AJ34140 Critical and Hybrid Readings of Literary Texts

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., 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 and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 12:30–14:05 G22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course presents and assesses a variety of theoretical approaches to literary studies that have been gaining prominence in recent years. Examining a wide range of primary and secondary materials, it presents topics as varied as relating sexuality and art, Foucauldian approaches to culture and literature; selected ecocritical and critical race theory perspectives; as well as recent theories of the new media. The course participants are expected to critically engage with the suggested topics and methods of enquiry and - whenever possible - relate them to their ongoing research projects.
Syllabus
  • October 16: Stephen Hardy – Class, Environment, Sexuality and Representation (Bourdieu, Carter, Paglia)
  • October 30: Tomáš Pospíšil – Theorizing the New Media
  • November 13: Jeff Smith – Cultural History and Reception Studies
  • November 27: Martina Horáková – Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory
  • December 11: Milada Franková – Ecocriticism
Literature
    required literature
  • GARRARD, Greg. Ecocriticism. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2004, xii, 203. ISBN 0415196922. info
  • LISTER, Martin. New media : a critical introduction. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2003, vi, 404 s. ISBN 0-415-22377-6. info
  • DYER, Richard. White. Repr. London: Routledge, 2002, xv, 256. ISBN 0415095379. info
  • BATESON, Gregory. Steps to an ecology of mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, xxxii, 533. ISBN 0226039056. info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. The field of cultural production : essays on art and literature. Edited by Randal Johnson. Cambridge: Polity press, 1993, viii, 323. ISBN 9780745609867. info
  • DOLLIMORE, Jonathan. Sexual dissidence : Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 388 s. ISBN 0-19-811225-4. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977. Edited by Colin Gordon, Translated by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977, xii, 270 s. ISBN 0-394-73954-X. info
    not specified
  • Luhmann, Niklas Social Systems Stanford Stanford University Press 1995 (1984)
  • PAGLIA, Camille. Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1991, xiv, 718. ISBN 0679735798. info
  • BLOOM, Harold. Agon : towards a theory of revisionism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, ix, 336 s. ISBN 0-19-503354-X. info
Teaching methods
5 sessions with respective teachers; each session combines a lecture, group and class discussion based on the assigned theoretcal readings.
Assessment methods
Requirements and Assessment:
1) Regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, participating in the class discussions
2) Three four-page, double-spaced essays submitted via IS and sent to respective teachers by email; deadlines and readings are available in IS.
(In these essays students are specifically asked to make connections—whenever applicable—between the selected critical approaches and issues and their research projects. The essays will be read by the relevant teachers.)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023.
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