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Introduction to Literary Theory - Selected Chapters - OPNA2A127B
Title: Úvod do literární teorie – vybrané kapitoly
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
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
State of the course: 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.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (15.12.2018)
The aim of the course is to outline selected literary theoretical schools, categories and concepts, namely Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Reader Response Criticism, Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Feminist, Structuralist and Poststructuralist Criticism and New Historicism. Practical examples are demonstrated on Shakespeare's King Lear and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
Literature
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.08.2018)

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.

Syllabus
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.09.2020)

1. Russian Formalism

2. New Criticism

3. Structuralism

4. Reader-response theory

5. Psychoanalytical criticism

6. Marxist criticism

7. Post-Structuralism, Post-Modernism

8. Feminist criticism, Gender studies

9. New Historicism

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (02.09.2020)

Pravidelná docházka, maximálně 2 absence.

Předmět je zakončen písemným zápočtovým testem. Podmínkou pro úspěšné absolvování testu je dosažení alespoň 70 procent z celkového počtu bodů. Na absolvování testu má student dva pokusy.

Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.

 
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