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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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David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. .
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D.H. Lawrence. The Blind Man (1922). .
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Hans Christian Andersen. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. .
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Hellen Keller. Midstream: My Later Life. .
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Hellen Keller. The World I live In. .
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Henry Green. Blindness (1926). .
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H.G. Wells. The Country of the Blind (1904). .
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James Thurber. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Admiral at the Wheel. .
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J.M. Synge. The Well of the Saints (1905). .
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Lillien Blance Fearing. Sympathy. .
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Samuel Beckett. Rough for Theatre I (1979). .
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Stephn Kuusisto. Letters to Borges. .
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W.B. Yeats. The Cat and the Moon (1924). .
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