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Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory - OENAA1733Z
Title: Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/0, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The aim of this course is to introduce a selection of contemporary literary trends, categories and notions. The lectures focus on theoretical points of departure of postmodern British literature, American literature, postcolonial literature, as well as some tendencies in children?s literature of the English-speaking countries (especially the controversial question of the canon). Students will work with texts by theoreticians such as Brian McHale, Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt and Edward Said.
Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (24.09.2019)
Literature - Czech

Cunningham, V. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. (extracts)

GREENBLATT, S. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. (extracts)

Hutcheon, L. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London: Routledge, 1988, 2003. (extracts)

McHale, B. Postmodernist Fiction. London: Routledge, 1989, 2001. (extracts)

Procházka, M. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Praha: KAA FF UK (2.vyd.), 1997.

Procházka, M. Literary Theory: An Historical Introduction. Praha: KAA FF UK, 2008.

Rice, P.; Waugh, P. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold, 1989, 1996. (extracts)

Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin, 1978, 1995.

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (24.09.2019)
Syllabus

1. Historical overview - from Plato to Victorianism

2. Russian Formalism

3. New Criticism

4. Structuralism

5. Reader-response theory

6. Psychoanalytical criticism

7. Marxist criticism

8. Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism

9. Feminist criticism, Gender studies

10. New Historicism

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (24.09.2019)
 
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