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Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (24.07.2008)
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Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (24.07.2008)
Doporučená literatura: Byatt, A.S., Porter, P. New Writing, London: Vintage, 1997 Heinig, R. B. Improvisation with Favorite Tales. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1992 Kravis, J., (Ed.) Teaching Literature: Writers and Teachers Talking. Cork: Cork UP, 1995 Shrodes, C., Finestone, H., Shugrue, M. The Conscious Reader, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985 Eagleton, T. Literary Theory: An Introduction, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983 Holman, C.H., Harmon, W. A Handbook to Literature, 5th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986 Haus, C. H., Scholes R., Comley, N. R., Silverman, M. Elements of Literature: Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991 Culler, J. Structuralist Poetics, Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature, London: Routledge, 1994
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (13.05.2019)
1. ACHETYPAL STORY REFASHIONING Andrew Lang: The Blue Fairy Book: “Beauty and the Beast” (1889) + Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” (1979) FOCUS: fairy tale, postmodernist refashioning of archetypal story
2. POSTCOLONIAL DEFAMILIARISATION Nadine Gordimer: “Once Upon a Time” (1989) + “The Ultimate Safari” (1989) from Jump and Other Stories (1991) FOCUS: Postcolonial literature, irony, defamiliarisation
3. HISTORY AND HIS STORY Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “A Private Experience” (2008) + “The Headstrong Historian” (2008) FOCUS: HISTORY vs. HIS STORY
4. TRADITION VS. MODERNITY Anita Desai: “Studies in the Park” (1978) + Witi Ihimaera: “The Whale” (1972) Focus: tradition and modernity
5. ROMANCE ALTERATION Tennessee Williams: “The Field of Blue Children” (1937) + Kurt Vonnegut: “Runaways” (1961) Focus: Romance as generic writing formula (cliché)
6. AMBIGUOUS NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE Ambrose Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) Focus: ambiguous narrative perspective
7. LITERARY MINIMALISM Ernest Hemingway: “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) + Henry Lawson: “The Drover’s Wife” (1896) Focus: literary minimalism
8. THE CONCRETE CHARACTER OF POETIC LANGUAGE Sylvia Plath, Elisabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin: selected poems Focus: the concrete character of poetic language
9. COMPLEX SIMPLICITY ee cummings, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost: selected poems Focus: complex simplicity
10. SPACE AND IDENTITY Doris Lessing: “To Room Nineteen” (1963) and Fay Weldon: “Weekend” (1978, 2009) Focus: space and identity |
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (13.05.2019)
Credit requirements: 80% attendance and a short hand-written essay (approx. 450 words) on one of the assigned topics. This essay is to be written against the clock (within 90 minutes) during the last credit week session. Alternatively, the student might also opt for a typewritten essay (approx. 1200 words) which is to be submitted by July 30 through the last section below. |