AJ23006 Writing and Seeing at 5 km/h

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2016
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 3 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Rebekah Bloyd (přednášející), Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Rebekah Bloyd (přednášející), doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 12 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/12, pouze zareg.: 0/12, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/12
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 16 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This is an intensive week-long course taught by Rebekah Bloyd.
“What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march?” Posed to us at the outset of writer and political activist Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking, we will respond by considering her thoughts as well as those of urban planners, poets, translators, and citizen-pedestrians like ourselves. We’ll analyze the claims of renowned city designer Jeff Speck in his Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time and we’ll track the recent legacy of journalist Jane Jacobs: the international “Jane’s Walk.” We will ruminate on the art of urban walking along with Los Angeles Times former book critic David L. Ulin in his Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles. We ourselves will take three walks, beginning with a Writer’s Walk, where we’ll practice mapmaking and expression through figurative language. Next, in our Urban Walk, we’ll apply the four criteria of Specks’ “General Theory of Walkability” to specific streets of Brno; we’ll create a tumblr site which presents our visual, descriptive, and imaginative observations on select streets’ utility, safety, comfort, and interest for the pedestrian. Finally, we’ll engage in specific aural exercises in our Listening Walk, pondering our reactions and potential responsibilities in regard to noise and soundscapes. As we examine works centered on a movement deemed “the most obvious and the most obscure,” we’ll note the way contemporary poet-translators A.E. Stallings, Peter Cole, and W.S. Di Piero use the senses to engage us as they construct paths, places and ideas around, respectively, the cities of Athens, Jerusalem, and San Francisco. In turn, we will develop our own essays that invite the reader-listener to walk this way, in this place—and see what comes of a specific journey through time, environment and experience. We’ll engage in peer response sessions as we revise our drafts, incorporating researched material, strengthening our assertions, and honing individual styles. The course format will include discussion, and critical and creative thinking, writing, and viewing activities. At least once during the course, each student (as part of a pair or trio) will facilitate class discussion on an essay, book chapter, poem, article or visual image and word pairing. We will pursue the pleasures, ideas, and formal strategies of literature and contemporary writings. Readings are chosen to inform, to stimulate discussion, and to present both models and inspiration for us to develop our own writing prowess, including analytical, descriptive, narrative, and imaginative writing skills.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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