FF:CJBC823 Fantasy Phenomenon - Course Information
CJBC823 Fantasy Phenomenon - Seminar
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Tereza Dědinová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 12:30–14:05 K32
- Prerequisites
- Students can enroll and graduate the seminar only at the same time with CJBC822 The Phenomenon of Fantastic Literature.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - Course objectives
- The seminar follows the lecture CJBC822 Phenomenon of Fantastic Literature and develops theoretical knowledge by active work with short texts.
Main objectives of the seminary:
recognition of individual sub-genres;
specification and clarification of the term fantastic literature;
understanding of its particularity and footing in a frame of imaginative literature;
analysis of traditional attribution of SF to less serious streams in literature using texts of chosen authors of SF (speculative fiction, so not only science fiction);
At the end of the course students should:
be acquainted within categories of fantastic literature;
understand approaches in analysis of fantastic literature;
manage the basic theoretical background for understanding of those approaches;
interpret fantastic motives in literary work. - Syllabus
- What at all is fantastic literature and what are features?
- Description and differentiation of realistic and fantastic streams in literature, roots of their origin and their blending together.
- Inner-structuring of fantastic literature – traditional (science fiction, fantasy, horror), according to the fictional domain (fictional world), the function of a fantastic element.
- Criteria and pitfalls of such structuring.
- Resources of fantastic literature, its connection to myth.
- Fantastic literature for children and youth (dr. Luisa Nováková)
- Elementary functions of speculative literature, its balance and imbalance in particular pieces of art. Reasons, why authors reach for fantastic motives.
- Role of speculative literature in society.
- Reasons for common attribution of SF into second-rate, escapist literature, elucidation of criteria and prejudices.
- Fantastic and imaginative literature, fantastic literature in postmodern literature.
- Fantastic literature in Czech and world context.
- Literature
- TRAILL, NANCY H. Possible worlds of the fantastic: The Rise of the Paranormal in Fiction. Online. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2011. 228 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-1908-0. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- MACEK, Jakub. Fandom a text (Fandom and Text). Online. Praha: Triton, 2006. 148 pp. Fandom a SF. ISBN 80-7254-856-5. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- LANGER, Aleš. Průvodce paralelními světy. Online. Praha: TRITON, 2006, [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- LANGER, Aleš. Průvodce paralelními světy. Online. Praha: TRITON, 2006, [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- Speculations on speculation : theories of science fiction. Online. Edited by James Gunn - Matthew Candelaria. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2005. xix, 374. ISBN 081084902X. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- HEREC, Ondrej. Fantastika a realizmus. Online. Bratislava: Národné osvetové centrum, 1999, [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- ECO, Umberto. Šest procházek literárními lesy :přednášky na Harvardově univerzitě. Online. Translated by Bronislava Grygová. v Olomouci: Votobia, 1997. 196 s. ISBN 80-7198-248-2. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- Encyklopedie literatury science fiction. Online. Edited by Ondřej Neff - Jaroslav Olša. Jinočany: H & H, 1995. 555 s. ISBN 80-85787-90-3. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- ADAMOVIČ, Ivan. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Online. Edited by Ondřej Neff. Vyd. 1. Praha: R3, 1995. 349 s. ISBN 8085364573. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- KULKA, Tomáš. Umění a kýč. Online. Praha: Torst, 1994. 183 s. ISBN 80-85639-17-3. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- ŠRÁMEK, Jiří. Morfologie fantastické povídky. Online. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993. 136 s. ISBN 8021007001. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- The encyclopedia of science fiction. Online. Edited by John Clute - Peter Nicholls - Brian M. Stableford - John Grant. 1st pub. London: Orbit, 1993. xxxvi, 137. ISBN 1857231244. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- NEFF, Ondřej. Všechno je jinak : (kapitoly o světové science-fiction). Online. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 1986. 412 s. [citováno 2024-04-23] URL info
- NEFF, Ondřej. Něco je jinak : komentáře k české literární fantastice. Online. Edited by Jaroslav Veis. Praha: Albatros, 1981, [citováno 2024-04-23] info
- Vědeckofantastická literatura : srovnávací žánrová studie. Online. Edited by Miroslava Holejšovská-Genčiová. 1. vyd. V Praze: Albatros, 1980. 177 s. [citováno 2024-04-23] URL info
- Teaching methods
- thematic reading (compulsory texts), elaboration of analysis of given text and its written and oral presentation (homework), discussion on topic.
- Assessment methods
- reading of short texts (at disposal in advance), their analysis and presentation of the analysis, active participation on seminary (thematic discussion).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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