FJ0B807 Political imaginary

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Katia Émilie V. Hayek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Libuše Svobodová
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 G31, except Thu 18. 4.
Prerequisites
French level B2 The course continues the reflection begun in FJ0B806 Comparative Readings but can be taken independently
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The main focus will be on reading and studying contemporary fictional literature not only from the perspective of literary history but also by considering the interweaving of the poetic and the political. What image do novelists paint of their time? How do they question their society, man and the world? What messages/values do they want to transmit to future generations? The method will be comparative and will integrate cultural studies.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to: - write a comparative commentary - compare the stylistic and contextual elements of a literary text to better understand its significance - determine the issues involved in popular fiction, particularly that related to fantasy The student will also have deepened his or her knowledge to approach literary history in a different way (poetics and philosophy, poetics and ecology, etc.)
Syllabus
  • The course will focus on the analysis of selected novels from different linguistic areas. Each of them will be the subject of a sequence about their context, their production and their contemporary and current reception in a comparative perspective. The list will be available on IS Studijní materiály before the beginning of the semester. Depending on the needs, the course may include translation, historical and philosophical documents.
Literature
  • A comparative history of literatures in European languages : Histoire comparée des littératures de langues Européennes. Edited by Albert S. Gérard - Győry M. Vajda. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. info
  • BRUNEL, Pierre. Le commentaire et la dissertation de littérature générale et comparée. Edited by Jean-Marc Moura. Paris: Armand Colin, 2014, 253 s. ISBN 9782200291266. info
  • Précis de littérature comparée. Edited by Pierre Brunel - Yves Chevrel. 1re éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1989, 376 s. ISBN 2130420710. info
  • BARBÉRIS, Pierre. Aux sources du réalisme : aristocrates et bourgeois : du texte à l'histoire. [Paris]: Inédit, 1978, 441 s. ISBN 2264009454. info
Teaching methods
The choice of novels is open to students' proposals. The same applies to the presentations and to the individual comparative commentaries that will allow the validation of the semester. The text analyses completed with theoretical contributions will be discussed in class.
Assessment methods
- an oral presentation of a work (novel, film) based on the political and cultural aspects covered in class (50% of the final mark) - a written comparative commentary based on the novels studied during the semester (50% of the final mark)
Language of instruction
French
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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