FF:CJBC604 Theory of Mimesis - Course Information
CJBC604 Theory of Mimesis
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Ondřej Sládek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová - Timetable
- Wed 18:20–19:55 A32 stara
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech Literature (programme FF, D-FI)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
- Course objectives
- The course offers description and analysis of modern literary-theoretical approaches dealing with the problems of depiction of reality within narrative, i.e. it considers the analysis of theoretical concepts of theme possibilities in the depiction of reality in literary production. It mainly presents terms as mimesis and diegesis, in a broader context it further explains the general aesthetic problems of the relation between depiction and mediated depiction, Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit (Auerbach, Scholes-Kellogg, Doležel, Genette, Gadamer, Deleuze). The research mostly concerns systematic and integrated theoretical concepts (Hamburgerová, Genette, Todorov, Ricoeur), yet the “classic” Antique Greek theories of mimesis are not left unnoticed (Plato, Aristotle), as well as phenomenological and structural-semiotic approaches (Mukařovský, Jakobson, Vodička, Eco). Special attention is paid to bringing the fiction to theme with the support of the concept of the possible world (Doležel, Pavel, M. L. Ryanová, Ronen, McHale, Parsons).
- Syllabus
- (a) Problems of mimesis and fiction. The aim is to present elementary conceptions through historical outline and relating conceptions understanding mimesis as imitation, bringing to present, poiesis, etc.; (b) Attributes of fictional texts. K. Hamburgerová, F. Stanzel, discussion on their concepts and others trying to clearly describe the “fictionality” of narrative texts.; (c) Fictional Worlds. Analysis of the theory of fictional (possible) worlds – L. Doležel, R. Ronen, T. Pavel, M. L. Ryan, Walton, etc.
- Literature
- SEDLÁČEK, Marek. Eco, Umberto. Teorie sémiotiky (A Theory of Semiotics) (A Theory of Semiotics). (Translated by Marek Sedláček). 1st ed. Brno: JAMU, 2004, 410 pp. JAMU. ISBN 80-85429-99-3. info
- ECO, Umberto and Ladislav NAGY. Meze interpretace. 1. české vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2004, 330 s. ISBN 9788024607405. info
- DOLEŽEL, Lubomír. Heterocosmica. Fikce a možné světy (Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds). Vydání české první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2003, 311 pp. ISBN 80-246-0735-2. info
- AUERBACH, Erich. Mimesis : zobrazení skutečnosti v západoevropských literaturách. Vyd. 2. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998, 479 s. ISBN 8020407383. info
- GOODMAN, Nelson. Způsoby světa tvorby. Bratislava: Archa, 1996, 152 s. ISBN 80-7115-120-3. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
General note: Počet účastníků bude omezený.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě vědomostního testu nebo pohovoru.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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