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. (25.2) Introduction, Course outline and requirements
2. (4.3) Narrative: Theories of narrative structure; plots and stories
3. (11.3) Narrative: Point of view and character
4. (18.3) Narrative: Point of view and character
5. (25.3) I WILL BE ABSENT
6. (1.4) Narrative: Genre
7. (8.4) Irony, Satire, Allegory
8. (15.4) Poetry: Poetic form, rhyme and meter
9. (22.4) Poetry: Poetic language and devices
10. (29.4) Poetry: Poetic language and devices
11. (6.5) Drama: Genre, Dramatic structure
12. (13.5) Test List of texts for discussion throughout the semester-readings will be announced in class from week to week.
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.