Předmět Moderní město ve filmu, literatuře a kultuře (AJB_MCF)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Cíl

This course examines the significance of the concept of the city in English, American as well as global literature and culture and will focus on the recurrent themes and motifs of the urban phenomena. At the end of the course students will be able recognize major literary works on the city and identify major issues in the debate on the public sphere and urban space. They will be able to make their own connections between the assigned reading and also question and actively interpret them as well as create their own critical evaulation.

Osnova

Session I: The Rise of the Modern City and of the Modern Urban SubjectivityQuestions: What is the modern city? How do we undertsand it? How has it changed us? Who is a modern urban subject and in what ways is his or her subjectivity new? What are the principal concerns, joys and fears of the nineteenth-century city dwellers and how do they differ from the those of the twentieth century?Readings:Richard Lehan: The City in Literature (selections)Lewis Mumford: The City in History (selections)Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz (selections)Henry Mayhew: London Labor and the London Poor (selections)Edgar Allan Poe: "The Man of the Crowd"Bram Stoker: DraculaT.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land"Session II: The Modern City and GenderQuestions: What happens to women in the modern city? In what ways is the female urban subjectivity different from the male one? Does the twentieth-century city offer more freedom to women than the nineteenth-century city?Readings:Candace Bushnell: Sex and the City (selections)Virginia Woolf: Mrs DallowayIva Pekarkova: Gimme the MoneyElizabeth Wilson: The Sphinx in the City (selections)

Literatura

PEKÁRKOVÁ, Iva. Gimme the money. Translated by Raymond Johnston - Iva Pekárková. 1st publ. London: Serpent's Tail, 2000. 278 s. ISBN 1-85242-658-6. infoLEHAN, Richard Daniel. The city in literature :an intellectual and cultural history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 330 p. ISBN 0-520-21256-8. infoMUMFORD, Lewis. The city in history. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. 693 s. info

Garant

PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.

Vyučující

Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D.