AJ34140 Critical and Hybrid Readings of Literary Texts

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
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. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Bonita Rhoads (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
each odd Friday 10:50–12:25 G32, each odd Friday 14:10–15:45 G32
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
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. The participants will examine a wide range of primary and secondary materials, and will get acquainted with topics as varied as hermeneutics and biosemiotics; Foucauldian approaches to culture and literature; selected ecocritical and post-colonial perspectives; as well as recent theories of the new media. The course participants will further develop their capacity to critically engage with the suggested topics and methods of enquiry. Whenever applicable, they will relate the newly acquired critical approaches to their ongoing research projects.
Syllabus
  • 1) Stephen Hardy - Art, Science and Life: Developing Perspectives in Hermeneutics and Biosemiotics 2) Martina Horáková - Examining Postcolonial Theory 3) Milada Franková - Notes on Ecocriticism 4) Stephen Hardy - Art, Science and Life: Developing Perspectives in Hermeneutics and Biosemiotics (Part II) 5) Tomáš Pospíšil - Theorizing the New Media 6) Bonita Rhoads - Literature and Power: How to Do Things with Foucault
Literature
  • SOKAL, Alan D. Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2008, xxi, 465. ISBN 9780199561834. info
  • GARRARD, Greg. Ecocriticism. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2004, xii, 203. ISBN 0415196922. info
  • BOWIE, Andrew. Aesthetics and subjectivity : from Kant to Nietzsche. 2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003, viii, 345. ISBN 0719057388. info
  • LISTER, Martin. New media : a critical introduction. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2003, vi, 404. ISBN 9780415431613. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. The essential Foucault : selections from essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Edited by Paul Rabinow - Nikolas S. Rose - Michel Foucault. New York: New Press, 2003, xxxv, 460. ISBN 1565848012. info
  • DYER, Richard. White. Repr. London: Routledge, 2002, xv, 256. ISBN 0415095379. info
  • BELL, David. An introduction to cybercultures. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2001, viii, 246. ISBN 0415246598. info
  • BATE, Jonathan. The song of the earth. 1st publ. London: Picador, 2000, xii, 335 s. ISBN 0-330-37238-6. info
  • BHABHA, Homi K. The location of culture. 1st. pub. London: Routledge, 1998, xiii, 285. ISBN 0-415-01635-5. info
  • SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. The post-colonial critic : interviews, strategies, dialogues. Edited by Sarah Harasym. New York: Routledge, 1990, viii, 168. ISBN 0-415-90169-3. info
  • ISER, Wolfgang. The act of reading : a theory of aesthetic response. Johns Hopkins pbk. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, xii, 239. ISBN 0801823714. info
Teaching methods
The course consists of six ninety-minute seminars held in alternate weeks of the semester. Students are expected to regularly attend the seminars, read the assigned texts, get acquainted with all materials presented in class and read and comment on each other’s response-papers.
Assessment methods
Attendance, active participation; four four-page, double-spaced response papers submitted via Googledocs. In their written assignments the 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 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023.
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