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Lecturer(s)
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Adar Einat, M.A. Ph.D.
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Nagy Ladislav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics: Blind utopia Thoerising blindness Blind love Staging blindness Blindness and art The blind seer
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The modernist writers of the early 20th century were trying to revolutioniase literature by conveying the diverse ways in which people perceive and understand the world. In their search for new perspectives on reality, they often chose characters with an exceptional point of view. This year's course will focus on the theme of blindness which brings together the cognitive preoccupation of modernism, its aesthetics that relies heavily on visual images, and the representation of disability at a time of rapid change.
The participants will get an overview of British and American modernism.
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Prerequisites
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C1 knowledge of English, knowledge of the history of British and American literature.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment, Test
Active participation, class presentation, final essay. Any act of cheating or plagiarism will result in a fail mark for this course.
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Recommended literature
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Attridge, D. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
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Baldick, C. The Modern Movement. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
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Barclay Florence. The Rosary. 1909.
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Beckett Samuel. Rough for Theatre I. 1979.
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Green Henry. Blindness as Metaphor. 1926.
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Joyce James. Ulysses (selection). 1922.
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Lawrence D. H. The Blind Man. 1922.
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Matz: J. Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
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McIntire, G. Modernism, Memory & Desire. Cambridge: CUP, 2008.
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Moody, D. The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
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Oser, L. The Ethics of Modernism. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
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Schor Naomi. Blindness as Metaphor. 1999.
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Simmel Georg. Sociology of the Senses. 1908.
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Synge J. M. The Well of the Saints. 1905.
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Tufayl Abu Bakr Ibn, Molyneux William , Berkeley George. Selection of texts (in class reading).
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Wells H. G. The Country of the Blind. 1904.
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Yeats W.B. The Cat and the Moon. 1924.
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