwischen einer in der Philosophie des Empirismus gründenden Verpflichtung auf die Wirklichkeit einerseits und einer dem Geniedenken bzw. einer skeptizistischen Infragestellung mimetischer Konzepte entspringenden Autonomisierung der Kunst andererseits. Zentrale Texte: u.a. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism and Preface to Shakespeare ; Joseph Addison, Auszüge aus The Spectator und anderen Schriften ; Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare und Auszüge aus The Rambler ; Alexander Gerard, Essay on Genius ; Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (Auszüge); William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Charles Brockden Brown, Difference between History and Romance.
Anmeldung: Im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs
Professor Dr. Jörg Fichte/Professor Dr. Lothar Fietz
OS: THE CHANGING FACE OF PRE-SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY
Di, 09-12 Raum 306 Beginn: 21.10.97
This seminar is designed for students who have already attended a Hauptseminar in English Literature, preferably a seminar on drama. We intend to trace the emergence of English comedy from its various sources in medieval and classical drama via the Interludes to the Elizabethan Age.
Within the Christian universe the basic structure is that of comedy (Cf. Dante's Divine Comedy ). The various medieval dramatic forms reflect this structure: In the Corpus Christi Cycles the movement unfolds as the progress from the creation of the world and the fall of man to Christ's incarnation and man's final judgement. In the morality plays this universal scope is narrowed down to encompass the individual's progression from his fall from innocence and life in sin to his moral regeneration. Within both dramatic forms many aspects of the comic appear, aspects, however, associated predominantly with evil and man's fallen nature: The grotesque comedy of the raving potentates; the macabre comedy of Christ's crucifixion; the parodic comedy of the Nativity scenes; the subtle comedy of man's disobedience and correction in the Corpus Christi Cycles; the playful but deadly serious seduction of man by the vices or the devil in the morality plays. The comic strategies employed range from bodily comedy, reducing man to his physical functions, thereby diverting the attention from his spiritual welfare ( Mankind ), to a wide range of verbal comedy designed to both flatter and seduce man ( Mind, Will and Understanding and Magnificence ). In the sixteenth century we encounter the first attempts to use the morality structure for secular purposes. Within the new context of the children's school plays, the protagonist's salvation is no longer at stake, a fact changing the nature of the comic from immorality to entertainment.
Within the initial force-field of thisworldliness and otherworldliness a growing tendency towards secularization gradually leads up to the transformation of the Devil into a comic figure, of sinful folly into the enjoyment of the world, of sinfulness into enjoyable norm-breaking with impunity, the practice of mundane magic, etc. as the subject matter of comedy.
These developments in the domestic popular tradition run parallel with the emergence of classical models around the middle of the 16th century. Both traditions then merge in the structural complexity of the Elizabethan comedy. A special chapter will be dedicated to the anti-stage and anti-comedy treatises of the age with the aim of defining the status of comedy among the genres and the moral and aesthetic restrictions it is subject to.
Bibliography: James E. Evans, Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism. Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1987.- Details concerning the individual plays and the timetable will be available upon registration on 10 July, 1997, 10-11 a.m. Room 368.
Professor Dr. Lothar Fietz
KOLLOQUIUM FÜR DOKTORANDEN
Den Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden, die von mir betreut werden, werden Ort und Zeit dieses im Block abgehaltenen Kolloquiums individuell mitgeteilt.
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
KOLLOQUIUM: ENGLISCHE FACHSPRACHE FÜR MEDIZINER I
Mo 18-20 Raum 206 Beginn: 20.10.97
Im Rahmen des WissensTransfers (WiT) an der Universität Tübingen werden Besonderheiten der Fachsprache Medical English besprochen und praktisch geübt. Der zwanglose Rahmen des Kolloquiums ermöglicht es, verschiedene Anliegen der Teilnehmer zu berücksichtigen: Wortschatz- und Leseübungen sowie Rollenspiele zum Erlernen der Fachsprache und der Allgemeinsprache werden eingeplant. Textvergleiche zum Erschliessen der fachsprachlichen Besonderheiten sind ebenso vorgesehen wie sprachwissenschaftliche Erörterungen des Verhältnisses zwischen Fachsprache und englischer Allgemeinsprache. Fachbezogene Tonaufzeichnungen dienen dem Hörverständnis.
Als Textbuch dient: E. Glendenning/B. Holmström: English in Medicine.
Cambridge University Press 1987
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
KOLLOQUIUM: MEDICAL ENGLISH II
Do 18-20 Raum 108 Beginn: 16.10.97
Das Kolloquium wird weitgehend einsprachig auf Englisch abgehalten. Jedoch sind auch deutsch-englische Übersetzungen vorgesehen. Die englische Allgemeinsprache im Umgang mit Patienten und die medizinische Fachsprache werden in Rollenspielen und bei Textdiskussionen geübt. Fachwissenschaftliche Kurzvorträge sind erwünscht. Die Teilnehmer werden zu schriftlichen und mündlichen Zusammenfassungen von Fachtexten angeregt. Fachbezogene Video- und Tonbandaufnahmen dienen dem Hörverständnis.
Teilnehmer an diesem Kolloquium sollten über fachsprachliche Grundkenntnisse des Medical English verfügen, die dem Abschlussniveau des Kolloquiums I entsprechen.
Lehrbuch: E. Glendenning/B. Holmström: English in Medicine.
Cambridge UP 1987 f.
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
KOLLOQUIUM FÜR (STAATS- )EXAMENSKANDIDATEN
nach Vereinbarung (zweistündig)
Students will be invited to discuss topics of their own choice in English.
Dr. K.-D. Gottschalk
ÜBERSETZUNGSÜBUNG DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH FÜR REGIONALSTUDIERENDE
Fr 13-15 Raum 108 Beginn: 17.10.97
Der Studienplan schreibt diese Übung für Regionalstudierende der Volkswirtschaftslehre vor. Englischsprachige Studierende und Anglisten dürfen in beschränkter Zahl ebenfalls teilnehmen. Vorrangig können die VWL-Studierenden mit Schwerpunkt Regionalstudien einige Übersetzungstexte vorschlagen. Für den benoteten Teilnahmeschein werden neben der mündlichen Beteiligung Übungsklausuren und Hausarbeiten zugrunde gelegt.
Professor Dr. Gerhard Stilz
OS: VERSIONS AND SUBVERSIONS OF LITERARY POSTMODERNISM
Fr 09-11 Raum 206 Beginn: 17.10.97
Dieses Oberseminar soll Ansätze zur Orientierung in einem schnell wachsenden, manchmal verwirrenden, inzwischen kaum noch überschaubaren Feld an Theorietexten bieten. Dabei werden zeitgenössische Essays zur Theorie und Methodik der Literatur- und Textkritik, soweit sie für die englischsprachige Welt besonders erhellend sind, nebeneinandergestellt und auf ihre unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen, auf innere Kohärenz, auf ihre expliziten Ziele und auf ihren mutmasslichen Nutzen in unserer Lebenspraxis befragt. Spezielle Schwerpunkte werden bei den Kategorien zur Unterscheidung von "Moderne" und "Postmoderne" sowie bei den Konvergenzen von "Postmoderne" und "Postkolonialismus" liegen. Als Lesebücher kommen in Betracht: L.E. Cahoone (ed.), From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996); Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (eds.), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory (London: Harvester, 1993); Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 1995), Padmini, Mongia (ed.), Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (London: Arnold, 1996). Die endgültige Auswahl erfolgt vor der Anmeldung Ende Sommersemester 1997.
Qualifikation für einen Schein:
1. Alle Seminarmitglieder nehmen aktiv - nach Möglichkeit in Kleingruppen - an der Vorbereitung der Seminarsitzungen teil. 2. Jede(r) Teilnehmer(in) fertigt im Laufe des Semesters zwei kurze kritische Besprechungen aus einer Liste dafür geeigneter Theorietexte. Anmeldung: 15 Teilnehmer in meinen Sprechstunden ab Ende Sommersemester 1997.
HAUPTSTUDIUM
(nach der Zwischenprüfung; siehe auch B-Kurse im Grundstudium)
TRANSLATION III (2st.)
1. Gruppe: Donnellan Do 11-13 Raum 108
2. Gruppe: Geppert-Jolly Mi 08-10 Raum 108
3. Gruppe: Maier Mi 10-12 Raum 406
4. Gruppe: Matley Di 13-15 Raum 206
5. Gruppe: Geppert-Jolly Mi 12-14 Raum 05
6. Gruppe: Donnellan Fr 13-15 Raum 206
7. Gruppe: N.N. Mo 18-20 Raum 05
ÜBERSETZUNG DEUTSCH-ENGLISCH FÜR EXAMENSKANDIDATEN (1st)
1. Gruppe: Geppert-Jolly Mi 10-11 Raum 108
2. Gruppe: Geppert-Jolly Do 10-11 Raum 108
PHONETICS FOR CANDIDATES (1st.)
1. Gruppe: Stu Watts, BA, MA Mi 11-12 Raum 05
2. Gruppe: Stu Watts, BA, MA Mi 14-15 Raum 05
Beginn: 22. Oktober, siehe Kommentar Pronunciation Practice auf S. 73 !
Professor Dr. Eckhard Auberlen
INTERPRETATION AND ESSAY FOR CANDIDATES
Wed 16-18 Room 306 Begins: 22.10.97
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 will also deal with problems and strategies of essay writing.
Requirements for a certificate: two interpretations (6 pages type-written each).
Register for this course at my office in room 361 during my office hours on Mondays 4-5 p.m. (See special note at my door for vacation period.)
PD Dr. Hartmut Grandel
ESSAY AND INTERPRETATION FOR CANDIDATES
Fr 11-13 Raum 406 Beginn: 17.10.97
Diese Übung wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende in den Lehramts- und Magisterstudiengängen, die sich auf ihre Prüfungen vorbereiten. Der Kurs dient der Revision der Methodik der Textanalyse und bietet Übungsmöglichkeiten zur Textanalyse in englischer und deutscher Sprache. Die Textauswahl berücksichtigt in erster Linie Texte aus der amerikanischen Literatur. Die Teilnahme an zwei Klausurterminen wird erwartet.
Anmeldung: Ab 7. Juli 1997 in meinen Sprechstunden Raum 561.
Dr. Hans-W. Schwarze
INTERPRETATION AND ESSAY FOR CANDIDATES
Di 14-16 Raum 306 Beginn: 21.10.97
Diese Übung wendet sich an Studierende im Hauptstudium sowie KandidatInnen im Lehramts- und Magisterstudiengang. Es werden die Techniken der Textanalyse wiederholt und eingeübt, es werden Übungsmöglichkeiten zur Textanalyse in deutscher und englischer Sprache angeboten. Zwei Klausurtermine werden organisiert.
Anmeldung: In meinen Sprechstunden Raum 309 ab 30. Juni 1997.
J.B. Lethbridge
GRAMMAR FOR CANDIDATES
Di 12-14 Raum 306 Beginn: 21.10.97
This course is a review of English Grammar -- revising, filling in gaps and certifying uncertainities. The point, however is not to develop grammatical expertise for its own sake, so much as to develop understanding which helps in speaking and writing -- and teaching. So there are presentations by each student, each presentation accompanied by a worksheet of examples for illustration, exercise and discussion; but also brief prose exercises for practical analysis (and, if need be, correction) based on theoretical explanation. Grammar occurs either in text books or in the real world -- the emphasis here is on the real world use of language and grammar as a short- hand description of its basics. The course will be conducted in the spirit and form of a seminar.
Stu Watts, BA, MA
PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE FOR CANDIDATES
Di 13-14 Raum 05 Beginn: 21.10.97
To participate in any of these three courses, you must, in advance, add your name to the relevant course list(s). These lists will be outside my office, Zimmer 466, from the beginning of the "Vorlesungsfreie Zeit" until the first week of the Semester. Each course has an absolute maximum of 30 places.
Professor Dr. Gerhard Stilz
WORKSHOP: LITERARISCHE ÜBERSETZUNG ENGLISCH-DEUTSCH
Fr 11-13 Raum 206 Beginn: 17.10.97
In diesem Kurs soll, ausgehend von übersetzungstheoretischer Erwägungen, in die Praxis der literarischen Übersetzung aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche eingeführt werden. Dabei wird abwechselnd produktiv und kritisch an literarischen Vorlagen gearbeitet. Auf der Basis eines Konzepts der "Rohübersetzung", bei welcher die Kriterien von syntaktischer und idiomatischer Transparenz im Mittelpunkt stehen, sollen, mit Blick auf unterschiedliche Ansprüche der Berufspraxis, unterschiedliche Massstäbe und Prioritäten zur verlässlichen Beurteilung und Produktion verschiedener Übersetzungsvarianten eingeübt werden. Der Workshop besteht aus gemeinsamen Übersetzungsübungen, Übersetzungsvergleichen an unterschiedlichen Versionen desselben literarischen Textes und aus schriftlichen Probeübersetzungen ausgewählter Textpassagen unter vorgegebenen Prioritäten.
Literatur zur Einführung: Stolze, Grundlagen der Textübersetzung (Heidelberg, 1982);
Apel, Literarische Übersetzung (Stuttgart, 1983), Kapp (Hrsg.), Übersetzer und Dolmetscher (München, 1984); Hönig, Konstruktives Übersetzen (Tübingen, 1995).
Bei regelmässiger Mitarbeit und erfolgreicher Teilnahme an drei Probearbeiten wird ein Übungsschein erteilt.
Anmeldung: maximal 25 Teilnehmer in meinen Sprechstunden ab 1. Oktober 1996.
BUSINESS ENGLISH
Donna Blagg
ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Mo 12-14 Raum 05 Beginn: 20.10.97
This conversation class is suited to students of economics and business administration who are advanced learners of English and want to improve their language skills through the discussion of economics and international business. Possible topics may include practical business concerns such as the interview situation, writing of resumes and holding of presentations or discussion of various political, economical and social issues that are of interest to the participants such as international trade relations, the European Monetary Union, budget deficits, emerging markets.
Requirements: students wishing to receive a Schein will be expected to lead a class discussion.
Registration: during the first class session.
Donna Blagg
FINCANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTION
Mo 14-16 Raum 05 Beginn: 20.10.97
On the evening news you have just heard that the bond market is booming. Does this mean that interest rates will fall so that it is easier for you to finance the purchase of a new computer system for your retail business ? Can you expect the economy to improve in the near future, so that it is a good time to build a new building ? Should you try to raise funds by issuing stocks or bonds or go to the bank for a loan instead ?
If you import goods from abroad, should you be concerned that they will become more expensive ?
In this discussion group we will explore the role of financial markets and institutions in the economy by examining how they work. Fincancial markets and institutions not only affect your decision about how to run you business, but also involve huge flows of fund throughout our economy, which in turn affects business profits and investment decisions, the production of goods and services and the economic well-being of all countries. Financial markets and institutions have, for this reason, become one of the most exciting areas in both the academic and the professional pursuits of finance.
While this course is designed primarily for students of business administration and economics, it is open to any advanced learner of English who is interested in improving his/her English by reading about and discussing financial markets, institutions and investment strategies.
Requirements: In order to receive a Schein students will be expected to read short background texts and lead class discussions.
Registration: in the first class session.
Lorraine O'Sullivan
BUSINESS ENGLISH
Do 16-18 Raum 04
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