RJA214 Russian Novel

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (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 16:00–17:40 B2.22
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of the course is to demonstrate the rise, genesis and the theory of the novel in general and those of the Russian novel in particular and the significance of the phenomenon of the Russian novel in world literature.
At the end of the course, the student will have the idea of the genre of the novel in Russian literature as a dominant and world significant phenomenon on the basis of his/her own reading and special literature.
He will be able to compare this phenomenon with other similar phenomena in other national literatures
and to interpret its poetics..
Syllabus
  • The rise, genesis and theory of the novel. The two contradictory conceptions of the rise of the novel. The novel continuity and discontinuity. The evolution of the theory of the novel. The Czech theory of the novel. The beginnings of the Russian novel and various conceptions of its development. Allochthonous and autochthonous roots of the Russian novel. The specific features of the Russian novel as a manifestation of the pre-post effect of Russian literature. Autochthonous roots of the Russian novel in the Middle Ages. The node points in the development of the Russian novel: Life of Avvakum and Karamzin's Letters of a Rusian Traveller. Russian imitations of the 18th- and 19th-century European novel: the Emin - father and son, Chulkov, Narezhny. The developmemt of Russian medium-sized and small prose in the 18-th and in the first half of the 19th-century. Verse and the novel: the form of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Transformations of the confessional, picaresque ans historical model. Various forms of the rise of the Russian novel: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. The synthetizing role of the "natural school". The novel types of the "Golden Age": L. N. Tolstoy - F. M. Dostoevsky - N. S. Leskov. The analysis of the three significant 19th-century Russian novelists: I. S. Turgenev, L. N. Tolstoy, F. M. Dostoevsky. The novel of the revolutionary democrats and the narodniks. The evolution and disintegration of the Russian novel in the second half of the 19th century: A. P. Chekhov. Russian modernist novel: Merezhkovsky, Bely, Artsybashev, Bryusov. The development of the Russian novel in the 1920s and the 1930s prose: the return of the action, experimenting with the plot, 1930s' monumentalization and historization. The Russian novel in the 20th century: Gorky - Zamyatin - Bunin - Sholokhov - Bulgakov - Platonov - Pasternak. The development of the Russian novel in the second half of the 20th century: the Russian novel in the Soviet Union and in emigration, confessional novel revival, escape into tradition (village prose) and into the past(historiosophical novel). The "retutend novel" of the glasnost, perestroika and katastroika periods. The Russian novel and postmodernism.Traditional and experimental character of the Russian novel in comparative aspect.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Stará literatura východních Slovanů a ruská literatura 18. století (Přehled a exkurzy z literatury 11.-17. století) (Old Literature of Eastern Slavs and 18th-Century Russian Literature (Outline and Probes from the 11-17th-Century Literature)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 196 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7281-7. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
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  • Gillespie, D.: The Twentieth-Century Russian Novel. An Introduction. Berg, Oxford - Washington 1996.
  • Demin, A. S.: Russkaja literatura vtoroj poloviny XVII - načala XVIII veka. Novyje chudožestvennyje predstavlenija o mire, prirode, čeloveke. Moskva 1977.
  • Lukács, G.: Die Theorie des Romans. Berlin 1920.
  • Lotman, J.: Roman A. S. Puškina
  • Román a
  • Hrabák, J.: Čtení o románu. Praha 1981.
  • Freeborn, R.: The Rise of the Russian Novel: Studies in the Russian Novel from Eugeen Onegin to War and Peace. Cambridge University Press 1973.
  • Jehlička, M.: Vyprávěčské umění Lva Tolstého (Raná tvorba). Praha 1968.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Tvar a funkce metarománu. Světová literatura 1984, č. 3, s.251-253.
  • Golovin, K.: Russkij roman i russkoje obščestvo. Sankt-Peterburg 1897.
  • Krejčí, K.: Fyziologická črta v české literatuře. In: Slovanské studie, Brno 1979, s. 59-73.
  • Typologie du roman. Wrocław 1984.
  • Simpson, M.: The Russian Gothic Novel and Its British Antecedents. Columbus 1986
  • Vogüé, M. de: Le Roman russe. Plon, Paris 1886.
  • Bělič, O.: Španělský pikareskní román a realismus. Praha 1963.
  • Pouillon, J.: Temps et roman. Paris 1946.
  • Odinokov, V. G.:
  • Grifcov, B. A.: Teorija romana. Moskva 1927.
  • Spielhagen, F.: Beiträge zur Theorie und Technik des Romans. Leipzig 1883.
  • Sipovskij, V. V.: N. M. Karamzin, avtor
  • Gifford, H.: The Novel in Russia: from Pushkin to Pasternak. London 1964.
  • O poetice literárních druhů (M. Červenka, J. Holý, M. Jankovič, P. Janoušek, M. Kubínová, M. Mravcová). Sestavila a redigovala Marie Kubínová. Praha 1995.
  • Dialog - karnaval - chronotop 1995, No. 2. Žurnal naučnych razyskanij o biografii, teoretičeskom nasledii i epoche M. M. Bachtina. Vitebsk 1995.
  • Pokrovskij, V. A.: Problema vozniknovenija russkogo
  • Theile, W.: Immanente Poetik des Romans. Darmstadt 1980.
  • Sipovskij, V. V.: Očerki istorii russkogo romana I-II. Sankt-Peterburg 1909-1910.
  • Mandát, J.: Počátky ruského epistulárního románu. Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, D 29, 1982.
  • Kundera, M.: Umění románu. Praha 1960.
  • Veselovskij, A. N.: Iz istorii romana i povesti I.-II. Sankt-Peterburg 1886-1888.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Ruský román znovu navštívený (The Russian Novel Revisited). 1st ed. Brno: Nadace Universitas, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Nakladatelství a vydavatelství NAUMA, 2005, 209 pp. Edice Scientia. ISBN 80-7204-423-0. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Genologie a proměny literatury. Vyd. 1. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1998, 154 s. ISBN 8021018720. URL info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Ruský román : nástin utváření žánru do konce 19. století. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 136 s. ISBN 8021017708. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Fenomén šílenství v ruské literatuře 19. a 20. století. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 151 s. ISBN 8021010835. URL info
  • DOHNAL, Josef, Ivo POSPÍŠIL and Galina Pavlovna BINOVÁ. Panoráma ruské literatury (Panorama of Russian Literature). In Panoráma ruské literatury. 1st ed. Boskovice: Albert, 1995, 415 pp. ISBN 80-85834-04-9. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Místa s tajemstvím :(kapitoly z literární topologie). Vyd. 1. Praha: Koniasch Latin Press, 1994, 211 s. ISBN 80-85917-03-3. info
  • SVATOŇ, Vladimír. Epické zdroje románu :z teorie a typologie ruské prózy. 1. vyd. Praha: Ústav pro českou a světovou literaturu AV ČR, 1993, 139 s. ISBN 80-85778-00-9. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Román zasvěcení. Jinočany: H & H, 1993, 230 s., [1. ISBN 80-85787-34-2. info
  • KAUTMAN, František. F.M. Dostojevskij : věčný problém člověka. Praha: Rozmluvy, 1992. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Proti proudu : (studie o N.S. Leskovovi). Vyd. 1. Brno: Sprint-Print, 1992, 101 s. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Rozpětí žánru. Vyd. 1. Brno: Sprint-Print, 1992, 170 s. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Hledání románu : kapitoly z historie a typologie žánru. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Československý spisovatel, 1989, 275 p. URL info
  • MATHAUSEROVÁ, Světla. Cestami staletí : systémové vztahy v dějinách ruské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988, 147 s. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Labyrint kroniky : pokus o teoretické vymezení žánru. V Brně: Blok, 1986. info
  • HRABÁK, Josef. Čtení o románu. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1981, 327 s. URL info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Román jako dialog. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1980, 479 stran. URL info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Román jako dialog. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1980, 479 stran. URL info
  • FORSTER, E. M. Aspects of the novel. Edited by Oliver Stallybrass. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, 204 p. ISBN 0-14-018398-1. info
  • ODINOKOV, Viktor Georgijevič. Chudožestvennaja sistemnost' russkogo klassičeskogo romana : problemy i suždenija. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1976. info
  • TRZYNADLOWSKI, Jan. Rozważania nad semiologią powieści. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy Im. Ossolińskich, 1976. info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Rozprávač a románové kategórie. Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1972. info
  • FORSTER, E. M. Aspekty románu. Translated by Eva Šimečková. Vydanie prvé. V Bratislave: Tatran, 1971, 136 stran. info
  • ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain. Za nový román. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1970, 124 s. URL info
  • ROTHE, Hans. N.M. Karamzins europäische Reise : der Beginn des russischen Romans : philologische Untersuchungen. Bad Homburg: Gehlen, 1968, 475 stran. info
  • LUKÁCS, György. Metafyzika tragédie. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1967, 187 s. URL info
  • Slovenská akadémia vied (Bratislava : 1953-). Ústav svetovej lit. O svetovom románe : sborník štúdií. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 1967. info
  • DNEPROV, Vladimir Davydovič. Čerty romana 20 veka. Moskva: Sovetskij pisatel', 1965. info
  • LUBBOCK, Percy. The craft of fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, x, 277. info
  • KOŽINOV, Vadim Valerianovič. Zrození románu. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1965, 324 s. info
  • KOŽINOV, Vadim Valerianovič. Zrození románu. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1965, 324 s. info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Epika a román. Vyd. 1. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1964. info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Epika a román. Vyd. 1. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1964. info
  • Istorija russkogo romana : v dvuch tomach. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1962, 625 s. info
  • Istorija russkoj literatury : v trech tomach. Edited by Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretc. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1958, 730 s. info
  • MUIR, Edwin. The structure of the novel. London: Hogarth Press, 1946, 151 p. : 1. info
Teaching methods
The lecture is based on the comparative and genre approach to the novel in general and to the Russian novel in particular, uses illustrative examples a textual nd intertextual analysis. The seminar focuses on the presentation of the students' research and discussion.
Assessment methods
The course has a form of lectures and seminars, reading text illustrations from selected novel texts, paper presentation
Current evaluation: individual evaluation of students' activity in seminars (text analyses), evaluation of paper presentation including the impresivenesss and the rhetorical aspect, special evaluation of written outputs in the form of a seminar essay on the basis of a point table (100 points maximum, successfulness limit 50).
Current evaluation - written tests.
The exam itself contains the checking of individual reading, discussions concerning the seminar essay, analysis of a short text extract, the common oral exam on the basis of the accessible synopsis and the lecture, all more or less in Russian except the students who do not study the subject.
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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