RJ_80 Literary Methodology, Theory, Comparative, Genre, Slavonic and Russian Studies - Introduction

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Tue 11:40–13:15 A41 stara
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
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • I. Literary Scholarship and Slavonic Studies
  • The course in literary methodology is focused on the whole complex of the problems including the methods of literary scholarship, especially on immanent methods including Russian formalism and Czech structuralism (special attention will be paid to Roman Jakobson and René Wellek). A part of the lecture will be devoted to the development of Russian literary and aesthetic thought. The course also covers the problems of comparative literature, genre theory and other part of literary scholarship. The second part of the lecture will comment upon the history, theory and contemporary state of Slavonic literary studies in the Czech Republic, former Czechoslovakia and Central Europe in European and world context.
  • II. General Topics
  • 1) Literary scholarship its structure and methods
  • 2) Comparative literary studies
  • 3) Theory of literary genres
  • 4) Literary scholarship today
  • 5) Literary scholaship and Central Europe
  • III. Slavonic Literary Studies Today
  • 1) Slavonic studies: the past and the present
  • 2) Contemporary centres of Slavonic studies
  • 3) Slavisms and antislavisms today, Frank Wollmans book and its topical significance
  • 4) Area studies: area social sciences - philology The recommended texts will be selected due to the students orientation.
  • IV. Russian Literature Revisited
  • The main goal of the course is to demonstrate an unsusual and partly unexpected view of Russian literature in general and some of its specific phenomena in particular.
  • The structure of the lesson:
  • 1) Does Old Russian Literature Exist?
  • 2) The Character of the Russian 17th-18th Centuries: When did the Middle Ages Finish?
  • 3) Paths to the Miracle of Russian Literature
  • 4) The Pre-Post Effect
  • 5) The Palimpsestic Character of the 20th-Century Russian Literature?
  • 6) Revolutionaries and Reactionaries: the Past and the Present
  • 7) Russian Literature as Eternal Return The recommended texts will be selected due to the students orientation.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006.
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