MED15 Roman Literature I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
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)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 15:50–17:25 G24
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 literatures from the beginnings to the end of the 19th century.
Specially, they will be able to answer questions concerning the relationships among particular national literatures (with 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
    recommended literature
  • DRÁPELA, Martin. Sbírka textů k předmětu Úvod do syntaxe (A Corpus of Texts for the Introduction to Syntax Course). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 220 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7104-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
    not specified
  • A new history of French literature (Orig.) : De la littérature française. info
  • ALCHAZIDU, Athena, Yolanda PÉREZ SINUSÍA and Paula GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ. Esbozo de la historia de la literatura espaňola. Brno: Anton Pasienka, 2004, 284 pp. ISBN 80-902652-3-5. 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
  • BĚLIČ, Oldřich and Josef FORBELSKÝ. Dějiny španělské literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 261 s. 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 recommended reading will be part of the exam at the end of the second semester. The first semester is concluded with a Literary History test focusing on topics presented in course content.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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