Chapters from Theory of Literature 3

Tutor:

Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

This course in focused on the areas of literature which are important for the 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 with lectures with an emphasis on the contextual relationship.

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have an ability to sense the various elements and merits of a literary text. Part of the course work is a systematic monitoring of the current literature, particularly creations for children. A condition for course completion is several written works interpretive in character.

Study Objectives:

Knowledge of the basic surroundings and issues of literary theory in general and literary theory for children and youth. A special and developed ability and skill to analyze key elements and processes which are at the disposition of the author. A developed ability to interpret a literary work, it structure and knowledge of all of its layers. Be able to recognize its merit and potential which is available to a creative educator in working with children and youth. Another goal of instruction is the opening of a road to knoweldge of literary types, genres and genre variations important particularly for children's literature.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

1. Basic concepts and relationships.

2. A literary work as a structure.

3. Linguistic tools

4. The sound and graphic aspects of verse

5. Fictional worlds in literary works and their parts.

6. Motifs and motif elements.

7. Composition

Syllabus:

- Introduction, fundamental concepts and relationships

- Language - the gateway to a literary work

- The fundamental repertoire of topic resources.

- Event, story, plot, substance.

- The narrator and his function in a literary work.

- Aethetic functions in a literary work. Aesthetic functions and their place among other functions. The specific character of literature for children and youth.

- The subject and topic in a literary work.

- Linguistic tools in a literary work:

- The sound and graphic aspect of verse.

- Syntatctic tools and issues of free verse.

- Fictional worlds in an artistic literary work:

- Image and function of characters.

- The narrator and narrative situations.

- Image and function of the surroundings in a literary work.

- Motifs and motif elements.

- Composition. Composition principles and procedures.

- Dominant/semantic gestures

- Genology. Types and genres of literature considering literature for children and youth 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 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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