RJ_650 Academic Discourse

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Oksana Blashkiv (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 8. 10. to Fri 12. 10. each working day 9:00–13:00 A31
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is conceived as interdisciplinary and comparative study of the university’s literary representations with a focus on Slavic literatures (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian). Attention will equally be paid to the history of higher education in Europe and the genre of the academic novel. The Anglo-American tradition of the academic novel with be referred to as well for the purpose of contrast and comparison. The authors studied include, among others: J. Chaucer, Jan Amos Komeński, Jiří Fanta, Oliver Bakoš, Stanislav Rakús, Tobiasz W. Lipny, Wit Stoszak, Ihor Yosypiv, Rostyslav Rosovetskyj, Anatoliy Dnistrovyj.
Syllabus
  • Academic Discourse in Slavic Literatures
  • • The History of the European University in a Nutshell
  • • Academic Discourse in English Literature: from Medieval Scholars to Victorian Students
  • • Academic Discourse in American Literature: Romantic Students in the New World
  • • Scholars in Slavic Literatures: Jan Amos Komensky and His Literary Scholars
  • • Czech Academic Novel (Univerzita, Čtyři by Jiří Fanta)
  • • Slovak Academic Novel (Katedra paupológie by Oliver Bakoš, Excentrická univerzita by Stanislav Rakús)
  • • Polish Academic Novel (Barocco by Tobiasz W. Lipny, Sto dni bez słońca by Wit Stoszak)
  • • Ukrainian Academic Novel (Університет, Калейдоскоп Ігор Йосипів, Помста першодрукаря Ростислав Росовецький, Дрозофіла над томом Канта Анатолій Дністровий)
  • • Contemporary Crisis of the University and the Slavic Academic Novels
Literature
    recommended literature
  • • Moseley, Merritt, ed. The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays. Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2007.
  • • Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers. The Academic Novel and Its Discontents. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
    not specified
  • Stoszak, Wit Sto dni bez słońca
  • Womack, Kenneth. “Academic Satire: The Campus Novel in Context.” A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000. Ed. Brain F. Shaffer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2005. 326-339.
  • Komensky, J.A. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (Chapters X-XVI)
  • Fanta, Jiří. Univerzita
  • Bakoš, Oliver. Katedra paupológie
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Close reading and analyses of extracts from the primary source, group discussion.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
General note: termín blokového kurzu: 8.-12.10.2018, vždy 9:00-13:00.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5 blokových přednášek (celkem 20 hodin).
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