SBA210 Serbian 19th-Century Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 15:00–17:25 A48
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SBA205 Old Serbian Literature
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
Subject provides the survey of Serbian literary production within the period of national revival and the establishment of modern Serbian state interprets Serbian literature of the period of Romanticism and Realism, in details is devoted in the commencement of Serbian Modernism, paying the attention to individual work in seminars with appropriate texts in the same moment. Especially Vuk Karadžič period of Serbian cultural advancement is emphasized as well as the period of Serbian Romanticism (Branko Radićević, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Laza Kostić, Djura Jakšić). Also reflection of the first Serbian Modernism is taken into account (Milan Rakić, Jovan Dučić, Sima Pandurović and Vladimir Petković Dis). Prosaic focusing would involve especially the work of satiric and humorist Stevan Sremac, Bosnian Serbians Petar Kočić and Borislav Stanković, being followed in dramatic plane competently by the most expressive Yugoslavian dramatic and comedy writer Branislav Nušić. At the end of this course the student would be capable to interpret the complicated way of Serbian literature towards the European one.
Syllabus
  • Disputes on orthography, characteristics of particular tendencies. Vuk Karadžić, Dj. Danićić.
  • Serbian Romanticism, establishment of the Matica srpska Society, first periodical newspapers. Cult of folk epics and publishing of its collections. Sima Milutinović Sarajlija. Njegoš.
  • Poets of the Early Romanticism: Jovan Hadžić, Ljubomir Nenadović.J. Nović Otočanin, J. Sundečić, J. Ilić. Serbian Young Romantics, both characteristics of the era and cultural development.
  • Branko Radičević, Zmaj, Dj. Jakšić, Laza Kostić.
  • Origins of Serbian novel. Cultural and political events in Serbia and Vojvodina, periodical newspapers, origins of scientific literary criticism (Svetozar Marković, Svetislav Vulović, Ljubomir Nedić).
  • Origins of Serbian Realism: Jakov Ignajtović, Milovan Glišić. Rural (idealistic) Realism: Laza Lazarevcić, Janko Veselinov.
  • Vojislav Ilić. Consistent realists: Simo Matavulj, Stevan Sremac, Svetolik Ranković, Radoje Domanović.
  • Branislav Nušić and Serbian drama.
  • Literary criticism in the era of Modernism (Bogdan and Pavle Popović, Jovan Skerlić).
  • Parnass type and symbolic poetry: Aleksa Šantić and Jovan Dučić, Milan Rakić. Vladimir Petković Dis and Sima Pandurović.
  • Lyrical Realists: Ivo Čipiko, Petar Kočić, Borislav Stanković. Post-Realistic prose: Veljko Petrović, Isidora Sekulić.
Literature
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha: Libri, 2001, 683 pp. info
  • KVAPIL, Miroslav. Miscelanea slavica litteraria. Vyd. 1. Praha: Euroslavica, 1997, 127 s. ISBN 8085494345. info
  • KVAPIL, Miroslav. Bohemo-serbica, bohemo-croatica. Vyd. 1. Praha: Euroslavica, 1995, 116, v. ISBN 808549423X. info
  • PAVIĆ, Milorad. Barok. Beograd: Naučna knjiga, 1991, 225 s. ISBN 86-23-70156-9. info
  • PAVIĆ, Milorad. Klasicizam. Beograd: Naučna knjiga, 1991, 181 s. ISBN 86-23-70153-4. info
  • PAVIĆ, Milorad. Predromantizam. Beograd: Naučna knjiga, 1991, 181 s. ISBN 86-23-70157-7. info
  • DERETIĆ, Jovan. Kratka istorija srpske književnosti. Beograd: BIGZ, 1987, 350 pp. ISBN 86-13-00060-6. info
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Slovanství v jazykově literárním obrození u Slovanů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1958, 240 s. URL info
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Littérature dramatique des slaves du sud. V Praze: nákladem Slovanského ústavu, 1930, vi, 248. URL info
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Slované : kulturní obraz slovanského světa. Praha: "Vesmír" - nakladatelská a vydavatelská společnost s r.o., 1928, 259 s. URL info
Assessment methods
Subject involves the lecture and seminar, where results of home reading and preparing are discussed. Exam is of oral type, involves also old Serbian literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
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