CJBC650 Exilic Writing, Cosmopolitanism, and the Making of World Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Prof. Dr. Galin Tihanov (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 3. 11. 9:10–12:25 U21, 14:10–15:45 U37, Fri 4. 11. 9:10–15:45 U22
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
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Syllabus
  • Session 1: Exotopy and Inbetweenness
  • • Verse selections from the Bible (Psalm 137, “By the rivers of Babylon…”); Ovid, “Tristia” and “Ex Ponto”; and Agha Shahid Ali, “When on Route 80 in Ohio”, in Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate, ed. A. Kumar, New York: Routledge, 2004. • Edward Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000, Ch. 17, “Reflections on Exile” (1984). • Hannah Arendt, “We Refugees”, in H. Arendt, The Jew as Pariah, New York: Grove, 1978. • Giorgio Agamben. "We Refugees", Symposium, 1995, No. 49 (2), pp. 114-119, trans. Michael Rocke.
  • Session 2: Memory and the Languages of Exile
  • • Viewing of selected paintings by Marc Chagall (to be provided as a power-point in the session) • Marc Chagall, My Life, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989. • Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World, New York: Rizzoli, 2006. • Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin, Lonodn: Heinemann, 1957, Ch. 1. • Bryan Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, London: Vintage, 1993.
  • Session 3: Exilic Cosmopolitanism
  • • Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Prima Dona, in: Ionesco, Plays, Vol. 1, trans. Donald Watson, London: Calder, 1958. • Eugene Ionesco, Notes and Counter-Notes, trans. Donald Watson, London: Calder, 1964. • David Damrosch, “Auerbach in Exile”, Comparative Literature, 1995, 47, No. 2. • Galin Tihanov, “Why Did Modern Literary Theory Originate in Central and Eastern Europe? (And Why Is It Now Dead?)”, Common Knowledge, 2004, Vol. 10, No. 1.
  • Session 4: Exilic Anti-Cosmopolitanism
  • • Nikolai Trubetskoi, “Europe and Mankind”, in Nikolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1991. • Petr Savitskii, “A Turn to the East”, in Exodus to the East. Forebodings and Events: An Affirmation of the Eurasians, Idyllwild, CA: Charles Schlacks, 1996 [originally published in Russian, 1921]. • N. Riasanovsky, “The Emergence of Eurasianism”, in Exodus to the East. Forebodings and Events: An Affirmation of the Eurasians, Idyllwild, CA: Charles Schlacks, 1996.
  • Session 5: The Affective Economy of Exile
  • • Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colours: White (1994); students should watch the film before coming to the session. • Emma Wilson, Memory and Survival: The French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Oxford: Legenda, 2000. • Julia Kristeva, Stangers to Ourselves, New York: Harvester & Wheatsheaf, 1991.
  • Session 6: Homecomers and Boomerangs
  • • Milan Kundera, Ignorance, trans. Linda Asher, London: Faber & Faber, 2002. • Fiona Doloughan, “The myth of the great return: memory, longing and forgetting in Milan Kundera's Ignorance”, in: Creativity in Exile, ed. Michael Hanne, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: The course will take place on 3rd-4th November, 2016. Time Schedule: 9.00-10.30; 11.00-12.30; 14.00-15.30.
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