Course: Theory of literature

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Course title Theory of literature
Course code KCL/PTEL
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Jedličková Alice, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
The lectures aim at the essential concepts of poetics and their application in literary analysis and interpretation. obligatory reading: PETERKA, Josef. Teorie literatury pro učitele.  Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Pedagogická fakulta, 2024, ISBN 978-80-7603-438-9.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments), Active metods (simulation, situational contingency methods, drama,acting, namagerial acting )
  • Class attendance - 42 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The lectures aim at the essential theoretical concepts and notions of thinking about literature and its analyses. Key topics: Fields and branches of the theory of literature. A work of literature as an act of communication. The aesthetic function in the literature. Narratology and versology. The diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Students will master the categories of poetics so that they can apply them as typological parameters of historical poetics in literary history seminars and as analytical categories in synchronic analysis. Knowledge of literary poetics and the development of critical thinking about literature, just like linguistic knowledge, serve as a tool and a prerequisite for the analysis of other media and cultural phenomena. Students will apply the knowledge they have acquired both in their theses and, as future teachers, in the educational process or in cultural activities.
Prerequisites
Introduction into literary studies seminar

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam, Student's performance analysis, Presentation of group work

Ongoing preparation for seminars (particularly reading excerpts from primary texts to be analyzed collectively and reading recommended secondary sources), active participation in discussions. Completion of ongoing practice assignments (in groups during seminars and individually as homework). Examination in the form of a written test. Content Warning: Literature and other media often depict the darker sides of human experience and societysuch as violence, mental suffering or illness, armed conflict, or the consequences of social inequalityprecisely to highlight their causes and consequences and to warn against them. Please familiarize yourself with the seminar content as it is presented. If you feel that particular content is personally distressing to you, please inform the instructor and agree on an alternative activity.
Recommended literature
  • Viz obsah předmětu.
  • VIZ PŘEHLED LÁTKY.


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