CJBC815 Literary Theory for Non-Bohemists

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Jan Tlustý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 17:30–19:05 M21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
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Course objectives
At the end of the course the students should be able to: understand elementary literary theoretical concepts and categories; view literary theory in wider scholarly contexts; apply gained instruments to analyses of particular literary artworks.
Syllabus
  • 1. What is a text, what is a literary text. Various definitions of texts. Functions and meanings of texts. The process of text creation and comprehension. Textual components. Performative.
  • 2. Literary artwork as a communicative. The sign essence of literary artworks. Literary semiotics. Literary artwork and reality. Contexts of literary artworks: author, reader, text, supratextual contexts. Literary types and genres.
  • 3. Composition of literary artworks. Characteristics of epics. Elements and compositional principles of epic literary artworks (plot, characters, world, story, narrator, space and time, focalisation, narration).
  • 4. Characteristics of lyrics. Elements and compositional principles of lyrical literary artworks (subjects, verse, rhyme, rhythm, intonation). The meaning of a lyrical work. Interpretation of lyrical work.
  • 5. Literature and other types of arts. Intertextual relations between artworks. Media and artworks. Narrativity and narration in intermedial metamorphosis.
  • 6. The meaning of literary artworks. The place of literature in human world. Aesthetic aspects of literary artworks and their functions in human society.
  • 7. Fiction, fictionality and fictitiousity. Conceptions of fictionality based on thematic, dicoursive and functional aspects of literary artworks.
  • 8. Theory of the novel. The novel as the supreme form of narrative poiesis. Development and specific trends of the novel. 9. Author-focused approaches to literary artworks: Positivism, New Historsim.
  • 10. Text-focused approaches to literary artworks: New Criticism, Structuralism.
  • 11. Reader-focused approaches to literary artworks: Cognitive literary criticism, Receptional Aesthetics.
  • 12. Theory of fictional worlds. Extensional and intensional structures of fictional worlds. Ontology of fictional worlds.
  • 13. Texts and translations. Definitions of translation and translative. Translatological conceptions: equivalent, functional, cognitivist, culturological. Trasnlative Criticism. Creative writing.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014.
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