FJIA022 French Literature III

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
Tue 15:50–16:35 G24
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
FJIA022/01: Tue 16:40–17:25 G23, P. Dytrt
FJIA022/02: Tue 17:30–18:15 G23, P. Dytrt
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FJIA017 French Literature II
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
Modernity in the French novel, poetry and drama at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. The lecture focuses on the gratest metomorphoses in the French prose, poetry and drama in the light of the evolution of the French thinking and society in the period from 1914 to 1940. Relating to the seminar content, each student is going to comment on a chosen work and submit an explicative reading of a representative or a literary movement of the period concerned.
Syllabus
  • 1) Introduction; 2) Poetry before 1914 a. Emile Verhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck b. Blaise Cendrars, Francis Jammes, Paul Fort c. Guillaume Apollinaire; 3) Drama before 1914 a. Edmond Rostand b. Alfred Jarry c. Courteline; 4) Course on the French versification and poetry (doc. Kyloušek); 5) Ideas and doctrines ; novel before 1914 I a. H. Bergson, Jean Jaurès, Charles Maurras b. Anatole France, Paul Bourget, Romain Rolland c. Alain-Fournier, Valery Larbaud; 6) Novel before 1914 II a. Paul Claudel, b. Charles Péguy c. Marcel Proust; 7) Novel before 1914 III a. André Gide b. Paul Valéry; 8) The Surrealism a. Breton, Desnos, Eluard, Aragon b. Marginal Surrealism (Cendrars, Cocteau, Jacob, Reverdy, Supervielle); 9) Drama between 1919-1940 a. Jules Romains b. Armand Salacrou c. Jean Giraudoux; 10) Novel between 1919-1940 I a. The "roman fleuve" (Roger Martin du Gard, Georges Duhamel) b. The Man and the Nature (Jean Giono, Colette); 11) Novel between 1919-1940 II a. Psychological novel (Raymond Radiguet, Jean Giraudoux) b. Spiritual anxiety (François Mauriac, Georges Bernanos, Julien Green); 12) Novel between 1919-1940 III a. The novel and the human greatness (Henry de Montherlant, André Malraux, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) b. Social criticism and et depiction of manners (Louis Aragon, Louis-Fredinand Céline, Henri Barbusse)
Literature
  • NOVÁK, Otakar. La littérature française depuis la révolution française : précis aide-memoire. 1. 1. vyd. Brno: UJEP Brno, 1971, 95 s. info
  • NOVÁK, Otakar. La littérature française depuis la révolution française : précis aide-memoire. 1. vyd. Brno: Universita J.E. Purkyně, fakulta filosofická, 1971, 134 s. info
  • Littérature française. Paris: Arthaud, 1977. info
  • ŠRÁMEK, Jiří. Dějiny francouzské literatury v kostce. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1997, 469 s. ISBN 80-7198-240-7. info
  • BRUNEL, Pierre. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Bordas, 1972. info
  • Boisdeffre, Pierre de: Une histoire vivante de la littérature d`aujourd'hui
  • Dějiny francouzské literatury 19. a 20. stol. Edited by Jan Otokar Fischer. Vyd. 2. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1981, 657 s. info
  • Dějiny francouzské literatury 19. a 20. stol. Edited by Jan Otokar Fischer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1979, 989 s. info
  • Dějiny francouzské literatury 19. a 20. stol. Edited by Jan Otokar Fischer. Vyd. 2. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1983, 769 s. info
  • RADIMSKÁ, Jitka and Marcela HORAŽĎOVSKÁ. Anthologie de la littérature française. 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 2001, 171 s. ISBN 80-7238-109-1. info
  • Slovník francouzsky píšících spisovatelů, Praha, Libri 2002
Assessment methods (in Czech)
La participation au cours est obligatoire Examen (zápočet) a) Participation active au cours b) Communication orale (éventuellement présentée aussi sous forme écrite c) Commentaire littéraire sous forme écrite d'un texte de la liste « Lecture »
Language of instruction
French
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Přednost u zápisu mají posluchači romanistických oborů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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