Introduction to Literary Studies - AAA200040
Title: Úvod do literárních studií
Guaranteed by: Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky (21-UAA)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2010
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/0, --- [HT]
summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: prof. Mgr. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.
Louis Armand, Ph.D.
Interchangeability : AAA100040
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Annotation -
LECTURE:
OBJECTIVES
The course provides an introduction to some key terms of poetics and critical theory, discusses various approaches to reading and interpretation and provides the students with a basic knowledge of the realm of literary studies.

MATERIAL
Aristotle, Poetics
Montgomery, M., et al., Ways of Reading
Green, K. and LeBihan, J., Critical Theory and Practice

SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
The general aim of the seminar is to improve the students' reading and interpreting skills. The students are provided with an opportunity to test out in practice some of the knowledge gained from the lecture "Introduction to Literary Studies" and to discuss the critical terms they have acquainted themselves with. In addition, the seminar includes several sessions focused on the use of some more terms of poetics in the analysis of specific poems. Finally, formal properties of an academic essay will be discussed, which are then to be applied in the students' final written projects.

MATERIAL
Aristotle, Poetics
Montgomery, M., et al., Ways of Reading
Green, K. and LeBihan, J., Critical Theory and Practice
A selection of shorter literary texts to be assigned at the beginning of the Semester.

ASSESSMENT
Credit requirements consist of a written test focused on poetics and basic critical terms, and of a written essay of 1500-2000 words on an assigned topic. Attendance is mandatory.
Last update: UAAZNOJE (04.03.2004)