CJBC534 Narrativity and fictional worlds

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. Andrew Lass, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Mon 14. 3. 15:50–17:25 Zahraniční oddělení, Wed 16. 3. 15:50–17:25 Zahraniční oddělení, Fri 18. 3. 15:50–17:25 Zahraniční oddělení, Mon 21. 3. 15:50–17:25 Zahraniční oddělení, Wed 23. 3. 15:50–17:25 Zahraniční oddělení
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
Main objectives can be summariyed as follows: A series of three lectures will outline alternative approaches to the relationship of possible worlds to the actual world. An “internal” semantics of fictional worlds is supplemented by an “external” point of view that assumes a historically and culturally relative position of narrative and other artistic forms in society. At the end of this course, students schould be able to understand and explain the different manners of constituting time and place in discursive practice.
Syllabus
  • The radical critique of the mimetic interpretation of literature (L.Doležel) and the notion of ontological landscapes (T.G.Pavel) offer a point of departure. The interdisciplinary approach recognizes the impact that media, particularly print, have on imagination and identity (B.Andreson), the effect that the relation between the global and the local has on consciousness (A.Appadurai), and offers the analyses of traditional Australian mythology (N.Munn) and of 19th century Czech literature as examples.
Literature
  • Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. Hackett Publishing Co.,Indianapolis, 1978.
  • Munn, Nancy. Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1973.
  • Doležel, Lubomír. Heterocosmica. Fikce a možné světy. Vydání české první. Praha : Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2003. 311 s. ISBN 80-246-0735-2.
  • Pavel, Thomas G. Fictional Worlds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1986.
  • Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1996.
  • Lass, Andrew. Romantic Documents and Political Monuments: The Meaning-Fulfillment of History in 19th-Century Czech Nationalism. In: American Ethnologist, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Aug., 1988), pp. 456-471
  • Anderson, Benedict. Immagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso Press. London, 2006.
  • Eco, Umberto. Šest procházek literárními lesy :přednášky na Harvardově univerzitě. Translated by Bronislava Grygová. v Olomouci : Votobia, 1997. 196 s. ISBN 80-7198-248-2.
  • Munn, Nancy. The Effectiveness of Symbols in Murnging Rite and Myth. In: Forms of Symbolic Action. Proceedings of the 1969 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Robert F. Spencer (Ed.), University of Washington Press, 1971, pp.180-2
  • Goodman, Nelson. Language of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1968.
  • Doležel, Lubomír. Mimesis and Possible Worlds. In: Poetics Today, Vol.9, No.3, 1988, pp.475-496.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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