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Lecturer(s)
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Polách Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Book Studies I cover the following topics: 1. Definition of the field, its boundaries, traditions, sources, periodicals, etc.; 2. Basic methodological approaches; 3. Models of the book communication circuit: Darnton and his followers and critics; 4. The materiality of the book as the most traditional research field. Bibliographic code. 5. Technological determinism in book research and use. 6. The author: definition, development, historical perspectives and the emergence of the institution of authorship. 7. Author variations and variants. 8. The reader: conceptions of the reader in book studies (statistical, historical, empirical). Book studies and literary scholarship. 9. Historical transformations of reading.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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Book Studies (I) introduces students to the possibilities of studying the book outside the classical literary and literary-historical discourse. Beginning with the definition of our own field of study and research through the definition of basic terms, we will explore the principles of investigating the materiality and history of the book and the printing press, questions of authorship, publishing, and the commodification of books. A separate chapter will be devoted to the question of reading texts: how to understand the principle of reading and its possibilities. The course has three face-to-face tutorials and a textbook.
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Prerequisites
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In its methodological part, the course is significantly linked to the course Book and Text in Media Studies (KBH/EKMES), which should be studied in parallel or even in advance to Book Studies I.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
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