Course Ideas

The following links lead to individual Seminar Ideas and offer a place to communicate about seminars one would like to see created. Use the individual discussion pages for commentary and the main pages for topics such a seminar might focus on Wishes (Student and Staff) Children's and Youth Literature Anglistik Seminare im Professionalisierungsbereich English language and mass media English as a global language Academic Study Skills Workshop Education on TV Lovecraft, Poe and the Unspeakable Horror, Weird Tales and Disturbing Worlds Anna Auguscik Pornography The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes "A morbid fear of salad": (post)modern medieval life in Nicola Barker's Darkmans (2007) Postcolonial vs. postmodern appeal and the success of a novel: Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and A.S. Byatt, Possession (1990) Maike Engelhardt Language Testing for Language Teachers English as a Lingua Franca Language and Age Phonetics and Phonology: American English Techniques and Strategies of Foreign Language Learning Teaching Methods: Past, Present and Future (Ergänzende) Unterrichtsmaterialien im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I & II Lehrwerksanalyse Red/Green/Orange Line Didactic ranges of didactic texts. How to comprehend reading comprehension Linguistic aspects of political speeches of the 20th and 21st century Anton Kirchhofer Winter Term 08-09 BM 1, UE (Teil 2 alt) AM 5, 1 SE Literature and the School System (abgesprochen mit Wolfgang Gehring) MM1 (auch HS klausurvorbereitend), 1 SE The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes (mit Anna Auguscik; abgesprochen mit Delia Duncan, UE) Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Olaf Simons Summer Term 09 (1)Gesetzt: Directed studies, (Examens- und) Doktorandenkolloquium, (2) BM 1, 1 V (Teil 1 alt) (3) AM2c und 11: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa alternativ: AM 2b, 5 und 11 Childhood Stories and Children's Literature alternativ: Modern Tales of a Puritan Past (e.g. Hogg, Justified Sinner, Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter …) (AM 2b und 11, oder MM 1 und klausurvorbereitend) MM1(auch klausurvorbereitend) Gothic Fiction – The Early Canon (Otranto, Udolpho, Monk, Northanger Abbey) alternativ: John Milton alternativ: African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa other options and future projects: Explorations in the History and Ideology of Purity The Cultural History of Shakespeare Writing (in) Ireland in the Mid-20th century. (Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett) British Fiction in the 1850s – Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, book production of 1850s, the novel market and reviewing etc. The Sensational Novel - Popular and Transgressive Writing in the 1860s Confession and Narrative Exploring the Lord Chamberlain's Files (mit Exkursion und Editionsprojekten Representations of Gender and Violence from Shakespeare to the Present Creation, Nature, Environment - Changing Conceptions in Literature and Culture Plots of Emancipation and Conversion - Writing Religious Experience. Fictions about Contemporaries - Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point (1928) Obscure and Public Poetry in the 19c - Swinburne, Whitman, Hopkins, Dickinson Fictional Parsons - from Fielding to Golding Editing Shakespeare - the History of Shakespeare's 'Texts' From Theodicy to Political Economy - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 'Systems Theories' Theories of Literary Communication Public School Stories - Tom Hughes, Samuel Butler, Evelyn Waugh Girls' at School "National Allegories" - Allegory in Postcolonial Writing Modernism and Journalism Olaf Simons Winter: 1 Basismodul + 3 Veranstaltungen: Lit, Cult Summer: 2 Basismodule + 2 Veranstaltungen Lit, Cult Winter Deep Space Nine American Culture Advanced Perspectives on Literary History - a Workshop - UE AM 2a, 2b, 11, with Anton Kirchhofer Canterbury Tales, Literature Summer The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Literature and Linguistics English Translations of the Bible Cultural Studies Alternatives Time Travel Literature (and Film) Chapbooks Literature Theories of the Novel Literature Fathers and Sons in American Movies American Culture The Bayeux Tapestry, Cultural Studies 18th-century Sentimental Novels and Plays English Literature Cinematic Violence Cultural Studies Pornography Literature, with Anna Auguscik Ossian The Best of all Possible Worlds The Invention of Psychology The English Rogue and the German Simplicissimus Histories of English Literature Online Communication, Blogs and Wikipedia Poetic Justice Seminars on individual years

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