ESBA04 Landscape and Environment: Stylistic and Aesthetic Approaches

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Lee, Ph.D. (lecturer), Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D. (deputy)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 C31
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in the humanities
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: 2/15, 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
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The goal of the course will be to introduce students to the phenomenon of landscape and Environment - in the aesthetic and stylistic approaches
Learning outcomes
Main objectives can be summarized as follows: be able to describe in detail the phenomenon of landscape and Environment - in the aesthetic and stylistic approaches, to know the literature, main issues, authors
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. Lenka Lee as a project leader will present the course, the teachers, the syllabus, teaching form, assignment methods;
  • A. Lenka Lee: 2. Village contra City: The stereotyped Views on Urban and Rural Communities The lecture will explore the stereotyped views on the monotonous and repetitive way of everyday life in the rural environment. The lecture will present to what extent the influence of traditions and folklore repetitive patterns is evident at least in certain urban subcultures which can be characterized as “villages inside the cities”.;
  • 3. In the Seclusion near the Forest: Czech Cottagers in the Era of Communism The lecture will expound one of the Czech habits typical for the late communist era in Czechoslovakia - regular weekend stays in nature as a form of the escape from the regime. We will show some works of art (movies, literature) depicting this issue;
  • 4. Wind Turbines: Monsters or Monuments? The sources of green power can also be examined in terms of aesthetics - their monumental look, the position in the environment, analogies to art. The lecture offers a more complex approach to the widely discussed constructions;
  • B. Daniela Francesca Virdis: 5. Environmental stylistics: Theoretical approaches to discourses of nature, the environment and sustainability This lecture will explore the theoretical framework and methodology used to analyse ecological and environmental discourses in contemporary non-literary texts from the disciplinary perspectives of ecostylistics and ecology;
  • 6. Environmental issues in the Victorian era: An ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing use in J. Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884) This lecture will present an ecostylistic analysis of the use of metaphor and framing in two environmental lectures by the Victorian polymath J. Ruskin, particularly the metaphors and frames triggered by the two title words ‘storm’ and ‘cloud’.;
  • 7. Mediterranean landscapes as heritage: An ecostylistic analysis of a Sardinian tourism website This lecture will examine the tourism website SardegnaTurismo, where the landscapes on the Mediterranean island are depicted as essential components of Sardinia’s cultural heritage shaping its ethnic culture and regional identity;
  • C. Jana Pelclová: 8. Linguistic and semiotic landscape in urban space: Constructing collective identities The lecture will discuss theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches to the study of language(s) as well as other semiotic resources that help to construct urban spaces;
  • 9. Creating urban space, shaping the city: Vernacular street signage in our hometowns The lecture will be based on students’ fieldwork and it will focus on various writings, inscriptions, tags, graffiti and other forms of unofficial texts that students will collect in their university town or their hometown. The objective will be to discuss how this street signage participates in creating the landscape scenery in the given city;
  • D. Karel Stibral: 10. History of Aesthetics of Nature: Between rural landscape and wilderness The lecture summarizes the most important features of the history of the aesthetic attitude towards nature within European culture since antiquity to the 20th century. Emphasis will be placed on shifts in aesthetic appreciation, especially from rural terrains to the wild, "wilderness" (mountains, forests, swamps) and also to various types of the complexity of the aesthetic object (landscape, place, individual objects). e a discussion of the difference between works of art and works of nature and an aesthetic attitude towards nature and works of art;
  • 11. Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics - basic questions and areas The main topic will be a discussion of the difference between works of art and works of nature and an aesthetic attitude towards nature and works of art;
Literature
  • Newall, Venetia J. 1987. “The Adaptation of Folklore and Tradition (Folklorismus).” Folklore 98, no. 2: 131-151. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1259975.
  • Ruskin, J. 2012 [1884]. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, introduction by Peter Brimblecombe, foreword by Clive Wilmer. London: Pallas Athene Arts.
  • Virdis, D.F. 2016. Mediterranean landscapes as heritage: An ecostylistic analysis of a Sardinian tourism website. In Mediterranean Heritage in Transit: (Mis-)Representations via English, eds. L. Abbamonte and F. Cavaliere, 161-177. Newcastle upon Tyne: C
  • Scollon, Ron, and Scollon, Suzie Wong (2003) Discourse in Place: Language in the Material World. London: Routledge.
  • Lee, Lenka: New Beauty: Between Hipsters and. Folklore. Popular Inquiry [online]. 2019, [cit. 14.2.2011]. Available from: https://www.popularinquiry.com/blog/2019/12/19/lenka-lee-new-beauty-between-hipsters-and-folklore
  • Pelclová, Jana (2017). “Signifying Brno – creating urban space, shaping the city.” Brno studies in English 43 (1): 69-87.
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Aesthetic theory. Edited by Gretel Adorno - Rolf Tiedemann, Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 1997, xxi, 489. ISBN 9781780936598. info
  • NICOLSON, Marjorie Hope. Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite. Edited by William Cronon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, xix, 403. ISBN 0295975776. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, presentations
Assessment methods
homeworks during the course, a written essay (two-member student teams, 2000 – 2500 words).
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
This course was created with the support of the EDUC project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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