Contemporary Fiction Post-2020 - Small Presses - AAALE026AE

• Title: Contemporary Fiction Post-2020 - Small Presses
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALE026A
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.

Annotation

N.B.: THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS who need a grade for this course. Please note that to enroll in this course you should have a level of C1 in English.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION COMING OUT OF SMALL PRESSES:
A CRITICAL WORKSHOP

David Vichnar, PhD ([e-mail]) Office Hours: by appointment (Room 219b);
Elective M.A. Course (Wed 3.50-5.20 pm); Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory;
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Room 34)

CONTEMPORARY FICTION COMING OUT OF SMALL PRESSES: A CRITICAL WORKSHOP

David Vichnar, PhD ([e-mail]) Office Hours: by appointment (Room 219b);
Elective M.A. Course (Wed 12.30-2.00 pm); Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory;
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Room 34)

Based on some 30 books published since 2018, the course will explore ten contemporary independent publishers/presses that have worked, over the past decade or so, outside of the mainstream as defined by the Anglo-American publishing industry, bringing out radical, experimental, or otherwise “unusual” fiction.
The goal of the course will be not only to cover and evaluate what is currently “out there,” but to produce hands-on critical research on the contemporary publishing scene: reviewing books, interviewing authors and publishers, writing critical pieces on the publishing plan, presentation & “poetics” of selected houses, etc. Final research papers will be framed with view towards its publication online and elsewhere. Work in the seminar includes 3 short reviews on individual novels & one longer concluding presentation, covering a selected press, at the final roundtable discussion in mid-May.
The ten publishers covered include 11:11 Press, Anti-Oedipus Press, Calamari Press, Corona Samizdat, Equus Press, Expat Press, Inside the Castle, Orbis Tertius, Sublunary Editions, and Sweat Drenched Press.

MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS:
https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1184
MOODLE LINK TO SYLLABUS & ALL READINGS:<br>
https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1184

Last update: Vichnar David, Mgr., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)