Ghost Story on the British Isles - AAAA13202E

• Anglický název: Ghost Story on the British Isles
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2021
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, Ph.D.

Anotace

Summer Term 2021<br>
Tuesdays 9:10-10:40 <br>
Instructor: Colin S Clark MA<br>

This course seeks to introduce students to what is arguably the dominant genre of modern literature-the speculative. This literature explores the boundaries of the possible and provides solutions, from the pragmatic to the fantastic to the various stress- fractures and impasses of the modern Scottish nation-stateless, imagined and yet culturally robust and politically virile.<br>
The texts taught here are as contemporary as possible and range across political, fantastic, sci-fi and slipstream literatures to equip the student with a coherent overview of the modern ‘question of Scotland ‘ and it’s ‘claim of right’.

Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.06.2021)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Requirements: One in-class oral presentation on a topic pertaining to the above list of the texts studied in the seminar, 20-30 minutes long. The speech should prove your ability to analyze a literary work, to build up argument and to arrive at a critical assessment. In addition to this, you will submit a written version of your presentation (length: up to 2,000 words), or, in case you won’t present, an essay on a given topic (length: 3,000 words); both forms are subject to one re-writing. Please mind that the topic must address a specific problem in the presented work. Date of submission: 11 May 2021(the last session). Attendance is presently via Zoom and students require to have sufficient tech to obtain connection with audio/visio link.  

Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.06.2021)

Sylabus

16 Feb- Intro

 

23 Feb-Ken MacLeod-The future will happen here too/Descent

 

2 Mar -Neil Williamson- The Moon King

 

9 Mar Charles Stross- Halting State

 

16 Mar- Paul Johnstone- The Body Politic

 

23 Mar-Michel Faber- Under the Skin/ Book of Strange New Things

 

30 Mar-Douglas Thompson- Apoiedeia

 

 6 April -Jenni  Fagan- Sunlight Pilgrims

 

13 April- No Dominion -Louise Welsh

 

20 April-Alan Bissett- The Death of a Ladies Man

 

27 April -James Robertson- The Testament of Gideon Mack

 

4 May January-Iain Banks- Hydrogen Sonata

 

11 May-Course Conclusion and Admin matters.

 

Poslední úprava: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.06.2021)