Předmět Úvod do literatury I (seminář) (AJ04001)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Cíl

Course description:This course consists of alternating lectures and seminars that encourage students to engage in literary research and analysis. The lectures provide students with an introduction to literary histories, movements, contexts and approaches to literary texts. The seminars function as more practical insights into analyzing literary texts and writing critical research papers about them. They are based on discussions and group work.Course objectives:1. To learn the methods of conducting library research and working with primary and secondary sources.2. To acquire the techniques needed for literary analysis and writing academic essays.3. To refine critical thinking about literature and achieve a deeper understanding of how literature affects us and how it enriches our perception of the world.

Osnova

1. Introduction to the Study of Literature, Doc. Michael M. Kaylor; reading literature and writing about literature; primary and secondary sources; working with library sources (catalogue, databases); evaluating sources Barnet: Chapter 1 (“The Writer as Reader”) and 2 (“The Reader as Writer”); getting to know MLA (basic format of a paper: header, title, layout, …)2. Elizabethan Drama, Dr. Filip Krajník William Shakespeare, Hamlet text analysis; critical vocabulary (character(s), plot); using the literary present; Barnet: Chapter 11 (“Writing about Drama”); Maynard Mack, “The World of Hamlet” (1952); MLA (section 3.6. Titles)3. Romantic Poetry, Doc. Michael M. Kaylor; John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time”, “Ode to Psyche”, “To Autumn”; READING WEEK (Oct 28 and 30): no class; text analysis; critical vocabulary (figures of speech, rhythm and rhyme); Barnet: Chapter 12 (“Writing about Poetry”); MLA (section 3.7. Quotations); Assignment 1: a short (2 double-spaced pages) written analysis of one of Keats’ poems, submit in ELF, deadline Nov 14. Gothic Novel Dr. Bonita Rhoads, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein text analysis; critical vocabulary (points of view); quoting X paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism; feedback to Assignment 1 Barnet: Chapter 10 (“Writing about Fiction”)5. Victorian Novel, Dr. Stephen Hardy; (all first chapters only) Charles Dickens, Bleak House; William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; text analysis; critical vocabulary (setting); developing an argument; Barnet: Chapter 8 (“Writing about Literature”)6. American Renaissance, Dr. Jeffrey A. Smith; selections from: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson text analysis; critical vocabulary (overview of narrative categories, historical context); close reading; MLA (sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6-5.6.5, 5.7-5.7.5., all Documentation of Work Cited); Assignment 2: a 3-4 page analysis of a short story, extract or a chapter included in lecture 5 or 6; integrate quotation(s) from at least two secondary sources as well as their bibliographical details; MLA format; submit in ELF, deadline Jan 3, 2014

Literatura

povinná literaturaBarnet, Sylvan, et al. A short Guide to Writing About LiteratureneurčenoMLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, ýth Edition

Požadavky

NOW ( AJ04000 Úvod do literatury I přednáška )

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.Velid BeganovićMgr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D.Mgr. Patrik MíšaMgr. Alexandra StachurováMgr. Eva ValentováMgr. Alžběta Zedníková