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Lecturer(s)
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Jičínská Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction: the concept of culture 2. The concept of culture, and Culture Studies (Dilthey) 3. Theories of the emergence of culture: philosophical anthropology (Kant) 4. Models of strangeness: Müller-Fink 5. Identity/alterity: Kleist, Die Verlobung in St. Domingo 6. Memory: cultural, collective, individual (Assmann) 7. Cultural memory: discussion (selected texts by F. Kafka) 8. Cultural memory: Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther 9. Orientalism (Said) 10. Imagology and its development (Said) 11. Kleist, Die Verlobung in St. Domingo from the perspective of imagology 12. Final discussion on the themes of the final paper (preparation for the written exam)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course is designed as a theoretical basis for the follow-up seminars "Introduction to Intercultural Literature", "Intercultural Literature" and other courses dealing with Czech-German cultural contacts. The aim is to introduce students to the foundational texts on which contemporary cultural theoretical concepts are based. These texts and principles will be put in the context of the intercultural concept of German Studies, especially the questions concerning linguistic and cultural identity, alterity, and interculturality. The discussion will include work with both scholarly texts and primary literary texts and thus reflect on their status in the broader context of cultural studies.
Students will be familiar with basic cultural theoretical texts, will be able to discuss them and work with the arguments they postulate when reading literary texts.
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Prerequisites
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no prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit - Active participation in seminars based on knowledge of literature and scholarly texts - Oral presentation Examination - final paper
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Recommended literature
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Assmann, Jan. Das kulturelle Gedächtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen.. München, 2018. ISBN 978-3406729874.
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Hansen, Klaus P. Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft : eine Einführung. Tübingen, 2000. ISBN 3-8252-1846-5.
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Müller-Funk, Wolfgang. Theorie des Fremden: Eine Einführung. Tübingen, 2016. ISBN 9783825245696.
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Nünning, Ansgar. Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie. Stuttgart, 2004. ISBN 978-3-476-01889-2.
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Wirth, Uwe. Kulturwissenschaft: Eine Auswahl grundlegender Texte. Frankfurt am Main, 2008. ISBN 978-3-518-29399.
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