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Lecturer(s)
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Dvořáková Šárka, Mgr.
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Peprník Michal, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Jelínková Ema, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction 2. Early crime narratives (The Newgate Calendar, the Newgate novel) 3. The invention of detective fiction (E.A. Poe) 4. Classical detective fiction (A.C. Doyle) 5. The Golden Age (Agatha Christie) 6. Hardboiled crime fiction (Raymond Chandler) 7. Crime noir (James M. Cain) 8. Film noir: movie night 9. Police procedural (Ed McBain) 10. Postmodern crime fiction (Paul Auster) 11. Conclusion
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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)
- Homework for Teaching
- 60 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 20 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 20 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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SUMMER 25/26: INTRODUCTION TO CRIME FICTION This course introduces students to the development of crime fiction through selected key texts of Anglo-American traditions from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Rather than offering a comprehensive survey, the course traces major shifts in how crime, investigation, justice, and meaning are represented, moving from early moralizing narratives through classical detective fiction, hard-boiled writing, noir, police procedural, and postmodern reconfigurations of the genre. Students will learn to read crime fiction not only as popular narrative but as a historically situated literary form that responds to social anxiety, modernity, and changing concepts of order, authority, and truth.
By the end of the course, students will be able to: - identify key tropes and subgenres of crime fiction (e.g. detective fiction, hard-boiled, noir, police procedural...) - compare different models of investigation, justice, and moral order in crime fiction across historical periods - relate crime fiction texts to their social and historical contexts - apply basic concepts of literary analysis to genre fiction
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Prerequisites
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Good knowledge of the English language and willingness to read crime fiction. Successful completion of UL00/ULOO: Introduction to the study of literature or an equivalent course.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Written exam
Students are expected to: - have completed UL00/ULOO successfully - complete assigned readings - prepare short written or oral responses to reading questions - actively participate in group and class discussions - pass the credit test
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Recommended literature
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Nickerson, Catherine Ross. (2010). The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
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Priestman, Martin. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
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Rollyson, Carl. (2008). Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction. Salem Press.
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Rzepka, Charles, and Lee Horsley. (2010). A Companion to Crime Fiction. Wiley-Blackwell.
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Scaggs, John. (2005). Crime Fiction. Routledge.
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Winks, Robin. (1998). Mystery and Suspense Writers. Charles Scribner's Sons.
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