Anotace
LECTURE SYLLABUS – WINTER SEMESTER
1. (2 Oct) Introduction – current concepts of literature – literary canon
2. (9 Oct) Figurative Language I – Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche – introduction to figurative language – definitions – implicit and explicit metaphor – set metaphors, metaphor and cliché – subtypes of metonymy
3. (16 Oct) Figurative Language II – Irony – verbal and dramatic irony – Socratic and Romantic irony – the intertextual nature of irony – irony & authorial/interpretative strategies
4. (23 Oct) Metre and Rhythm – metre vs. rhythm – metric feet, measure – metrical systems – free verse – uses of metre
5. (30 Oct) Sound Patterning and Rhyme – alliteration, assonance, consonance – end rhyme, internal rhyme, near rhyme, eye-rhyme – masculine and feminine rhyme – basic rhyme patterns – uses and functions of sound patterning
6. (6 Nov) Verse Form I – terza rima – four-line stanzas (in heroic poetry, hymns, ballads) – sonnet
7. (13 Nov) Verse Form II – villanelle – sestina – rhyme royal, ottava rima, Spenserian stanza
8. (20 Nov) Drama and Theatre I – literary vs. dramatic text – drama in performance – theatrical styles and modes
9. (27 Nov) Drama and Theatre II – history of staging conventions: Greek theatre, Elizabethan theatre, Restoration era theatre, Victorian melodrama, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, contemporary Western theatre
10. (4 Dec) Genre – criteria of classification – classification on the basis of formal arrangement – classification on the basis of theme – function and use of genre, genre expectations Mid-term essay due this week.
11. (11 Dec) Intertextuality, Allusion, Metatextuality – allusions and meaning – the intertextual nature of meaning 18 Dec, 8 Jan – reserve RECOMMENDED READING: Montgomery, M., et al., Ways of Reading (London: Routledge,
1992). Green, K. and LeBihan, J., Critical Theory and Practice (London: Routledge,
1996). Aristotle, Poetics (any edition). Hobsbaum, P., Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form (Abingdon: Routledge,
1996). Fludernik, M., An Introduction to Narratology (Abingdon: Routledge,
2009). Pavis, P., Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1998). Cuddon, A.J., The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (London: Penguin,
1992). Preminger, A. and Brogan, T.V.F., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993). ASSESSMENT Double-subject Students WS (zápočet): Attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences) and active participation in class, mid-term essay: interpretation of poetry (1 500 words). SS (zápočet): Attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences) and active participation in class, mid-term essay: narrative analysis (1 500 words). Criteria of Assessment: All assignments will be awarded a letter grade. Credit (zápočet) for each semester will be given on the basis of receiving a pass grade (i.e., A to C-) for both essay and participation. Single-subject Students: WS (zápočet): Attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences) and active participation in class, mid-term essay: interpretation of poetry (1 500 words), final test on poetics and genre definitions. SS (zápočet, zkouška): Attendance (max. 2 unexplained absences) and active participation in class, mid-term essay: narrative analysis (1 500 words), final test on narrative strategies and approaches to text (literary theories). Criteria of Assessment: All assignments will be awarded a letter grade. Credit (zápočet) for each semester will be given on the basis of receiving a pass grade (i.e., A to C-) for essay, test and participation each. The final exam grade (after the summer semester) will be calculated from the results in the individual assignments in the following manner: Composition of Final Exam Grade Participation winter semester 10% Participation summer semester 10% Essay winter semester 25% Essay summer semester 25% Test winter semester 15% Test summer semester 15% Value of Individual Letter Grades Awarded for Assignments 10% 15% 25% A 10 15 25 A- 9
13.5
22.5 B
8.5
12.75
21.25 B- 8 12 20 C
7.5
11.25
18.75 C- 7
10.5
17.5 Conversion of Grades to a Final FFUK Exam Grade FFUK Grade Letter Grade Percent (%) Generally Accepted Meaning 1 A 96-100 Outstanding work A- 90-95 2 B 85-89 Good work, above average B- 80-84 3 C 75-79 Acceptable work C- 70-74 F F 0-69 Work that does not meet minimum standards for passing the course Example: A student’s performance has been graded as follows: Participation winter semester A- = 9 Participation summer semester B =
8.5 Essay winter semester A- =
22.5 Essay summer semester C =
18.75 Test winter semester C =
11.25 Test summer semester B =
12.75 The final exam grade is 2 (B-) =
82.75% For details of Ondřej Pilný's seminar, please go to the Moodle course site at https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1113. For details of Daniela Theinová's seminar please go to the Moodle course site at https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=6383. For details of Clare Wallace's seminar, please go to the Moodle course site at https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=1115.