PdF:CJp302 Literary Criticism, Textology - Course Information
CJp302 Literary Criticism, Textology and Text Editing
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. David Kroča, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - 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
- Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language (programme PdF, N-SS)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able: aquire basic concepts, methods and rules of literary criticism and textology. Students write their own mock review and use the method of critical reading to assess reviews in daily press as well as professinal journals. They will be able to analyse and interpret a literary text using the form of a review and a literary-critical study.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to:
- acquire conceptual apparatus, methods and rules of literary criticism and textology; - Develop her/his own practice review;
- by critical reading method, review reviews in daily and professional press;
- analyse and interpret the literary text in the final form of the review and the literary-critical study - Syllabus
- 1. The organization and conditions of the course. Introduction of course related literature. 2. What is and what isn’t criticism and why it exists. Genres and forms of literary criticism. 3. Reviews. Types of reviews. Examples of reviews, ones formally acceptable and unacceptable. 4. Typology of critical approach to text. 5. Analysis of a selected review from a professional magazine. 6. Analysis of selected reviews from daily and professional press (comparison of different responses to the same book). 7. Comments on the development of literary criticism in the 19th century (examples). 8. Czech literary criticism in the 20th century (key events). 9. Introduction into textology: relationship between textual sources. 10. Introduction into textology: publication of critical text. 11. Editing text for publishing as a final phase of editorial work. 12. Evaluation of seminar works: so-called practice reviews.
- Literature
- Editor a text : úvod do praktické textologie. Edited by Rudolf Havel - Břetislav Štorek - Jiří Flaišman - Michal Kosák. Vyd. 2. Praha: Paseka, 2006, 182 s. ISBN 8071856533. info
- HAMAN, Aleš. Nástin dějin české literární kritiky. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 2000, 131 s. ISBN 8086022633. info
- GALÍK, Josef. Panorama české literatury :(literární dějiny od počátků do současnosti). Edited by Lubomír Machala - Eduard Petrů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1994, 547 s. ISBN 80-85839-04-0. info
- VAŠÁK, Pavel. Textologie :teorie a ediční praxe. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1993, 235 s. ISBN 80-7066-638-2. info
- Čítanka české literární kritiky. Edited by František Buriánek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1974, 435 s. URL info
- ČERNÝ, Václav. Co je kritika, co není a k čemu je na světě. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Blok, 1968, 81 s. URL info
- NOVÁK, Arne. Kritika literární : metody a směry, zásady a prakse. Druhé vydání. Praha: F. Topič, 1925, 147 stran. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Form of course: seminar, homeworks, text analysis. The seminar is linked to text analyses and a subsequent discussion of the topics presented in the course.
- Assessment methods
- Student must responsibly prepare for individual seminar, and successfully submit a so-called practice review (including submitting it before an agreed-upon deadline) in order to receive their credit. Students demonstrate their knowledge of genres and forms of literary criticism and their ability to write a review on the level of a national daily newspaper.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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