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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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(1) How to read? Basic questions of semiotics (2) Italo Calvino: Cosmicomics (3) Jorge L. Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths (4) Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (5) Michal Ajvaz: The Golden Age (6) Jorge L. Borges: Artifices (7) Italo Calvino: Difficult Loves (8) Michal Ajvaz: Cesta na jih (9) Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (10) Michal Ajvaz: Prázdné ulice (11) Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel (12) Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The class aims to, based on critical reading of works by Michal Ajvaz, Jorge L. Borges, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco and Adolf Bioy Casares formulate basic problem areas of semiotics, in its systemic and communication aspect. The purpose of the course is not to clearly define or recapitulate existing terminology and concepts, but rather to, based on controlled/critical reading, arrive at basic articulation of semiotics and its questions.
Ability to interpret literary texts with help of semiotic terminology, basic knowledge of semiotic theory
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work
(1) Regular presence (no more than 2 unexcused absences) (2) Regular preparation / required reading (3) In-class presentation (4) discussion over selected text (students are expected to have broader knowledge of the topics discussed, especially based on recommended literature)
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Recommended literature
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Ajvaz, Michal. (2008). Cesta na jih. Brno.
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Ajvaz, Michal. Prázdné ulice, Petrov, Brno 2004.
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Bioy Casares, A. (1988). Morelův vynález. Praha.
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Borges, J. L. "Artefakty". In: Zrcadlo a maska. Praha: Odeon 1989, s. 85-146.
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Borges, J. L. "Zahrada, v které se cestičky rozvětvují". In: Zrcadlo a maska. Praha: Odeon 1989, s. 9-84..
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Calvino, I. (1998). Když jedné zimní noci cestující. Praha.
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Calvino, I. (1968). Kosmické grotesky. Praha.
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Calvino, I. (1978). Nesnadné lásky. Praha.
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Calvino, I. (1986). Neviditelná města. Praha.
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Eco, U. (2007). Foucaultovo kyvadlo. Praha.
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