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Course: Specific Features of Literary Communication

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Course title Specific Features of Literary Communication
Course code KZU/SLKM
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Hrabal Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Bína Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) The specifics of literary communication and literary criticism as a science of literature (philosophical assumptions of literary studies 20th century) 2) Historical field trip I: Russian formalism and Czech structuralism (Sklovska Tynjanov, Jakobson, Mukařovsky). Literary criticism and aesthetics in the psychology of mass context of the PLK 3) Text and naming (Jakobson, Mukařovsky) dynamic aesthetic features ("dematerialisation" of the aesthetic) 4) Historical field trip II: hermeneutical theory in the 1 mid-20th Century (Gadamer, Heidegger), the influence of philosophy on thinking about literature (implicit critique of structuralism, a non-identical individual signs as continual understanding of their own past) 5) Literary works signs as a character, a description of literary models of communication (Jakobson, Mukařovsky, Barthes) 6) Historical field trip III: impact on literary studies of phenomenology (Husserl, InGarden) aesthetics of reception (Jauss, Iser, Stierle) 7) The significance and meaning of the text (Mukařovsky, Mathauser, Vodicka, Iser), literature and history 8) Historical field trip IV: French structuralism (Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Todorov, Genette) 9) Structural analysis, models of literary communication and literary system modeled by F. de Saussure, character, structure, text 10) Literary narratology and communication: theme, theme, narrator and character, thematized addressee; types of discourse (speech); narrative modes, narration, and their form-er-form, reflector, angle, time-space and its functions and structuring; plot story and its composition, plot and storyline 11) Historical excursion in: post-structuralism and deconstruction (Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida), challenging the basic assumptions of structuralist (system) oriented theory, the paradox of structure, the basic model of communication, repeating characters, etc. 12) Literary Communication and ideologies (Marxism, feminism, structuralism?) vs. idealism. ideology

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce the specifics of literary communication againsts the general theory of communication to the students. The theories, methodology and history of literary criticism as a scientific discipline will be actively discussed. There will be a mere summary of theoretical concepts, but rather an outline of their operation in the process of literary communication. Each model description will explicated in relation to specific texts, with particular emphasis will be operational signs as of certain intellectual concepts, not their statism and "dogmaticity".

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam, Essay

Credits: - Regular active participation in seminar - preparation for seminars (reading of the assigned texts) - final test Requirements for the colloquium: - an essay on choseb topic (5 pages) and its presentation
Recommended literature
  • Barthes, R. The Semiotic Challenge, Hill and Wang, New York 1988.
  • Culler, J. (2002). Krátký úvod do literární teorie. Brno: Host.
  • Derrida, J. (1993). Texty k dekonstrukci. Bratislava.
  • Foucault, M. Diskurs, autor, genealogie. Praha 1994.
  • Ingarden, R. O poznávání literárního díla. Praha 1967.
  • Nünning, A. Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury. Brno 2006.
  • Pechlivanos, M. Úvod do literární vědy. Praha 1999.
  • Ricoeur, P. Teória interpretácie. Diskurs a prebytok významu. Bratislava 1997.


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