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Lecturer(s)
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Kořenský Jan, prof. PhDr. DrSc.
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Hrabal Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Theory, communication and linguistics in relation to the literature (ground model description) vs. analysis. interpretation 2. The subjects of literary communication: productor (author): psychophysical entity, objective and subjective author, authorial agency, implicit/implied author, the image of the author, personality, and author of the discourse, deliberateness and (un)deliberateness, authenticity 3. Text - Structure (textuality, literary work - text), style, denotation and connotation, the issue of reference in the text, fictionality, context; 4. Transtextuality and their types; 5. Content, meaning and sense of text, the issue of reference in the literature (models of its description); 6. Subjects of literary communication II: The recipient (reader): real, ideal, informed, empirical, model, implied / implicit and the question of reading competence, interpretive community 7. Literature and storytelling: models of description, theme and topic, the narrator, events and characters, a typology of modes of narration; 8. Theory and methodology of interpretation: the concretization, reception, perception, description, analysis, interpretation, understanding (comprehension); 9. Historical excursion I: structuralist-oriented models describing process literary production 10. Historical excursion II: critique of structuralist literary oriented models focused on literary process (hermeneutics as "different" interpretation of de Saussure, deconstruction) 11. Literature and Culture, Ideology and ethnology (especially Marxism and feminism) 12. Analysis and interpretation of particular texts through the lens of communication strategies (eg. hiding deliberateness, revelation, concealment, artifice of the narrator)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students with the ground theory and methodology of literary communication as a kind of specific model of information transmission. The course will focus (1) historically: by means of analysis and the commentary will be discussed historical models of literary communication, (2) methodologically: they concern will be on the basic assumptions of the model structure of literature as communication and (3) theoretically: the target will be to reflect the theoretical basis for thinking about literature as model of communication with the possibility of criticism of this way of understanding literature.
Ability to analyze fundamental communication contemporary topics and expertly define and handle it theoretically, using relevant communication theories.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
Requirements on credits: - Regular active participation in seminar - preparation for seminars (reading of the assigned texts) - successful completion of final test Examination Requirements: - an essay on an agreed topic (5 pages) and its defense; - Knowledge of topics discussed in lectures
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Recommended literature
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Alan, J. - Petrusek, M. Sociologie, literatura a politika. Praha 1996.
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Austin, J. L. (2000). Jak udělat něco slovy. Praha.
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Derrida, J. Gramatológia, Archa. Bratislava 1999.
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Eco, U. Mysl a smysl. Praha 2000.
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Foucault, M. Diskurs, autor, genealogie. Praha 1994.
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Hroch, J. Filozofická hermeneutika v dějinách a v současnosti. Brno 2003.
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Mareš, P. Styl, smysl, význam. Praha 1989.
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Plett, H. F. Intertextuality, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1991.
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