RJA118 Old Literature of East Slavs and 18th-Century Russian Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc. (seminar tutor)
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
Mon 14:10–15:45 A31
Prerequisites
none
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
The subject covers the period from the beginnings of the written word on the territory of Eastern Slavs up to the period of the great Petrine reforms in the 18th century. The lecture is devoted to the interpretation of the poetics of Old Russian literature linked with the historical and general cultural background, stressing Slavonic and European contacts. The seminar is devoted to reading and interpreting texts in Old Russian or Old Church Slavonic originals and modern Russian translations. At the end of the course, the student will have the knowledge about Old Russian literature and its position in the context of world medieval literature and about its role in the formation of modern Russian literature.

18th century Russian literature - at the end of the course the students will be able:
- to understand the transition of genres at the end of 17th century and at the beginning of the 18th century, to know the meaning of the reforms of Peter the Ist for the social life in Russia
- to take the period of classicism as a milestone of the development of Russian literature, to know the role of translations for forming up of the Russian literature and of the literary language
- to know the main genres of Russian literature of that period
- to understand the period of democratisation of literature in the last third of the 18th century and the rise of sentimentalism
Syllabus
  • Presuppositions of the rise of literature in the territory of Eastern Slavs Christianization and the rise of literature in Kiev Rus, functional division, genre spectrum and genre syncretism Christian texts (Bible, apocrypha, hagiography) Traditions of East-Slavonic chronicles(letopisanije). Sermons and didactic literature Translated stories in Kiev Rus and their sources Igor Tale Literature of the period of feudal differentiation 14th - 15th-century prose Religious currents in the 14th-17th centuries and their reflection in literature 16th-century literature Stories about the smuta(smutnoje vremja, smuta) Political and cultural specific features of the territory of contemporary Ukraine and Byelorusia/Belorussia The 17th-century secular story (bytovaja povest') Satiric literature Translations and paraphrases of West-European literatures Life of Avvakum Syllabic poetry(virši) Beginnings of the Russian theatre and drama in the 17th century 17th and 18th-century literature as a transitive zone of East-Slavonic Middle Ages and modern times 18th century Russian literature
  • 8. S. Polockij and his place in Russian literature, Peter the Ist and his reforms, their meaning for the cultural and literary development in Russia
  • 9. the rise of Russian classicism, translations and translated literature
  • 10. theory of literature, satire, fable, drama and ode in neoclassicism, the main neoclassicist writers, their life and work
  • 11. the decline of neoclassicism, the rise of popular literature targeted on lower strata of the society
  • 12. the rise of journalism and the satirical journals (Novikov, …)
  • 13. so called democratic prose, comedy and satire in the last third of the 18th century, the Russian sentimentalism, its rise, development, genres and authors
Literature
    recommended literature
  • DOHNAL, Josef. Russkaja literatura XVIII veka. Izbrannyje teksty I. Chrestomatija (Russian Literature of the XVIIIth Century. Selected Texts I. Reading Book). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 266 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6495-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
    not specified
  • Stepanov, V. P.: Istorija russkoj literatury 18 veka. Leningrad 1968.
  • Pereverzev, V.: Literatura Drevnej Rusi. Moskva 1971).
  • Древнерусская духовная литература. Сказания православные. Под ред. О. Славина. Москва 2004.
  • Čiževskij, D.: History of Russian Literature, from the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque. The Hague 1960.
  • Ljackij, E.: Historický přehled ruské literatury. Část II. Ruské písemnictví osmnáctého století. Praha 1941.
  • Suchanek, L.: Literatura i kultura staroruska. Wrocław 1980.
  • Kovačičová, O.: Kontexty ruskej literatúry. Aspekty tradície v ruskej literatúre 11.-20. storočia. Bratislava 1999.
  • Lichačov, D. S.: Velikoje nasledije. Klassičeskije proizvedenija literatury Drevnej Rusi. Moskva 1975.
  • Ljackij, E.: Historický přehled ruské literatury. Část I. Staré ruské písemnictví (XI.-XVII. stol.). Nákladem Slovanského ústavu, Praha 1937, přel. Žofie Pohorecká.
  • Kopaničák, J.: Istorija drevnej russkoj literatury. Bratislava 1993.
  • Jelínková, J.: Staroruská literatura. In: Pospíšil, I. (ed.): Panoráma ruské literatury, Brno 1993, s. 9-20.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Existence, struktura, rozpětí a transcendence staroruské literatury (Existence, Structure, Range and Transcendence of Old Russian Literature). Slavica Litteraria. Brno: Masarykova univerzita FF, 1998, vol. 1, X 1, p. 27-37. ISSN 1212-1509. info
  • Písemnictví ruského středověku : od křtu Vladimíra Velikého po Dmitrije Donského : výběr textů 11.-14. století. Edited by Emilie Bláhová - Zoe Hauptová - Václav Konzal. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 364 stran. ISBN 8070210168. info
  • Písemnictví ruského středověku : od křtu Vladimíra Velikého po Dmitrije Donského : výběr textů 11.-14. století. Edited by Emilie Bláhová - Zoe Hauptová - Václav Konzal. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 364 stran. ISBN 8070210168. info
  • Staroruská čítanka : komentované texty ke studiu dějin starší ruské literatury a vývoje ruského jazyka. Edited by Eva Fojtíková - Světla Mathauserová - Oľga Kovačičová. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989, 607 stran. ISBN 8004217095. URL info
  • MATHAUSEROVÁ, Světla. Cestami staletí : systémové vztahy v dějinách ruské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988, 147 s. info
  • JELÍNKOVÁ, Jana and Zdeňka DOSTÁLOVÁ. Čítanka z ruské literatury : XI.-XVIII. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 290 s. info
  • Istorija russkoj literatury : v četyrech tomach. Edited by Je. N. Kuprejanova. Leningrad: Nauka, 1981, 653 s. info
  • Istorija russkoj literatury : v četyrech tomach. Edited by Dmitrij Sergejevič Lichačev - Georgij Pantelejmonovič Makogonenko. Leningrad: Nauka, 1980, 812 s. info
  • LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. "Slovo o polku Igoreve" i kul'tura jego vremeni. Leningrad: Chudožestvennaja literatura, 1978. info
  • Liry i truby : russkaja poezija XVIII veka. Edited by Dmitrij Dmitrijevič Blagoj. Kijev: Veselka, 1976. info
  • LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. Poetika staroruské literatury. Translated by Ladislav Zadražil. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 351 s. URL info
  • LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. Poetika drevnerusskoj literatury. Leningrad: Nauka, 1967, 372 s. info
  • GUDZIJ, Nikolaj Kallinikovič. Istorija drevnej russkoj literatury. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1956, 510 stran. info
  • BLAGOJ, Dmitrij Dmitrijevič. Istorija russkoj literatury XVIII veka. Izdanije 3, pererabotannoje. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1955, 567 stran. info
  • Chrestomatija po drevnej russkoj literature XI-XVII vekov : dlja vysšich učebnych zavedenij. Edited by Nikolaj Kallinikovič Gudzij. Izd. 5-oje, ispravlennoje i. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1952, 550 s. info
Teaching methods
lecture seminar activities presentation of results of the individual analysis of literary text discussion
Assessment methods
lectures combined with interactive classes connecting theoretical parts with discussions, reading text samples commenting on the texts oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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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