2013 Ü Key Concepts in Cultural Studies

From Angl-Am
Jump to: navigation, search
    PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NOT ALL INFORMATION IS VERIFIED AND RELIABLE YET.


Please note: The BM7 module consists of

  • a seminar ("Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature"),
  • a tutorial ("Research Methods", offered in the previous winter term),
  • a lecture ("Historical Backgrounds and Critcal Concepts", offered this term )and
  • a seminar ("Key Concepts of Cultural Studies").

If you have already completed parts, but not the entire Basismodul in literary and/or cultural studies in previous semesters, please contact Michaela Koch.

On this page you will find detailed information on the lecture "Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts" and on the courses "Key Concepts in Cultural Studies".

Lecture: Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts

  • 3.02.030 - Anton Kirchhofer, Martin Butler - Tue, 12:00-14:00, A11 1-101 (Hörsaal B)


Course: Key Concepts in Cultural Studies

The lecture and course is part of the Basismodul 7 and focuses on key concepts in cultural studies and techniques of textual analysis in the context of discussing culture. The "VL/Ü Key Concepts of Cultural Studies" consists of 6 lectures on Historical Backgrounds and Critical Concepts which are structured into three conceptual blocks:

  • Block I: The Formation of Historical Periods in Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Block II: Primary Facts and Moments in the Study of Cultural and Literary History
  • Block III: Concepts of Cultural Studies

The lectures are followed by 7 courses/Übungen on Key Concepts of Cultural Studies. The Übung analyzes material and is relying on concepts and approaches provided in the lectures. The analysis of the material from a cultural studies perspective is based on three guiding questions:

  • 1. What are the specific and medial characteristics of the Material? (See Handouts: Conceptual Tools)
  • 2. How is the material situated and what institutions are responsible for its existence and discussion?
  • 3. What function and effect for identity formation can the material have?

Please make sure that you are registered for the lecture and ONE of the courses in Stud.IP and open a wiki account which will enable you to participate in online discussions.

The texts for our courses will come from a common pool, though each course may have a different choice.

The "analytical tools" will be presented by the lecturers (on a handout) in each meeting. The additional reading from which these 'tools' are taken is not obligatory, and it can be done either before or after each session.

Course work: You will be asked to complete a Written Test (Date: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 10-12 h, A14, HS 1 + 2), and produce a Research Paper Outline (2 pages, due on Aug 15). For the Research Paper Outline you will need to find your own topic to work on and document the preliminary work (this includes finding an appropriate title, writing a paragraph on the state of the art of your problem and one that describes your problem and your goal, and presenting a tentative table of contents as well as a short bibliography). The RPO is to be formatted according to the style sheet.

Two useful links for all assignments:


Session One, April 04/05: Working With Key Concepts in Cultural Studies I

Welcome

Preliminaries and General Course Information.

Analytical Tools

Further Reading

  • TBA

Session Two, April 11/12: Working with Key Concepts in Cultural Studies II

Analytical Tools

Further Reading

  • TBA

Session Three, April 18/19: Analyzing Print Media: Slave Narrative I

Primary Material

  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Eds. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.

Secondary Material

  • Boyer, Paul S. "Chapter 12: The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860." The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Sixth Edtition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. 354-67.

Session Four, April 25/26: Analyzing Print Media: Slave Narrative II

Primary Material

  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Eds. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.

Secondary Material

  • Smith, Valerie. "Form and Ideology in Three Slave Narratives." Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987. 9-43. Reprinted in: Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Eds. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Norton, 2001. 222-36. Print.

Session Five, May 02/03: Analyzing Print Medis: Slave Narrative III

Primary Material

  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Eds. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.

Secondary Material

  • Accomando, Christina. "'The Laws Were Laid Down to Me Anew': Harriet Jacobs and the Reframing of Legal Fictions" African American Review 32.2 (1998): 229-44. Reprinted in: Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Eds. Nellie Y. McKay and Frances Smith Foster. New York: Norton, 2001. 365-85. Print. 
    Monday, May 06, 2013: Assignment I due

Session Six, May 16/17: Analyzing Visual Media: Graphic Novel I

Primary Material

Secondary Material

  • Spiegelman,Art. "Introduction." In the Shadow of No Towers. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

Analytical Tools

Session Seven, May 23/24: Analyzing Visual Media: Graphic Novel II

Primary Material

Secondary Material

  • Espiritu, Karen. "'Putting Grief Into Boxes': Trauma and the Crisis of Democracy in Art Spiegelman's In In the Shadow of No Towers." Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 28.2 (2006) 179-201. Print.

Analytical Tools

Session Eight, May 30/31: Analyzing Visual Media: Graphic Novel III

Primary Material

Secondary Material

  • Espiritu, Karen. "'Putting Grief Into Boxes': Trauma and the Crisis of Democracy in Art Spiegelman's In In the Shadow of No Towers." Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 28.2 (2006) 179-201. Print.

Analytical Tools 

    Monday, June 03, 2013: Assignment II due

Session Nine, June 06/07: Analyzing Audiovisual Media: Film I

Primary Material

  • Breakfast on Pluto. Dir. Neil Jordan. 2005. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD.

Secondary Material

Analytical Tools

Session Ten, June 13/14: Analyzing Audiovisual Media: Film II

Primary Material

  • Breakfast on Pluto. Dir. Neil Jordan. 2005. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD.

Secondary Material

  • Nunes, Charlotte. "In the Name of National Security: Torture and Imperialist Ideology in Sheridan's In the Name of the Father and Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto." Human Rights Quarterly 31.4 (2009): 916-33. Print.

Analytical Tools

Session Eleven, June 20/21: Analyzing Audiovisual Media: Film III

Primary Material

  • Breakfast on Pluto. Dir. Neil Jordan. 2005. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD.

Secondary Material

  • Lassen, Christian. "The Passion of Saint Kitten, or: Desperately Seeking Mitzi, the Phantom Lady. Camp Responses to Interpellation and Subjection in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto." Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings. Eds. N.N. Trier: WVT, 2013. Forthcoming.

Analytical Tools 

    Monday, June 24, 2013: Assignment III due

Session Twelve, June 27/28: Presentation and Discussion of RPOs

Skills and Activities

Brief Report on 'Work in Progress': Your Term Paper Projects 

     [BM7 - Introduction to Litertary and Cultural Studies - Research Paper Outline (due on Aug 15)]

Guidelines for finding your RPO topic:

1. Your RPO topic needs to be related to at least one of the four key concepts: identity, media, discourse, culture
2. As the material basis for your analysis you will need to pick material from the Übungen: Man Men, In the Shadow of No Towers,Living with War
3. There is one exception: You can pick a popular song which was not part of our Übung if you analyse it in relation to the Key Concept: Identity

You have access to the scholarly discourse on the material from the Übung through the MLA database.

Session Thirteen, July 04/05: Recap in Preparation for Written Test / Course Evaluation

In preparation for the recap meeting, please review the handouts Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Graphic Novel and Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Popular Music and Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture / Media / Identity / Discourse.

Examples:

Test Assignment Graphic Novel: In the Shadow of No Towers (page 1).

Test Assignment Popular Music: Rise Against: Hero of War 

    Written Test: Saturday, July 06, 2013, TBA
Retrieved from "https://wiki.angl-am.uni-oldenburg.de/index.php?title=2013_Ü_Key_Concepts_in_Cultural_Studies&oldid=21596"