AJ5_SPML Popular and Minority Literatures Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Timetable
Wed 16:20–17:05 učebna 5
Prerequisites
Attending lessons AJ5_PML
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is an introduction to popular literature in English (mostly American). Also, a short introduction to the latest minority literatures in English will be done.
Syllabus
  • October 1: Introduction, study aid; the development of book marketplace October 8: Literature high and low; stereotypes Reader: "The Stereotype" by Germaine Greer October 15: The classic Western novel (Hart, Wister, Grey, Brandt, Stegner, L'Amour) Reader: "The significance of the frontier" by F.J. Turner October 22: The contemporary Western (Jack Schaeffer, Larry McMurtry, Nicholas Evans; Cormac McCarthy) Reader: "About men" by Gretel Ehrlich October 29: Detective stories and novels; the hard boilded school of detective stories (Caine, Gardner, Chandler, Van Dine, Stout, Hammet, Himes, Queen, McBain, Grafton, Lee Burke) Reader: "Svět našich vražd" by Raymond Chandler November 5: Science fiction (E. R. Burroughs, R. Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Le Guin, Silverberg; Bradbury, Vonnegut) Reader: "American SF and the Other"by Ursula Le Guin November 12: Fantasy to cyberpunk (Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Pratchett, Rowling; Michael Crichton, Steven King, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson) Reader: On comics and movies (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, King Kong, Matrix, Star Wars, The Red Dwarf) November 19: Books for women; feminism (Betty McDonald, Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts, Barbara Wood; Kathy Acker, Jeanette Winterson) Reader: "The function of romance reading" by Janice Radway November 26------------- December 3: The end of the empire; postcolonial literature; magic realism Reader: "Who is ethnic?" by Werner Sollors December 10: Postcolonial literature (Rushdi, Kureishi, Mo, Ondaatje, Smith) Reader: "Zadie Smith's White Teeth: Multiculturalism for the Millenium" by Dominic Head; "Muslims in Willesden/White Teeth" by Stephanie Merrit December 17: Ethnic literatures (Native, African, Jewish, Chinese, Spanish. . ..American) Reader :"Kouzlo slova" by John Wideman
Assessment methods (in Czech)
For credits (seminars): attendance, activity: bring books to seminars, be prepared to quote; keep a reader's diary: write down 3 books by each genre at least. For colloquy (lectures): answer the set of questions covering the topics
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006.
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