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Lecturer(s)
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Zámečník Hadwiger Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Introductory session: motivation and course structure Lecture defining and problematizing the basic concepts (drawing on Pavić, Borges, and Cortázar) Presentation of interesting novels (across history), with optional involvement of course participants Series of examples I: the novel as a transposition of the microstory Series of examples II: the romanticized short story Series of examples III: the allusive mininovel Series of examples IV Series of examples V Series of examples VI Series of examples VII Series of examples VIII Series of examples IX Summary and conclusion
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Work Activities
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Learning outcomes
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In this seminar, we will explore (and question) the boundary between the literary forms of the novel and the short story, with the aim of finding (or creating) new and unusual forms of the novel. Our motivation will be the effort to refute Jorge Borges's thesis on the superfluity of the novel. Each participant in the seminar will actively engage by choosing one of the offered options: (1) theoretically define a new form of the novel, (2) write (or begin writing) a new novel, (3) identify a new form of the novel in existing literature (and explain its uniqueness), or (4) justify why something should be considered a novel (a variant drawing on conceptual art). Over the course of the semester, we will also read in parallel a selected novel (to be chosen at the first meeting), which will serve as both inspiration and refuge.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Dialog, Seminar Work
(1) Active participation in seminar discussions; (2) Presentation of an individual paper (based on reading fiction and reviewing scholarly literature), with the paper also submitted in written form (3-4 standard pages); (3) Regular reading of the assigned portion of the selected novel.
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Recommended literature
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