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Lecturer(s)
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Vít Ladislav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. space, place, landscape, spatial experience, stratification of space - introduction to basic terms and concepts 2. The City and the Country as an essential binary opposition 3. Pastoralization of landscape, landscape and distance, prospect poetry 4. Topoi of home, suburbia, island, mountain, sea, etc. 5. Deleuze and Guattari's 'Smooth' and 'Stratified' space 6. Ecocriticism - Egocentric vs. Ecocentric view of the physical environment
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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- 15 hours per semester
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- 26 hours per semester
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- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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General aim: the course allows students to realize the importance of a role of landscapes and physical environment in literary texts. The course introduces basic theoretical approaches to space and place. This knowledge is then applied to concrete literary texts in chronological order (classicism, romanticism and modernism).
Students will develop their textual and interpretative skills. The chronological approach will also allow them to realize the specificity of individual moments of Anglo-American art history through attention to the literary treatment of space. Students will further improve their ability to work with a literary and academic text independently. At the most general level, the course will cultivate the students' awareness of their spatial environment.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Home assignment evaluation
1/ active and regular participation in the seminars 2/ detailed knowledge of assigned texts 3/ seminar paper - topic must be discused with the tutor in advance; 2500 words, typed and printed including a signed declaration of authorship
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Recommended literature
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Bachelard Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston, 1994.
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Relph Edward. Place and Placelessness. London, 1980.
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Williams Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford, 1973. ISBN 978-0-19-519810-2.
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