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*'''Modul:''' ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'), phy355 (physikalische Wahlstudien), pb113, pb114
*'''Modul:''' ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'), phy355 (physikalische Wahlstudien), pb113, pb114
*'''Lecturer:''' Petra Groß and [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]]
*'''Lecturer:''' Petra Groß and [[User:Anna Auguscik|Anna Auguscik]]


*'''Course:''' 3.02.221
*'''Course:''' 3.02.221
*'''Time and Venue:''' regular online Stud.IP/BBB meetings, Wednesday 16-18h, and two longer sessions in presence Wednesday, 13-18h (tentatively scheduled for 29 May and 26 June)
*'''Time and Venue:''' regular online Stud.IP/BBB meetings, Wednesday 16-18h (with an option of two longer sessions in presence)


*'''Course Description''':
*'''Course Description''':
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Please, '''buy and read''' the following novel and short story anthology:  
Please, '''buy and read''' the following novel and short story anthology:  
*''Orbital''.
*Harvey, Samantha. ''Orbital''. London: Vermilion, 2024. [ISBN: 978-1-5299-2293-6; also available via Bueltmann & Gerriets]
*Page, Ra, ed. ''Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science'' Manchester: Comma Press, 2011. [ISBN: 978-1-905583-33-1 ; also available via Bueltmann & Gerriets]
*Page, Ra, ed. ''Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science'' Manchester: Comma Press, 2011. [ISBN: 978-1-905583-33-1 ; also available via Bueltmann & Gerriets]


In addition, we will read excerpts from the following texts:
In addition, we will read several ISS poems.


PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of these primary sources. All of the above can be obtained at our local book shop, Bültmann & Gerriets. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.


PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of these primary sources. All of the above can be obtained at our local book shop, Bültmann & Gerriets. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.


===Online Session: 16 April===
*Introduction to physics & fiction and look ahead at the focus topic on astrophysics, space exploration and the International Space Station


===Online Session: 17 April===
===Online Session: 23 April===
*Introduction to physics & fiction and look ahead at topic of geoengineering syllabus, primary reading, contexts
*Reading and discussion: Short Story 1
*Context: Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, "The Scientist as 'Problematic Individual' in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction" (2016)


===Online Session: 24 April===
===Online Session: 30 April===
*Reading and discussion: literature and science -- physics and fiction
*Reading and discussion: Short Story 2
*Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022);  
*Context: Kanta Dihal, "New Science, New Stories" (2017); and Dirk Vanderbeke, "Physics" (2021)
*Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, "The Scientist as 'Problematic Individual' in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction" (2016)


===Reading Week: 1 May===
===Online Session: 7 May===
*Reading: excerpts from text 1, 2 and 3
*Reading and discussion: Short Story 3
*Contexts: Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022); and Giovanni Vignale, "Physics and Fiction" (2022)


===Online Session: 8 May===
===Reading Week: 15 May===
*Reading and discussion: (1) Robinson, ''The Ministry for the Future''
*read and prepare ''Orbital''
*Contexts:


===Online Session: 15 May===
===Online Session: 21 May===
*Reading and discussion: (2) Stephenson, ''Termination Shock''
*Reading and discussion: ''Orbital'' as narrative fiction
*Contexts:


===Online Session: 22 May===
===Online or In-presence Session: 28 May ===
*Reading and discussion: (3) Singh, ''Face''
*Input presentations
*Contexts:


===In-presence Session: 29 May ===
===Online Session: 4 June===
*Input presentations and discussion of texts 1, 2, and 3
*Reading and discussion: tba


===Online Session: 5 June===
===Online Session: 11 June===
*Reading and discussion: physics and fiction
*Reading and discussion: tba


===Reading Week: 12 June===
===Online Session: 18 June===
*Reading: text 4
*Reading and discussion: tba


===Online Session 19 June===
===Online or In-presence Session: 25 June===
*Reading and discussion: (4) Bush, ''Blaze Island''
*Input presentations
*Contexts:


===In-presence Session: 26 June===
===Online Session: 02 July===
*Input presentations and discussion of text 4
*Reading and discussion: tba
*Course Evaluation


===Online Session: 3 July===
===Online Session: 9 July===
*discussion of lit/cult research papers
*discussion of lit/cult research papers
*Feeback on course evaluation


   [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2023]
   [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2023]
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See also Stud.IP/files
See also Stud.IP/files


===''Ministry for the Future''===
*Tomás Vergara. "Towards Postcapitalist Value in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.3 (November 2023): 415-430.
*M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh. "The Political Form of Postmodernism: Bakhtin, Jameson, and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.2 (July 2023): 251-270.
*Christian P. Haines. "Planetary Utopianism: Geoengineering, Speculative Fiction, and the Planetary Turn." ''Textual Practice'' 37.9 (2023): 1343-1363.
*Simon C. Estok. "Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue." ''Configurations'' 31. 4 (Fall 2023): 317-329.
===Literature and Science/Physics===
*Cain, Sarah. "The Metaphorical Field: Post-Newtonian Physics and Modernist Literature." The Cambridge Quarterly ; 1999; 28(1) 46-64.
*Cain, Sarah. "The Metaphorical Field: Post-Newtonian Physics and Modernist Literature." The Cambridge Quarterly ; 1999; 28(1) 46-64.
*Dihal, Kanta. "New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction." pp. 55-74 IN: Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.*Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.
*Dihal, Kanta. "New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction." pp. 55-74 IN: Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.*Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.
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:*Narrative Turn in Science
:*Narrative Turn in Science
:*Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022)
:*Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022)
 
*Westfahl, Gary. ''Islands in the Sky''
===Climate Change, Clifi and Ecocriticism===
*Vignale, Giovanni. IN: Heydenreich , Aura; Mecke, Klaus; Physics and Literature: Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization. Berlin, Germany ; De Gruyter; 2021.pp. 139-146.  
*Banting, Pamela. "Ecocriticism in Canada". Sugars, Cynthia (ed.). ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature''. Oxford University Press, 2015.
*Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "The Climate of History: Four Theses." ''Critical Inquiry'' 35:2 (2009): 197-222.
*Chakrabarty, Dipesh. ''The Climate of History in a Planetary Age''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
*Craps, Stef, and Rick Crownshaw. "Introduction: The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction." ''Studies in the Novel'' 50.1 (2018): 1-8.
*Crutzen, Paul J. "Geology of Mankind: The Anthropocene." ''Nature'' 415 (2002): 23. 
*Ghosh, Amitav. ''The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.'' Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2016.
*Glotfelty, Cheryll. "Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis." ''The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology''. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1996. xv-xxxvii.
*Horn, Eva, and Hannes Berghaller. ''The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities''. Routledge, 2019.
*Irr, Caren. "Climate Fiction in English." ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature'', 2017.
*Johns-Putra, Adeline. “Borrowing the World: Climate Change Fiction and the Problem of Posterity“. ''Metaphora: Journal for Literature Theory and Media''. EV 2: Climate Change, Complexity, Representation. Guest ed. Hannes Bergthaller. 2017. Web. [2022-10-23]. <http://metaphora.univie.ac.at/volume2-johns-putra.pdf>
*Kerber, Jenny, and Cheryl Lousley, “Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State,” in ''The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate'', ed. Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 269–80.
*Kluwick, Ursula Maria. "Talking about Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form." ''The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism''. Oxford: OUP, 2014.  
*[https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-974 Lousley, Cheryl. “Ecocriticism.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015—. Article published October 27, 2020.]
*Lousley, Cheryl, and Stephanie Posthumus. “Canadian Forum on Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence.” ''Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities'' 4.1 (Winter 2016): 110-113.
*MacLeod, Alexander. "The Canadian Short Story in English: Aesthetic Agency, Social Change, and the Shifting Canon". Sugars, Cynthia (ed.). ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature''. Oxford University Press, 2015.
*O’Brien, Susie, and Cheryl Lousley, ed. "Environmental Futurity." Special Issue of ''Resilience: Journal of Environmental Humanities'' 4.2-3 (Spring-Fall 2017).
*Soper, Ella, and Nicholas Bradley (eds.) ''Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context''. University of Calgary Press, 2013.
*Tally, Robert T., and  Christine M Battista (eds.). ''Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.
*Trexler, Adam. ''Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change''. Charlottesville, VA, and London: U of Virginia P, 2015.
*Trexler, Adam, and Adeline Johns-Putra. "Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism." ''Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change'' 2.2. (2011): 185-200.
*Vermeulen, Pieter. "Beauty that Must Die: ''Station Eleven'', Climate Change Fiction, and the Life of Form." ''Studies in the Novel'' 50.1 (Spring 2018): 9-25.
*Vermeulen, Pieter. "Introduction: Naming, Telling, Writing - The Anthropocene." ''Literature and the Anthropocene''. London: Routledge, 2020.
*Whyte, Kyle P. "Our Ancestors Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene." ''The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities''. Ed. Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. London: Routledge, 2017.
 
===Canadian Literature===
*Nischik, Reingard M. (ed.) ''History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian''. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2008.  


===Science reading===
===Science reading===


==Links==
==Links==
*2023-09-28: https://epic.uchicago.edu/insights/david-keith-on-why-carbon-removal-wont-save-big-oil-but-may-help-the-climate/
*https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/  
*2023-07-04: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/nachhaltigkeit-strategien-internationales/umweltrecht/umweltvoelkerrecht/geoengineering-governance
*https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/a-poem-for-europa/
*2023-06-30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/congressionally-mandated-report-on-solar-radiation-modification/  
*https://time.com/collection-post/6694507/ada-limon/
*2022-12-25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
*http://srpr.org/past_issues/toc_47.2.php
*2022-01-17: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.754
*https://www.universetoday.com/94567/poetry-from-the-space-station/  
*2021-05-12: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0
*2021-03-25: https://www.science.org/content/article/us-needs-solar-geoengineering-research-program-national-academies-says
*2021-03-11: https://www.mpg.de/16569676/geoengineering
*2018-07-12: https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/presse/hib/2018_07/564188-564188
*2017-10-19: https://theconversation.com/geostorm-movie-shows-dangers-of-hacking-the-climate-we-need-to-talk-about-real-world-geoengineering-now-85866
*2010: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg53007/html/CHRG-111hhrg53007.htm
*geoengineering, n.: first used in the early 1960s acc. to OED




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  • Modul: ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'), phy355 (physikalische Wahlstudien), pb113, pb114
  • Lecturer: Petra Groß and Anna Auguscik
  • Course: 3.02.221
  • Time and Venue: regular online Stud.IP/BBB meetings, Wednesday 16-18h (with an option of two longer sessions in presence)
  • Course Description:

Physics has often been understood as the opposite of fiction: formulae vs narrative; reality vs constructedness; in short, fact vs fiction. This has not discouraged writers to take up this very challenge, as a long tradition of science fiction attests. However, the interest in representing physics, physicists and their work on the part of what is considered 'literary fiction' seems to be more recent.

In this summer term, we offer an interdisciplinary seminar focusing on representations of physics specifically in contemporary fiction. In a rare setting with students from both the English and the Physics departments, we will read at least one full science novel and several other science-related shorter texts (poems, short stories, etc.). We want to approach questions such as: How much science is contained in these texts and how is it incorporated? How relevant is it for the text? Is the representation correct or plausible? What is the underlying scientific context, and how does it relate to society or politics-related discussions? How do these writings contribute to the 'two cultures' debate, or even the so-called 'science wars'? And how can physicists and literary scholars, or future teachers of either discipline, profit from such a reading? This time, our focus will be on the topic of space and specifically the ISS programme.

Please, buy and read the following novel and short story anthology:

  • Harvey, Samantha. Orbital. London: Vermilion, 2024. [ISBN: 978-1-5299-2293-6; also available via Bueltmann & Gerriets]
  • Page, Ra, ed. Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science Manchester: Comma Press, 2011. [ISBN: 978-1-905583-33-1 ; also available via Bueltmann & Gerriets]

In addition, we will read several ISS poems.

PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of these primary sources. All of the above can be obtained at our local book shop, Bültmann & Gerriets. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.


Online Session: 16 April

  • Introduction to physics & fiction and look ahead at the focus topic on astrophysics, space exploration and the International Space Station

Online Session: 23 April

  • Reading and discussion: Short Story 1
  • Context: Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, "The Scientist as 'Problematic Individual' in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction" (2016)

Online Session: 30 April

  • Reading and discussion: Short Story 2
  • Context: Kanta Dihal, "New Science, New Stories" (2017); and Dirk Vanderbeke, "Physics" (2021)

Online Session: 7 May

  • Reading and discussion: Short Story 3
  • Contexts: Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022); and Giovanni Vignale, "Physics and Fiction" (2022)

Reading Week: 15 May

  • read and prepare Orbital

Online Session: 21 May

  • Reading and discussion: Orbital as narrative fiction

Online or In-presence Session: 28 May

  • Input presentations

Online Session: 4 June

  • Reading and discussion: tba

Online Session: 11 June

  • Reading and discussion: tba

Online Session: 18 June

  • Reading and discussion: tba

Online or In-presence Session: 25 June

  • Input presentations

Online Session: 02 July

  • Reading and discussion: tba
  • Course Evaluation

Online Session: 9 July

  • discussion of lit/cult research papers
  • Feeback on course evaluation
  [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2023]

Tools

Primary Reading

  • see above

Further Reading

See also Stud.IP/files

  • Cain, Sarah. "The Metaphorical Field: Post-Newtonian Physics and Modernist Literature." The Cambridge Quarterly ; 1999; 28(1) 46-64.
  • Dihal, Kanta. "New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction." pp. 55-74 IN: Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.*Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (London); 2019.
  • Kirchhofer, Anton, and Natalie Roxburgh. "The Scientist as 'Problematic Individual' in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 64.2 (June 2016): 149-168.
  • Leane, Elizabeth. "Knowing Quanta: The Ambiguous Metaphors of Popular Physics." The Review of English Studies ; 2001 Aug; 52(207) 411-31.
  • Oppermann, Serpil. "Quantum Physics and Literature: How They Meet the Universe Halfway." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie ; 2015; 133(1) 87-104.
  • Vanderbeke, Dirk. "Physics." pp. 192-202 IN: Clarke, Bruce(ed.); Rossini, Manuela(ed.) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. London, England: Routledge; 2011. xviii, 550
  • Snow, C.P. Two Cultures
  • Schaffeld, ZAA
  • Haynes
  • Narrative Turn in Science
  • Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022)
  • Westfahl, Gary. Islands in the Sky
  • Vignale, Giovanni. IN: Heydenreich , Aura; Mecke, Klaus; Physics and Literature: Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization. Berlin, Germany ; De Gruyter; 2021.pp. 139-146.

Science reading

Links

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