Course: Selected Chapters in Lit. Scholarship 1

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Course title Selected Chapters in Lit. Scholarship 1
Course code KGER/KLI1
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cornejo Renata, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Jičínská Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hrdličková Jana, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Examples of possible topics: - Intercultural literary science (intercultural literature, intercultural language, intercultural translation) - Cultural science and its contribution for literary theory (Spacial Turn, Emotional Turn) - Postmodernism in the context of German-language literature and theoretical discourse - Intermediality and intertextuality as a tool for interpreting literary texts - Heimatdiskurz and its development in German, Austrian and Swiss literature - Postcolonial theory and hybridity in literature (Bhabha) - National, post-national, transnational (national conflicts, coexistence of Czechs and Germans in literary and journalistic texts)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen the student's knowledge acquired during the course of the bachelor's and master's studies, to provide him with an overview of current literary-theoretical discourses and to encourage him to critically view them in a broader (and interdisciplinary) context. The choice of theoretical and literary texts reflects the focus of the student's dissertation project and the offer of lectures and seminars by visiting experts.
The student has an overview of current literary-theoretical discourses, is able to critically view them in a broader (and interdisciplinary) context.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The course-unit credit is awarded on the basis of a written thesis, which verifies the student's ability to apply the acquired knowledge to specific literary texts of German-language literature.
Recommended literature
  • BACHMANN-MEDICK, D. Cultural turns: Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. Hamburk, 2009.
  • BERND, F. / TONGER-ERK, L. Intertextualität. Eine Einführung. Berlín, 2013.
  • BHABHA, H. Die Verortung der Kultur. Tübingen, 2000.
  • BHABHA, H. Die Verortung der Kultur. Tübingen, 2000.
  • BHABHA, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London/New York, 1994.
  • BUTLER, J. Senses of the subject. New York, 2015.
  • EAGLETON, T. After Theory. New York, 2004.
  • EAGLETON, T. Literary Theory. New York, 2008.
  • EIGLER, F. Heimat, space, narrative: toward a transnational approach to flight and expulsion. Rochester, 2014.
  • LEITCH, V. B. at al. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York, 2010.
  • LESKOVEC, A. Einführung in die interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft. Darmstadt, 2011.
  • ROBERT, J. / GRIMM, G. E. / BOGDAL, K.-M. Einführung in die Intermedialität. Darmstadt, 2014.
  • SCHMID, U. Literaturtheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, 2010.
  • ZIMA, P. V. Moderne - Postmoderne. Gesellschaft, Philosophie, Literatur. Tübingen, 2014.


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