LIKOP01 General Methodology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
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 of the course in literary criticism are te general problems of literary scholarship a its social functions, methods, disciplinary structure and new questions including the innovative concepts of comparative, genre and area studies. The aim of the curse consists in reaching the ability of a doctoral student to work individually with the stimuli of literary criticism both of the past and the present, apply them flexibly to the analysed material, including the subject of the dissertation. A part of the course is also a practical text analyses and procedures of scholarly work. The output of the course is a separate study covering 10 normative pages.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the doctoral student will acquire the knowledge about the history and the present time of literary criticism, about the newest procedures and shifts in its disciplines, will be able to grasp the complex of methodology and apply it to his/her own analyses including the key parts of the dissertation.
Syllabus
  • The subject of the investigation, and social functions of the art of literature A concise guide to the methods of literary criticism of the classical, modern and postmodern periods Philology and literary criticism Literary criticism in its axiological function ("Literaturkritik")and its contemporary position How to conceive literary history? What is the theory of literary history? The general theory of literature Comparative literary studiess and the concept of world literature Genres studies ("genology"), genre systematics, and "new genre studies" ("new genology") Area and its relations
Literature
    required literature
  • Kautman, F., K typologii literární kritiky a literární vědy. Praha 1996.
  • Mukařovský, J.: Studie z poetiky. Praha 1982.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Základní okruhy filologické a literárněvědné metodologie a teorie (elementy, materiály, úvahy, pojetí, texty). Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, Trnava 2010.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Literární genologie (Theory of Literary Genres). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 118 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6894-0. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Areál a filologická studia. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 154 s. ISBN 9788021064713. URL info
    recommended literature
  • Lyotard, J. F.: O postmodernismu. Praha 1993.
  • Pavera, L. - Všetička, F.: Lexikon literárních pojmů. Nakladatelství Olomouc, Olomouc 2002.
  • Lotman, J.: Text a kultúra. Bratislava 1994.
  • Pavera, L. - Všetička, F.: Lexikon literárních pojmů. Nakladatelství Olomouc, Olomouc 2002.
  • Tomaševskij, B.: Teorie literatury. Praha 1970.
  • Zelenka, M.: Literární věda a slavistika. Academia, Praha 2002.
  • Krausová‚ N.: Poetika v časoch za a proti. Bratislava 1999.
  • Veselovskij, A. N.: Historická poetika. Bratislava 1992.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Literatura v souvislostech : několik příběhů o tom, jak také číst literaturu z širšího pohledu (Literature in its context : several stories about how to read literature from a wider viewpoint). 1. vyd. České Budějovice: Vlastimil Johanus, 2011, 151 pp. ISBN 978-80-87510-04-9. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. René Wellek a meziválečné Československo. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1433-4. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • Slovník literárních směrů a skupin. Edited by Štěpán Vlašín. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1983, 367 s. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar forms, completion of a seminar work in 10 normative pages
Assessment methods
testing, text analysis, defence and evaluation of a seminar work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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