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Experimental Contemporary Fiction - AAA400432
Title: Současná experimentální próza
Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2013
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AAA500432
Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
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Annotation
This seminar examines the work of a selection of contemporary novelists, within the context of 20th century modernity, and
critical theory and praxis?including Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Georges Perec, Ann Quinn, Robert Coover, Ingeborg
Bachmann, Clarence Majors, William Burroughs, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Thomas Bernhard, Nicole
Brossard, Gilbert Sorrentino, Arno Schmidt, Samuel Beckett, H.D., Andy Warhol, Thomas Pynchon, Harry Mathews, Iain
Sinclair, Tom McCarthy and Joshua Cohen. Assessment will be based upon in-class discussion, a 20-minute formal
presentation and a 3,000 word essay.
Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.10.2010)
Literature - Czech

MATERIAL

Primary:

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964)

Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Berkeley: Odonion, 1992)

Kenneth Rexroth, An Autobiographical Novel (New York: New Direction, 1970)

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Doubleday, 1968)

Norman Mailer, The Presidential Papers (New York: Panther, 1977)

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (London:

Granada, 1981)

Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Picador, 1977)

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, War and Peace in the Global Village (San Francisco: Hardwired, 1997)

Secondary:

Niel Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1986)

Peter Hayes, Lyuba Zarsky & Walden Bello, American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific (Ringwood: Penguin, 1986)

Jean Claude Carriere, The Secret Language of Film (New York: Random House, 1994)

Jürgen Müller, ed. Movies of the 70s (Köln: Taschen, 2003)

David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)

Friedrich Kittler, Literature, Media, Information Systems, ed. John Johnston (Amsterdam: OPA, 1997)

Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, trans. Anthony Mathews (London: Reaktion Books, 2000)

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1995 [1967])

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext(e),

1983 [1981])

Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000)

Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi

(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984)

McKenzie Wark, Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events (Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1994)

Henri Lefebvre, Introduction to Modernity, trans. John Moore (London: Verso, 1994)

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992)

Gianni Vattimo, The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture, trans. Jon Snyder (Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)

Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (London: Verso, 2000)

Last update: UAAZNOJE (06.09.2010)
Teaching methods - Czech

seminář

Last update: UAAZNOJE (06.09.2010)
Syllabus - Czech

SCHEDULE

Week 1 Introduction

Week 2 mass media & the birth of "the public" (McLuhan)

Week 3 from expansionism to empire (Gore Vidal)

Week 4 Libertarianism & the failure of democracy (Rexroth)

Week 5 from Havana Harbor to Pearl Harbor: disinformation

Week 6 realestate & intellectual property (Chinatown)

Week 7 the McCarthy Era (Good Luck and Goodnight)

Week 8 Kennedy: Home of Conspiracies (JFK)

Week 9 poets, hippies and home-grown terrorism (Guerrilla)

Week 10 network news as "white knight" (The Network)

Week 11 Watergate (All the President's Men)

Week 12 Fear and Loathing (the Corporation)

Week 13 Arcadia Burning (An Inconvenient Truth)

Week 14 Conclusion

Last update: UAAZNOJE (06.09.2010)
 
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