Modern Literature 2

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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:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Desire to devote time to reading the 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 second semester of the course we cover primarily the classic modern, that is, literary texts from the 1890s to after the Second World War.

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 the literary texts read or heard, or watchin film clips.

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (qualification subject)