LMKB204 Contemporary fiction in English and its cultural contexts

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 17:30–19:05 U33
Prerequisites
The participants of the course are expected to read literary texts in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with selected significant works of literatures in English after 1945. It will also provide them with information on the culture in which the works were written and which they both reflect and co-create. The texts will be interpreted as literary works and analyzed as a part of the given culture. The context and cultural background of the works will also be discussed. In addition, the course will focus on intercultural and intertextual communication with regard to the analyzed texts.
Syllabus
  • intro: Greenblatt, "Culture"; Ishiguro, "Family Supper"
  • post-apartheid in RSA: Coetzee, Disgrace
  • Queer: Ali Smith, "Blank Card", "More Than One Story", "A Story of Love", "Free Love"
  • genre transgressions, comics: Spiegelman, Maus
  • Intertextuality, folklore: Carter, ‘The Werewolf’, ‘The Company of Wolves’, ‘Wolf-Alice’ (in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories)
  • Intertextuality, gender: Yuknavitch, Dora: A Headcase
  • Fictionalization in autobiography, Ireland: McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
  • literature in film: Karel Reisz, The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
  • History in fiction: Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow
  • multiculturalism: Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic" (in Love in a Blue Time); Salman Rushdie, “Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies” (in East, West); Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, “Disappearance”
  • 9/11: Don DeLillo, Falling Man
Literature
    required literature
  • RUSHDIE, Salman. East, West. London: Vintage, 1995, 216 s. ISBN 0-09-953301-4. info
    not specified
  • DELILLO, Don. Falling man : a novel. 1st pub. London: Picador, 2007, 246 s. ISBN 9780330453172. info
  • DANGAREMBGA, Tsitsi. Nervous conditions : a novel. Edited by Anthony Appiah. Banbury, Oxfordshire: Ayebia, 2004, xi, 211. ISBN 9780954702335. info
  • COETZEE, J. M. Disgrace. London: Vintage, 2000, 219 s. ISBN 0099289520. info
  • SPIEGELMAN, Art. Maus : a survivor's tale. Edited by Art Spiegelman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997, 295 s. ISBN 0679406417. info
  • MCCOURT, Frank. Angela's ashes :a memoir of a childhood. London: Flamingo, 1996, 426 s. ISBN 0-00-651034-5. info
  • AMIS, Martin. Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, 176 s. ISBN 0-14-016779-X. info
  • CARTER, Angela. The bloody chamber and other stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1989, 157 s. ISBN 0575025840. info
Teaching methods
Seminars include the teacher's mini-lectures introducing the topic, student presentations, textual analysis, group and class discussions, and projection of audiovisual materials.
Assessment methods
active participation in the classes, presentation on one of the discussed topics, final essay (about 5 pages)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2019, Spring 2021.
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