LMKA_a10 Literary Work: Observation, Analysis, Interpretation, Contextualization

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Vokřínek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Thursday 12:00–15:40 K33
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 11 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/11, only registered: 0/11
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
There are three aims to this course. Firstly, the course strives to create a shared platform for discussion about literary works (which is understood as one of the media products of culture) for students who come into the programme from various fields of study. After having been introduced to the core concepts of modern poetics and their potential uses, students will acquire the skills of observation, description, and analysis of the aspects and makeup of a literary work. Acquisition of the aforementioned skills creates the conditions for achieving the second aim of the course, which includes the ability to interpret an individual work as well as to typologize and compare groups of literary works in both synchronic and historic perspective, and to observe their transfer among various cultures. The third aim is for the students to achieve the potential for subsequent study and critical analysis of methodologies – the understanding of which will be developed in further courses – and especially the intermedia methodology. The poetics of a literary work is consistently developed as a poetics of an autonomous medium – at the same time, students will be able to utilize this experience to observe and describe the features of other media products (such as film, visual art, virtual reality etc.), as well as to conceptualize both mutual and specific features of the particular media, and perceive their interactions.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to
- perceive and describe unique characteristics of a literary work,
- use this perception in both partial analysis and complex interpretation of literary works,
- conceptualize mutual features of literary works as categories of their poetics,
- use their knowledge of poetics in interpreting historic development of literature,
- recognize the relationships between literary works based on poetological observation,
- eventually acquire means of observation and terminologically grasp the products of other media.
Syllabus
  • Structuring and integration of meaning in a literary work
  • Literary competencies. Reader’s perception and scholarly observation of a literary work
  • Poetics as a device of literary theory and literary history
  • Genre as a convention of communication
  • Style as a parameter of authorial and historic poetics
  • Poetic language and figurative nature of literature
  • Motive and topic. Construction of complex literary units
  • Narration as construction of fictional world; transmission of experience
  • Intertextual relationships
  • Medium-specific and intermedia poetics of literature
  • Analysis, interpretation and over-interpretation
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FILIP, Jiří and Josef BRUKNER. Větší poetický slovník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1968, 321 s. URL info
  • Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury : koncepce / osobnosti / základní pojmy. Edited by Ansgar Nünning - Jiří Trávníček - Jiří Holý, Translated by Al. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2006, 912 stran. ISBN 8072941704. info
  • Slovník novější literární teorie : glosář pojmů. Edited by Richard Müller - Pavel Šidák. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2012, 699 stran. ISBN 9788020020482. info
  • Průvodce po světové literární teorii 20. století. Edited by Vladimír Macura - Alice Jedličková. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2012, 839 stran. ISBN 9788072948482. info
  • MOCNÁ, Dagmar and Josef PETERKA. Encyklopedie literárních žánrů. 1. vyd. Litomyšl: Paseka, 2004, 699 s. ISBN 807185669X. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Interpretace básní (2. přepracované vydání). Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1997, 186 pp. ISBN 80-210-1694-9. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. --na okraji chaosu-- :poetika literárního díla 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 2001, 865 s. ISBN 80-7215-140-1. info
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Na cestě ke smyslu : poetika literárního díla 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 2005, 1051 s. ISBN 8072152440. info
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Pohledy zblízka : zvuk, význam, obraz : poetika literárního díla 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 2002, 589 s. ISBN 8072151711. info
  • Poetika české meziválečné literatury : (proměny žánrů). Vydání první. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1987, 351 stran. URL info
  • Proměny subjektu. Edited by Daniela Hodrová. Pardubice: Mlejnek, 1994. ISBN 80-85778-02-5. info
  • ZEMAN, Milan. Rozumět literatuře. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989, 393 s. URL info
  • TÁBORSKÁ, Jiřina and Milan ZEMAN. Česká literatura 1945-1970 : interpretace vybraných děl. 1. vydání. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1992, 427 stran. ISBN 8004239730. info
  • Český Parnas : literatura 1970-1990 : interpretace vybraných děl 60 autorů [29931]. Praha: Galaxie, 1993. ISBN 80-85204-07-X. info
  • V souřadnicích volnosti : česká literatura devadesátých let dvacátého století v interpretacích. Edited by Petr Hruška. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 738 s. ISBN 9788020016300. info
  • V souřadnicích mnohosti : česká literatura první dekády jednadvacátého století v souvislostech a interpretacích. Edited by Alena Šidáková Fialová - Petr Hruška - Lenka Jungmannová. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2014, 817 stran. ISBN 9788020024107. info
  • PETERKA, Josef. Teorie literatury pro učitele. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2001, 287 s. ISBN 8072900455. info
  • ŠIDÁK, Pavel. Úvod do studia genologie : teorie literárního žánru a žánrová krajina. Vyd. 1. Praha: Akropolis, 2013, 325 s. ISBN 9788074700408. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
Assignments testing the students’ acquisition of the terminology of poetics and their ability to describe a particular literary phenomenon, while using a transformation or original creation to prove their understanding of it.
Final exam in written form; includes similar tasks as the assignments and is aimed at testing out the students’ acquisition of the competencies required (i.e. to identify and classify a certain phenomenon, to characterize it, to describe the features of a given text and analyse their function, compare and typologize within a group of phenomena etc.).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
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