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2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2009-01-16T12:32:37Z

Isabel Karremann: /* NOTE */

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*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 09.-13.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''; slander and its relation to race and gender in ''Othello''; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in ''Henry IV'', as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held from Monday, 09.02. to Friday, 13.02.2009. Registration closes by December 2nd.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
# short written test at the end of the seminar
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first three requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP-Portfolio)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (3KP+3)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
All other course texts are available as an online reader.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2009-01-16T12:31:53Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Class requirements */

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*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 09.-13.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''; slander and its relation to race and gender in ''Othello''; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in ''Henry IV'', as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held from Monday, 09.02. to Friday, 13.02.2009. Registration closes by December 2nd.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
# short written test at the end of the seminar
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
All other course texts are available as an online reader.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-12-04T13:14:48Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Course texts */

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|}

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 09.-13.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''; slander and its relation to race and gender in ''Othello''; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in ''Henry IV'', as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held from Monday, 09.02. to Friday, 13.02.2009. Registration closes by December 2nd.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
All other course texts are available as an online reader.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-12-04T13:13:50Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

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|}

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 09.-13.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''; slander and its relation to race and gender in ''Othello''; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in ''Henry IV'', as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held from Monday, 09.02. to Friday, 13.02.2009. Registration closes by December 2nd.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

alternative choices:
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-11-10T11:11:45Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 09.-13.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello or Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Henry IV, as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212, 16 c.t., at which the course program will be presented in greater detail. Registration via email.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

alternative choices:
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-11-04T12:19:12Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Course texts */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello or Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Henry IV, as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212, 16 c.t., at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail or StudIP until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*---, Henry IV, Part 1

alternative choices:
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-11-04T12:18:10Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Life as a courtier was an exciting, difficult, at times frustrating and always deeply dangerous business in the early modern age. This seminar is going look at the 'power plays' that courtiers were of necessity involved in and how the contemporary stage represented those in or close to power. In order to make this wide issue more manageable, we will focus on the issue of language as an instrument of domination.
Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello or Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Henry IV, as well as the polyphony of the carnivalesque (Bakthtin) as a strategy of resistance to authority. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212, 16 c.t., at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail or StudIP until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-11-03T09:06:13Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Richard III; how a notion of 'Englishness' emerges from the different languages, dialects and sociolects in Henry V and, once again, how language functions as an instrument of national/ sexual domination. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212, 16 c.t., at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail or StudIP until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

Kolloquium

2008-10-31T12:02:38Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" */

*(In der Regel) Dienstags 18:15, Raum A6 2-212
*Veranstalter: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg]
*Organisation: [[User:Olaf Simons|Dr. Olaf Simons]]

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<big>'''Forschungskolloquium des Seminars für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'''</big> 

Tue. Nov. 4, 2008 
'''Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"'''

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW- MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

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Das Kolloquium ist eine außerhalb des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses laufende Veranstaltung mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung. Sie soll im Seminar - unter Oldenburgs AnglistInnen und AmerkanistInnen - fachorientierten Diskussionen Raum bieten. Der Austausch mit Gästen, ob Vortragende oder Zuhörende, steht dabei immer wieder im Vordergrund.

Die Veranstaltung findet meist Dienstags (im Seminarratsraum A6-2-212) statt. In der Regel steht ein Vortrag von 45 Minuten bis einer Stunde im Zentrum einer offenen Diskussion. Interessierte alle Fächer sind zu jeder dieser Veranstaltungen herzlich eingeladen. Ansprechpartner für Ideen und Organisation (wie etwa die Aufnahme in die Mailinglist) ist

[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]].

=Winter 2008/09=

==Tue. Nov. 4, 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"==

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular
culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW-
MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

==Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" ==

When Umberto Eco raised the question whether there might be an art of forgetting, he dismissed the very possibility from the start: "An ''ars oblivionalis''? Forget it!" (1988). His rejection was based on the strictly semiotic assumption that it is impossible to represent what has been forgotten because each use of signs makes the signified present, conscious and hence remembered/memorable. This model can only think forgetting as a negative power, as an absence, a destructive force of nature against which an inherently positive ''ars memorativa'' is pitched. However, the relation between memory and forgetting is more complicated than this dichotomous model of presence and absence, of compensation and loss, of culture and nature suggests. Today's talk will give a systematic survey of the cultural techniques and practices available for consigning a specific memory content to oblivion, as well as the hermeneutic tools available for studying forgetting.

==Tue Dec. 16, 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's ''In the Shadow of No Towers''==

[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]] on her topic:

:Ever since he published his book ''Maus'' (1991), Art Spiegelman has established himself as a well-known author all over the continents, and has become a challenge (not only) for literary scholars. In ''Maus'' Spiegelman chooses the medium “comix” as a mode of inquiry and as a means to convey the events of the past. In his recent publication on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 with the stirring title ''In the Shadow of No Towers'', Spiegelman has once again picked up the pen to narrate/draw the events of that day. Whereas he created a monochromatic montage full of silhouettes, black lines and shadings in ''Maus'', he now produces a collage of color images flickering on the paper-screen in front of the reader’s eye.
:The attacks on the WTC in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 are probably the most well documented events (be that in photographic images, in VHS-video images, official TV reportage, or any kind of digitalized pictures). All over the world, people would/could watch what was shown on TV (and on the Internet). In years to come, everybody will have a personal story at hand to tell where s/he was and what s/he did on that particular day.
:Spiegelman’s graphic text is his personal response to immense shock, disbelief, disorientation and incomprehension – feelings he shares with so many other people. The syntax of his text is built of framed images that capture all kinds of sensations (in words and images), only to be subverted in the next instance. Frames no longer hold the picture. Buildings and figures become elastic, they transgress borders. The only border then is the limited space available on a given page of the book. Content and form of Spiegelman’s ''In the Shadow of No Towers'' (and their interdependency) will be the center of attention in my talk. His work represents an aesthetic challenge in the frame of postmodern strategies so widely discussed these days.

 
=Summer 2009=

==Date under consideration: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"==

Details folgen.

==Archive and Planning==

*[[Kolloquium/Archive]]
*Planning see: [[Talk:Kolloquium]]

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Kolloquium

2008-10-31T12:02:01Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" */

*(In der Regel) Dienstags 18:15, Raum A6 2-212
*Veranstalter: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg]
*Organisation: [[User:Olaf Simons|Dr. Olaf Simons]]

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<big>'''Forschungskolloquium des Seminars für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'''</big> 

Tue. Nov. 4, 2008 
'''Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"'''

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW- MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

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Das Kolloquium ist eine außerhalb des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses laufende Veranstaltung mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung. Sie soll im Seminar - unter Oldenburgs AnglistInnen und AmerkanistInnen - fachorientierten Diskussionen Raum bieten. Der Austausch mit Gästen, ob Vortragende oder Zuhörende, steht dabei immer wieder im Vordergrund.

Die Veranstaltung findet meist Dienstags (im Seminarratsraum A6-2-212) statt. In der Regel steht ein Vortrag von 45 Minuten bis einer Stunde im Zentrum einer offenen Diskussion. Interessierte alle Fächer sind zu jeder dieser Veranstaltungen herzlich eingeladen. Ansprechpartner für Ideen und Organisation (wie etwa die Aufnahme in die Mailinglist) ist

[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]].

=Winter 2008/09=

==Tue. Nov. 4, 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"==

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular
culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW-
MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

==Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" ==

When Umberto Eco raised the question whether there might be an art of forgetting, he dismissed the very possibility from the start: "An ''ars oblivionalis''? Forget it!" (1988). His rejection was based on the strictly semiotic assumption that it is impossible to represent what has been forgotten because each use of signs makes the signified present, conscious and hence remembered/memorable. This model can only think forgetting as a negative power, as an absence, a destructive force of nature against which an inherently positive ars memorativa is pitched. However, the relation between memory and forgetting is more complicated than this dichotomous model of presence and absence, of compensation and loss, of culture and nature suggests. Today's talk will give a systematic survey of the cultural techniques and practices available for consigning a specific memory content to oblivion, as well as the hermeneutic tools available for studying forgetting.

==Tue Dec. 16, 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's ''In the Shadow of No Towers''==

[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]] on her topic:

:Ever since he published his book ''Maus'' (1991), Art Spiegelman has established himself as a well-known author all over the continents, and has become a challenge (not only) for literary scholars. In ''Maus'' Spiegelman chooses the medium “comix” as a mode of inquiry and as a means to convey the events of the past. In his recent publication on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 with the stirring title ''In the Shadow of No Towers'', Spiegelman has once again picked up the pen to narrate/draw the events of that day. Whereas he created a monochromatic montage full of silhouettes, black lines and shadings in ''Maus'', he now produces a collage of color images flickering on the paper-screen in front of the reader’s eye.
:The attacks on the WTC in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 are probably the most well documented events (be that in photographic images, in VHS-video images, official TV reportage, or any kind of digitalized pictures). All over the world, people would/could watch what was shown on TV (and on the Internet). In years to come, everybody will have a personal story at hand to tell where s/he was and what s/he did on that particular day.
:Spiegelman’s graphic text is his personal response to immense shock, disbelief, disorientation and incomprehension – feelings he shares with so many other people. The syntax of his text is built of framed images that capture all kinds of sensations (in words and images), only to be subverted in the next instance. Frames no longer hold the picture. Buildings and figures become elastic, they transgress borders. The only border then is the limited space available on a given page of the book. Content and form of Spiegelman’s ''In the Shadow of No Towers'' (and their interdependency) will be the center of attention in my talk. His work represents an aesthetic challenge in the frame of postmodern strategies so widely discussed these days.

 
=Summer 2009=

==Date under consideration: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"==

Details folgen.

==Archive and Planning==

*[[Kolloquium/Archive]]
*Planning see: [[Talk:Kolloquium]]

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Kolloquium

2008-10-31T12:01:47Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" */

*(In der Regel) Dienstags 18:15, Raum A6 2-212
*Veranstalter: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg]
*Organisation: [[User:Olaf Simons|Dr. Olaf Simons]]

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<big>'''Forschungskolloquium des Seminars für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'''</big> 

Tue. Nov. 4, 2008 
'''Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"'''

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW- MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

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Das Kolloquium ist eine außerhalb des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses laufende Veranstaltung mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung. Sie soll im Seminar - unter Oldenburgs AnglistInnen und AmerkanistInnen - fachorientierten Diskussionen Raum bieten. Der Austausch mit Gästen, ob Vortragende oder Zuhörende, steht dabei immer wieder im Vordergrund.

Die Veranstaltung findet meist Dienstags (im Seminarratsraum A6-2-212) statt. In der Regel steht ein Vortrag von 45 Minuten bis einer Stunde im Zentrum einer offenen Diskussion. Interessierte alle Fächer sind zu jeder dieser Veranstaltungen herzlich eingeladen. Ansprechpartner für Ideen und Organisation (wie etwa die Aufnahme in die Mailinglist) ist

[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]].

=Winter 2008/09=

==Tue. Nov. 4, 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"==

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular
culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW-
MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

==Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" ==

When Umberto Eco raised the question whether there might be an art of forgetting, he dismissed the very possibility from the start: "An ''ars oblivionalis''? Forget it" (1988). His rejection was based on the strictly semiotic assumption that it is impossible to represent what has been forgotten because each use of signs makes the signified present, conscious and hence remembered/memorable. This model can only think forgetting as a negative power, as an absence, a destructive force of nature against which an inherently positive ars memorativa is pitched. However, the relation between memory and forgetting is more complicated than this dichotomous model of presence and absence, of compensation and loss, of culture and nature suggests. Today's talk will give a systematic survey of the cultural techniques and practices available for consigning a specific memory content to oblivion, as well as the hermeneutic tools available for studying forgetting.

==Tue Dec. 16, 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's ''In the Shadow of No Towers''==

[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]] on her topic:

:Ever since he published his book ''Maus'' (1991), Art Spiegelman has established himself as a well-known author all over the continents, and has become a challenge (not only) for literary scholars. In ''Maus'' Spiegelman chooses the medium “comix” as a mode of inquiry and as a means to convey the events of the past. In his recent publication on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 with the stirring title ''In the Shadow of No Towers'', Spiegelman has once again picked up the pen to narrate/draw the events of that day. Whereas he created a monochromatic montage full of silhouettes, black lines and shadings in ''Maus'', he now produces a collage of color images flickering on the paper-screen in front of the reader’s eye.
:The attacks on the WTC in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 are probably the most well documented events (be that in photographic images, in VHS-video images, official TV reportage, or any kind of digitalized pictures). All over the world, people would/could watch what was shown on TV (and on the Internet). In years to come, everybody will have a personal story at hand to tell where s/he was and what s/he did on that particular day.
:Spiegelman’s graphic text is his personal response to immense shock, disbelief, disorientation and incomprehension – feelings he shares with so many other people. The syntax of his text is built of framed images that capture all kinds of sensations (in words and images), only to be subverted in the next instance. Frames no longer hold the picture. Buildings and figures become elastic, they transgress borders. The only border then is the limited space available on a given page of the book. Content and form of Spiegelman’s ''In the Shadow of No Towers'' (and their interdependency) will be the center of attention in my talk. His work represents an aesthetic challenge in the frame of postmodern strategies so widely discussed these days.

 
=Summer 2009=

==Date under consideration: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"==

Details folgen.

==Archive and Planning==

*[[Kolloquium/Archive]]
*Planning see: [[Talk:Kolloquium]]

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Kolloquium

2008-10-31T12:01:08Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen) */

*(In der Regel) Dienstags 18:15, Raum A6 2-212
*Veranstalter: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg]
*Organisation: [[User:Olaf Simons|Dr. Olaf Simons]]

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<big>'''Forschungskolloquium des Seminars für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'''</big> 

Tue. Nov. 4, 2008 
'''Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"'''

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW- MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

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Das Kolloquium ist eine außerhalb des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses laufende Veranstaltung mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung. Sie soll im Seminar - unter Oldenburgs AnglistInnen und AmerkanistInnen - fachorientierten Diskussionen Raum bieten. Der Austausch mit Gästen, ob Vortragende oder Zuhörende, steht dabei immer wieder im Vordergrund.

Die Veranstaltung findet meist Dienstags (im Seminarratsraum A6-2-212) statt. In der Regel steht ein Vortrag von 45 Minuten bis einer Stunde im Zentrum einer offenen Diskussion. Interessierte alle Fächer sind zu jeder dieser Veranstaltungen herzlich eingeladen. Ansprechpartner für Ideen und Organisation (wie etwa die Aufnahme in die Mailinglist) ist

[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]].

=Winter 2008/09=

==Tue. Nov. 4, 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"==

John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular
culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW-
MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people.

==Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" ==

When Umberto Eco raised the question whether there might be an art of forgetting, he dismissed the very possibility from the start: "An ars oblivionalis? Forget it" (1988). His rejection was based on the strictly semiotic assumption that it is impossible to represent what has been forgotten because each use of signs makes the signified present, conscious and hence remembered/memorable. This model can only think forgetting as a negative power, as an absence, a destructive force of nature against which an inherently positive ars memorativa is pitched. However, the relation between memory and forgetting is more complicated than this dichotomous model of presence and absence, of compensation and loss, of culture and nature suggests. Today's talk will give a systematic survey of the cultural techniques and practices available for consigning a specific memory content to oblivion, as well as the hermeneutic tools available for studying forgetting.

==Tue Dec. 16, 2008: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's ''In the Shadow of No Towers''==

[[User:Christina Meyer|Christina Meyer]] on her topic:

:Ever since he published his book ''Maus'' (1991), Art Spiegelman has established himself as a well-known author all over the continents, and has become a challenge (not only) for literary scholars. In ''Maus'' Spiegelman chooses the medium “comix” as a mode of inquiry and as a means to convey the events of the past. In his recent publication on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 with the stirring title ''In the Shadow of No Towers'', Spiegelman has once again picked up the pen to narrate/draw the events of that day. Whereas he created a monochromatic montage full of silhouettes, black lines and shadings in ''Maus'', he now produces a collage of color images flickering on the paper-screen in front of the reader’s eye.
:The attacks on the WTC in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 are probably the most well documented events (be that in photographic images, in VHS-video images, official TV reportage, or any kind of digitalized pictures). All over the world, people would/could watch what was shown on TV (and on the Internet). In years to come, everybody will have a personal story at hand to tell where s/he was and what s/he did on that particular day.
:Spiegelman’s graphic text is his personal response to immense shock, disbelief, disorientation and incomprehension – feelings he shares with so many other people. The syntax of his text is built of framed images that capture all kinds of sensations (in words and images), only to be subverted in the next instance. Frames no longer hold the picture. Buildings and figures become elastic, they transgress borders. The only border then is the limited space available on a given page of the book. Content and form of Spiegelman’s ''In the Shadow of No Towers'' (and their interdependency) will be the center of attention in my talk. His work represents an aesthetic challenge in the frame of postmodern strategies so widely discussed these days.

 
=Summer 2009=

==Date under consideration: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"==

Details folgen.

==Archive and Planning==

*[[Kolloquium/Archive]]
*Planning see: [[Talk:Kolloquium]]

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2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-10-30T14:54:34Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Richard III; how a notion of 'Englishness' emerges from the different languages, dialects and sociolects in Henry V and, once again, how language functions as an instrument of national/ sexual domination. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212 at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail or StudIP until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-10-30T14:53:57Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read three to four plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Richard III; how a notion of 'Englishness' emerges from the different languages, dialects and sociolects in Henry V and, once again, how language functions as an instrument of national/ sexual domination. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212 at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-10-16T09:04:01Z

Isabel Karremann: /* NOTE */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read four plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Richard III; how a notion of 'Englishness' emerges from the different languages, dialects and sociolects in Henry V and, once again, how language functions as an instrument of national/ sexual domination. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212 at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of six credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

[[Category:Winter 2008-2009|2009-1]]
[[Category:Summer 2009]]
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]

2008-09 AM Power Plays, or: Life of the Courtiers on the Early Modern Stage

2008-10-16T09:03:50Z

Isabel Karremann: /* Course texts */

*Lecturer: Dr. Isabel Karremann
*Contact: [mailto:Isabel.Karremann@uni-oldenburg.de]
*Time: 02.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
*Venue: A10 1-121a

==Language and Power on the Early Modern Stage==

Stephen Greenblatt was one of the first critics to draw our attention to the workings of language as an instrument of domination, be it national, racial, or sexual domination. In this course we are going to read four plays by Shakespeare which revolve around the issue of the power of language: language as 'the white man's magic' and colonialism in The Tempest; slander and its relation to race and gender in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi; Machiavellian strategies of simulation and dissimulation in Richard III; how a notion of 'Englishness' emerges from the different languages, dialects and sociolects in Henry V and, once again, how language functions as an instrument of national/ sexual domination. We are going to approach this issue with the help of historical contexts (e.g. essays by Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon) as well as the critical concepts developed under the aegis of New Historicism and Cultural Studies.
The course is designed as a one-week 'Blockveranstaltung' which will be held in February 2009. There will be a preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 2/12/2008 in A6 2-212 at which the course program will be presented in greater detail; you can sign up for the seminar during this meeting or via e-mail until 1/12/2008.

==Class requirements==
#regular attendance and active participation (you may miss no more than two sessions)
#being an 'expert': you will give a short oral presentation of an historical or critical text and, based on this, prepare three questions which will form the basis of our discussion of the Shakespeare play in that session
#a term paper (developing further your expert-topic or any other issue discussed in the seminar)

==NOTE==
*fulfilling the first two requirements will earn you a total of three credit points (3 KP)
*fulfilling all requirements will earn you a total of sic credit points (6 KP)

==Course texts==
*William Shakespeare, The Tempest
*---, Othello
*Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
*John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

alternative choices:
* Shakespeare, Richard III
*---, Henry V
*Ben Johnson, Sejanus His Fall

PLEASE NOTE: we are not going to discuss ALL of these texts but probably only three or four. The definitive selection will be announced in our preparatory meeting on Tue, 2/12/08

Please get a CRITICAL EDITION of the plays, preferably the Arden Sharespeare Third Series (which contains a lot of historical material) or the New Cambridge Shakespeare. New Mermaids is the best edition of the Webster play, and there is a very good, reasonably priced anthology of Marlowe's plays by Oxford University Press.
Don't buy the texts before the definitive course program comes out in December - there might be changes.

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