LMKB412 Analysis and interpretation of short fiction

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:10–15:45 U35
Prerequisites
CEFR level C1 in English (in reading)
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 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aims of the course are:
to improve the participants' reading skills in English; to acquaint them with works of short fiction by classic as well as recent writers; to enhance their interpretation skills and critical thinking; to develop their discussion and writing skills in English.
Syllabus
  • 30.9. Intro + Tobias Wolff: “The Night in Question”
  • 7.10. Graham Greene: "A Shocking Accident"; Graham Swift: "Learning to Swim"
  • 14.10. Slawomir Mrozek: “The Elephant”; “Children”; “The Giraffe”; Mikhail Bulgakov: “Three Kopecks”
  • 21.10. Charles Dickens: "The Signal-Man"; E. T. A. Hoffmann: “The Sandman”
  • 28.10. public holiday
  • 4.11. Milan Kundera: Ignorance
  • 11.11. Jean Rhys: “Let Them Call It Jazz”; Alice Walker: “Nineteen Fifty-five”
  • 18.11. Jorge Luis Borges: "The Garden of Forking Paths"; Julio Cortázar: "End of the Game"
  • 25.11. James Joyce: “The Dead”; Virginia Woolf: “Mark on the Wall”
  • 2.12. I. B. Singer: “Three Encounters”; Bernard Malamud: “The Jewbird”
  • 9.12. Alice Munro: “Child’s Play”; Michel Faber: “Serious Swimmers”
  • 16.12. Jackie Kay: “The Mirrored Twins”
Literature
    recommended literature
  • CASSILL, R. V. The Norton anthology of short fiction. 2nd ed. shorter. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981, xxix, 720. ISBN 0393951820. info
Teaching methods
Seminars include introduction into the literary and cultural context of the given work, comprehension check and language clarification, textual analysis and interpretation, and group and class discussions.
Assessment methods
pre-seminar reading; active participation in class; short response papers written in class; presentation in class OR end-of-course essay (students' own choice)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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