Experimental Fiction - Anglophone II - AAALE024A

• Title: Experimental Fiction - Anglophone II
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 03.4 Photography, Cinematography; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Is co-requisite for: AAALE024B

Literature

POSTWAR EXPERIMENTAL FICTION:

FROM THE 1960s TO THE PRESENT

David Vichnar, PhD (Consultation hours: by appointment, room 219b)

Optional M.A. Course, Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory, DALC

Faculty of Arts (Monday 12.30-14.00, Room 111), Charles University

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course will explore a range of Anglo-American authors whose work—whether programmatically or not—has been described as "experimental", i.e. resistant of the dominant/mainstream poetics and mimesis and continuing with the unfinished project of the historical avant-garde. Departing from an introductory lecture on “realism, experimentalism & ideology” in the works of Joyce, Beckett & Kafka, the course will consider how the modernist project of exploring the materiality of language has been pursued from the avant-garde of the 1960s to the present.

The 23 authors (14 men, 9 women) covered include Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Christine Brooke-Rose, Brigid Brophy, William S. Burroughs, Joshua Cohen, Mark Danielewski, Jennifer Egan, David Foster Wallace, B.S. Johnson, Chris Kraus, Alan Moore, Ann Quin, Ishmael Reed, Jean Rhys, Iain Sinclair, Gilbert Sorrentino, Lynne Tillman, Andy Warhol, and Marguerite Young.

FURTHER INFORMATION 

For information regarding the syllabus and grading, please consult the course Moodle page: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4004

Last update: Vichnar David, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2022)

Teaching methods

seminář

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (13.12.2019)

Syllabus

room/time: 131 (Aula) / Thursday 17.30-20.40 (each session approx. 2 1/2 hrs).

SCHEDULE (SPRING 2016)

18.2 John Cassavetes, SHADOWS (1959)
25.2 Andy Warhol, CHELSEA GIRLS (1966)
3.3 Jean-Luc Godard, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (1968)
10.3 Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg, PERFORMANCE (1970)
17.3 Russ Meyer, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)
24.3 Brian de Palma, HI MUM! (1970)
31.3 Jerry Schatzberg, THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971)
8.4 Ken Russell, TOMMY (1975)
15.4 Amos Poe, THE FOREIGNER (1978)
22.4 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, QUERELLE (1982)
29.4 Jean-Luc Godard, KING LEAR (1987)
5.5 Lars von Trier, EUROPA (1991)
12.5 Andrew Brikin, THE CEMENT GARDEN (1993)

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (13.12.2019)