IJ0B958 Literary seminar

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Barbara Tonzar (lecturer), Mgr. Zuzana Šebelová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 G11
Prerequisites (in Czech)
IJIA015 Practical Italian IV
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
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Course objectives
This course is open to second-year students onwards. It is taught in Italian and includes a theoretical part and practical exercises. During this semester narrative texts and text analysis techniques will be exploited. The students who enroll in the course will have to show knowledge of the above-mentioned techniques in order to use them for text analysis.Moreover, techniques for writing an academic text will be taught. At the end of the course, in order to obtain the credits, students will have to present the academic text.
Syllabus
  • Theory: the functions of the text; the narrative text (plot, space and time, narrator); a model for a text analysis; an Italian author of the XXth century - Italo Calvino. Practice: analysis of a literary text; how to write an academic text.
Literature
  • I. Calvino, I nostri antenati, Mondadori, 2006
  • AA.VV. Il filo rosso. Primo novecento, Laterza, 2006
  • AA.VV. Il filo rosso. Secondo novecento, Laterza, 2006
  • C. Milanini, L’utopia discontinua, Garzanti, 1990
  • M.A. Bazzocchi, Personaggio e romanzo nel Novecento italiano, B.Mondadori, 2009
  • I. Calvino, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, Mondadori, 2000
  • G.Ferroni, Letteratura italiana contemporanea, Mondadori, 2007
  • A cura di E. Raimondi, Tempi e immagini della letteratura. Il Novecento, B. Mondadori, 2004
  • C.Benussi, Introduzione a Calvino, Laterza, 2002
  • I. Calvino, Le Cosmicomiche, Mondadori, 2000
Teaching methods
Lectures and class discussion.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2016.
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