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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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We will discuss a broad range of critical methodologies to the novel, from formal approaches to contemporary perspectives such as post-structuralism, postcolonialism, and post-humanist perspectives.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to introduce student to a range of influential theories of the novel as a literary genre from the beginning of the 20th century to these days. During the course students will read theoretical texts and relate them to three novels from different periods 19th century realism, modernism, and postmodernism.
Familiarity with various methodologies in the study of novels, their merits and limitations. Reading novels from different theoretical perspectives. Knowledge of key figures in criticism of the novel. An understanding of the development of the novel.
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Prerequisites
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Students should be able to read novel and theoretical texts in English and have fluent spoken English & decent writing skills, as well as an interest in the theory of the novel.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
Attendance and participation at seminars Completing required reading Submitting a final paper
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Recommended literature
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Butler. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution (excerpt).
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Edward Said. "Introduction" to Orientalism. 1978.
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Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. 1813.
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Mikhail Bakhtin. Discourse in the Novel. 1935.
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Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. Poetika vyprávění. Brno: Host, 2001. ISBN 80-7294-004-X.
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Roland Barthes. The Reality Effect. 1968.
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Smith, Zadie; Nováková, Yvetta. Smith, Zadie; Nováková, Yvetta. Praha : Jiří Buchal - BB art, 2003. ISBN 80-7341-047-8.
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Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. 2000.
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Toni Morrison. Beloved. 1987.
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Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. 1927.
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