The course is designed as a linguistic seminar in which students learn about the genre of fairy tales from multidisciplinary perspectives. The main interest is in the linguistic analysis and students are asked to analyze several stories from the point of view of linguistic stylistics, pragmatics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Since the course works with a literary genre, literary studies are also taken into consideration. Students learn about the history of the genre and the theories of narratology, esp. narrative structures and focalization. Besides, texts are also analyzed from the point of view of gender studies, namely the gender stereotypes, the gender boundaries and their violation esp. in modern fairy tales. The teaching method is a discursive analysis of fairy-tale stories, both published and feature movies.
- Lærer: Jana Pelclová