Introduction to the Study of Literature - OB2301009

• Title: Úvod do studia literatury
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
• Is pre-requisite for: OB2301010

Annotation

English

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (19.08.2008)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the specific features of fiction, poetry and drama, as well as to familiarize them with the basic terms and categories of literary studies, which are illustrated with a selection of texts from Anglo-American literature (short poems, short stories, extracts). The main focus is put on development of the students? ability to analyze the texts from the point of view of their formal structure.

Czech

Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (26.09.2016)

Cílem kurzu je charakterizovat specifika krásné literatury a seznámit studenty se základními literárněvědními termíny a kategoriemi, jež jsou ilustrovány na textech angloamerické literatury (krátké básně, povídky a úryvky literárních děl). Kurz se především soustřeďuje na rozvoj schopnosti analyzovat vybrané texty po stránce jejich formální výstavby.

Literature

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (28.07.2008)

Doporučená literatura:

BARTON, J.B., HUDSON, G.A. A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

CUDDON, J.A., ed. A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

QUINN, E. A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.

EAGLETON, T. Literary Theory. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Syllabus

Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.09.2014)

Lectures:

1. Introduction to the course
2. What is literature, literary studies, functions of literature, language of literature
3. Meaning (denotation, connotation), categories of words, affective words
4. Figures of speech (image, epithet, simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, litotes, euphemism, irony, periphrasis, symbol, myth, allegory)
5. Political correctness, figures of sound (euphony, cacophony, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia), rhetorical figures (rhetorical question and answer, antithesis, paradox, allusion)
6. Syntactic figures (inversion, asyndeton, polysyndeton, zeugma, ellipsis, figures of repetition - simple, incremental, modifying)
7. Composition of a literary work, structure of an epic story (action, characters, narration)
8. Structure of an epic story (time of the story, thematic composition), composition of poetry (prosody, metre)
9. Composition of poetry (rhyme, stanza), lyric genres (ode, elegy, psalm, haiku)
10. Lyric genres (sonnet, limerick, epigram, aphorism, maxim, proverb), lyric-epic genres (ballad, idyll, paean)
11. Epic genres (epic, novel, fabliau, exemplum, novelette, short story, legend, myth, fable, parable, fairy tale, anecdote), transitional genres
12. Dramatic genres, dramatic composition

Course completion requirements

Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (19.09.2016)

Zkouška se sestává z písemné a ústní části. Písemná část je ve formě testu, podmínkou pro úspěšné absolvování testu je dosažení alespoň 70 procent (tj. alespoň 70 bodů z celkového počtu 100 možných). Úspěšné absolvování písemné části je podmínkou postupu k části ústní. Ústní část je ve formě pohovoru o testu a o čtyřech knihách v anglickém originále, které student přečetl v průběhu semestru.