CJBD01 Literary Criticism and Aesthetics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Milan Suchomel, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 C31
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
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.
The students after finishing the course should be able:
to develop a basic set of concepts anchored in elementary conceptions of ancient philosophy and aesthetics
to formulate and interpret literary critical concepts and strategies in a wider context of history, sociology, linguistics, psychology and aesthetics
to adopt literary critical concepts and approaches to be applied to particular literary critical and artistic texts.
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
  • Umění, krása, šeredno; texty z estetiky 20. století. ed. Vlastimil Zuska, Praha: Karolinum, 2003.
  • 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 order to be given the credit the students must show their knowledge of the topic during a short oral interview.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
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 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, 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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