- Lehrende(r): Bernhard Schröder
Kursbereich: Linguistik
Suchergebnisse: 10577
- Lehrende(r): Alexander Holste
- Lehrende(r): Tobias Kurwinkel
- Lehrende(r): Bettina Oeste
Kursbereich: Literaturwissenschaft
- Lehrende(r): Hauke Ohls
Kursbereich: Kunst
The eighteenth-century saw a rise in a number of literary ventures. One genre that flourished in England was life-writing. This seminar takes a closer look at how one autobiographical text reflected the individualistic and social anxieties of a woman. Charlotte Charke was an actress, playwright and novelist who led a unique life. She came from a theatre background but her fame as an actress was met with criticisms. Her personal life and acting career were both ridden of hiccups and eccentricities. Her autobiography sheds light on how an eighteenth-century woman negotiates with her relationships, social norms, gender and a queer subjectivity.
Reading Material: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755)
- Lehrende(r): Chandni Rampersad
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
The Broadway musical
is the heart and soul of American show business. Focusing on
themes that Broadway popularizes, this course explores changes
in American attitudes towards sex, gender, race, class, money,
all of which perpetually re-define the American Dream. American
myths about unsung underdog heroes and heroines, American
idolization of youth, stereotypically American attitudes, among
them optimism, pragmatism, and a love of breaking the rules,
will be examined through the lens of the Broadway musical. Each class will be devoted
to scenes from one or more musicals, among them the first
“talkie” with lip-synched singing and speech, namely The Jazz Singer (1927).
Spectacular portraits of
the old west like Annie
Get Your Gun (1946; 1950) will be included, along with
controversial interrogations of American attitudes, among them Oklahoma (1943; 1955;
2019) and South Pacific
(1949; 1958; 2001 made-for-TV). Politics, both American and
German, will enter the picture with Hair (1968,
revived 2009. Film 1979)
and Cabaret (1966;
1972). Students are encouraged to suggest Broadway musicals they
would like to discuss. A reader will be provided.
- Lehrende(r): Melissa Knox-Raab
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
Personen können Männer oder Frauen sein, sie können einer
bestimmten ethnischen Kategorie angehören, sie können behindert sein,
sie können schwul sein. Die relevanten Kategorien haben alle eine
soziale Dimension. Ásta, der Autorin der in diesem Seminar zu lesenenden
Monographie, zufolge sind alle diese Kategorien wesentlich sozial. Was
das heißt, erklärt sie durch ihre Verleihungstheorie, der zufolge der
Besitz der entscheidenden Eigenschaften eine Folge von Sprechakten oder
Einstellungen von Autoritätsfiguren oder Mitgliedern einer Gemeinschaft
ist. Im Seminar werden wir die Theorie rekonstruieren, diskutieren und
mit anderen Konzeptionen sozialer Eigenschaften konfrontieren.
- Lehrende(r): Stefan Mandl
- Lehrende(r): Neil Stuart Roughley
Kursbereich: Philosophie
The seminar will introduce students to key themes and developments relating to Chinese society over the last century. The focus is on grasping the nuances of dominant social processes in Chinese society and uncovering the institutional arrangements and transformations that underpin them. The bulk of our course material includes renowned, scholarly works, but we will also examine other types of media, such as art and film. The aim of this course is to provide students with the background knowledge and conceptual frameworks necessary to develop their M.A. (or B.A.) thesis on sociological topics relating to China.
- Lehrende(r): Connor Malloy
Kursbereich: MA
For centuries, the Devil has featured in Scotland's border ballads, poems, theatre, and prose narratives. In this seminar, we will trace the many forms he has taken as a figure and motif throughout Scottish literary output, how closely these are tied to Scotland's musical and folk tradition, which role the Calvinist national Kirk may have played in the depictions and discussions of the supernatural, in which way this is entangled with the country's history of witch trials in the early modern period, and how the cultural and literary manifestations of the Devil reverberate throughout the centuries.
We will engage with Scottish border ballads such as "Tam Lin" and "The Daemon Lover" and follow Robert Burns's Tam O'Shanter on his wild ride through Ayrshire. We will encounter a devilish doppelganger in James Hogg's famous 19th-century novel questioning the doctrine of predestination, a friendly traveller in disguise in Walter Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale", and an imp locked up in a bottle on Hawai'i by Robert Louis Stevenson. We will take a trip south with Muriel Spark to see a Scottish devil from the past blast into 1960s London, and return to a manse at Scotland's east coast with James Robertson to watch a minister and have a discussion with the Devil about the uses and pitfalls of faith. Finally, we will watch the Devil return to the stage in the 21st century, exploring agency and choice in two plays by Rona Munro and David Greig.
Picture:
This is part of the 2019 mural by Nichol Wheatley at Glasgow's cultural centre Oran Mór, illustrating the devil playing the bagpipes at the witches' sabbath scene from Robert Burn's 1790 poem "Tam O'Shanter".
- Lehrende(r): Julia Boll
Kursbereich: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
The European Dimension of Romanticism:
Byron, Heine, Pushkin
Di 10-12
Byron was an international literary superstar of his time. Both his poetry and his life were unconventional, provocative and scandalous. He was regarded as “mad, bad and dangerous to know” – and this is precisely what fascinated people not just in Britain, but all over the continent and beyond.
This seminar will give you an opportunity to get acquainted with Byron’s outrageously witty (and sometimes simply outrageous) narrative verse (especially Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage). In order to get an idea of the international impact of his works well beyond, our close reading of texts by Byron will be combined with a comparative approach, taking in both German and Russian texts (Heinrich Heine, Das Buch Le Grand and Englische Fragmente; Alexander Pushkin, Jewgenij Onegin, which, for reasons of practicality, will be read in German translation).
Please buy the following editions: George Gordon Lord Byron (Ed.: Jerome J. McGann), Lord Byron. The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics), ISBN: 978019953744-4.
Alexander Puschkin (translated by Rolf-Dietrich Keil), Jewgeni Onegin. Roman in Versen (Insel), ISBN: 9783458342243. Other translations of this text are also of interest.
Heinrich Heine (Ed.: Bernd Kortländer), Reisebilder (Reclam), ISBN: 9783150187302
Requirements: thorough preparation for each session, active participation plus anything that might be required according to your Modulhandbuch / Studienordnung. As always: read, think, enjoy (!!), annotate (!) and look things up if necessary. The first text to be discussed is Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto 1).
The seminar will be conducted entirely online and entirely in real time. We will meet each online via Zoom, each week of the semester at the time of the seminar. Please join the seminar´s Moodle room; you will receive further information via Moodle. Please make sure to use and check your official university e-mail addresses at all times. Do not use any other addresses, and do not have e-mails sent to your university address forwarded to other addresses. Our experience in the last semester has shown that that using non-university addresses / forwarding mails will lead to our messages bouncing back in very many cases.
Just in case your application is rejected by the LSF system: If you want to do this course because you are genuinely interested, you will be most welcome, no matter what LSF says. Please get in touch with claudia.hausmann@uni-due.de who will enrol you manually. The worst that might happen to you is that you cannot do a Leistungsnachweis if you lack the formal requirements.
- Lehrende(r): Christian Feser
- Lehrende(r): Christoph Heyl
- Lehrende(r): Chandni Rampersad
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
Robert Burns was a farm labourer who became an instant literary celebrity when he published his poems in 1786. He was regarded as the perfect embodiment of a Romantic genius. His works were read (both in the original version and in translations) throughout Europe where a romanticised idea of Scotland as a pre-modern land of noble savages became more and more popular. Today, Burns is regarded as Scotland´s national poet, and some of his poems have become part of annual rituals such as the Burns supper.
Burns wrote with humour and enthusiasm about love and his love affairs, about beer and whisky, about freedom and equality, about ghosts and witches – and many other things besides. He also collected traditional Scottish songs and wrote new ones. There are arrangements of his songs by Haydn and Beethoven, but they can also be heard in modern versions today.
We are going to work on some his most important poems and songs and their cultural contexts, so this seminar will also serve as an introduction to some key aspects of Scottish literature and culture. We will also listen to various musical settings of his songs, and quite possibly to some live music. Please buy: Robert Burns (ed.: Carol McGuirk), Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), ISBN: 9780140423822. Very useful background knowledge on key cultural and literary contexts of Robert Burns and his works can be found here: Christoph Heyl, Kleine Englische Literaturgeschichte. J.B. Metzler. ISBN-13: 978-3476045096.
Requirements: Good preparation for each session, active participation. As always: think, enjoy (!), annotate, and look things up if necessary. Also anything that might be required according to your Modulhandbuch / Studienordnung.
We currently assume that teaching will be entirely on campus and in person. This, however depends on the further development of the Pandemic. Watch this space, and read all e-mails sent to your official university e-mail address.
Please join the seminar´s Moodle room (Robert Burns). You will receive further information, including the Moodle password, via e-mail. Please make sure to use and check your official university e-mail addresses at all times. Do not use any other addresses, and do not have e-mails sent to your university address forwarded to other addresses.
Just in case your application is rejected by the LSF system: If you want to do this course because you are genuinely interested, you will be most welcome, no matter what LSF says. Please get in touch with claudia.hausmann@uni-due.de who will enrol you manually. The worst that might happen to you is that you cannot do a Leistungsnachweis if you lack the formal requirements.
- Lehrende(r): Christian Feser
- Lehrende(r): Claudia Hausmann
- Lehrende(r): Christoph Heyl
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
Shipwreck, a magician, various spirits, love, a power struggle and slapstick humour … and, of course, a lot of sighing and shouting: The Tempest has it all. This course will give you an opportunity to engage in a close reading of this play. We shall consider historical and cultural contexts as well as questions relating to the staging of the play, both in Shakespeare’s time and today. We shall also look at cinematic and other adaptations and works of art inspired by this comedy.
Please buy this edition and none other: William Shakespeare (eds.: Alden T. Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan ), The Tempest. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. (Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-4081-3347-7). Do not waste your money on texts without
substantial annotations as these would be useless for the purposes of this
course. Due to the Corona situation, the entire seminar will be conducted online. Additional material will be made available.
Requirements: Thorough preparation for each session, active participation, including some sighing and shouting (and perhaps briefly pretending to be a magician or a spirit), anything that might be required according to your Modulhandbuch/Studienordnung. As always: think, enjoy (!), annotate, and look things up if necessary.
- Lehrende(r): Christoph Heyl
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
What are colours? How do they
fit into the physical world, and what is the relation between colours and
colour experiences? Should we explain colours in terms of colour experiences,
such that, e.g., for something to be red just is for it to look red to normal
observers under standard conditions? Or are colour experiences, when they are
veridical, best understood as responses to objective colour properties that are
independent of such experiences? This course will explore different theories of
the nature of colours and how they relate to colour experiences. Topics to be
covered may include dispositionalist theories of colours, eliminativist
theories, physicalist theories, and primitivist theories.
- Lehrende(r): Samuel Mason
Kursbereich: Philosophie
The focus of this seminar is on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an approach to study language and other semiotic resources implicated in (re)producing and perpetuating ideological interests and power relations in contemporary society. The seminar considers key theoretical foundations, approaches and models in the study of discourse, and critical-analytic observations of contemporary politics and social issues. Students will be introduced to various linguistic, visual and material data in various social domains as we pay attention to the core topics: identity, ecology, conflict, and inequality.
- Lehrende(r): Maida Kosatica
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
For almost two centuries, the short story has held an extremely prominent place in the North American literary tradition: with respect to the U.S., the genre has been described as a "national art form" (Frank O'Connor); likewise, scholars of (English-)Canadian literature have referred to the short story as "Canada's flagship genre." How can we explain the success of this literary form in North America? How has the genre developed over time and in what ways have Canadian short stories differed from American ones? This lecture will take a comparative approach to the North American short story from the late 18th century to the present, discussing theoretical issues, the role of the short story in the literary market, individual short stories, and related genres and media such as the short short story, the short story cycle, or the short story illustration.
Relevant material, including selected short stories, will be provided. Requirements for successful completion of the course: oral exam at the end of the term.
This class will allow students to improve their Inquiry & Analysis and Oral Communication competences.
- Lehrende(r): Florian Freitag
Kursbereich: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Eine (wenn nicht die) zentrale Frage der Sprachphilosophie ist die Frage, ob die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke ausschließlich davon abhängt, was sich in den Köpfen (und Gehirnen) der Sprechenden abspielt, oder ob die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke zumindest zum Teil durch so genannte externe Faktoren bestimmt wird. Erstere Position ist der semantische Internalismus, während letztere Position die des semantischen Externalismus ist. In seinem Aufsatz ''Narrow Content'' beschreibt David Chalmers die Debatte zwischen Internalisten und Externalisten in drei Akten und bezeichnet sie nach einem der zentralen Gedankenexperimente der Debatte als 'Twin Earth Wars'. Zu Beginn des ersten Akts, so Chalmers, schlummert das internalistische Imperium in seinem dogmatischen Selbstverständnis, dass die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke ausschließlich davon abhängt, was sich in den Köpfen der Sprechenden abspielt. Dann setzen die externalistischen Rebellen wie Hilary Putnam und Tyler Burge Gedankenexperimente wie das der Zwillingserde ein, um dafür zu argumentieren, dass die Bedeutung sprachlicher Ausdrücke oftmals auch von Faktoren außerhalb der Köpfe der Sprechenden abhängt. Die Rebellen sind damit so erfolgreich, dass sie an diesem Punkt zum Imperium werden. Im zweiten Akt schlagen die Internalisten jedoch zurück: David Lewis, Frank Jackson und David Chalmers argumentieren, dass es selbst angesichts des Gedankenexperiments von der Zwillingserde eine Art von sprachlicher Bedeutung gibt, die allein davon abhängt, was sich in den Köpfen der Sprechenden abspielt. Im dritten Akt zielt die nächste Generation von Externalisten Juhani Yli-Vakkuri and John Hawthorne darauf ab, die Internalisten ein für allemal zu besiegen, indem sie ihr bisher stärkstes Gedankenexperiment auffahren; Mirror Man.
Ziel dieses Seminars ist es, den Studierenden die unterschiedlichen Phasen der Debatte zwischen Internalisten und Externalisten zu vermitteln, um ausgehend davon eine kritische Diskussion der Frage zu ermöglichen, ob die Twin Earth Wars als entschieden angesehen werden können. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, werden zentrale Beiträge zur Debatte zwischen Internalisten und Externalisten gelesen und kritisch diskutiert. Darüber hinaus werden die Implikationen der Debatte für andere Bereiche der Analytischen Philosophie wie der Philosophie des Geistes und der Erkenntnistheorie behandelt.
- Lehrende(r): Stefan Rinner
Kursbereich: Philosophie
- Lehrende(r): Lena Mattheis
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
The Walt Disney Company has come to be regarded as the epitome of global, family-friendly popular culture across all media. Beyond enthusiastic responses from the public, the company’s various products have also attracted scholarly attention, from the textual readings by European semioticians in the 1970s to the “Disney-bashing” of the 1990s and the more reception-oriented fan studies of the 2010s. This class will introduce students to (a) a variety of theoretical concepts that will enable them to critically examine Disney “texts”; (b) seminal studies of Disney criticism; and (c) various potential fields of research, including comics, animated films, television, and theme parks.
Relevant material will be provided. Requirements for successful completion of the course: active participation in class discussions; research presentation towards the end of the term; term paper.
This class will allow students to improve their Information Literacy, Inquiry & Analysis, and Written Communication competences.
- Lehrende(r): Ben Alexander
- Lehrende(r): Florian Freitag
Kursbereich: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Known for portraits of pioneers and the frontier, Willa Cather became a journalist and a prolific writer, winning the Pulitzer in 1923, establishing a reputation that has ranged from “merely regional” to major. Planning as a young woman to study medicine, dressing as a man, she has been described as a misogynistic, homophobic lesbian, a woman as known for her literary gifts and confident depictions of immigrants as she is for self-doubt, a feminist in practice, not in theory. Cather remains a figure of contradiction, her life and writings mirroring both hidden and explicit conflicts in American life and culture toward race, class, gender, and the idea of the nation in a land defined by immigration. We will cover some of the short stories and letters as well as three novels. The following editions are recommended, but it’s possible also to find her work online:
Oh, Pioneers! (1913) Norton critical
My Ántonia (1918) Norton critical
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) Vintage classics
- Lehrende(r): Melissa Knox-Raab
Kursbereich: Anglophone Studien
Mülheimer Theatertage NRW – Stücke 2020
Die Mülheimer Theatertage NRW sind eines der renommiertesten Theaterfestivals Deutschlands und finden 2020 bereits zum 45. Mal statt. Seit 1976 wird Mülheim an der Ruhr jedes Jahr zum Zentrum der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsdramatik: Im Rahmen der „Stücke“ werden hier jährlich sieben bis acht Theaterstücke in der jeweils wirksamsten Aufführung, meist der Uraufführung, gezeigt. Zu Gast sind renommierte Theater aus ganz Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Im Fokus stehen in Mülheim eindeutig die Stücktexte, nicht deren Inszenierung. Diese Konzentration auf den Text macht das Mülheimer Festival einzigartig. Die Auswahl trifft ein unabhängiges Gremium aus den in der jeweiligen Saison uraufgeführten deutschsprachigen Stücken. Am Ende der Theatertage vergibt eine Jury aus fünf Kritiker*innen und Theaterschaffenden den mit 15.000 Euro dotierten Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis an den besten Autor oder die beste Autorin.
Da das Festival in diesem Jahr leider nicht stattfinden kann, werden wir uns diesem Semester wird das Seminar sich schwerpunktartig mit den für den diesjährigen Preis ausgewählten Stück-Texten auseinandersetzen, sie analysieren und ggf. bewerten. Darüber hinaus wird es theatertheoretisch um die Bedeutung des Textes auf der Bühne gehen und in Ansätzen um Wertungsdiskurse. Einige Theater und das Team der Mülheimer Theatertage haben uns freundlicherweise Mitschnitte der Inszenierungen der einzelnen Stücke zur Verfügung gestellt, über die wir einen (zumindest kleinen) Eindruck der jeweiligen Texte auf der Bühne bekommen können.- Lehrende(r): Anna Quednau
Kursbereich: Literaturwissenschaft
- Lehrende(r): Luisa Röhrich
Kursbereich: Niederlandistik