FF:FJ0B605 Time and the Narrative Categor

FJ0B605 Time and the Narrative Categories

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 1999

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

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

Course objectives

The course shows different approaches to the category of time in literary texts.

Syllabus

The course combines theoretical approach with analysis of concrete texts. Main problems treated: 1. Time in physical, bilogical and psychological meaning. Time in different cultures. 2. Expressing time: linguistic means, verbal tenses, adverbs, nouns, deixis, "temps du discours" and "temps du récit" in French(Benveniste, Genette, Maingueneau. 3. Time and narrator: Diderot, Balzac, Gide, Céline. 4. Time and space in the mythe and in the novel: Lévi-Strauss, Tournier. 5. Representing time: Proust. 6. Subjectivity and the representation of time: Le Clézio. 7. Time on stage: Ionesco, Beckett.

Literature

Maingueneau, Dominique. Elements de linguistique pour le texte littéraire. Paris. Bordas 1990
Benveniste, Emile. Problees de linguistique générale, Paris. Galliimard 1996
BERGSON, Henri. Durée et simultanéité : a propos de la théorie d'Einstein. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1922, viii, 245. info
KYLOUŠEK, Petr. Znak, struktura, vyprávění. Výbor z prací francouzského strukturalismu (Sign, structure and narration). 1st ed. Brno: Host, 2002, 324 pp. Strukturalistická knihovna 10. ISBN 80-7294-016-3. info
BENVENISTE, Émile. Dvanáct esejů o jazyce. Translated by Miroslav Pravda - Jan Šabršula. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1970, 227 s. URL info
Maingueneau, Dominique. La pragmatique pour le discours littéraire. Paris. Bordas 1990
BERGSON, Henri. Čas a svoboda : o bezprostředních datech vědomí. Translated by Boris Jakovenko. Praha: Filosofický ústav AV ČR, 1994, 134 s. ISBN 80-7007-065-X. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Zkouška - ústní. Účast na přednášce není povinná.

Language of instruction

French

Further Comments

The course is taught only once.
The course is taught every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008.