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Úvod do literárních studií

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Sylabus

LECTURE

1. Introduction - current concepts of literature - M.H. Abrams's diagram of approaches to literature I

2. Figurative Language I - Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche

3. Figurative Language II - Irony - verbal / dramatic / situational irony - intertextual irony - irony & authorial / interpretative strategies

4. Other Basic Concepts of Poetics - rhythm and metre - sound patterning, incl. rhyme

5. Genre - criteria of classification - classification on the basis of formal arrangement / theme or topic - function and use of genre

6. Narrative - story and narrative - narrative techniques / modes - meta-textual features of texts

7. Typology of Literary Theories - M.H. Abrams's diagram II - examples of literary theories - their advantages and limitations

8. Representation - mimesis: Plato, Aristotle - literature as representation of reality in language - literature in communication - types of representation according to semiologists (icon - index - symbol)

9. Author. Authorial Intention. Reader - author vs. narrator, authorial intention - New Criticism (the intentional fallacy) - "death of the author" (Barthes, Foucault) - death of the author = birth of the reader? - subjectivity vs. the model / ideal / informed reader - general features of the reading process

10. Signs & Structure - I - basic features of the structuralist approach (Saussure, Lévi-Strauss)

11. Signs & Structure - II - semiotics - post-structuralist critique of structuralism (Barthes, Derrida) SEMINAR Pilný:

1. Introductory

2. Poetics - I: Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche R: William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 60"; Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"

3. Poetics - II: Irony R: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal; William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 130"

4. Poetics - III: Metre, Rhyme, Verse R: John Donne, "Holy Sonnet No. 10"; William Blake, "The Clod and the Pebble"; Paul Muldoon, "The Coney"

5. Genre, Genre Expectations R: Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves"

6. Narrative Strategies/ Figurative Language - I R: James Joyce, "The Sisters"

7. Narrative Strategies/ Figurative Language - II R: Samuel Beckett, "First Love"

8. Representation and Narrative Perspective R: D.H. Lawrence, "The Prussian Officer"

9. Representation and Narrative Perspective/ Discourses of Power R: Michael Ondaatje, "Don't Talk to Me about Matisse" (from Running in the Family)

10. Author and Intention R: Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven", "The Philosophy of Composition"

11. Author and Reader R: Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Vol. I, Ch. 1-14 Wallace:

1. Introduction, Course outline and requirements

2. Narrative: Theories of narrative structure; plots and stories

3. Narrative: Point of view and character

4. Narrative: Point of view and character

5. Narrative: Genre

6. Irony, Satire, Allegory

7. Poetry: Poetic form, rhyme and meter

8. Poetry: Poetic language and devices

9. Poetry: Poetic language and devices

10. Drama: Genre

11. Drama: Dramatic structure, naturalism, social messages

12. Test List of texts for discussion throughout the semester-readings will be announced in class from week to week: Auden, W.H. "If I Could Tell You" Austen, Jane Emma (page

1) Bunyan, John Pilgrim's Progress (extract to be specified) Donne, John "The Flea" Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House Joyce, James "The Sisters" Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (page

1) Lavin, Mary "A Story with a Pattern" Orwell, George Animal Farm (Chapter

1) Plath, Sylvia "Metaphors" Roth, Philip Portnoy's Complaint (page

1) Shakespeare, William Hamlet (extracts to be specified) Shakespeare, William selected sonnets Shandy, Tristram (Vol. 1 Chapters 1-14) Shelley, PB "Ozymandias" Stoker, Bram Dracula (Chapters 1-3) Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (extracts to be specified) Swift, Jonathan "A Modest Proposal," Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels (Chapters 1, 4-6) Wordsworth, William "The Daffodils"

Anotace

přednáška:

Kurs je úvodem do základní terminologie poetiky a literární vědy, zabývá se různými přístupy ke čtení a interpretaci a seznamuje studenty s oblastí literárních studií. seminář:

Hlavním cílem semináře je rozvíjet schopnost kritické četby a interpretace. Studenti v semináři praktikují teoretické znalosti získané v přednášce Úvodu do literárních studií a debatují o základních pojmech literární vědy. Seminář se též zaměřuje na praktické procvičování základních znalostí poetiky. Nácvik techniky psaní akademických prací probíhá formou zadaného písemného projektu.

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