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Lecturer(s)
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Palatinus Dávid Levente, Ph.D.
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Světlíková Anna, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Marková Michaela, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Vernyik Zénó, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Klapcsik Sándor, Ph.D.
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Course content
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List of topics to be addressed - this overview is informative, the order in which these will be dealt with and the amount of time dedicated to them depends on the teacher and students' needs. What is high culture and low culture? Medieval and Renaissance Literary Classics: The rewritings of Beowulf, Arthurian legends, and Shakespeare in popular culture and literary classics. Vampires, zombies and monsters in popular culture and literary classics Hardboiled crime fiction in popular culture and literary classics. The representation of the Great Depression. Southern Noir. Stories with hobos, tramps and hippies. Time travel and alternate history in popular culture (SF) and literary classics Detective stories and literary classics with multiple perspectives. Drug subculture in popular culture and literary classics. Self-help books, (pop) psychology, Animal Studies, cat books and videos, (pop) philosophy, influencers
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Seminár, E-learning, Students' portfolio, Students' self-study
- Contacts hours
- 28 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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This course focuses on a selection of bestselling works, and/or their adaptations, with the aim to help students gain an overview of popular texts of the anglophone world. The main emphasis is on works which are likely to attract the attention of students of lower-secondary and high schools, or deal with topics relevant for this age group. It thus intentionally analyzes both canonized texts and pulp fiction, in order to help students find common points in these two groups, and motivate future teachers in leading their students to literary classics, and to reading in general.
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Prerequisites
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Passing the courses Culture I: Introduction to Culture and Literature, Culture II: British Studies and Culture III: American Studies and at least one of the compulsory literary courses in the MA program.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Presentation of group work, Oral presentation of self-study, Test
1) A 15-20 minute student presentation on one of the seminar topics. 2) Mini-quizzes: 70% accuracy on average is satisfactory; in case all mini-quizzes are done, the two worst results will be ignored. 3) End-term test. 4) Regular attendance in the seminars (maximum two missing classes.) Active participation in the seminars is mandatory: each member of the seminar is expected to read carefully all the texts and to come prepared to discuss the topics on each class. Compulsory texts are available here: https://elearning.tul.cz/course/view.php?id=14473; kindly register.
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Recommended literature
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Gelder, Ken ed. New Directions in Popular Fiction. Genre, Distributioin, Reproduction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Gelder, Ken. Popular Fiction. The Logic and Practices of a Literary Field. Abingdon: Routledge, 2004.
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Koelling, Holly. Classic Connections. Turning Teens on to Great Literature. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
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Mahood, Kristine. A Passion for Print. Promoting Reading and Books to Teens. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
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