ESB404 Melancholy and Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Eduard Roreček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 17:30–19:05 B2.51
Prerequisites
-
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/24
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: interpretating literary texts (reading, understanding and explaining) - make deductions about depiction of melancholia in particular periods of european culture - answer questions - discuss about texts
Syllabus
  • introdoctury seminar - melancholy, literature and aesthetics - Ancient Greece and Rome (aesthetics of the four elements, theory of four humors) - renaissance (engraving Melencolia I. by Dürer) - Hamlet: melancholy Dane - The Anatomy of Melancholy by R. Burton - cult of melancholy - romanticism - 19th century (e.g. Lenau, Leopardi, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche) - psychoanalysis (S. Freud - Mourning and Melancholia) - melancholy, depression, boredom - expressionism (e.g. Georg Trakl) - modernists (e.g. Proust, Pessoa, Hesse...) - melancholy in nordic literature
Literature
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. Hamlet, dánský princ (Obsaž.) : Pět her. info
  • STAROBINSKI, Jean. Melancholie v zrcadle : tři přednášky o Baudelairovi. Edited by Josef Hrdlička. Vyd. 1. Praha: Malvern, 2013, 83 s. ISBN 9788087580646. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Chvála schoulení : (eseje z poetiky pomíjivosti). Vyd. 1. Praha: Malvern, 2011, 424 a. ISBN 9788086702919. info
  • PESSOA, Fernando. Kniha neklidu. Translated by Pavla Lidmilová. Vyd. 2., upr. Praha: Argo, 2007, 289 s. ISBN 9788072039128. info
  • BURTON, Robert. Anatomie melancholie. Edited by Karel Thein, Translated by Miroslav Petříček - Martin Pokorný. V českém jazyce a v tomto. Praha: Prostor, 2006, 329 s. ISBN 8072601237. info
  • Melancholy, love, and timeboundaries of the self in ancient literature. Edited by Peter Toohey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004, 386 p. ISBN 047211302X. info
  • JAKUBCZAK, Marzenna. Aesthetics of the four elemets: earth, water, fire, air. Edited by Krystyna Wilkoszewska. 1st ed. Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2001, 415 s. ISBN 8086101436. info
  • FÖLDÉNYI, László F. Melanchólia. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2001, 343 s. ISBN 80-7149-424-0. info
  • The nature of melancholyfrom Aristotle to Kristeva. Edited by Jennifer Radden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xv, 373 p. ISBN 9780195151657. info
  • DELUMEAU, Jean. Hřích a strach : pocit viny na evropském Západě ve 13. až 18. století. Translated by Irena Černá. Vyd. 1. Praha: Volvox Globator, 1998, 722 s. ISBN 8072071807. info
  • TRAKL, Georg. Básně. Translated by Bohuslav Reynek. Náchod: Pavel Maur, 1995, 147 s. ISBN 80-901254-3-3. info
  • GUARDINI, Romano. Těžkomyslnost a její smysl. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1995. ISBN 80-85885-49-2. info
  • KRISTEVA, Julia. Black sun : depression and melancholia. Edited by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, vii, 300. ISBN 0231067070. info
  • BENJAMIN, Walter. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Translated by Věra Saudková. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1979, 428 stran. URL info
  • KNIGHT, George Wilson. The wheel of fire : essays in interpretation of Shakespeare's sombre tragedies. London: Oxford University Press, 1930, xix, 296 p. info
Teaching methods
seminar form, reading, interpretation, discussion, presentations by students
Assessment methods
colloquium - oral examination based on one of the texts explained and discussed during seminars, essay
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.
General note: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021.
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