| Course title | Specific Features of Literary Communication |
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| Course code | KZU/SLKMN |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1) The specifics of literary communication and literary criticism as a science of literature (philosophical assumptions of literary studies 20th century) 2) Historical field trip I: Russian formalism and Czech structuralism (Sklovska Tynjanov, Jakobson, Mukařovsky). Literary criticism and aesthetics in the psychology of mass context of the PLK 3) Text and naming (Jakobson, Mukařovsky) dynamic aesthetic features ("dematerialisation" of the aesthetic) 4) Historical field trip II: hermeneutical theory in the 1 mid-20th Century (Gadamer, Heidegger), the influence of philosophy on thinking about literature (implicit critique of structuralism, a non-identical individual signs as continual understanding of their own past) 5) Literary works signs as a character, a description of literary models of communication (Jakobson, Mukařovsky, Barthes) 6) Historical field trip III: impact on literary studies of phenomenology (Husserl, InGarden) aesthetics of reception (Jauss, Iser, Stierle) 7) The significance and meaning of the text (Mukařovsky, Mathauser, Vodicka, Iser), literature and history 8) Historical field trip IV: French structuralism (Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Todorov, Genette) 9) Structural analysis, models of literary communication and literary system modeled by F. de Saussure, character, structure, text 10) Literary narratology and communication: theme, theme, narrator and character, thematized addressee; types of discourse (speech); narrative modes, narration, and their form-er-form, reflector, angle, time-space and its functions and structuring; plot story and its composition, plot and storyline 11) Historical excursion in: post-structuralism and deconstruction (Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida), challenging the basic assumptions of structuralist (system) oriented theory, the paradox of structure, the basic model of communication, repeating characters, etc. 12) Literary Communication and ideologies (Marxism, feminism, structuralism?) vs. idealism. ideology
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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The aim of the course is to introduce the specifics of literary communication againsts the general theory of communication to the students. The theories, methodology and history of literary criticism as a scientific discipline will be actively discussed. There will be a mere summary of theoretical concepts, but rather an outline of their operation in the process of literary communication. Each model description will explicated in relation to specific texts, with particular emphasis will be operational signs as of certain intellectual concepts, not their statism and "dogmaticity".
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Written exam, Essay
Credits: - Regular active participation in seminar - preparation for seminars (reading of the assigned texts) - final test Requirements for the colloquium: - an essay on choseb topic (5 pages) and its presentation |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Journalism Studies specialization (2019) | Category: Journalism, library science and informatics | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Media Analysis specialization (2019) | Category: Journalism, library science and informatics | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Cultural Studies specialization (2019) | Category: Journalism, library science and informatics | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Communication Studies specialization (2019) | Category: Journalism, library science and informatics | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Media Studies (2019) | Category: Journalism, library science and informatics | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |