Úvod do studia literatury
Lessons (dates):
The lectures have been cancelled due to the capacity of the room. The time on Thursday at 15:35 will be devoted to your questions about the course, terminology or assigned texts. Feel free to join me.
24/9 Introduction
1/10 Language of literature - literary tropes, narratology.
8/10 Reading week (E.A. Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart) - no lesson.
15/10 Classification of literature - genres, concepts.
22/10 Study groups to analyse Poe´s texts - Group answers to be sent to my email by Mon 27 Oct. 8a.m.
The Fall of the House of Usher:
2)
Describe the plot
3)
Analyse the setting, what atmosphere does Poe create, and how?
4)
How is the setting connected with the characters?
5) Describe the characters. What type of characters are
they?
6) Find the following tropes: simile, alliteration, symbols and metaphors,
an example of dramatic irony and an oxymoron + intertextuality.
1) What is the theme of the story?
2)
3) Is this narrator reliable? Does he present
the story to the reader as it happened? State your arguments.
4) Find the following tropes:
alliteration, personification, simile, symbols, metaphors, dramatic
irony, and oxymoron.
29/10 Feedback on Poe´s stories.
5/11 Reading week (Shakespeare - Hamlet) - no lesson.
12/11 Drama - important concepts, types of drama.
19/11 Study groups to analyse Hamlet.
Hamlet:
1. What type of drama is it and why?
2. What was the purpose of the play (entertainment, humour, excitement)?
3. Does the play follow the three unities?
4. Analyse the play according to Freytag´s Pyramid.
5. What is the driving force of each leading character?
6. What stands in the way of the leading characters?
7. Does it present any problem of human relationships?
8. What is the crisis (the leading character must make a crucial decision that will affect the outcome of the play)?
9. Analyse the use of comedy, paying attention to the gravediggers.
10. Find examples of nemesis, tragic flaw, soliloquy, and dramatic irony.
26/11 Hamlet - summary. Poetry - types of poetry, forms, prosodic means.
3/12 Study groups to analyse poems by Browning, Sidney and Thomas.
Browning: Is it a lyric or an epic poem? What feelings does it evoke? Identify the form of the poem. Draw the rhyme pattern.
Sidney: Identify the form and draw the rhyme pattern. Find examples of alliteration and assonance. What feelings does the poem evoke?
Thomas: Identify the type of metre and rhyme pattern. Find examples of alliteration and assonance. What feelings does the poem evoke?
10/12 Shakespearean sonnet analysis. Poems - summary.
17/12 TEST (optional - other dates in January)
