AJ04001 Úvod do literatury I

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2010
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Lucie Seibertová, Ph.D. (pomocník)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Rozvrh
Po 8:20–9:55 zruseno D22
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
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Mateřské obory/plány
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Cíle předmětu
This lecture series provides an introduction to some of the most significant approaches to the study of literature. Focusing especially on British and American authors, the lectures aim to broaden the students’ awareness of diverse ways of analyzing literary texts. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking and academic writing skills and on gaining a deeper understanding of how literature affects us and enriches our perception of the world.
Osnova
  • Case Studies:
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600)
  • Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)
  • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
  • General Reading:
  • René Wellek and Austin Warren, A Theory of Literature (1948)
  • Week 1 Sept 27
  • Introductory Lecture
  • The Purpose of Literature and the Purpose of Literary Studies
  • Additional reading: M. H. Abrams’s Introduction to his The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)
  • Block I: Close Encounters with the Text
  • Week 2 Oct 4
  • Reading Poetry I (texts of poems will be provided)
  • Additional Reading: Frances Stillman, “The Poet’s Manual” from The Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary (1966)
  • Week 3 Oct 11
  • Reading Poetry II (texts of poems will be provided)
  • Additional Reading: Critical Inquiry, special issue on metaphor (Vol. 5, No. 1, Autumn, 1978)
  • Week 4 Oct 18
  • Reading Character and Reading Plot in Prose Fiction
  • Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • Week 5 Oct 25
  • Reading Theme in Prose Fiction
  • Additional material: see Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • Week 6 Nov 1
  • Reading and Understanding Drama (Pavel Drábek)
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Additional reading: Ronald Hayman, How to Read a Play (1999)
  • Block II: The Literary Essay, and what it has to say about literature and thinking
  • Week 7 Nov 8
  • Writing about Poetry
  • Case study: Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
  • a selected essay or two on the poem
  • Week 8 Nov 15
  • Writing about Literary Phenomena
  • Case study: a selection of poems
  • One of the articles on metaphor from Critical Inquiry (Vol. 5, No. 1, Autumn, 1978)
  • Week 9 Nov 22
  • Writing about Narratives
  • Case study: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • Terence Bowers, “Conrad’s Aeneid: Heart of Darkness and the Classical Epic” (2006)
  • Kimberly J. Devlin, “The Scopic Drive and Visual Projection in Heart of Darkness” (2006)
  • Week 10 Nov 29
  • Writing about Drama
  • Case study: William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Maynard Mack, “The World of Hamlet” (1952)
  • and another essay
  • Block III: Literary Criticism, Language, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Ideology: “interdisciplinary” links
  • Week 11 Dec 6
  • Literature and Language
  • Richard Bradford, Stylistics (1997)
  • Roman Jakobson, an essay on poetic function
  • Week 12 Dec 13
  • Literature and Culture
  • a chapter from Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978)
  • and a chapter from Raymond Williams’s The Country and the City (1975)
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Barnet, Sylvan, et al. A short Guide to Writing About Literature
    neurčeno
  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, ýth Edition
  • Case Study 1 (a book-length literary text)
  • Case Study 2 (a book-length literary text)
Výukové metody
This lecture series provides an introduction to some of the most significant approaches to the study of literature. Focusing especially on British and American authors, the lectures aim to broaden the students’ awareness of diverse ways of analyzing literary texts. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on developing critical thinking and academic writing skills and on gaining a deeper understanding of how literature affects us and enriches our perception of the world. The lecturea are 90 minutes a week.
Metody hodnocení
Assessment: Students will write a final exam consisting of two comprehensive short-essay questions. To prepare for the exam, students are required to respond to one of the sample questions suggested at the end of each lecture (see the echo-assignment in elf) and to take a mid-term mock-quiz and an end-of-term mock-quiz.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/category.php?id=4
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Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 1999, podzim 2000, podzim 2001, podzim 2002, podzim 2003, podzim 2004, podzim 2005, podzim 2006, podzim 2007, podzim 2008, podzim 2009, podzim 2011, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2014, podzim 2015, podzim 2016, podzim 2017, podzim 2018, podzim 2019.