Medienkulturwissenschaft Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis ...

more contemporary authors such as Miranda July or Denis Johnson. The stories will be examined
through narratological and historical approaches.
To receive credits, you will have to either produce a short story or submit a critical interpretation
of a story of your own choice (15-20 pages).
Literatur
A reader with the primary texts will be made available at Copy Man (date t.b.a.), which will also
include exerpts from the accompanying textbook: Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. A
Companion to the American Short Story (2010).
Language Planning and Policy
Proseminar
Dr. Jakob Leimgruper: jakob.leimgruber@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Do. 10:00 bis 12:00, KG I - HS 1139
ECTS: 6
INHALT
This Proseminar looks at the ways in which language is shaped by human intervention. Be it
through corpus planning, the deliberate setting of prescriptive (e.g. grammatical) rules and
language documentation, or through status planning, the (usually legal) promotion of one variety
of speech over another, linguists and politicians have an effect on our use of language. We will
look at example cases from around the world, looking at languages such as English, Mandarin,
Spanish, French, and German, and the way in which they have been influenced by language
planning, as well as how their use has been and is being regulated.
Credit for the course will be gained by an in-class presentation (30%) as well as by an essay of no
more than 3,000 words on a given topic (70%).
The Commerce of Everyday Life – Eighteenth-century Media Cultures
Proseminar
Dr. Stefanie Lethbridge: stefanie.lethbridge@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Di. 10:00 bis 12:00, KG I - HS 1222
ECTS: 6
INHALT
The eighteenth century in Britain saw a significant change and expansion of print culture media.
New readerships included women and the middle and lower classes. This seminar will examine
the development of literature in its expanding and incresingly commercialised media context. We
will focus particularly on the newly developing magazine culture and we will examine how
different market sections were formed and addressed in an expanding public sphere.
Voraussetzungen: Introduction to Cultural Studies
Leistungsnachweis: Regular and active participation, oral presentation, final exam.
Literatur
A reading list and reading material will be available at the beginning of term
The Puritan Origins of American Culture
Proseminar
Dr. Michael Butter: michael.butter@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Di. 16:00 bis 18:00, Bismarckallee 22 - Raum 2
ECTS: 6
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