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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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This year the seminar will focus on questions of mimesis and realism in 19th- and 20th-century novels. We will discuss various approach for studying and understanding the relation between reality and the fictional worlds created by 19th and 20th century authors.
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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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This seminar approaches the novel form from a theoretical perspective, exploring how critical theory can illuminate aspects of the genre, and vice versa - how literary works challenge theoretical concepts.
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.
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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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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. reprint 1. ed. London : Macmillan, 1965.
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Barthes, Roland; Heath, Stephen. Image - music - text. New York : Hill and Wang, 1977. ISBN 0-8090-5740-9.
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Beckett, Samuel. Molloy. [Paris] : Les Éditions de Minuit, 1951. ISBN 2-7073-0588-X.
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Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix,; Hrdlička, Josef. Kafka : za menšinovou literaturu. [Praha] : Herrmann & synové, 2001.
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Mikhail Bakhtin. Discourse in the Novel. 1935.
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Roland Barthes. The Reality Effect. 1968.
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Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. 1927.
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