AJ3DC_SBAL Literární seminář pro pokročilé

Pedagogická fakulta
jaro 2014
Rozsah
0/0/12. 4 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
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
AJ3DC_SBAL/OS01: Pá 28. 2. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, Pá 21. 3. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, Pá 4. 4. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, Pá 18. 4. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, Pá 2. 5. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, Pá 23. 5. 16:40–18:20 učebna 58, V. Eliášová
Předpoklady
Reading proficiency adequate to university level.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This is an advanced literary/cultural course exploring and examining selected topics of Contemporary British and American Literature. Literature and other cultural production tend to foretell and reflect on entanglements with globalization, emerging markets, people, and cultures from the heart of Anglophone cultural hegemony. The course attempts to re-think selected literary topics investigating global, national or regional frames to re-evaluate the growing claims on inevitable internationalization of Anglophone Canon. Special focus is to be paid to topics, shapes, subjects of so called transnational cultural production. This course is designed to explore the shapes of American and British literary and cultural imagination within Western Canon. We will also consider how transnational approaches to American and British literature contribute to reception, translation and institutalization (literary prizes, commercialization). The popularity of ethnic cultural production is to be examined as well in order to understand literary terrain in changing globalized world. Transnational and comparative approach allows for learning social, political, and cultural networks that enable students to attain complex understanding of role of literature and empowerment by literature. Last but not least, the course contributes and complements to an emerging field in international literary studies conventionally known as Transnationalism.
Osnova
  • COURSE OUTLINE
  • 1. Literature and its prophesies. Regionalism and globalization. Culture and emerging markets. Lasting Anglophone cultural hegemony? Ways to rethink literature. Western Canon: global, national or regional? Internationalization of Anglophone Canon. Transnationalism, Crossculturalism, Multiculturalism. Cultural studies and Popular Culture. Re-imagination and Nostalgia. Social, political, and cultural networks and role of literature.
  • 2. EAST MEETS WEST, cultural flows in between East and West in both directions. Asians and 9/11. Asian tigers and emerging markets. Focus on South Asian literature and west in the backstage. (Jhumpa Lahiri, Arvind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid, Kiran Desai, Anita Desai, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Arundhati Roy)
  • 3.Regional British literature: Scottish Voices. British Diaspora and Scotland. Scottish English, horror, double personality and class issues. Outwardness, wider appeal and relevance. Scottish and Gealic heritage. Revision of Scottish women's past and present. (Janice Galloway, Muriel Spark, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Duncan McLean, Ian Rankin, Ali Smith, Alasdair Gray)
  • 4. AFTER 9/11: New Ethnic literatures or transnational literature. History versus memory, cultural history re-discovered. Dignity re-discoverd, stereotypes challenged. Recent transnational literature (transnational literature/cultural production, or a new world literature, written by authors who develop strong transnational ties with more than one country). Historiography in contemporary culture, objective truth, global cultural narrative and meta-narratives. (Khaled Hosseini, Zadie Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Sandra Cisneros, Chris Abani, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Kiran Desai, Anita Desai, Hanif Kureishi)
  • 5. Gender, Body and Queer Literature. Boundaries between masculine and feminine. Self-discovery, and the reinvention of bodies and selves; self-conscious and self-reflexive narratives. Theories of sex, gender; the queer. (J. Winterson, Angela Carter, Alice Munro, Fay Weldon, A. S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Sarah Waters, Ali Smith)
  • 6. Neo-Victorian Cultural Production; victorian sexuality revised. Texts of redemptive past, or neo-romantic romances using Victorian aesthetics, morality and settings. These texts often portray disputable social attitudes and conventions. Sometimes, those are seen as “revenge of oppressed imagination”. Texts recycle Dickensian and Austenian topics, point at its contradictions, and use timely slang, explore the timely stereotypes, focusing on unspoken physical, emotional and sexual realities.
Literatura
  • Literature is provided on moodlinka.
Výukové metody
It is assumed the students are advanced learners, who have gained previous basic knowledge of current most visible literary trends, and shall actively evaluate and form their critical stances on selected texts and cultural phenomena, while exploring narrative fiction, non-fiction, or other contemporary cultural production. Cultural, historical, and theoretical context will be examined and discussed, while primary or secondary readings are to be utilized and scrutinized. Method of close reading would allow us to observe relevant themes and form critical judgments. The seminar is based on active reading and analysis of selected extracts; other activities and discussions are required and encouraged. The goal of the course is that students become confident in working with literature, and able to form judgments on current shape of the transforming international English Canon. Upon finishing the course students are capable of critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
Metody hodnocení
Evaluation In-class debates participation of readings that need to be done prior to coming to class; Response Paper; Oral Presentation. PLEASE NOTE: Attendance is assumed and strongly recommended. The course is hands-on, based on activities rather than lecturing.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Course Requirements Students are expected to read and reflect on assigned readings. Effective reading and writing skills would be treated as well. Oral presentation seeks to introduce either context, character, text's feature or author. Students are required to read the compulsory readings, and/or additional readings and to participate in class discussions. Discussion will encourage us to explore the connections between readings and major themes and topics. Students will submit a paper copy of a writing assignment (Response Paper). All readings and updated course information will be available on moodlinka.
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je dovoleno ukončit i mimo zkouškové období.
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2008, jaro 2009, jaro 2010, jaro 2011, jaro 2012, jaro 2013, jaro 2015, jaro 2016, jaro 2017, jaro 2018, jaro 2019.