PORDZIK – Magister und Staatsexamen anglistische Kultur

PORDZIK – Magister und Staatsexamen anglistische Kultur

PORDZIK – Magister (HF, NF) und Staatsexamen anglistische Kulturund Literaturwissenschaft (HF, NF) – Prüfungsthemen
Studierende sollten Ihre zwei (GHR) bzw. drei erforderlichen Schwerpunkte (GYM/Mag.) auf die nachfolgend aufgelisteten Themen legen. In
den gewählten Prüfungsgebieten muss eine Auswahl der nachstehenden
Werke behandelt werden (Faustregel: vier Romane und Dramen, ca. 15
Gedichte pro Schwerpunkt). Gründliche methodische Kenntnisse der Literaturwissenschaften (Lyrik, Narrativik, Drama) werden erwartet!
Literary Studies:
1. The English sonnet: any selection of sonnets written in GB since the mid-16th century (full reader available!); Thomas Wyatt, “Some fowls there be”; Edmund Spenser,
“Ye tradefull merchants”; Shakespeare, “Shall I compare thee”; Thomas Bastard, “Our
fathers”; John Milton, “On his Blindness”; Philip Sidney, “Loving in truth, and fain
my verse to show”; John Donne, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”, Show me
dear Christ, thy spouse”; William Wordsworth, “The world is with us”, “London,
1802”; Percy B. Shelley, “Lift not the painted veil”; John Clare, “I am”; John Keats,
“On first looking into Chapman‟s Homer”, “To Solitude”; Elizabeth Hands, “On an
unsociable Family”; Gerald M. Hopkins, “Thou art indeed just, Lord”, “To seem the
stranger”; Robert Browning, “Why I am a Liberal”; Christina Rosetti, “Remember”,
“After Death”; Geoffrey Hill, “Lachrimae Amantis”; Fleur Adcock, “Dreaming”.
2. William Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for
Measure, Cymbeline, King Lear, Othello (order according to selected topic).
3. Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne, “The Flea”, “The Good-Morrow”, “The Sun Rising”, “The Canonization”, “Air and Angels”, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”,
“Anatomy of the World”; Andrew Marvell, “On a drop of Dew”, “The Coronet”, “To his
Coy Mistress”; Robert Southwell: “The Burning Babe”; Thomas Bastard, “Our Fathers”; George Herbert, “The Agonie”, “The Collar”.
4. Romantic Poetry: William Blake, “Introduction (to The Songs of Innocence)”, “The
Divine Image”, “The Little Black Boy”, “The Human Abstract”, “The Tyger”, “The
Chimney Sweeper”, “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”; William Wordsworth, “The
Leech-Gatherer”, “Tintern Abbey”, “Simplon Pass”, “The world is with us, late and
soon”; “Great men have been among us”; Samuel T. Coleridge, “The Ancient Mariner”, “Frost at Midnight”, “Dejection: an Ode”; John Clare, “I feel I am”, “The Ants”;
John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Solitude”, “On first looking into Chapman‟s
Homer”; Lord Byron, (extracts from) Don Juan, “Darkness”; some Romantic Women
Poets.
5. Victorian Poetry: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Kraken”, “The Lotos-Eaters”, “The
Lady of Shalott”, “Ulysses”, “Armageddon”, “Tithonus”, In Memoriam (extracts);
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”, “The Buried Life”; Robert Browning, “Love among
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the Ruins”; Rudyard Kipling, “The Female of the Species”, Coventry Patmore,
“Woman”; George Meredith, “Modern Love” (extracts); Christina Rosetti, “After
Death”, “Remember Me”, “My Dream”; Dante G. Rosetti, “Lilith”, “Found”; James
Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night.”
6. The Victorian Novel / Fictions of Empire: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey;
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford; George Eliot, Middlemarch, Emily Brontë, Wuthering
Heights; Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure; George Gissing,
The Odd Women, The Nether World, New Grub Street, Born in Exile; Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness; James Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner; H. G.
Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau.
7. Gothic Fiction: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Last Man; Matthew Lewis, The
Monk; Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey; Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini‟s Daughter”, “Earth‟s Holocaust”; The Marble Faun; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Bram
Stoker, Dracula; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman.
8. Fin de Siècle – English Literature of the 1890s: Walter Pater, “Preface” and “Conclusion” to The Renaissance; Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”, “The Buried Life”;
Christina Rosetti, “Goblin Market”, “After Death”, “Remember”; Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”, “The Lady of Shalott”; Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”, “Love
among the Ruins”; Henry James, “The Jolly Corner”; William Morris, News from
Nowhere; Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure; George Gissing, The Odd Women, New
Grub Street; Bram Stoker, Dracula; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, War of the
Worlds; art & painting, e. g. Aubrey Beardsley.
9. Modernism, Poetry, Drama & Fiction: T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”, “Gerontion”, “Hysteria”, “Burbank with a Baedeker”, “Whispers of Immortality”, “The Hippopotamus”, “The Waste Land”, “East Coker”; Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party; Ezra Pound: “The Seafarer”, ”Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”,
“Portrait d‟une femme”; T. E. Hulme, “Autumn”, “Above the Dock”, “Images”; Joseph
Conrad, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness; Ford Madox Ford, The Last Parade; James
Joyce, from: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; E. M. Forster, Where
Angels Fear to Tread, A Passage to India; Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”,
“The Jolly Corner”, “The Turn of the Screw”, Daisy Miller; D. H. Lawrence, “England,
My England”, Women in Love, Apocalypse, The Plumed Serpent; Djuna Barnes,
Nightwood; George Orwell, Burmese Days.
10. Twentieth Century Drama: T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail
Party; Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame; John Osborne, Look back in
Anger, Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey; Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party; Edward Bond, Lear; Tom Stoppard, Travesties.
11. Contemporary British Poetry: Geoffrey Hill, “Genesis”, September Song”, “Ovid
in the Third Reich”, “Two formal Elegies for the Jews in Europe”; “Four poems regarding the endurance of poets”; Sylvia Plath, “The Colossus”, “Lady Lazarus”, “Tulips”, “Dark House”, “The Colossus”; Thom Gunn, “A Mirror for Poets”, Ted Hughes,
“Hawk Roosting”, “A Woman Unconscious”; Philip Larkin, “High Windows”, “Homage to a Government”, “Absences”; Fleur Adcock, “Miss Hamilton in London”,
“Against Coupling”; James Fenton, “God, a Poem”, “A German Requiem”.
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12. Apocalyptic Writing: The Revelation of St. John the Divine; William Blake, “The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, Europe: A Prophecy, America: A Prophecy; Lord
Byron, “Darkness”; Robert Browning, “Love among the Ruins”; Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Armageddon”; James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”; Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth‟s Holocaust”; E. M. Forster, “The Machine Stops”; D. H. Lawrence,
Apocalypse; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence; Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake; Mike Nicol, Horseman; J. G. Ballard, Crash.
13. The University Novel: Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe; David Lodge,
Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work; Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is
Wrong, The History Man, Rates of Exchange.
14. British Short Stories: Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway”; E. M. Forster, “Story of a
Panic”, “The Machine Stops”; Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”, “The Jolly
Corner”, “The Turn of the Screw”; George Egerton, “A Lost Masterpiece”; James
Joyce, “The Sisters”, “Eveline”, “The Dead”; D. H. Lawrence, “England, my England”,
“Things”; “Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer”; Hanif Kureishi, “Touched”, “The
Body”; Martin Amis, “The Immortal”; Peter Carey, “The Chance”; Peter Wilhelm,
“Space Invaders”.
15. British Utopian and Science Fiction Writing: Thomas More, Utopia; Francis
Bacon, New Atlantis; Henry Neville, Isle of Pines; Margaret Cavendish, The BlazingWorld; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, A Modern Utopia; Samuel Butler, Erewhon;
E. M. Forster, “The Machine Stops”; Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; John
Gray, Park: a Fantastic Story; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ape and Essence;
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx
and Crake; J. G. Ballard, Crash; Philip K. Dick, Ubik; William Gibson, Neuromancer.
16. The ‘Other’ in English Literature / (post)colonial writing: Sir Walter Raleigh,
“The Discovery of Guiana”, William Shakespeare, The Tempest; Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Alexander Kinglake, Eothen or, Traces of Travel brought home from
the East; Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album, Intimacy,
Gabriel’s Gift, “Touched”, “The Body”; George Orwell, Burmese Days; Ben Okri, The
Famished Road, Astonishing the Gods; Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; Nadine
Gordimer, July’s People; Peter Carey, Bliss, The Fat Man in History, The Unusual
Life of Tristan Smith; Janet Frame, Intensive Care, Living in the Maniototo; J. M.
Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Youth;
Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome.
17. Literary theory: Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism; I. A. Richards, Principles of
Literary Criticism; Roman Jakobson, Linguistik und Poetik; Jacques Derrida, “Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences”, Grammatology; Jacques
Lacan, “The mirror stage as formative of the function of the „I‟ as revealed in psychoanalytic theory”, “The instance of the letter in the unconscious”; The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis; Antony Easthope, Poetry as Discourse, Poetry
and Phantasy; Roland Barthes, “The death of the author”; Michel Foucault, “What is
an author?”; Julia Kristeva, “Word, Dialogue and Novel”; David Lodge, “Metaphor
and Metonymy”; Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious; H. Aram Veeser (ed.),
The New Historicism; Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations; Jonathan
Dollimore & Alan Sinfield (eds.), Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism; Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism.
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18. Literature and Death: Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”, “Beyond the
Pleasure Principle”; Christina Rosetti, “After Death”, “Remember”, “Song”; James
Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; T. S. Eliot,
“The Waste Land”; William Gibson, Neuromancer; Philip Larkin, “Absences”, “Ambulances”; James Ballard, Crash; Dean MacCannell, “Cannibalism Today”; Michel
Foucault, “The death of the author”.
19. Magic and Insanity in English Literature: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; William Shakespeare, Hamlet; the poet Thomas Chatterton; Ernest Dowson, “To
one in Bedlam”, “A Last Word”; Henry James, “The Jolly Corner”; Sylvia Plath, poems
from Ariel; James G. Ballard, Crash.
20. The Bible and/as English Literature: OT/AT: “Jonah”, “The Gospel of Mark“,
The Revelation of St. John”; Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; William Blake,
“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, Songs of Innocence and Experience; D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse; T. S. Eliot, “Journey of the Magi”; Ted Hughes, extracts from
Crow; Geoffrey Hill, “Genesis”.
Cultural Studies (Literary Studies):
21. Science and Literature: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Ben Jonson, The
Alchemist; John Donne, “Anatomy of the World”, Margaret Cavendish, The BlazingWorld, Alexander Pope, “Essay on Man”; F. R. Leavis, “Two Cultures? The Significance of Lord Snow”; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; Thomas Pynchon, The Crying
of Lot 49; William Gibson, Neuromancer; Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake.
22. The Making of English Literature: Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism”; William Wordsworth, “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”; Matthew Arnold, “The Function of
Criticism at the Present Time”; T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet and his Problems”, Tradition and
the Individual Talent”; F. R. Leavis, “The Idea of a University”, “Literary Studies”;
Terry Eagleton, “The Rise of English”, “Ideology and Literary Form”; extracts from
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780–1950; extracts from Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism.
23. Britain under Thatcher and Blair: Eric Evans, Thatcher and Thatcherism; David
Lodge, Nice Work; Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Black Album; Martin Amis, Money, London Fields; Pop lyrics by Martin Frye (ABC): “Valentine‟s day”,
“Date Stamp”; Billy Bragg, “Tank Park Salute”, “The Few”; poetry: S. E. G. Curtis,
“The Adrian Mitchell Kits”, “Colleague”, “August 1983”.
24. Literature and ‘Otherness’ / Colonial and Postcolonial Literature(s): Walter Raleigh, “The Discovery of Guiana”, William Shakespeare, The Tempest; Daniel
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Alexander Kinglake, Eothen or, Traces of Travel brought
home from the East; George Orwell, Burmese Days; Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of
Suburbia, The Black Album, Intimacy, Gabriel’s Gift, “Touched”, “The Body”; Ben
Okri, The Famished Road, Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; Nadine Gordimer,
July’s People; Peter Carey; Bliss, The Fat Man in History; The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith; Janet Frame, Intensive Care, Living in the Maniototo; J. M. Coetzee, Life
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and Times of Michael K, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Youth; Mike Nicol, This
Day and Age.
25. Travel Writing and Tourism: Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Discovery of Guiana”, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Frances Trollope,
Domestic Manners of the American; William Cobbett, Rural Rides; George H. Borrow, Lavengro, The Bible in Spain; Alexander Kinglake, Eothen or, Traces of Travel
brought home from the East; Robert C. Grahame, Mogreb-el-Acksa; Mary Kingsley,
Travels in West Africa; George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft; E. M.
Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room with a View; D. H. Lawrence, Travels in
Italy; Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Songlines; Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky; secondary sources: Ralph Pordzik, The Wonder of Travel: Fiction, Tourism and the Social Construction of the Nostalgic (hier weitere Literaturangaben).
26. Visual Culture: aspects of cultural semiotics and visualisation; the visual according
to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan and the Screen group; central perspective,
vanishing point, anamorphosis; primary material: 16th century painting, selection of
paintings from the 19th century (see “Victorian painting”); selection of 19th century advertisings; a selection of Music Television clips from the 1980s and 1990s; modern
English film; new wave British realism; problems and issues concerning the study of
popular visual and Television culture.
27. Victorian Painting: Augustus Egg, “Past and Present”; Edward Burne-Jones, “Love
among the Ruins”, “The Golden Stair”; Ford Madox Brown, “Work”; John Everett
Millais, “The Boyhood of Raleigh”, “Ophelia”, “Christ in the House of his Parents”;
William Holman Hunt, “Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep)”, “The Hireling Shepherd”, “Light of the World”, “The Awakening Conscience”, “The Lady of Shalott”;
Richard Dadd, “The Fairy-Feller‟s Master-Stroke”; John William Waterhouse, “The
Lady of Shalott”; William Dyce, “Pegwell Bay, Kent”; “The Man of Sorrow”; Aubrey
Beardsley, “The Climax”.
28. Literature of Doubt and Faith: literature: John Milton, “On His Blindness”, John
Donne, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”, “Anatomy of the World”; Christopher
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, “The
Tyger”, “The Little Black Boy”; Samuel Butler, The Way of all Flesh; George Gissing,
Born in Exile; T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”, “East Coker”; paintings: William Holman
Hunt, “Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep)”, “The Hireling Shepherd”, “Light of the
World”, “The Awakening Conscience”.
29. Orientalism: primary literature: Alexander Kinglake, Eothen or, Traces of Travel
brought home from the East; Robert C. Grahame, Mogreb-el-Acksa; paintings by
William Holman Hunt, e. g. “The Scapegoat”, “The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple”, “The Afterglow in Egypt”, “A Street Scene in Cairo”, The Miracle of the Sacred
Fire”; secondary sources: Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient; Ralph Pordzik, The Wonder of Travel: Fiction, Tourism and the Social Construction of the Nostalgic (hier weitere Literaturangaben).
30. Literature and Psychoanalysis: primary literature: William Shakespeare, Hamlet; Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Christina Rosetti, “After Death”, “My Dream”; T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Hysteria”, “The Waste Land”; Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”, “The
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Jolly Corner”; E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread; Aldous Huxley, Brave
New World; George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Sylvia Plath, “Lada Lazarus”, “Tulips”, “The Colossus”, “Dark House”.
Recommended Literature (selected topics):
William Blake: Henry Summerfield, A Guide to the Books of William Blake; Foster S.
Damon, William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols; Kathleen Raine, Blake and Tradition,
vols. 1 & 2; Brenda S. Webster, Blake’s Prophetic Psychology; Harold Bloom, Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument.
The Romantic Age: M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the
Critical Tradition; Aidan Day, Romanticism; Marjorie Levinson, Wordsworth’s Great Period
Poems: Four Essays; Peter Hühn, Geschichte der englischen Lyrik, Bd. 1 & 2.
Victorian Fiction: Robin Gilmour, The Novel in the Victorian Age; George Levine, The
Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley; Michael
Wheeler, English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1830–1890; Ralph Pordzik, Der englische
Roman im 19. Jahrhundert (hier weitere Literaturangaben).
Victorian Poetry: Joseph Bristow (ed.), The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona (1987);
Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993); Carol T. Christ, Victorian and Modern Poetics (1984); G. Kim Blank and Margot K. Louis (eds.), Influence and
Resistance in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (1993); für Fachaufsätze zu den einzelnen
Autorinnen und Autoren siehe das Journal Victorian Poetry.
Utopian, Science Fiction and Apocalyptic Writing: Christopher Kendrick, Utopia,
Carnival and Commonwealth in Renaissance England; Fredric Jameson, “Progress versus
Utopia; or, can we imagine the Future?”, in: Science-Fiction Studies 9.2 (1982) 147–58;
Ralph Pordzik, “Gelebte Zukunft: Aldous Huxley, Marge Piercy und die Ambiguisierung der
positiven Utopie in den USA und in England 1960–1980”, in: Anglistik 11.2 (2000) 74–89,
und “Mapping the Futures. Formen und Funktionen der Metafiktionalität im englischen utopischen Roman”, in: Anglia 118.1 (2000) 41–66; sowie “Die Zukunft als Neurose: ein struktural-psychoanalytischer Versuch zu George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four”, in: Anglistik
17.2 (2006) 151 – 64; ders., The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction
to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures (hier weitere Literaturangaben); Frank
Kermode in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1965); Voraussetzung
für George Orwell: Richard Smyer, Primal Dream and Primal Crime: Orwell’s Development
as a Psychological Novelist (1979).
Death, Magic and Insanity in English Literature: Sigmund Freud, “Das Unheimliche”,
“Psychopathische Personen auf der Bühne”, “Dostojewski und die Vatertötung”, “Der Familienroman der Neurotiker”; Julia Schiesari, The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature; Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture; Louis Sass, Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought; E. Fuller Torrey, Schizophrenia
and Civilization; Barbara T. Gates, Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories; Sarah
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W. Goodwin & Elisabeth Bronfen (eds.), Death and Representation, Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.
Literature, Culture and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, “Das Unheimliche”, “Psychopathische Personen auf der Bühne”, “Der Dichter und das Phantasieren”, “Dostojewski und
die Vatertötung”, “Der Familienroman der Neurotiker”, Totem und Tabu, Das Unbehagen in
der Kultur; Norman Holland, The Dynamics of Literary Response; Elisabeth Bronfen, Over
her dead Body: Death, Femininity, and the Aesthetic, & The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and
its Discontents; Jacques Lacan, Écrits (extracts), The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis; James Mellard, Using Lacan, Reading Fiction; Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy your Symptom!; Ulla Haselstein, Entziffernde Hermeneutik; Antony Easthope, Poetry and Phantasy, &
The Unconscious; Henrike Hölzer, Psychoanalyse und Kino; Brenda S. Webster, Blake’s Prophetic Psychology; Jean-Michel Rabaté, Jacques Lacan and the Subject of Psychoanalysis;
Henk de Berg, Freuds Psychoanalyse in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; Ralph
Pordzik, Begehrte Texte: Literaturwissenschaft als Poetik des Unbewussten (hier weitere Literaturangaben); Samuel Weber, Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (1990).
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