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This unit consists of the following segments: A. Advanced Language Tuition B. Writing of a long essay of 12000-15000 words to be researched and written over the whole year. A supervisor will be appointed. C. Advanced seminars of which students are required to take two per semester. The seminars offered in 2009 are:
1. Women and Female Figures in German Literature from the Enlightenment to Romanticism Dr Yixu Lu, Offered: Semester 1, Classes: 2 hours per week In the 18th century the European Enlightenment was deeply concerned with the question as to the nature of middle-class individuality. This necessarily led to further questions as to a specifically female identity. Does one even exist? This unit of study sets out to answer such questions in their historical and literary contexts. Its point of departure is an introduction into the theories of the most prominent thinkers of that age as to what is uniquely feminine. It goes on to look at works of literature by female and male writers which depict female characters and analyse the relations between gender roles. Finally the practical aspects of women's enlightenment will be examined using texts of the time aimed at an audience of male educators or female pupils. In this way the course offers insights into the cultural history of female role models and offers a grounding in the culture of sentiment of that age which has left its traces on contemporary psychology. Textbooks Gotthold Ephraïm Lessing: Miß Sara Sampson, Reclam, UB: 16 Sophie von La Roche: Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim, Reclam, UB: 7934 Friedrich Schlegel: Lucinde. Studienausgabe. Krit. hrsg., Bibl. u. Nachw.: Polheim, Karl Konrad. Reclam, UB: 320 Heinrich von Kleist: Penthesilea. Reclam. UB: 1305
2. Film Adaptations of German Language Literature Dr Andrea Bandhauer, Offered: Semester 1, Classes: 2 hours per week The adaptation of a literary text into a film involves a great amount of complex translations. In multi-layered processes, the literary text will have to be translated into a visual performance, a process which will inevitably change the structure of the narrative. Directors and also actors will be translating into performance a written script which in fact is itself an adaptation of the literary source. In this sense an adaptation is not only an interpretation of the literary source but also an artwork in itself. There is - one could argue - no original text but both original and adaptation are intertexts. In this seminar, we will look at the adaptation of novellas and novels written in the early twentieth century by international filmmakers of different periods and nationalities. The course offers insight into aspects of form, history as well as into intercultural aspects of adaptation. Textbooks Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat oder das Ende eines Tyrannen. rororo Taschenbücher, Nr. 35. Rowohlt, 2005. Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig. Fischer (Tb), Frankfurt 1992. Arthur Schnitzler, Die Traumnovelle. Reclam, 2006. Films Sternberg, Der Blaue Engel (1930) Visconti, Death in Venice / Morte a Venezia (1971) Fassbinder, Lola (1981) Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 3. German Linguistics Dr Jäger, Offered: Semester 2, Classes: 2 hours per week, Assessment: 4000 word essay, class presentation(s). After an introduction to the essential elements of German linguistics this seminar will investigate the German language in its historical, regional, and sociological dimensions and how these aspects impact on standard "High German". Textbooks: Bußmann, Hadumod: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft, 3., aktual. und erweiterte Auflage (Kröners Taschenausgaben) Schmidt, Wilhelm, et al: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Ein Lehrbuch für das germanistische Studium (Hirzel)
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Lectures, Seminars
Coursework (involves language assignments, class presentation(s) three 5000 word essays including two written in German, 40%); 12000 - 15000 word thesis (60%).
A major in German with a Credit average in 48 Senior credit points of German including 12 credit points of special honours entry units (2680 level)
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