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KAA / MPOMI
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MPOMI
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Poetics of place
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 22
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0 / 13
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0 / 1
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/POMI
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The aim of the course is to acquaint students with a selection of approaches to the study of representation of place and space in literary texts. The seminars introduce major conceptualizations of place, space, landscape and their experience by the human subjects (humanistic geography, ecocriticism, phenomenology, R. Williams, Yi-Fu Tuan, T. Cresswell, E. Relph, C. Glotfelty, H. Fromm, G. Garrard, etc.). After outlining their propositions, selected approaches will be applied to chosen literary texts from 18th-20th century. The course is designed to advance students theoretical knowledge and critical skills. The seminars further enhance students' understanding of classicist, romantic and modernist aesthetics. The emphasis on the tension between the conceptualization of place and subjective experience of landscape types (e.g. island, sea, mountain), the course further cultivates students' awareness of human perception of their physical environment (e.g. the city and the country) and of the impact that period aesthetics have on the poetics of particular places or place types (e.g. pastoralisation of landscape). From a practical perspective, the seminars cultivate students' knowledge of Anglo-American literature as well as their interpretative skills within a chosen theortical framework.
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Requirements on student
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1/ active and regular participation in the seminars
2/ detailed knowledge of assigned texts
3/ seminar paper - topic must be discussed with the tutor in advance; 2500 words, typed and printed including a signed declaration of authorship
4/ presentation
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Content
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Basic Concepts - space, place.
Basic Concepts - landscape, spatial experience, stratification of space.
The City and the Country - binary opposition, a pastoralized landscape.
Topographical and Prospect poetry: landscape and distance.
Suburbia in Literature.
Topoi: the island, the mountain, the sea, etc.
Topoi: home and homelessness.
Ecocriticism - Egocentric vs. Ecocentric view of the physical environment.
Smooth and Stratified space - Deleuze and Guattari.
Postmodern Spaces and Placelessness, Hyperspace, Cyberspace.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism: The New Critical Idiom. London, New York: Routledge, 2004.
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Basic:
Space and Place : the perspective of experience
(Tuan Yi-Fu)
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Basic:
Williams Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford, 1973. ISBN 978-0-19-519810-2.
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Basic:
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology.
(Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm)
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Basic:
The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History
(Casey, Edward, S.)
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Recommended:
CRESSWELL, Tim. Place: A Short Introduction [second edition]. London, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
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Recommended:
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values
(Tuan Yi-Fu)
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Účast na výuce
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26
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Samostatná kritická četba
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20
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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30
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Příprava prezentace (referátu) v cizím jazyce
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16
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Příprava na zápočet
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20
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Total
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112
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
- Home assignment evaluation
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