Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Polish Prose: Joanna Bator 2. Hungarian Prose: Viktor Horváth 3. German Prose: Volker Weidermann 4. German Prose: Bernhard Schlink 5. Dutch Prose: Arnon Grunberg 6. British Prose: Ian McEwan 7. British Prose: Michel Faber 8. Irish Prose: John Banville 9. French Prose: Michel Houellebecq 10. Spanish Prose: Julio Llamazares 11. Icelandic Prose: Jón Kalman Stefánsson 12. Finnish Prose: Sofi Oksanen 13. Norwegian Prose: Dag Solstad 14. Norwegian Prose: Jon Fosse
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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To orientate oneself in contemporary European literature in a basic way; to become familiar with the defining tendencies of contemporary Eorupean literatures; to interpret selected prosaic works of contemporary European literatures.
A student functionally uses literary terms to interpret literary works; a student can identify the type of composition and composition principle; a student can adequately characterize literary characters; a student performs thematic analysis of a narrative work.
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Prerequisites
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The knowledge of literary terminology; the knowledge of composition poetics; the knowledge of character poetics; the knowledge of the poetics of a story.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Regular attendance. Seminar activity. A presentation.
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Recommended literature
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Hilský, M., Nagy, L. Proměny britské prózy. Brno Host, 2002. ISBN 80-7306062-0.
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Hodrová, D. a kol. .. na okraji chaosu .. (Poetika literárního díla 20. století). Praha, 2001.
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Nagy, L. Palimpsesty, heterotopie a krajiny. Praha, 2016.
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Svatoň, V. Román v souvislostech času. Úvahy o srovnávací literární vědě. Praha: Malvern, 2009.
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