AJ5_SPML Popular and Minority Literatures Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
Attending lessons AJ5_PML
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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.
Syllabus
  • 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
Assessment methods (in Czech)
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
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005.
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