Anotace
THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS. If you are a foreign student and you need a grade for this course, you should sign up for this code.
Based on some 20+ works published since 2015, the course will explore 8 contemporary independent publishers/presses that have worked, over the past 5 years, outside of the mainstream as defined by the Anglo-American publishing industry, publishing radical, experimental, or otherwise “unusual ” fiction.
The goal of the course will be not only to cover and evaluate what is currently “out there,” but to produce hands-on critical research on the contemporary publishing scene: reviewing books, interviewing authors/publishers, writing critical pieces on the publishing plan, presentation & “poetics” of selected houses, etc. Final research papers will be framed with view towards its publication online and elsewhere. Work in the seminar includes 3 short reviews on individual novels & 1 longer concluding presentation, covering a selected press, at the final roundtable discussion in January.
The 8 publishers covered include 11:11 Press, Anti-Oedipus Press, Calamari Press, Equus Press, Expat Press, Inside the Castle, Orbis Tertius Press, and Sublunary Editions.
MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1184
