Chapters from Theory of Literature 2

Tutor:

Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

This course is focused on areas of literary theory which are important for a drama training educator. Part of the instruction is an introduction to the fundamental genre areas important for children's and youth literature. This course combines practical activities and lectures with and emphasis on context structures.

Prerequisites:

The student is expected to have andunderstanding of various elements and merits of an artistic text. A section of the coursework includes a systematic following of current literature, particularly creations for children. Additionally, a condition for completion of the course is a number of written interpretive works.

Study Objectives:

Orientation in the fundamental range and issues of general literary theory and literary theory for children and youths. A special and developed ability and skill to analyse key media and techniques which are at the disposition of and author of an artistic text. A developed ability to interpret a literary work, its structure and be able to orient oneself in all its levels. Recognize the merits and possibilities which are available to a creative teacher in working with children and youths. An additional aim of instruction is opening a pathway to orientation in literary types, genres and genre variations particularly important for children's literature.

Outline and Syllabus:

Outline:

1. Fundamental concepts and contexts.

2. Literary works as a structure.

3. Language vehicles.

4. The sound and graphic aspects of verse.

5. The fictional world in literary works and its parts.

6. Motifs and elements of motifs.

7. Composition.

Syllabus:

- Introduction, fundamental concepts and contexts

- Language - the gateway to a literary work

- The fundamental repertoir of a thematic vehicle

- The narrator and his/her function in a literary work

- Aesthetic functions in literary works. Aesthetic functions and their place among other functions. The specificity of literature for children and youths

- Subject and theme in a literary work

- Language vehicles in a literary work

- The sound and graphic aspect of verse

- Syntactic vehicles and issues of free verse

- The fictional world in a literary work

- Portraiture and function of the surroundings in a literary work

- Motifs and motif elements

- Composition. Composition principles and techniques

- Dominant/semantic gestures

- Genealogy: types and genres of literature with consideration of literature for children and youths and their changes.

Study materials:

BRUKNER, Josef-FILIP, Jiří

1997 Poetický slovník (Praha: MF)

HRABÁK, Josef

1958 Úvod do teorie verše (Praha: SPN) a další vydání

CHALOUPKA, Otakar, Vladimír NEZKUSIL

1973, 1976, 1979 Vybrané kapitoly z teorie dětské literatury I, II, III (Praha: Albatros)

NÜNNING, Ansgar (ed.)

2001 Metzler Lexikon Liteatur- und Kulturtheorie. Ansätze - Personen - Grundbegriffe; přel. Aleš Urválek-Zuzana Adamová, Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury (Brno: HOST, 2006)

PROPP, Vladimir Jakovlevič

1928 Morfologija „volšebnoj“ skazki; přel. Miroslav Červenka, Marcela Pittermannová a Hana Šmahelová, Morfologie pohádky a jiné studie (Praha: H & H, 1999)

RIMMON-KENAN(OVÁ), Shlomith

1983 Narrative Fiction Contemporary Poetics, přel. Vanda Pickettová, Poetika vyprávění (Brno: HOST, 2001)

ŠMAHELOVÁ, Hana

1989 Návraty a proměny (Praha: Albatros)

URBANOVÁ, Svatava

2003 Meandry a metamorfózy dětské literatury (Olomouc: Votobia)

WELLEK, René-WARREN, Austin

1948 Theory of Literature; přel. Miloš Calda, Teorie literatury (Olomouc: Votobia, 1996)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (compulsory subject)