CJBC515 Fantastic literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tereza Dědinová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 A42 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Main objectives of the seminary:
specification and clarification of the term fantastic literature;
understanding of its particularity and footing in a frame of imaginative literature;
learning its history and development;
recognition of individual sub-genres;
analysis of traditional attribution of SF to less serious streams in literature using texts of chosen authors of SF (speculative fiction, so not only science fiction);
At the end of the course students should be acquainted within categories of fantastic linterature;
to understand approaches in analysis of fantastic literature;
to manage the basic theoretical background for understanding of those approaches;
interpret fantastic motives in literary work.
Syllabus
  • What at all is fantastic literature and what are features?
  • Description and differentiation of realistic and fantastic streams in literature, roots of their origin and their blending together.
  • Inner-structuring of fantastic literature to literature fantasque (Michal Ajvaz, Jáchym Topol aj.) and speculative (SF); their further division.
  • Criteria and pitfalls of such structuring.
  • Resources of fantastic literature, its connection to myth.
  • Elementary functions of speculative literature, its balance and imbalance in particular pieces of art. Reasons, why authors reach for fantastic motives.
  • Role of speculative literature in society.
  • Reasons for common attribution of SF into second-rate, escapist literature, elucidation of criteria and prejudices.
Literature
  • SLOBODNÍK, Dušan. Genéza a poetika science fiction. Bratislava: Mladé letá, 1980. info
  • KAGARLICKIJ, Julij Iosifovič. Fantastika, utopie, antiutopie. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1982, 438 s. URL info
  • Vědeckofantastická literatura : srovnávací žánrová studie. Edited by Miroslava Holejšovská-Genčiová. 1. vyd. V Praze: Albatros, 1980, 177 s. URL info
  • NEFF, Ondřej. Něco je jinak : komentáře k české literární fantastice. Edited by Jaroslav Veis. Praha: Albatros, 1981. info
  • NEFF, Ondřej. Všechno je jinak : kapitoly o světové science fiction. Praha: Albatros, 1986. info
  • MACEK, Jakub. Fandom a text (Fandom and Text). Praha: Triton, 2006, 148 pp. Fandom a SF. ISBN 80-7254-856-5. info
  • Encyklopedie literatury science fiction. Edited by Ondřej Neff - Jaroslav Olša. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 555 s. ISBN 80-85787-90-3. info
  • HOUŽVIČKA, Přemysl. Bibliografie české science fiction a fantaskní literatury z let 1853-1949. Praha: vlastním nákladem autora, 2006. info
  • ADAMOVIČ, Ivan. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Praha: R3, 1995. info
  • LANGER, Aleš. Průvodce paralelními světy. Praha: TRITON, 2006. info
  • HEREC, Ondrej. Fantastika a realizmus. Bratislava: Národné osvetové centrum, 1999. info
  • LEM, Stanislav. Fantastika i futurologia. Warszawa: Interart, 1996. info
  • A companion to science fiction. Edited by David Seed. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2008, xvi, 612. ISBN 9781405184373. info
  • Speculations on speculation : theories of science fiction. Edited by James Gunn - Matthew Candelaria. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2005, xix, 374. ISBN 081084902X. info
  • The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy : themes, works, and wonders. Edited by Neil Gaiman - Gary Westfahl. 1st pub. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005, xxix, s. ISBN 0313329532. info
  • The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy : themes, works, and wonders. Edited by Neil Gaiman - Gary Westfahl. 1st pub. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005, xxix, s. ISBN 0313329524. info
  • The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy : themes, works, and wonders. Edited by Gary Westfahl - Neil Gaiman. 1st pub. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005, xxxvi, 455. ISBN 0313329516. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ladislav NAGY. Meze interpretace. 1. české vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2004, 330 s. ISBN 9788024607405. info
  • DOLEŽEL, Lubomír. Heterocosmica. Fikce a možné světy (Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds). Vydání české první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2003, 311 pp. ISBN 80-246-0735-2. info
  • The Cambridge companion to science fiction. Edited by Edward James - Farah Mendlesohn. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xxvii, 295. ISBN 9780521016575. info
  • BRIGG, Peter. The span of mainstream and science fiction : a critical study of a new literary genre. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2002, vii, 212. ISBN 0786413042. info
  • FREEDMAN, Carl Howard. Critical theory and science fiction. Hanover: Wesleyan University, 2000, xx, 206. ISBN 0819563994. info
  • ECO, Umberto. Šest procházek literárními lesy :přednášky na Harvardově univerzitě. Translated by Bronislava Grygová. v Olomouci: Votobia, 1997, 196 s. ISBN 80-7198-248-2. info
  • St. James guide to science fiction writers. Edited by H. Bruce Franklin - Jay P. Pederson - Robert Reginald. 4th ed. New York: St. James, 1996, xxiv, 1175. ISBN 1558621792. info
  • The encyclopedia of science fiction. Edited by John Clute - Peter Nicholls - Brian M. Stableford - John Grant. 1st pub. London: Orbit, 1993, xxxvi, 137. ISBN 1857231244. info
  • CLARESON, Thomas D. Understanding contemporary American science fiction : the formative period (1926-1970). Pbk. ed. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 1992, vii, 300. ISBN 0872498700. info
  • SLOBODNÍK, Dušan. Genéza a poetika science fiction. Bratislava: Mladé letá, 1980. info
Teaching methods
teaching methods: explication to, in synopsis given, theme, thematic reading (compulsory texts), elaboration of analysis of given text and its written and oral presentation (home work), discussion on topic of the oral presentation
Assessment methods
requirements for subject passing (credit): reading of short texts (at disposal in advance), their analysis and presentation of the analysis, active participation on seminary (thematic discussion) and elaboration of short essay in extent of circa three standard pages
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
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