FF:RJ_650 Academic Discourse - Course Information
RJ_650 Academic Discourse
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Dr. Oksana Blashkiv (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 8. 10. to Fri 12. 10. each working day 9:00–13:00 A31
- 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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Balkan Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Balkan Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-HS)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-GK)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-MA)
- Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, N-HS)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Paleoslavic and Slavic Languages (programme FF, D-FI4)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Polish with orientation on Commercial Practice, Services and Travel (programme FF, B-FI)
- Russian-language Translation (programme FF, N-HS)
- Russian-language Translation (programme FF, N-PT) (2)
- Russian Literature (programme FF, D-FI4)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-TV)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Russian Language (programme FF, D-FI4)
- Russian with orientation on Commercial Practice, Services and Travel (programme FF, B-FI)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Theory and History of Slavic Literatures (programme FF, D-FI4)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-TV)
- Ukrainian Studies (programme FF, B-FI)
- Ukrainian Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Ukrainian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Course objectives
- The course is conceived as interdisciplinary and comparative study of the university’s literary representations with a focus on Slavic literatures (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian). Attention will equally be paid to the history of higher education in Europe and the genre of the academic novel. The Anglo-American tradition of the academic novel with be referred to as well for the purpose of contrast and comparison. The authors studied include, among others: J. Chaucer, Jan Amos Komeński, Jiří Fanta, Oliver Bakoš, Stanislav Rakús, Tobiasz W. Lipny, Wit Stoszak, Ihor Yosypiv, Rostyslav Rosovetskyj, Anatoliy Dnistrovyj.
- Syllabus
- Academic Discourse in Slavic Literatures
- • The History of the European University in a Nutshell
- • Academic Discourse in English Literature: from Medieval Scholars to Victorian Students
- • Academic Discourse in American Literature: Romantic Students in the New World
- • Scholars in Slavic Literatures: Jan Amos Komensky and His Literary Scholars
- • Czech Academic Novel (Univerzita, Čtyři by Jiří Fanta)
- • Slovak Academic Novel (Katedra paupológie by Oliver Bakoš, Excentrická univerzita by Stanislav Rakús)
- • Polish Academic Novel (Barocco by Tobiasz W. Lipny, Sto dni bez słońca by Wit Stoszak)
- • Ukrainian Academic Novel (Університет, Калейдоскоп Ігор Йосипів, Помста першодрукаря Ростислав Росовецький, Дрозофіла над томом Канта Анатолій Дністровий)
- • Contemporary Crisis of the University and the Slavic Academic Novels
- Literature
- recommended literature
- • Moseley, Merritt, ed. The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays. Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2007.
- • Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers. The Academic Novel and Its Discontents. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
- not specified
- Stoszak, Wit Sto dni bez słońca
- Womack, Kenneth. “Academic Satire: The Campus Novel in Context.” A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000. Ed. Brain F. Shaffer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2005. 326-339.
- Komensky, J.A. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (Chapters X-XVI)
- Fanta, Jiří. Univerzita
- Bakoš, Oliver. Katedra paupológie
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- Close reading and analyses of extracts from the primary source, group discussion.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught only once.
General note: termín blokového kurzu: 8.-12.10.2018, vždy 9:00-13:00.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5 blokových přednášek (celkem 20 hodin).
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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