LMKB423 Planetarianism Now: Children’s Literature and Our Planet’s Fight for Life

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2018
Rozsah
0/2/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
prof. Marek Oziewicz (přednášející)
Mgr. Tereza Dědinová, Ph.D. (pomocník)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Ústav české literatury – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav české literatury – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Po 1. 10. 14:00–17:40 B2.24, Út 2. 10. 9:00–12:40 B2.22, Pá 5. 10. 10:00–13:40 D33
Předpoklady
Registration deadline: 7.9. 2018. Die to the need to order books in the USA and to deliver them to the Czech Republic. Students will be given a book in English to read one week before the start of the seminar. The books will be distributed on short information meeting 24. 9. Time and place will be announced in a later notice. Contact: Tereza Dědinová
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 18 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/18, pouze zareg.: 0/18, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/18
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This seminar will help students grasp the importance of children’s literature and film for the current transition from local to global humanity. According to the scientific consensus, our carbon-based industrial civilization is straining the planet’s resources beyond its regenerative capacity. The Anthropocene is projected as involving ecocide: a wholesale destruction of the Earth’s biosphere. What can an ordinary person do about it? How can a teacher or student of literature take a stand? This seminar will help students become aware of the fact that the battle for the Earth’s future is first and foremost a battle of imagination: of whether we can imagine a hopeful future. The dominant narrative, unfortunately exacerbated by popular literature and film, has been predominantly dystopian. We have been highly creative in imagining the planetary collapse and the fall of humanity. But literature can also offer positive, hopeful visions of the future worth striving for. In this seminar students will learn about the rise of planetarianist literature and film—one that creates an alternative framework and an alternative epistemological orientation of putting the planet first. Planetarianist ideas will be discussed on examples taken from YA novels and films. Students will learn how to apply planetarianism as a methodology for studying and teaching children’s literature and they will be empowered to become agents of change in their own work and teaching.
Osnova
  • Teaching schedule: 24. 9. – short information meeting, where books will be distributed. 1. 10. 14:00 – 17:40 2. 10. 9:00 – 12:40 5. 10. 10:00 – 13:40
Literatura
  • OZIEWICZ, Marek C. Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading. New York: Routledge, 2016. 268 s. ISBN 9781138547797
  • ATTEBERY, Brian. Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 240 s. ISBN 9780199316069. info
  • OZIEWICZ, Marek. One earth, one people : the mythopoeic fantasy series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card. Edited by Brian Attebery. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2008, vii, 263. ISBN 9780786431359. info
Výukové metody
Thematic reading, discussion on the topic, lecture.
Metody hodnocení
Essay.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
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  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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