Literary Theories - AAA500407

• Title: Literární teorie
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [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
• Is provided by: AAALE001A
• Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAALE001A

Annotation

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

OBJECTIVES
To introduce students interested in theoretical thought of the latter half of the twentieth century (from Roland Barthes to New
Histori­cism) to selected themes of contem­porary literary theory and to related problems in philosophy, linguistics, aesthetics
and history. These include:
1. the status of texts: authorship and authority, text and discourse
2. structuralism and deconstruction: between literature and philosophy
4. figurative language and literature: semiotics and rhetoric, ?allegories of reading?
5. aesthetics of representation and aesthetics of intensity: mimesis and simulacrum;
6. forms of otherness and heterogeneity: the unconscious, ?literary machine?, ?minor literature?, hybridity and
multiculturalism
7. relations between texts and histories: historiography and historicism
8. New Historicism: beyond the limits of deconstruction and reception theories.

ASSESSMENT
Credits will be given for regular and active participation in discussions and for the knowledge and ability to think
demonstrated in the con­cluding debate. Students will also be asked to write one short essay (up to 2000 words).

Literature

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

MATERIAL

Extracts from philosophical, theoretical and literary texts will be provided as master copies.

Roland Barthes, Mythologies, ?The Death of the Author?

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture

Tom Cohen (ed.), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities

Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Disseminations, The Spectres of Marx, Texty k dekonstrukci

Gilles Deleuze, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Critical and Clinical

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, A Thousand Plateaus

Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight, Allegories of Reading, ?Epistemology of Metaphor?

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Myšlení vnějšku, ?What is an Author?

Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey

Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations, Marvelous Posessions

Jacques Lacan, Ecrits (English selection)

Emmanuel Lévinas, Čas a jiné (Time and the Other), The Levinas Reader

Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (eds.), Critical Terms for Literary Study

Paul Patton (ed.), Deleuze: A Critical Reader

Hayden White, Metahistory, Tropics of Discourse

Teaching methods

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)

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