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Modern Literature 1

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Course unit code:
301MCL1
Course unit title:
Modern Literature 1
Mode of delivery:
zápočet
Range:
2/T
Type of course unit:
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – optional subject
Level of course unit:
Year of study
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – 1st year
Semester when the course unit is delivered
letní
Number of ECTS credits allocated:
1
Garant předmětu:
Marek VAJCHR
Name of lecturer(s):
Marek VAJCHR
Study Objectives:

Students expand their concept of a literary text as an interplay of meanings. Students learn to approach a literary text only with apparently obvious questions: What am I reading? How is it written? Why is it affecting me as it is? and what can I take away from that? - particularly considering the expectations that each new text can inspire a student's creativity (in screenwriting for example).

Mode of delivery:

This course in principle is in the form of a discussion about examples of literary texts read or heard or watching film samples. Excursions are possible.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Desire to devote time to reading assigned texts.

Recommended optional programme components
Course contents:

Based on readings of Czech and World literature from the 20th and 21st Centuries (with excursions to older literature) we demonstrate some characteristic tendencies of modern literature (the legacy of the avant garde, the fantastic and eternal, fiction and documentary, the narrative and non-narrative prose). We get to know characteristic genres, manners of narration, motifs and topics of modern literature. We carefully attend to the relationship between the „certainties of tradition“ and the „unknowns of the freedom of choice of the modern individual.“ We keep track of some basic archetypes, characters and situations in their traditional and modern concepts, including film adaptations. We examine the characteristics of various prose forms (the tale, essay, aphorism, journal, vision, dream...), their narrative and symbolic structures, compositional structure and language resources. We compare these resources with the narrative and image resources of short films. We mark the potential that literary interpretation methods offer us (hermeneutic and structural interpretation) offer us in appropriate texts. Literary critique may assist in answering the question „What does this text say? How does it say it? and What do I do with that?“

In the first semester of the course we cover primarily the latest literature, texts from the 21st century.

Study materials:
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assessment methods and criteria

Not only physical but also intellectual attendance: desire to consider and discuss the literary texts read or heard, or watchin film clips.

Language of instruction:
Czech
Work placement(s):
Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
Course web page:
Note:
Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
místnost 233
Učebna 4

(Lažanský palác)
VAJCHR M.
10:40–12:15
(přednášková par. 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2011-6-17
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