Literary Theory (A) - AAA130170

• Title: Literární teorie (A)
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Martin Procházka, CSc.; Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : AAA130102, AAA130110
• Interchangeability : AAA130171
• Is interchangeable with: AAA130171, AAA230170

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D. (20.02.2017)

Week 1 Introduction: What is “literature”? What is “theory”?
21 Feb Syllabus; Course procedures; Assessment

Week 2 Antiquity
28 Feb Plato, Republic – “Book X,” Ion, From Phaedrus
Aristotle, From Poetics

Week 3 Renaissance
7 Mar Philip Sidney, From Apologie of Poetrie
Development of rhetoric: tropes & schemes

Week 4 Classicism
14 Mar John Dryden, From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Metrics: rhymes, types of metrical analysis

N. B. no class 21 Mar

Week 5 Romanticism
28 Mar William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Samuel T. Coleridge, From Biographia Literaria
Percy B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

Week 6* Formalism & New Criticism
4 Apr Victor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”
I. A. Richards, From Principles of Literary Criticism

Week 8 Structuralism
11 Apr Ferdinand de Saussure, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign”
Roman Jakobson, From Linguistics and Poetics

Week 9 Poststructuralism
18 Apr Roland Barthes, “The Structuralist Activity,” “The Death of the Author”
Jacques Derrida, “Differance”

Week 10 Psychoanalysis
25 Apr Sigmund Freud, “The Dream-Work,” “The Uncanny”
Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”

Week 11 Modernism & Postmodernism
2 May T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and Individual Talent”
Fredric Jameson, From Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Linda Hutcheon, “Historiographic Metafiction”

Week 12 Feminism & Gender
9 May Patricia Waugh, “Postmodernism and Feminism”
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, From Infection in the Sentence & Dialogue with Toril Moi

Week 13* Postcolonialism & Cultural Studies
16 May Gayatri Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, “What is a Minor Literature?”

*MID-TERM & FINAL PAPERS DUE