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Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory Selected Chapters - ON2301003
Title: Úvod do současné literární teorie
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2017
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: 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
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for: ON2301004
Annotation -
Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.09.2014)
The aim of this course is to introduce a selection of contemporary literary trends, categories and notions. The main of these are Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Reader-Response, Psychoanlytical, Feminist, Marxist, Structuralist and Postrstructuralist Criticism and the theory of New Historicism. Practical examples of individual approaches are illustrated on Shakespeare's King Lear and Toni Morrisob's The Bluest Eye.
Literature - Czech
Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (28.04.2009)

Cunningham, V. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. (extracts)

GREENBLATT, S. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. (extracts)

Hutcheon, L. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988, 2003. (extracts)

McHale, B. Postmodernist Fiction. London: Routledge, 1989, 2001. (extracts)

Procházka, M. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Praha: KAA FF UK (2.vyd.), 1997.

Procházka, M. Literary Theory: An Historical Introduction. Praha: KAA FF UK, 2008.

Rice, P.; Waugh, P. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold, 1989, 1996. (extracts)

Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin, 1978, 1995.

Syllabus
Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (05.01.2012)

1. Historical overview - from Plato to Victorianism

2. Russian Formalism

3. New Criticism

4. Structuralism

5. Reader-response theory

6. Psychoanalytical criticism

7. Marxist criticism

8. Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism

9. Feminist criticism, Gender studies

10. New Historicism

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (19.09.2016)

Předmět je zakončen klasifikovaným písemným zápočtovým testem. Podmínkou pro úspěšné absolvování testu je dosažení alespoň 70 procent z celkového počtu bodů.

 
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