CJBD01 Literary Criticism and Aesthetics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Milan Suchomel, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Milan Suchomel, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Helena Bednářová
Timetable
Wed 11:40–13:15 VP
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Course description. The relationship between the two sciences is presented from the point of view of literary science, i.e. how is literary science connected with the problems aesthetics is dealing with, what can aesthetics provide literary science with, how can more general statesments of aesthetics help in more particular problems literary science is trying to solve. In the lecture there will also be mentioned areas, where aesthetics and literary science intersect or touch, some basic terms of aesthetics will be presented in greater detail as well as problems concerning ontology and epistemology of the work of art together with the specifics of artistic communication.
Syllabus
  • 1. Aesthetics - temptation and challenge. 2. Attempts to define aesthetics. 3. The main theses and contradictions of European aesthetic thinking in the works of Plato, Aristotle and Kant. 4. The symbiosis of aesthetics and philosophy. 5. Mimesis and poiesis. 6. Realism and reality; truth and semblance; the plurality world - reference; semantics of possible worlds. 7. Aesthetic reference and aesthetic attitude. 8. Possible ways of reading. 9. Experience of the "other" and aesthetic transcending. 10. New formulation of old theses and contradictions. 11. Aesthetic positivism vs. Russian formalist school. 12. "What is poetry like?" 13. The understanding of aesthetic object by Ingarden and Czech structuralism. 13. Value and evaluation. 14. Hermeneutics. 15. Structuralism and poststructuralism.
Literature
  • ZIMA, Petr V. Literární estetika. 2. vyd. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 447 s. ISBN 80-7198-329-2. info
  • JŮZL, Miloš and Dušan PROKOP. Úvod do estetiky :předmět a metody, dějiny, systém estetických kategorií a pojmů. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1989, 427 s. ISBN 80-7038-051-9. info
  • SOURIAU, Étienne. Encyklopedie estetiky. Translated by Zdeněk Hrbata. [1. vyd.]. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 939 s. ISBN 80-85605-18-X. info
  • HENCKMANN, Wolfhart and Konrad LOTTER. Estetický slovník. Translated by Dušan Prokop. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1995, 229 s. ISBN 8020504788. info
  • VOLEK, Jaroslav. Kapitoly z dějin estetiky : od antiky k počátku XX. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Panton, 1969, 268 s. URL info
  • GILBERT, Katharine Everett and Helmut KUHN. Dějiny estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1965, 502 s. info
  • MORPURGO-TAGLIABUE, Guido. Současná estetika. Edited by Miloš Jůzl, Translated by Zdena Plošková. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1985, 552 s. URL info
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Člověk a struktury :kapitoly z neostrukturálnív poetiky a estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Český spisovatel, 1996, 206 s. ISBN 80-202-0583-7. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Mezi filosofií a poezií. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1995, 143 s. ISBN 80-7007-067-6. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Estetické alternativy :jazyk vědy a jazyk poezie. Praha: Gryf, 1994, 141 s. ISBN 80-85829-08-8. info
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Strukturální estetika :řád věcí a řád člověka. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 86 s. ISBN 80-85865-03-3. info
  • JANKOVIČ, Milan. Dílo jako dění smyslu. 1. vyd. Praha: Pražská imaginace ve spolupráci s Ústavem pro českou a slovenskou literaturu ČSAV, 1992, 94 p. ISBN 8071100609. info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 371 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 325 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 446 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 349 s. URL info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Podmínkou úspěšného kolokvia je orientace v problémech a schopnost definovat užité termíny.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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