VV024 Interpretation of Texts

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Josef Prokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jaroslav Poliak (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Josef Prokeš, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:50 C511
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The subject represents the continuation of Academic Style Basics Course by stressing the esthetic function of texts during their analysis. Introductory lectures deal with analytical approaches to, and theoretical reflections of, a literary text, structuralist and semiological aspects as well as Czech literary and esthetic inspiration. The analysis of the text as information, orientation in dominant and alternative paradigms of literary communication, investigation of contents analysis limits and interpretation ensue. As to the aspects of literary communication, the course pays attention mainly to the author and reader/listener in the communicative perspective of the text, to strata of textual structure, unifying utterance perspectives and the so-called adoption. After the theoretical part, students apply the acquired knowledge to their own analysis of a chosen text.
Syllabus
  • Critical analyses of accepted and controversial pieces of contemporary Czech and world literature.
  • How to read a literary text, how to comprehend it, how to write a review.
  • Movies based on literary works.
  • Creative works by students.
  • The works studied are in accordance with the student's interests, e.g. Jáchym Topol, Zdeněk Rotrekl, Jan Skácel, Alexandra Berková, Jiří Kratochvil, William Styron, John Irwing, Umberto Eco, Konrad Lorenz, Carl Gustav Jung ...
  • The forms of essay, short stories and novella.
  • The composition and design of a novel, dialog building.
  • Written and spoken polemics.
  • Report.
Literature
  • Prokeš, Josef. Interpretace uměleckých textů. Masarykova univerzita, 2006. 66 stran.
  • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Interpretace vybraného textu formou předneseného referátu, esej na individuálně zvolené či zadané téma. Závěrečný test znalostí.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/prokes
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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