AJ14067 Walking and Writing in the City

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course, students will be able to understand advanced literary texts and theories, interpret and integrate them in order to form their own argument.
Syllabus
  • MONDAY Morning: Rebecca Solnit: “The Solitary Stroller and the City” from Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) Charles Baudelaire: “To a Woman Passing By” from The Flowers of Evil (1857), “Crowds” from Paris Spleen (1869), and “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863) Afternoon: Samuel Pepys: The Diary (1660-69) (selections) Addison, Steele: The Spectator (1711-12) (selections) TUESDAY Morning Dickens, Charles: Sketches by Boz (1837) (selections) Henry Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor (1861-2) (selections) Afternoon Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Man with the Twisted Lip” (1891) Edgar Allan Poe: “The Man of the Crowd” (1840), “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (1842) WEDNESDAY Morning Graham Russell Hodges: “Taxi!:” A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (2007) (selections) Iva Pekárková, Gimme the Money (2000) (selections) Afternoon: Michel de Certeau: “Walking in the City” from The Practice of Everyday Life (1984) Jim Jarmusch: Night on Earth (1991) (selected scenes) THURSDAY Morning Rebecca Solnit: “Walking After Midnight” from Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) Judith Walkowitz: "Contested Terrain: New Social Actors" from City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (1992) (selections) Afternoon Virginia Woolf: “Street Haunting: A London Adventure” (1927) Janet Wolff: “The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity” from Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture (1990) FRIDAY Morning: Katherine Mansfield: “The Tiredness of Rosabel” (1908) Candace Bushnell: Sex and the City (1997) (selections) Afternoon: Presentations of Final Paper topics
Teaching methods
class discussion, homework will involve reading and writing response papers as well as a final paper (the final paper applies only for finishing with an exam).
Assessment methods
3 written response papers as commentaries on reading, final paper (in order to finish with an exam), participation in class discussions is necessary, attendance is required
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
Note related to how often the course is taught: Intensive Course! The dates for 2013: Feb 11 - Feb 15.
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