AJ5_SPML Seminář k populární a menšinové literatuře

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2003
Rozsah
0/1/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Rozvrh
St 16:20–17:05 učebna 5
Předpoklady
Attending lessons AJ5_PML
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
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.
Osnova
  • 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
Metody hodnocení
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
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course is an extention to courses on the development of classic American literature and modern American literature. In final sessions it also attempts to cover some issues of the contemporary British and American literature which have not been touched.
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2000, jaro 2001, podzim 2002, podzim 2004, podzim 2005, podzim 2006.