PdF:DCJDR_ASTL Literary Studies - Course Information

DCJDR_ASTL Current Trends in Literary and Cultural Studies

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Šárka Bubíková, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Světlana Hanušová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Jan Budňák, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Světlana Hanušová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Didactics of Foreign Language (programme PdF, D-SPE4) (2)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the latest trends in the field of literary and cultural studies and with the consequences they represent for the content and methods of teaching these subjects.

Syllabus

• This course makes part of the optional subjects of the didactic section (subsection of Topical Chapters in Didactics of Foreign Languages); it is offered especially to students whose dissertation is related to this topic. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the latest trends in the field of literary and cultural studies and with the consequences they represent for the content and methods of teaching these subjects. Topics to cover: special attention will be paid to • theories of ethnicity, interculturality, postmodern discourse and narrativity; • interpretation of a literary text, its mechanisms, possibilities and limits; various models of interpretation will be applied to particular texts; • changes in opinion of literary code;. • concepts of literature studies as a way of looking into culture and history of culture - literary construct of "own" and "foreign", nation, ethnicity, gender etc. All these topics will be dealt with not only in theoretical context but also from the point of view of teaching literature and culture of the target language.

Literature

• Moran, P.M. Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice. London: Heinle&Heinle, 2001.
• Glazer, N. We Are All Multiculturalists Now. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard
• Benthien, C., Velten, H.R. (Hgg.). Germanistik als Kulturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung in neue Theoriekonzepte. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2002.
• Müller-Funk, W., Plener, P., Ruthner,, C. (Hgg.) Kakanien revisited. Das Eigene und das Fremde (in) der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Tübingen: A. Francke, 2002.
• Horňáček, M. Modelle und Methoden der Literaturwissenschaft. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2005.
• Bennet, M. J. Cultural Marginality: Identity Issues in Intercultural Teaching. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural
• BUBÍKOVÁ, Šárka. Literatura v Americe, Amerika v literatuře : proměny amerického literárního kánonu. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2007, 190 s. ISBN 9788073950309. info
• SCHÖSSLER, Franziska. Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft : eine Einführung. Edited by Christine Bähr. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2006, xii, 274. ISBN 3772081487. info
• SCHÖSSLER, Franziska. Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft : eine Einführung. Edited by Christine Bähr. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2006, xii, 274. ISBN 3772081487. info
• ECO, Umberto. Die Grenzen der Interpretation. Translated by Günter Memmert. 2. Aufl. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999, 476 s. ISBN 3423301686. info
• SOLLORS, Werner. Beyond ethnicity : consent and descent in American culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, xiii, 294. ISBN 9780195051933. info

Teaching methods

lecture, class discussion

Assessment methods

Credit requirements: students submit a seminar paper on a selected topic related to pedagogical practice. Debate.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
  
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