FI:VV024 Interpretation of Texts - Course Information
VV024 Interpretation of Texts
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2009
- 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
- Wed 12:00–13:50 B007
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 36 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: 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 ; 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; 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; 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
- Teaching methods
- lecture, report, home work, seminar work, class/small discussion, essay, presentation, dialogue method, guided exploration, excursion, brainstorming, collaborating, critical thinking, classroom team work
- Assessment methods
- final project, written test, class discussion, homework, reading, field trip
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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