Sylabus
Lectures:
Introduction to the course
What is literature, literary studies, functions of literature, language of literature
Meaning (denotation, connotation), categories of words, affective words
Figures of speech (image, epithet, simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, litotes, euphemism, irony, periphrasis, symbol, myth, allegory)
Political correctness, figures of sound (euphony, cacophony, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia), rhetorical figures (rhetorical question and answer, antithesis, paradox, allusion)
Syntactic figures (inversion, asyndeton, polysyndeton, zeugma, ellipsis, figures of repetition - simple, incremental, modifying)
Composition of a literary work, structure of an epic story (action, characters, narration)
Structure of an epic story (time of the story, thematic composition), composition of poetry (prosody, metre)
Composition of poetry (rhyme, stanza), lyric genres (ode, elegy, psalm, haiku)
Lyric genres (sonnet, limerick, epigram, aphorism, maxim, proverb), lyric-epic genres (ballad, idyll, paean)
Epic genres (epic, novel, fabliau, exemplum, novelette, short story, legend, myth, fable, parable, fairy tale, anecdote), transitional genres
Dramatic genres, dramatic composition
Anotace
C ílem kurzu je charakterizovat specifika krásné literatury a seznámit studenty se základními literárněvědními termíny a kategoriemi, jež jsou ilustrovány na textech angloamerické literatury (krátké básně, povídky a úryvky literárních děl). Kurz se především soustřeďuje na rozvoj schopnosti analyzovat vybrané texty po stránce jejich formální výstavby.