AJ14058 An Anatomy of Crime in British Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2002
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:05 31, Tue 14:10–14:55 31
Prerequisites
Sufficient knowledge of English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • The aim of the seminar is to investigate into a particular theme recurrent in literature and that is the borderline between the private sphere and the criminal, or more generally transgressing, one. It is not so much an analysis of psychology or pathology of crime as an inquiry into the literary expression of the intimate and the social lives. The central author of the course is Graham Greene, who consciously brought together and reworked an unacknowledged tradition in English literature. The approach of the seminar is formed in keeping with Northrop Frye's definition of the genre of anatomy as a "form of prose fiction... characterized by a great variety of subject-matter and a strong interest in ideas" (Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 1957: 365). The seminar will focus on a variety of themes arising from the conflicts of the individual will (or ill will) and the social intercourse, and specifically on the enjoyment of reading arising from the "anatomizing".
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003.
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