CJBD02 Literary Criticism and Aesthetics II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Milan Suchomel, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 pracovna
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The relationship between the two disciplines is dealt with from the perspective of literary studies: how do literary studies relate to aesthetics, what do they need aesthetics for, why cannot they do without it, how general aesthetic formulations help specific literary-studies solutions. The seminar will mention the points of mutual contact between the two disciplines, as they were actualised and differentiated in the course of history, and will consequently deal with key terminology of aesthetics, fields of problems in ontology and noetics of a work of art, and with specific features of artistic communication.
The students after finishing the course should be able:
to follow the changes of elementery philosophical and aesthetic terms in the track of time
to follow these changes in wider historical, sociological, linguistic, psychological and aesthetic contexts
to adopt literary critical concepts and approaches to be applied to particular literary critical and artistic texts.
Syllabus
  • Aesthetics as a temptation and challenge. Attempts at a definition of aesthetics. Basic theses and contradictions in European aesthetic thinking, especially in Plato, Aristotle and Kant. Symbiosis of aesthetics and philosophy. Mimesis and poiésis. Realism and reality, truth and illusion, plurality of worlds, reference, semantics of possible worlds. Aesthetic reference and aesthetic standpoint. The ways of literary reading. Experience of the "other" and aesthetic transcendence. New formulations of old theses and contradictions. Aesthetic positivism versus the Russian Formalist school. "What is poetry?" "The aesthetic" as a function, value and norm. The interpretation of aesthetic object in Ingarden and in Czech structuralism. Value and evaluation. Hermeneutics. Structuralism and poststructuralism.
Literature
  • ZIMA, Petr V. Literární estetika. 2. vyd. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 447 s. ISBN 80-7198-329-2. info
  • JŮZL, Miloš and Dušan PROKOP. Úvod do estetiky :předmět a metody, dějiny, systém estetických kategorií a pojmů. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1989, 427 s. ISBN 80-7038-051-9. info
  • SOURIAU, Étienne. Encyklopedie estetiky. Translated by Zdeněk Hrbata. [1. vyd.]. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 939 s. ISBN 80-85605-18-X. info
  • HENCKMANN, Wolfhart and Konrad LOTTER. Estetický slovník. Translated by Dušan Prokop. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1995, 229 s. ISBN 8020504788. info
  • VOLEK, Jaroslav. Kapitoly z dějin estetiky : od antiky k počátku XX. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Panton, 1969, 268 s. URL info
  • GILBERT, Katharine Everett and Helmut KUHN. Dějiny estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1965, 502 s. info
  • MORPURGO-TAGLIABUE, Guido. Současná estetika. Edited by Miloš Jůzl, Translated by Zdena Plošková. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1985, 552 s. URL info
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Člověk a struktury :kapitoly z neostrukturálnív poetiky a estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Český spisovatel, 1996, 206 s. ISBN 80-202-0583-7. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Mezi filosofií a poezií. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1995, 143 s. ISBN 80-7007-067-6. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Estetické alternativy :jazyk vědy a jazyk poezie. Praha: Gryf, 1994, 141 s. ISBN 80-85829-08-8. info
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Strukturální estetika :řád věcí a řád člověka. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1994, 86 s. ISBN 80-85865-03-3. info
  • JANKOVIČ, Milan. Dílo jako dění smyslu. 1. vyd. Praha: Pražská imaginace ve spolupráci s Ústavem pro českou a slovenskou literaturu ČSAV, 1992, 94 p. ISBN 8071100609. info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z estetiky. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1966, 371 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 325 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 446 s. URL info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Kapitoly z české poetiky. Vyd. 2., dopl., ve Svobodě. Praha: Svoboda, 1948, 349 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Seminar.
Assessment methods
In order to be given the credit the students must show their knowledge of the topic during a short oral interview.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Přednáška navazuje na přednášku ze zimního semestru (CJBD01).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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