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Modern Literature 3

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
301MCL3 ZK 2 2/T Czech summer
Subject guarantor:
Marek VAJCHR
Name of lecturer(s):
Marek VAJCHR
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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 study:

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:

None

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 third semester of the course we cover primarily the classic modern, that is, literary texts from the second half of the 20th century.

Recommended or required reading:

Recommended literature is assigned based on the current discussion topics.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

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.

Assessment methods and criteria:

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

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Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
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
Tue
místnost 307
Učebna 6
(Lažanský palác)
VAJCHR M.
13:10–14:45
(paralelka 1)
Fri
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 13:10–14:45 VAJCHR M. Učebna 6
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
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