Heute geht der ganze Zirkus also mal wieder von vorne los - jetzt bin ich schon ein Jahr Studentin! Unglaublich, wie schnell doch die Zeit vergeht... Der erste Tag geht um Punkt 10 los, komischerweise. Warum ich dann schon wach bin? Tja, mein Freund ist ja Französischstudent, und als solcher gilt für die Anmeldung: Wer früh im Raum ist und einen Sitzplatz findet hat erhöhte Chancen, am Seminar teilnehmen zu können, statt wieder gehen zu müssen. Also sind wir schon um 6 aufgestanden, weil das Seminar um 8:15 beginnt... Wäh, ich bin sooo müde.
Von 10 bis 11:30 sitz ich in einem Seminar zum Thema "Victorian Theatre and Drama", weil ich das für meinen Arbeitgeber-Professor mitbetreue. Heißt, ich kümmere mich um Beschaffung der Primärliteratur, Anwesenheitslisten, Sekundärliteraturlisten und Hausarbeiten. Das wird also erstmal ganz entspannt hoffe ich. Von 12:15 bis 13:45 höre ich dann "Theorien des Witzes und der Komik von Aristoteles bis Bachtin" - bin ja mal gespannt ob die Vorlesung so unterhaltsam ist wie der Name. Danach geht's weiter mit dem ersten Proseminar in Englisch: "Regional and Social Varieties of American English" von 14:15 bis 15:45. Danach folgt unmittelbar das zweite, "Restoration Drama", von 16:15 bis 17:45. Als Letztes für heute höre ich dann eine Ringvorlesung über "Sprache, Literatur, Kultur" von 18:00 bis 19:00 Uhr. Alles in allem ein langer und sicherlich anstrengender Tag.
Dafür sollten die nächsten Tage entspannter werden, davon aber später mehr.
Classes start today! (again)
Today, it all starts again. That means, I have actually been a student for a whole year now. It's awful how quickly time seems to go by! My first seminar starts at 10 (which is weird, because usually classes are labelled 10-12, but actually start and end cum tempore (with time), which means they e.g. start at 10:15 and end at 11:45.) Why the h*ll am I awake then? Well, as my boyfriend studies French, he needs to be early early at every new class in order to find a seat, which increases your chances of getting in, as many students are sent away when there are too many of them. Sounds like the middle ages, huh? Anyways, that's why we got up at six this morning, yikes! I'm so tired...
My first seminar, as I said, starts at 10. It's called "Victorian Theatre and Drama". I'm not actually attending the course, I just need to be there as my boss runs it and I am the one to collect attendance sheets, make lists with secondary literature and correct tests and term papers for him. Fun, fun. After that, I'm hearing a lecture in German from 12:15 to 1:45: "Theories of jokes and comedy from Aristotle to Bachtin" (whoever Bachtin is). I hope it's as funny as it sounds. If not, I'm doomed, as I can't really afford to drop any courses. Next, I have a seminar called "Regional and Social Varieties of American English" (2:15 to 3:45), which should be very interesting. After that I still have another seminar: "Restoration Drama" (4:15 to 5:45). We were supposed to read two Restoration comedies in advance (Etherege's The Man of Mode and Wycherley's The Country Wife), which were partly okay and partly even fun to read. Last, I'll hear another German lecture, this time on "Language, Literature, and Culture", from 6 to 7. All in all, it's gonna be a pretty long and exhausting day.
At least, I expect all the other days of the week to be much better, but more of that later!
Montag, 20. Oktober 2008
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I believe Bakhtin was this Russian guy. If he's the one I'm thinking of, he wrote some fun stuff on intertextuality. I think he was the guy who wrote about texts being poly-insert_greek/latin_root-ic (his own neologism), that is, containing multiple stories or having the voices of multiple people & ideas running through them. Or at least, that's how I remember it (again, if I'm thinking of the right guy). One thing we read about around the same time during that course (may or may not have been Bakhtin) was how different Russian writers, who probably never read each other's works, wrote similarly funny and satirical stuff (often in secret) during the reign of Stalin. Their critique took on similar stylistic forms because they were drawing from the same folk tradition. Fun stuff :)
Woohoo! My memory doesn't fail me. I just checked the introduction to The Master and Margarita and it says, "Behind such specific 'influences' stands the age-old tradition of folk humour with its carnivalized world-view, its reversals and dethronings, its relativizing of worldy absolutes--a tradition that was the subject of a monumental study by Bulgakov's countryman and contemporary Mikhail Bakhtin. [...]" There's more fun stuff on the role of humor and carnival laughter and carnival reversals in terrifying and violent political situations...
Sorry to be a know-it-all, it's just that I have some serious procrastinating to do, so looking things up was fun...
PS--ok, now that you've brought me back to The Master and Margarita, which gave me all sorts of warm fuzzies, I got to thinking about Restoration drama. I personally don't remember much, (it was my first year of college--7 years ago), except that I really loved Beggar's Opera.
Okay, now back to my academic life, which involves writing a paper on whether crimes of omission should exist and how they should be dealt with. Sigh...
The lecture turned out to be as dry and boring as dry and boring can be... Too bad, but still thanks for sharing. :) I had no idea who he is and intertextuality sure is interesting stuff. Once you heard about it, it is everywhere! ;)
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