MED15 Roman Literature I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Athena Alchazidu, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Šebelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 A31 stara
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
At the end of the course, students should be able to obtain the basic knowledge of the French, Italian and Spanish literature from the beginnings to the end of 19th century.
Specially, they will be able to answer the questions concerning the relationships between the particular national literatures and to nominate examples, as well as those concerning their contribution to the esthetic development of particular genres and periods.
Syllabus
  • 1. FRENCH LITERATURE. Introduction. Middle Ages (Chansons de geste. Court poetry. Theater. Eustache Deschamps, Charles d'Orléans, Francois Villon). Renaissance (Francois Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne; P. de Ronsard.) Reading: Ronsard: Les Amours.
  • 2. Baroque. Classicism (Pierre Corneille, Moliére, Jean Racine). Reading: Phedre.
  • 3. 18th century. Enlightenment, encyclopedism. (Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, Lesage, Marivaux.) Reading: Jacques le Fataliste.
  • 4. Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism. (Hugo, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny, Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, Daudet, Maupassant, Zola.) Reading: Le Rouge et le noir.
  • 5. Symbolism and decadence. Avant-garde. (Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Breton, Eluard) Reading: Les Fleurs du mal. Les Champs magnetiques.
  • 6. The first part of the 20th century. (Traditional, revolutionary and humanistic novel. Existencialism. Theatre of the Absurd.) Reading: A la recherche du temps perdu.
  • 7. From the fifties to the present. (Nouveau roman. Theater of the Absurd.)
  • 8. ITALIAN LITERATURE. Introduction. Middle Ages. Duecento. First literary texts in "volgare". Dolce stil nuovo. The beginnings of trecento. Dante Alighieri.
  • 9. Trecento. Early Renaissance. Francesco Petrarca. Giovanni Boccaccio. Renaissance and Humanism. Quattrocento (Ennea Silvio Piccolomini). Mannerism. Cinquecento (Lodovico Ariosto, Michelangelo, Torquato Tasso).
  • 10. Seicento (Giambattista Marino; commedia dell'arte). Settecento (Accademia dell'Arcadia; Carlo Goldoni; Scipione Maffei; Giuseppe Parini)
  • 11. Ottocento. Preromantism and romantism. Realism. Symbolism. (Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni; Giovanni Pascolo, Gabriele d'Annunzio).
  • Primo novecento (A. T. Marinetti; the journals: Lacerba, Valori plastici). Secondo novecento (Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Eco, Antonio Tabucchi).
  • 12.SPANISH LITERATURE. Medieval poetry, Chansons de geste. The song of the Cid. The Golden Age literature. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote Theatre: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream. Romanticism: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Legends. 13. Summary.
Literature
  • A new history of French literature (Orig.) : De la littérature française. info
  • PELÁN, Jiří. Slovník italských spisovatelů. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2004, 751 s. ISBN 8072771809. info
  • RADIMSKÁ, Jitka and Marcela HORAŽĎOVSKÁ. Anthologie de la littérature française. 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 2001, 171 s. ISBN 80-7238-109-1. info
  • ŠRÁMEK, Jiří. Dějiny francouzské literatury v kostce. (Concise History of French Literature.). Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 469 pp. ISBN 80-7198-240-7. info
  • De la littérature française : A new history of French literature (Orig.). Edited by Denis Hollier, Edited by R. Howard Bloch. Paris: Bordas, 1993, xxvii, 109. ISBN 2-04-018597-6. info
  • DARCOS, Xavier. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Hachette, 1992, 527 s. ISBN 2010165888. info
  • NOVÁK, Otakar. La littérature francaise depuis la révolution francaise : precis aide-memoire. 3. 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1991, 66 s. ISBN 80-210-0266-2. info
  • BRUNEL, Pierre. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Bordas, 1972. info
  • BOURIN, André. Dictionnaire de la littérature française contemporaine. Edited by Jean Rousselot. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1966. info
  • DE SANCTIS, Francesco. Dějiny italské literatury. Translated by Václav Černý. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1959, xiii, 601. URL info
Teaching methods
The course is provided as lectures. Students are required to attend the lectures regulary. Apart from that, regular home-reading of particular chapters or the whole works from the list of reading (available at the beginning of the course) in the Czech translation is required.
Assessment methods
The discussion about the readings will be part of the examination in the course MED16. At the end of the semester, students should hand in an essay on the topic dealing with the given readings according to their own choice.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, 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, Autumn 2024.
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