Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...

CULTURAL STUDIES (GB)
Vorlesung
050 660 Pankratz
Renaissance Culture, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. di 14-16 HNC 30
Still today, the English Renaissance is deeply embedded in the cultural memory:
Henry VIII and his wives, Shakespeare in and out of love and Cate Blanchett in a
white nightgown fighting the Spanish Armada. The aim of the lecture course is to put
all these glamorous images connected with 16th-century England between the reigns
of Henry VII and James I into the broader framework of the European Renaissance,
i.e. the rediscovery of classical antiquity and the beginning of the modern world. It will
look at the changes in the world picture, the Reformation and its consequences, the
system of Tudor foreign and domestic politics, Elizabethan court culture, the
beginnings of capitalism, colonialism and individualism. Last but not least, the lecture
course will focus on the flourishing Renaissance literature: from the sonnet and epics
to the plays written for the newly established professional theatres.
Requirement for credit points: regular attendance, written test at the end of the
semester.
Seminare
050 661 Berg
Liverpool, 4 CP
2 st. fr 10-12 GB 03/46
In this course, we try to come to terms with the ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities and the
social sciences. Popularised by the American geographer Edward Soja, the spatial
turn stands for the assumption that space and place are as important as time and
history when we explain social and cultural phenomena. Liverpool is a suitable object
for thinking about space. On the one hand, people in Britain emphasise Liverpool’s
‘exceptionalism’ and call the city ‘the capital of itself’. It definitely has a very specific