| Course title | Theory of literary Interpretation |
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| Course code | KAA/TELI |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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Syllabus 1. Classical period - Aristotle: Poetics - Shakespeare: Hamlet 2. FORMALISM (T.S. Eliot, The New Criticism) - T. S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/eliot.html), "Hamlet and His Problems" - Shakespeare: Hamlet - Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" 3. STRUCTURALISM (Jan Mukařovský) - Ferdinand de Saussure: "Nature of the Linguistic Sign" - Jan Mukařovský: "Básnické pojmenování a estetická funkce jazyka" or "Standard Language and Poetic Language" - K. J. Erben: "Goldenhair" (O Zlatovlásce), J. and W. Grimm: "The Little Red Cap" 4. NARRATOLOGY (Vladimir Propp, Lubomír Doležel, Seymour Chatman) - Lubomír Doležel: "Subjectivization of the narrative" 5. PSYCHOLOGICAL APROACH - Sigmund Freud: "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming," Lodge, Literary Criticism 36-43. 6. MYTH AND ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM (J. G. Frazer, Northrop Frye, Joseph Campbell) - Joseph Campbell: A Hero of Thousand Faces, Part 1 7. C. G. JUNG - C. G. Jung: "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry" 8. POSTSTRUCTURALISM, DECONSTRUCTION (Derrida, Foucault) - Michel Foucault: The Order of Discourse 9. FEMINISM - Hélene Cixous: Sorties [an extract], Modern Criticism, ed. David Lodge 286-293. - Juliet Mitchell: "Femininity, narrative and psychoanalysis," Modern Criticism, ed. David Lodge 425-430. - Elaine Showalter: "Feminist criticism in the wilderness," Modern Criticism, ed. David Lodge 330-353. - Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre or Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 10. Postcolonial Criticism (E. Said, G. Spivak) - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Edward Said: Introduction to Orientalism (1978), part 2-3, 12-36, 300-310. 11. Ecocriticism Texts for analysis: - Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" - William Shakespeare: Hamlet - Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights or Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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 course provides an introduction to the major 20th-century approaches to literary interpretation and their methods (Plato, Aristotle, formalism, structuralism, narratology, archetypal and myth criticism, psychoanalytical approach, poststructuralism and deconstruction, postcolonialism, feminism). The explication of theories is always followed by their application to several core texts of English and American literature.
General understanding of the main approaches to literary interpretation in the 20th century. Deeper understanding of the relationship between text and context. Acquisition of various methods of literary interpretation and a competence in practical applications of those methods on selected texts of American literature. Ability to critically assess the individual approaches, its advantages and shortcomings. |
| Prerequisites |
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A literary course during BA or MA studies.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Oral exam, Essay
- essay (4 pages, Chicago Manual of Style format: in English,Times Roman 12. You should analyze a British or American novel or drama (except those which were discussed in the class) from a perspective of one of the critical approaches (except moral-philosophical and historical-biographical approaches). You should use at least 3 primary sources of theory, not just handbooks or introductions to theory. You should also write about the text which you did not write about before. - good knowledge of all the assigned texts (the knowledge can be tested by means of short inclass papers) - attendance (maximum two absences) |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Indonesian Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Korean Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Vietnamese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Chinese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Japanese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: - |