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Course: Narratology

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Course title Narratology
Course code KBH/NRT
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Schneider Jan, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Hrabal Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The history of the discipline and its place in the theoretical thought of the narrative text 2. Story and discourse, the minimal narrative, narrativity, event, motif, structuring, composition 3. Narrator, narrative situation, focalization, perspectivization, the construction and function of the point of view and distance, multiperspectival narration, the implied author, unreliable narration 4. Time in the narrative context, time relations between the story and discourse, story-time, discourse-time, the reading of the story, order, frequency, duration, pace 5. Character, characterization, typology, action, valence, theme, evaluation 6. The limits of narration, intertextuality, dialogueness, metalepsis 7. The category of the reader and the representation of the addressee 8. The semantic construction of the narrative text and the pragmatics of the narrative communication 9. The status of fiction, the relation between the fictional and factual narration, mimesis and diegesis

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
This introductory course brings students the metodology for the analysis of the narative text, as well as the characteristic of one of the main and influential literary theories. It helps them to understand the contemporary situation of the theory of literature and the position of the work af art as an object in the system of literary science.
student acquires the basic conceptual tools for the analysis of narrative text and the ability of critical reflection
Prerequisites
ability to work with basic concepts of literary theory in range of the ULT

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active attendance at seminars, reading selected texts, and writing a seminar paper
Recommended literature
  • Doležel, L. Heterocosmica: fikce a možné světy.Praha 2003.
  • Doležel, Lubomír. (1993). Narativní způsoby v české literatuře. Praha.
  • Herman, David. (2005). Přirozený jazyk vyprávění. Brno.
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. (2008). Příběh a diskurs. Narativní struktura v literatuře a filmu. Brno.
  • Kubíček, Tomáš. (2007). Vypravěč. Kategorie narativní analýzy. Brno.
  • Margolin, Uri. (2008). Kognitivní věda, činná mysl a literární vyprávění. Brno.
  • RIMMON - KENANOVÁ, S. (2001). Poetika vyprávění.. Brno: Host.
  • Schmid, W. Narativní transformace. Praha-Brno 2004.
  • Stanzel, Franz K. (1988). Teorie vyprávění. Praha.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 13.06.2025 23:55. Data created for academic year 2024/2025