FJ0B745 Breton Literature and History

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
4/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Hrbata (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
each even Tuesday 13:20–16:35 A45
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FJIA017 French Literature II
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 purpose of this course is to convey a continuous literary and cultural-historical picture of ancient Armorique until contemporary Brittany as part of France. The presentation will concentrate on key literary periods: partly Middle-Ages, mainly 19th and 20th centuries.
Syllabus
  • - Cultural-historical geography, linguistic situation of Upper and Lower Brittany, characteristics of Breton language.
  • - „Matière de Bretagne“ and oldest literary monuments; discovery of celtic Brittany
  • - Picture of romantic Brittany (Brizeux, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Hugo); from Celtomania to brittanism; La Villemarqué's Barzaz-Breiz; from antiquities to folklorism (Luzel, Le Braz).
  • - Themes of Brittan poets and bards.
  • - „National revival“ (cultural regionalism and nationalism) in the interwar period.
  • - Contemporary literary tendencies.
Literature
  • Joël Cornette: Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons, I-II, Éd. du Seuil 2005
  • Slovník francouzsky píšících spisovatelů (ed. J. Fryčer), Libri 2002
  • Histoire littéraire et culturelle de la Bretagne, I-III (éd. J. Balcou et Y. Le Gallo), Champion-Slatkine 1987
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
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