FF:AJL24103 Reading Harry Potter - Course Information
AJL24103 Reading Harry Potter: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Analyses
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- It is important to know both the book and film series of Harry Potter.
- 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to analyze Harry Potter series from the interdisciplinary perspectives. When analzying the text and the film adaptation, students will learn to combine theories and frameworks of stylistics, pragmatics and gender studies, as well as film studies, myth and archetypal criticism and the theory of canon.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course, students will be able to: - analyze stylistic and pragmatic aspects found in Harry Potter series - compare the book and film adaptations in terms of gender studies - analyse social issues presented in the novels - identify various ideologies - apply to the novel archetypal and myth criticism
- Syllabus
- Topics to be discussed: - Genre analysis of both literary and non-literary texts found in the series
- - Characterization
- - (Im)politeness in Harry Potter dialogues
- - Social Commentary in Harry Potter
- - Gender analysis - text and film comparison
- - Mothers' identities
- - Ideologies
- - Creative workshop
- Literature
- GROVES, Beatrice. Literary allusion in Harry Potter. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, xxii, 173. ISBN 9781138284661. info
- SPENCER, Richard A. Harry Potter and the classical world : Greek and Roman allusions in J.K. Rowling's modern epic. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015, viii, 315. ISBN 9780786499212. info
- Heroism in the Harry Potter series. Edited by Katrin Berndt - Lena Steveker. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011, xi, 233. ISBN 9781409412441. info
- Critical perspectives on Harry Potter. Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, ix, 354. ISBN 9780415964845. info
- The ivory tower and Harry Potter : perspectives on a literary phenomenon. Edited by Lana A. Whited. Columbia: University of Missouri, 2002, x, 418. ISBN 9780826215499. info
- Teaching methods
- Classes will combine lectures and seminars in which students will analyze the text following the topics scheduled for a particular week.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment: 4 response papers 60 % + final written exam 40 %. Course attendance is obligatory.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Teacher's information
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- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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