RJA116 Elements of Literary Criticism

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Przybylski (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 17:30–19:05 zrusena M13
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Introductory course in literary scholarship and criticism covering elementary literary terms and definitions as well as interpretations of the main methodological streams.
The course deals with traditional poetics, its innovations, including modern comparative and genre studies.
A general introduction to Slavonic studies, based on the traditions of the Czech comparative approach and the study of literary genres.
The seminar focuses on the theory of prose.
At the end of the course, the student will have the basic knowledge about the notion of literature, about the subject of literary criticism, its contemporary situation and its methodologiocal tools, as well as about Slavonic literary studies.
Syllabus
  • Literature as a kind of art, beginnings of literary art and its utilitarian and non-utilitarian character, literature as magic, literature and religion.
  • Relation of literature and folklore.
  • Basic stages of the history of aesthetic thought and its relation to literary art.
  • Literary criticism in the system of sciences, related disciplines(history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, aesthetics)
  • , applicatin of methods from other disciplines (statistics, information and communication theory), auxiliary disciplines(textology, paleography, bibliography, bibliology)
  • . The structure of literary criticism, its disciplines and subdisciplines, and its mutual realations
  • Evolution of literary methods (philologial, impressionistic, biographical,psychological, Geisteswissenschaft, intuitivism, immanent/autonomous methods, Russian formalism, New Criticism, structuralism, phenomenology, hermneutics,deconstruction, poststructuralism and postmodernism).
  • The relation of the history of literature and literary methods with special regard to the situation of interwar Czechoslovakia, the traditions of the Prague Linguistic Circle, Roman Jakobson, Vilém Mathesius, René Wellek
  • The problems of the confrontation of various methods.
  • Contemporary situation of literary criticism.
  • Literary axiology, its methods and genres. Literary history, periodization, its criteria, the periodization boundaries, conceptions of literary history, theory of literary history(René Wellek) Theory of literature and its disciplines Theory of literature and poetics, theoretical poetics, historical poetics, general poetics, genre theory (genology) and the history of literary genres Comparative literary studies, their development and methods Poetry: verse theory Prose theory Drama theory Mass literature theory Children's literature theory Theory of radio, film and TV texts Literary currents Slavonic literary studies, Literary criticism and Slavonic studies at the crossroads: the development of methodology and the impact of social sciences, special journals and scholarly organizations
Literature
  • Ďurišin, D.: Čo je svetová literatúra? Bratislava 1992
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Základní okruhy filologické a literárněvědné metodologie a teorie (elementy, materiály, úvahy, pojetí, texty) (The Basic Spheres of Philological and Literary Methodology and Theory (Elements, Materials, Reflections, Conceptions, Texts)). Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, 2010, 275 pp. ISBN 978-80-8105-191-3. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Pátrání po nové identitě : (rusistické a vztahové reflexe). Vyd. 1. Brno: SVN Regiony, 2008, 273 s. ISBN 808673515X. info
  • GENETTE, Gérard. Fikce a vyprávění. Vyd. 1. Brno: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2007, 96 s. ISBN 9788085778007. info
  • MOCNÁ, Dagmar and Josef PETERKA. Encyklopedie literárních žánrů. 1. vyd. Litomyšl: Paseka, 2004, 699 s. ISBN 807185669X. info
  • CULLER, Jonathan. Krátký úvod do literární teorie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 167 s. ISBN 80-7294-070-8. info
  • PAVERA, Libor and František VŠETIČKA. Lexikon literárních pojmů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 422 s. ISBN 80-7182-124-1. info
  • KARPATSKÝ, Dušan. Malý labyrint literatury. 3., dopl. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 2001, 671 s. ISBN 8000009722. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Ruská literatura (The Russian Literature). In Světové literatury 20. století v kostce. Praha: LIBRI, 1999, p. 167-189. ISBN 80-85983-80-X. info
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Teaching methods
The lecture deals with traditional poetics, its innovations, including modern comparative methods and the genre studies, accentuates structural approach and area studies. The seminar focuses on the interdisciplinary analysis of poetry and verse techniques.
Assessment methods
The course has a form of lectures and seminars, analyses of literary texts, especially poetic ones, information about methods of literary criticism.
Exam: written test consisting of 15 multiple-choice questions, minimum pass level 60 %. Grading scale: A 30-26 pts, B 25-24 pts, C 23-20 pts, D 19-18 pts, E 17-15 pts, F 14-0 pts.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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