LMKA_a06 Texts and Methods I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Jan Tlustý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 D51
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Doporučujeme před tímto předmětem absolvovat LMKA_a10 Literární dílo: pozorování, analýza, interpretace, kontextualizace (doporučení platí zejména pro student(k)y s jiným než filologickým zázemím a bez zkušenosti s teorií literatury).
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 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/35, only registered: 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar will introduce students to various interpretation strategies developed by the key movements in literary theory, aesthetics and philosophy, since the beginning of the 20th century. The lessons will further include critical analysis of theory texts and in-class interpretation of particular literary and artistic texts or social discourses.
Learning outcomes
Having attended the seminar, students will be able to:
- understand various methodological approaches to text, and to perform critical evaluation of these methodologies,
- consider the particular methods and interpretation approaches in broader philosophical, aesthetic and cultural context,
- apply theoretical resources on selected texts,
- understand current issues within the humanities,
- utilise acquired methods in their own multidisciplinary research.
Syllabus
  • Narrative - definition and implications
  • Narratology
  • Truth in fiction
  • Postclassical Narratology 1: cognitive, unnatural
  • Postclassical Narratology 2: rhetorical, zoonaratology
  • Sociological interpretation (Bourdieu)
  • Whose story is this? Narrative and ideology; feminist theory
  • Feminist interpretation; disability studies
  • Postcolonialism (Said)
  • Narrative and identity; autobiography and autofiction
  • Fictionality and authenticity across media and genres (Art Spiegelman: Maus)
  • Why psychoanalysis? (Freud and Deleuze+Guattari)
Literature
    required literature
  • KUBÍČEK, Tomáš, Jiří HRABAL and Petr A. BÍLEK. Naratologie : strukturální analýza vyprávění. V Praze: Dauphin, 2013, 247 s. ISBN 9788072725922. info
  • Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury : koncepce / osobnosti / základní pojmy. Edited by Ansgar Nünning - Jiří Trávníček - Jiří Holý, Translated by Al. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2006, 912 stran. ISBN 8072941704. info
    recommended literature
  • Průvodce po světové literární teorii 20. století. Edited by Vladimír Macura - Alice Jedličková. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2012, 839 stran. ISBN 9788072948482. info
  • MITOSEK, Zofia. Teorie literatury : historický přehled. Translated by Marie Havránková. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2010, 480 stran. ISBN 9788072943326. info
  • COMPAGNON, Antoine. Démon teorie : literatura a běžné myšlení. Translated by Eva Sládková. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2009, 328 s. ISBN 9788072943241. info
  • CULLER, Jonathan. Krátký úvod do literární teorie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 167 s. ISBN 80-7294-070-8. info
    not specified
  • CHANSKY, Ricia Anne. The Routledge autobiography studies reader. Edited by Emily Hipchen. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, xxii, 351. ISBN 9781138904767. info
  • PARKER, Robert Dale. How to interpret literature : critical theory for literary and cultural studies. Third edition. New york: Oxford University Press, 2015, xii, 400. ISBN 9780199331161. info
  • JACKO, Tomáš. Autor a čtenář jako představy : koncepty autora a čtenáře v moderním a postmoderním myšlení. Vyd. 1. Praha: Togga, 2014, 203 s. ISBN 9788074760457. info
  • MCLEOD, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. First published 2000. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2010, 333 pp. Second edition. ISBN 978-0-7190-7858-3. info
  • Postclassical narratology : approaches and analyses. Edited by Jan Alber - Monika Fludernik. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010, vii, 323. ISBN 9780814292419. info
  • ISER, Wolfgang. Jak se dělá teorie. Translated by Petr Onufer. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2009, 245 stran. ISBN 9788024616728. info
  • NEWTON, Kenneth. Jak interpretovat text : kritický úvod do teorie a praxe literární interpretace. Translated by Milan Orálek. Olomouc: Periplum, 2008, 263 s. ISBN 9788086624471. info
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Na cestě ke smyslu : poetika literárního díla 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 2005, 1051 s. ISBN 8072152440. info
  • EAGLETON, Terry. Úvod do literární teorie. Translated by Petr Onufer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triáda, 2005, 363 s. ISBN 8086138720. info
  • HERMAN, David. Narratologies : new perspectives on narrative analysis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999, viii, 396. ISBN 9780814250242. info
  • PHELAN, James. Narrative as rhetoric : technique, audiences, ethics, ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996, xiv, 237. ISBN 0814206883. info
Teaching methods
seminar, pre-seminar reading and response paper, discussion
Assessment methods
summaries of assigned texts, essay, oral colloquim
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
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