Přednášky: Introduction to the Literature

1. Literární věda a její součásti. Teorie literatury z hlediska historického vývoje

Literary science - lit. theory - lit. history
- lit. metodology - lit. criticism

Literary theory
3 points of view - general characteristic (fiction, novels, …)
- structure of literary work ( differs in forms)
- lit. proces of creation (what was the first approach?, influencing)

Robert Frost - Immigrants
- ship Mayflower, pilgrims
- formal English, official language, retorical

Patt Mora - Immigrants
- “chicanos“ - mexican-americans
- it’s difficult to be imigrant
- they adopted everything from their enviroment and they are supposed to be
happy but they aren’t
- “wasp“ - white anglo-saxon protestant
- she doesn’t celebrate anything she writes about people
- title = first word of the poem

WHAT IS LITERATURE? WHY WE READ?
- we can find new information
- it’s pleasure, to get some entertainment
- to experience
- to escape from reality, dream life enviroment

WHY IS LITERATURE IMPORTANT?
get educational effect
to be able to experience a different culture
it enrich the language