AJB_MCF Moderní město ve filmu, literatuře a kultuře

Pedagogická fakulta
jaro 2011
Rozsah
0/1/0. 1 hodina. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 20 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/20, pouze zareg.: 0/20, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/20
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course examines the significance of the concept of the city in English, American as well as global literature and culture and will focus on the recurrent themes and motifs of the urban phenomena. At the end of the course students will be able recognize major literary works on the city and identify major issues in the debate on the public sphere and urban space. They will be able to make their own connections between the assigned reading and also question and actively interpret them as well as create their own critical evaulation.
Osnova
  • Session I: The Rise of the Modern City and of the Modern Urban Subjectivity
  • Questions: What is the modern city? How do we undertsand it? How has it changed us? Who is a modern urban subject and in what ways is his or her subjectivity new? What are the principal concerns, joys and fears of the nineteenth-century city dwellers and how do they differ from the those of the twentieth century?
  • Readings:
  • Richard Lehan: The City in Literature (selections)
  • Lewis Mumford: The City in History (selections)
  • Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz (selections)
  • Henry Mayhew: London Labor and the London Poor (selections)
  • Edgar Allan Poe: "The Man of the Crowd"
  • Bram Stoker: Dracula
  • T.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land"
  • Session II: The Modern City and Gender
  • Questions: What happens to women in the modern city? In what ways is the female urban subjectivity different from the male one? Does the twentieth-century city offer more freedom to women than the nineteenth-century city?
  • Readings:
  • Candace Bushnell: Sex and the City (selections)
  • Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
  • Iva Pekarkova: Gimme the Money
  • Elizabeth Wilson: The Sphinx in the City (selections)
Literatura
  • PEKÁRKOVÁ, Iva. Gimme the money. Translated by Raymond Johnston - Iva Pekárková. 1st publ. London: Serpent's Tail, 2000, 278 s. ISBN 1-85242-658-6. info
  • LEHAN, Richard Daniel. The city in literature : an intellectual and cultural history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, xvi, 330. ISBN 0520212568. info
  • Dracula. Edited by Bram Stoker - Margaret Tarner. [2nd ed.]. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992, 63 s. ISBN 0-435-27289-6. info
  • MUMFORD, Lewis. The city in history. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, 693 s. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1953, 296 s. ISBN 0-15-662863-5. info
Výukové metody
Lecture and class discussion on assigned readings
Metody hodnocení
attendance is required in both block sessions
oral presentation
contribution to discussion
a short written assignment (1-2-page essay)
short quiz on reading (10 questions- multiple choice)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Readings will be provided in class and on moodlinka.
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá blokově.
Poznámka k četnosti výuky: 2 odpolední bloky, v pondělí 14.2. a pátek 13.5. 14 - 19 hod.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2010, jaro 2012, jaro 2013, jaro 2014.