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Literary Interpretation - OPBA2A137B
Title: Literární interpretace
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (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
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2475
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: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2020)
This course aims to familiarise students with various close-reading techniques, applied to selected samples of Anglo-American prose and drama. It aims at nurturing RWCT techniques (Reading and writing for critical thinking).
Descriptors -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (31.01.2021)

All the course materials are available online from:

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2475

enrolment key: inter

Online webinars are taught via Zoom at:

https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/94430775864

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2020)

Recommended reading:

Primary materials are downloadable from Moodle at https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2475.  Enrolment key: inter

 

Secondary sources:

Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, London: Oxford University Press, 1953

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

Di Yanni R. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay, 2nd edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1990

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

Roberts, E. V., Jacobs, H. E. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1986

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2020)

Rozpis výukových jednotek

 

Week 1

Intro - Analogie a kontrasty

Benjamin Zephaniah: Miss World

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

 

Week 2

Roald Dahl: Edward the Conqueror 
Focus: narrative structure, narrator´s credibility

 

Week 3

Somerset Maugham: The Verger

Charles Johnson: Oxherding Tale

Focus: reading for instruction, a cautionary tale

 

Week 4

Julian Barnes: The Visitors (A History of the World in 10½ Chapters)

Focus: full and limited omniscience, altruism vs. self-interest

 

Week 5-6

Kurt Vonnegut: Who Am I This Time

Andre Dubus: The Fat Girl

Focus: analogies and contrasts, narrative authority

 

Week 7

Bernard Malamud: A Magic Barrel

Focus: interpretive role-playing, culture-specific reading

 

Week 8

John Steinbeck: The Murder

Focus: narrative ambiguity, Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl

 

Week 9-10

Kate Chopin: The Story of an HourC.B. Divakaruni: Clothes

Focus: generic formulas in writing, Bildungsroman

 

Week 11

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Mark Twain: The Story of the Bad Boy Who Didn´t Come to Grief

H. C. Andersen: The Emperor´s New Clothes

Focus: cautionary tale, parable, hyperbole, narrative crescendo

 

Week 12-13

Charles Johnson: Menagerie, A Child´s Fable

George Orwell: Animal Farm (film + excerpts)

Focus: allegory, animal fable

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2020)

Requirements:
80% attendance (2 unexplained absences are permissible);

Students are asked to write either a short handwritten essay (400 words) written against the clock at the end of the term, or a longer typewritten essay (1200 words) on one of the assigned topics. For more info pls. scroll down and read the final section in Moodle.

Learning resources -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2020)

Primary materials are downloadable from Moodle at https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2475.  Enrolment key: inter

 
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