Seminar in Literary Analysis

In this seminar students improve and test their already acquired knowledge of literary history and theory (mostly from the domains of literary morphology and genology) in analysing literary texts. The lecturer begins by outlining the general issue of the specifics of literary discourse, its relationship with hybrid- and semi-literary forms and the role of literary-morphological and literary-genological aspects, i.e. the specifics of literary forms and genres, styles and textual structures in the analysis of the literariness of a text. The representation of theoretical aspects is followed by its practical application in seminar papers: Each participant selects at least one Slovene/translated literary text from the proposed textual corpus which includes prose, poetry, plays, hybrid genres, such as the documentary novel, autobiography, diary, essay, etc., and, possibly, intermedial-literary forms, such as the graphic novel or radio play. Students analyse the selected work from the above-mentioned theoretical and literary-historical aspects and present the analysis in the classroom. Participants must support their views on the specifics of the literary discourse recognised in the analysis of the selected text with arguments and express them through a dialogue with fellow students. At the end of the course, participants write a short report in which they summarize and compare the results of all textual analysis presented during the course.

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- Jorgen Dines Johansen: Literary discourse: a semiotic-pragmatic approach to literature. Toronto : University of Toronto Press,. 2002. 489 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 19487330 (izbrana poglavja)
- Alenka Koron. Sodobne teorije pripovedi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2014. 285 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 272774144
- Richard Schechner: Performance Theory. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. 304 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 275291 (izbrana poglavja)
- Hans-Thies Lehmann. Postdramsko gledališče. Ljubljana : Maska, 2003. 339 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 127124736
- Hanna Meretoja, The ethics of storytelling : narrative hermeneutics, history, and the possible. New York : Oxford University Press, 2018. 352 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 66438498
- Vanesa Matajc. Pripovedne strategije v reprezentacijah nasilja : sodobna bosanska romana o vojni v Bosni. Primerjalna književnost. ISSN 0351-1189. 2016, letn. 39, št. 1, str. 215-238. COBISS.SI-ID - 61023842
- Vanesa Matajc. Sodobna romana o drugi svetovni vojni v njunih tranzicijskih kontekstih. Primerjalna književnost, ISSN 0351-1189, 2022, letn. 45, št. 2, str. 13-35. COBISS.SI-ID 118513155
- Michael Ryan, Melissa Lenos. An introduction to film analysis : technique and meaning in narrative film. 276 str. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. COBISS.SI-ID – 61354499
- Vanesa Matajc. Sodobna drama in nanašanje na arhaični ritual: poskus performativnega obvladovanja travme. V: Tone Smolej, Igor Žunkovič (ur.). Življenje med antiko in avantgardo. Ljubljana : Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2018. Str. 91-114. 23 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 293965312
- Jeremy Hawthorn. Theories of Gaze. V: Patricia Waugh (ur.). Literary theory and criticism : an Oxford guide. Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. Str. 506-518.. 598 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 35912290.
- Franco Moretti (ur.), The Novel. Princeton, Oxford 2007. 2 zv. 916 str., 950 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 39891042 (izbrana poglavja)
- Judith Butler. Težave s spolom: feminizem in subverzija identitete. Ljubljana : ŠKUC, 2001. 183 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 112769024