RJv110 Genre Studies

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 15:50–17:25 B2.43
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
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to explicate the problems of literary genres based on a special literary subdiscipline which came into existence at the end of the 1930s in France in a short article written by a French specialost in comparative literary studies Paul van Tieghem La question des genres littéraires (1939) including the genre systematics, its modifications, transformations as well as its shifts of emphasis. The course also covers the interpretation of the relations between literary genres an currents, genre and comparative studies, genre evolution and the problem of genre terminology and methodology.
Syllabus
  • 1) Genre systematics
  • 2) Literary genres and literary currents
  • 3) Genre studies/genology, history and present time
  • 4) Genre and comparative studies
  • 5) Evolution of Genre views on literature, evolution of genre systems
  • 6) The rise of genre studies/genology as a literary subdiscipline – Paul van Tieghem
  • 7) The Polish centre of genre studies, journal Zagadnienia rodzajów literackich, S. Skwarczyńska, J. Trzynadlowski, J. Kleiner. Genre studies in the U.S.A – the journal Genre
  • 8) Attempts at the reform of genre systematics
  • 9) Genre lexicology – dictionaries of literary genres – terminology and methodology
  • 10)The contemporary development of genre studies: new shifts of emphasis
  • Reading texts on literary genres – several case studies
  • Preparation of individual papers, presentations and discussions
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Fowler, A.: Kinds of Literature. An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford 1982.
  • New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres. Ed. By Marcel Cornis-Pope. John Benjamins, Amsterdam – Philadelphia 2014.
  • Literary History: Toward a Global Perspective. Ed. by Gunilla Lindberg-Wada. De Gruyter, Berlin 2006.
  • Genres in the Internet : issues in the theory of genre. Edited by Janet Giltrow - Dieter Stein. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009, vi, 294. ISBN 9789027289384. info
  • Modern genre theory. Edited by David Duff. 1st pub. Harlow: Longman, 2000, xvi, 287. ISBN 0582368065. info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Speech genres and other late essays. Edited by Michael Holquist - Caryl Emerson, Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, xxiii, 177. ISBN 9780292775602. info
  • The theory of the novel : new essays. Edited by John Halperin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, xi, 396. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Colloquium (written test).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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