AJL54055 Iris Murdoch: spisovatelka a filozofka

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2025

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Rozsah
0/2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
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Mateřské obory/plány
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Cíle předmětu
At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain some of the principle ideas of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in relation to her fiction writing. After reading Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, the Sea and a selection of theoretical and philosophical texts, students will be able to analyse, discuss and interpret Murdoch's fiction in the light of her views on novel writing and her moral philosophy. The course will develop the students' skills of critical thinking, literary analysis and work with secondary literature. Students will employ and apply the acquired knowledge and skills of analysis and interpretation in writing their end-of-term essay.
Výstupy z učení
The students will be able to apply the knowledge, skills and experience gained to broaden and complement their study of British and other Anglophone literatures and cultures as well as world literature.
Osnova
  • IRIS MURDOCH THE NOVELIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER Week l: Introduction Murdoch in the context of the British novel since World War II Week 2: Murdoch's philosophy from: "The Sovereignty of Good", "The Idea of Perfection" Week 3: Murdoch on Plato (from The Fire and the Sun) "Art and Religion" (Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals) Week 4: "Against Dryness" Bryan Magee "On natural novelist and unnatural philosophers" Week 5: The Sea, the Sea Ronald Bryden "Talking to Iris Murdoch" Murdoch's realism, pattern vs. contingency, the supernatural Week 6: The Sea, the Sea Malcolm Bradbury "A House Fit for Free Characters" Murdoch's novel characters Week 7: The Sea, the Sea John Haffenden, from The Novelists in Interview Murdoch's symbolism and Shakespearean interest Week 8: The Sea, the Sea Martin Hilsky's review "the idea of perfection" in the novel: love, freedom, attention, words and communication; Murdochland Week 9: The Sea, the Sea A S Byatt "The Murdoch Theatre" the artist and the saint: the good, power and evil Week 10: Murdoch's other novels (A Message to the Planet) contemporary issues: politics, feminism, sex, homosexuality Week 11: Murdoch's other novels (The Green Knight) Martin Hilský on Murdoch (Současný britský román) Week 12: Conclusions Brian Appleyard "Tiny Spark" Hensher and Skidelsky "The dying of the light"
Literatura
  • MURDOCH, Iris. The sea, the sea :[a rich, crowded, magical love story]. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978, 520 s. ISBN 0-14-005199-6. info
  • BYATT, A. S. Degrees of freedom :the early novels of Iris Murdoch. London: Vintage, 1994, x, 358 s. ISBN 0-09-930224-1. info
  • BYATT, A. S. (Antonia Susan). Iris Murdoch [Byatt, 1976]. Edited by Ian Scott-Kilvert. Harlow, England: Published for the British Council by Longman Group, 1976, 42 p. ; 22. ISBN 0-582-01252-X. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Human relationships in the novels of Iris Murdoch. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 93 s. ISBN 8021011912. URL info
  • SPEAR, Hilda D. Iris Murdoch [Spear, 1995]. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995, xiii, 139. ISBN 0-333-51923-X. info
  • CONRADI, Peter (Peter J.). Iris Murdoch : the saint and the artist. London: Macmillan Press, 1986, xvi, 304 p. ISBN 0-333-32846-922. info
  • Iris Murdoch and the search for human goodness. Edited by Maria Antonaccio - William Schweiker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, xx, 266. ISBN 0226021130. info
  • MURDOCH, Iris. The green knight. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, 472 s. ISBN 0-14-023166-8. info
  • MURDOCH, Iris. The sovereignty of good. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1985, 106 s. ISBN 0-7448-0028-5. info
  • Sir Gawain and the green knight. Edited by Betty Radice, Translated by Brian Stone. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, 185 s. ISBN 0-14-044092-5. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. The Green Knight and the Myth of the Green Man. In Brno Studies in English. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, s. 77-83. Č. 21. ISBN 80-210-1206-4. info
Výukové metody
Weekly 1 1/2 hour seminar: short introductory lectures, student presentations, class discussion
Metody hodnocení
class participation, contributions to discussion, end-of-term essay
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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