RJB416 Russian Literary Criticism

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 B2.32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The subject is devoted to the poetics of literature, to the theory of literary history, to new tendencies in comparative and genre studies and to the study of selected literary methods (positivism, formalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, deconstruction) trying to connect them with the psychological and intuitivist doctrine embodied in the work of significant personalities of Russian literary criticism, mainly of the 20th century. The seminar is devoted to reading texts, prevalently Russian, and to discussing students' papers.At the end of the course, the student will be able to read, understand and interpret both classical and modern Russian texts of literary criticism.
Syllabus
  • Development of the methodology of literary criticism, basic stages. Problems of the 20th-century literary criticism, immanent methodological systems. Interwar Czechoslovakia as the crossroads of literary methodology. Russian formalism, structuralism, phenomenology, contrastive personalities of Roman Jakobson and René Wellek. Contemporary trends in literary criticism, literary criticism and the impact of social sciences. Hermeneutics and deconstruction, problems of Slavonic and East-European postmodernism. The role of genre and comparative studies in contemporary literary criticism, the notion of integrated genre typology, as a reaction to the impoact of social sciences. The layers of connection between philological and social sciences. the development of modern genre and comparative studies. The situation of Slavonic literary studies in contemporary world: their methodology, periodicals, organizational structure. The development of Russian literary criticism and its specific features. The beginnings of literary criticism in the 18th century, the two currents in Russian literary criticism (philological and socio-psychological) and its realization. Reading Russian 19th-century texts: Russian academic schools, psychologism, comparative studies and mythological school, Russian historical school, Russian literay axiology, and literary periodicals. 20th-century Russian literary criticism: formalism, freudism, structuralism of the Tartu school, Russian medieval studies and their methodologocal transcendences. New trends in contemporary Russian literary criticism.
Literature
  • Jehlička, M.: Vyprávěčské umění Lva Tolstého (Raná tvorba). Praha 1968.
  • Russkoje literaturovedenije v novom tysjačeletii. Moskva 2003.
  • Komparatistika a genológia. Bratislava 1973.
  • Trzynadlowski, J.: Information Theory and Literary Genres. Zagadnienia rodzajów literackich, IV, z. 1, 1961, s. 31-40.
  • Hempfer, K. W.: Gattungstheorie. München 1973.
  • Fowler, A.: Kinds of Literature. An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford 1982.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Pátrání po nové identitě. Rusistické a vztahové reflexe. Brno 2008.
  • Berg, M.: Literaturokratija: problema prisvojenija i pereraspredelenija vlasti v literature. Moskva 2000.
  • Tieghem, P. van: La Question des genres littéraires. Helicon, tome 1, fasc. 1-3,s .99-105.
  • Litteraria Humanitas I-VI. Brno 1990-1998
  • Slavica Litteraria X 1, X 2, Brno 1998, 1999.
  • Lotman, J. - Uspenskij, B.: Die Rolle dualistischer Modelle in der Dynamik der russischen Kultur. Poetica 1979, s. 1-40.
  • Hernadi, P.: Beyond Genre, New Directions in Literary Classification. Ithaca - Londion 1972.
  • Hodrová, D.: Román ve 20. století - jeho teorie a praxe. Česká literatura 1994, 3, s. 227-254.
  • Černec, L. V.: Literaturnyje žanry. Moskva 1982.
  • Baršt, K. A.: Russkoje literaturovedenije XX veka.. Učebnoje posobije v dvuch častjach. St.-Peterburg 1997.
  • O poetice literárních druhů (M. Červenka, J. Holý, M. Jankovič, P. Janoušek, M. Kubínová, M. Mravcová). Sestavila a redigovala Marie Kubínová. Praha 1995.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Genologie a proměny literatury. Vyd. 1. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1998, 154 s. ISBN 8021018720. URL info
  • KAUTMAN, František. K typologii literární kritiky a literární vědy. Praha: Primus, 1996, 189 s. ISBN 80-85625-35-0. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1996, 456 s. ISBN 80-901971-7-5. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1996, 495 s. ISBN 80-901971-6-7. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1995, 394 s. ISBN 80-901971-1-6. 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
  • VESELOVSKIJ, Aleksandr Nikolajevič. Historická poetika. Translated by Ján Komorovský. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Tatran, 1992, 277 s. ISBN 8022203165. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Hledání románu : kapitoly z historie a typologie žánru. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Československý spisovatel, 1989, 275 p. URL info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Estetika slovesnej tvorby. V Bratislave: Tatran, 1988. info
  • HVIŠČ, Jozef. Poetika literárnych žánrov. Vyd. 1. V Bratislave: Tatran, 1985, 210 s. info
  • HVIŠČ, Jozef. Problémy literárnej genológie. Bratislava: Veda, 1979. info
  • POTEBNJA, Aleksandr Afanas‘jevi. Èstetika i poètika. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1976, 613 s. info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Voprosy literatury i estetiki : issledovanija raznych let. Moskva: Chudožestvennaja literatura, 1975, 500 s. info
  • TOMAŠEVSKIJ, Boris Viktorovič. Teorie literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1970, 157 s. URL info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Príspevky k literárnej teórii : poetika románu. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1967. info
  • HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Estetika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 446 s. info
  • SKWARCZYŃSKA, Stefania. Wstęp do nauki o literaturze. Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy, 1965. info
  • ŠKLOVSKIJ, Viktor Borisovič. Teorie prózy. V Praze: Melantrich, 1933, 273 s. info
  • ÈJCHENBAUM, Boris Michajlovič. Skvoz' literatury. Leningrad: Academia, 1924, 279 s. info
Teaching methods
1)The genetic and comparative explication of Russian 18th-20th-century literary criticism 2) The reading of selected texts from Russian literary criticism accentuating sociological, psychological, immanent and cultural-semiotic methods 3) Presentation of students' research, the following discussion and evaluation
Assessment methods
The course has a form of lectures and seminars, reading text illustrations from selected texts of Russian literary criticism, paper presentation
Current evaluation: individual evaluation of students' activity in seminars (analyses of critical texts), 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 60).
Current evaluation - written tests.
The exam itself contains the checking of individual reading of selected authors, 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 both in Russiana nd Czech on comparative basis.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: pro všechny slavistické obory.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019.
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