RJB416 Russian Literary Criticism

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 14:10–15:45 zruseno D51
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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
  • Hernadi, P.: Beyond Genre, New Directions in Literary Classification. Ithaca - Londion 1972.
  • Baršt, K. A.: Russkoje literaturovedenije XX veka.. Učebnoje posobije v dvuch častjach. St.-Peterburg 1997.
  • Tieghem, P. van: La Question des genres littéraires. Helicon, tome 1, fasc. 1-3,s .99-105.
  • O poetice literárních druhů (M. Červenka, J. Holý, M. Jankovič, P. Janoušek, M. Kubínová, M. Mravcová). Sestavila a redigovala Marie Kubínová. Praha 1995.
  • Jehlička, M.: Vyprávěčské umění Lva Tolstého (Raná tvorba). Praha 1968.
  • Trzynadlowski, J.: Information Theory and Literary Genres. Zagadnienia rodzajów literackich, IV, z. 1, 1961, s. 31-40.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Pátrání po nové identitě. Rusistické a vztahové reflexe. Brno 2008.
  • Hodrová, D.: Román ve 20. století - jeho teorie a praxe. Česká literatura 1994, 3, s. 227-254.
  • Komparatistika a genológia. Bratislava 1973.
  • Hempfer, K. W.: Gattungstheorie. München 1973.
  • Berg, M.: Literaturokratija: problema prisvojenija i pereraspredelenija vlasti v literature. Moskva 2000.
  • Russkoje literaturovedenije v novom tysjačeletii. Moskva 2003.
  • Litteraria Humanitas I-VI. Brno 1990-1998
  • Černec, L. V.: Literaturnyje žanry. Moskva 1982.
  • Lotman, J. - Uspenskij, B.: Die Rolle dualistischer Modelle in der Dynamik der russischen Kultur. Poetica 1979, s. 1-40.
  • Fowler, A.: Kinds of Literature. An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford 1982.
  • Slavica Litteraria X 1, X 2, Brno 1998, 1999.
  • 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 a lecture and a class discussion. Oral exam.
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: 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 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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