LIKOn10 Russian Literature and Area

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Petr Kalina, Ph.D.
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to acquaint the students with the geographical aspect of Russian literature and its influence on the formation of the cultural area. At the end of the course the student should have the knowledge of the spatial situation of Russian literature both in the past and in the present.
Syllabus
  • East-Slavonic area and its cultural specifics; presuppositions of the rRise of literature on the territory of the Eastern Slavs, ethnic and linguistic division of the East-Slavonic tribes as a basis of the East-Slavonic linguistic and literary triad; Christianization and the rise of literature in Kiev Rus, functional division of literature, 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; Problems of The Igor Tale; Literature of the period of feudal disunity (Molenije Daniila Zatočnika (Praying of Daniel the Immured), Slovo o pogibeli Ruskyja zemli (Threnody on the Destruction of the Russian Land), Žitije Aleksandra Nevskogo (Life of Alexander Nevsky), Haličsko-volyňský letopis (Galician-Volhynian Chronicle), description of pilgrimage, translations); stories about Battle of Kulikovo Field (Kulikovo pole) and its connections to the traditions of the so-called „military story“ (voinskaja povest).
  • Stories of the 14th – 15th centuries, motives of the Moscow succession, the idea of the Third Rome; Religious currents of the 14th – 17th centuries and their reflection in literature (the Josephites, the zavolzhskie startsy, the Strigolniks, Judaizers or the Zhidovstvuyushchiye, the Nikon’s followers and the Old Believers, the so-called Schisma of the Russian church); regional literature of the 15th – 16th centuries (Skazanije o znamenii bogorodicy, Putešestvije Ioanna Novgorodskogo na bese v Ierusalim, Povest o Novgorodskom belom klobuke); Literature of the 16th century (Maksim Grek, metropolita Daniil – metropolitan Daniel, Velikije Četji Minei, Stepennaja kniga, Domostroj, Istorija o Kazanskom carstve, Ivan Peresvětov, Ivan Hrozný – Andrej Kurbskij); stories about the smuta („smutnoje vremja“, „smuta“: Novaja povest o preslavnom Rossijskom carstve, Povest 1606 goda, Plač o plenenii i rozorenii Moskovskogo gosudarstva, Poslanije dvorjanina dvorjaninu); Differentiation of Eastern Slavonic literature in the 13th – 16th centuries, specific political and cultural features of the territory of contemporary Ukraine and Byelorusia/Belorussia; Secular story of the 17th century („bytovaja povest“); Satiric literature; Translations and paraphrases of West-European literatures; Life of Avvakum; Syllabic poetry („virši“); Simeon Polockij, Karion Istomin etc., Beginnings of the Russian theatre and drama in the 17th century; The 17th and 18th century literature as a transitive zone of East-Slavonic Middle Ages and modern times; evolutionary specifics of the Russian literature; aesthetic syncretism of Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century (classicism, romanticism, realism, absorbing older cultural epochs in European development); Genre shifts of emphasis (poetry, prose, drama); "Natural school" as a source of the Golden Age of Russian literature;
  • The line Pushkin – Lermontov – Gogol with the background; Aesthetics of revolutionary democrats and "softer" approaches; Development of Russian poetry from classicism to realism; Development of Russian drama: from Griboedov and A. Ostrovsky to A. P. Chekhov; The Gulden Age of Russian literature and the Russian novel (N. Gogol, I. Turgenev, I. Goncharov, L. Tolstoy, F. Dostoevsky, G. Uspensky and others); Beginnings of modernism, dekadence and symbolism, expressionism, futurism, acmeism, imaginism and the Silver Age
  • Russian modernist poetry, prose and drama; the European context of Russian literature and the theme of Czech – Russian relations; On the way to avant-garde
  • Literary schools of the Soviet 1920s; Russian literary emigration; the „large prose“ boom in the 1930s; Special features of Russian literature of the period of the Second World War; „Thaw“ 1953 – 1969; return to roots (village prose and so on); „Recovered literature“ and the period „glasnost“ and „perestroika“. Russian postmodernism; Periodization of Russian literature of the 20th century; Russian literature and its Slavonic European and World context.
Literature
  • Idee w Rosji. Leksykon rosyjsko-polsko-angielski pod redakcją Andrzeja de Lazari. Warszawa
  • Lotman, J.: O russkoj literature. Sankt-Peterburg 1997.
  • Pašteková, S.: Bunin – Andrejev – Jesenin. Štúdie z ruskej moderny a avantgardy. Bratislava 1997.
  • Lauer, R.: Geschichte der russischen Literatur. Von 1700 bis zur Gegenwart. München 2000
  • Faustov, A. A.: Očerki po charakterologii russkoj literatury: seredina XIX veka. Voronež 1998.
  • Stempczyńska, A. (ed.): Literatura rosyjska wobec modernizmu, avantgardyzmu. Katowice 1992.
  • Kovačičová, O.: Kontexty ruskej literatúry. Aspekty tradície v ruskej literatúre 11.-20. storočia. Bratislava 1999.
  • Mazurek-Wity, H. (ed.): Literatura rosyjska v nowych interpretacjach. Katowice 1995.
  • Bočarov, S. G.: Sjužety russkoj literatury. Moskva 1999.
  • Paszkiewicz, A.: Z problematyki ekspresjonizmu w literaturze rosyjskiej: od Leonida Andrejewa do Wsiewoloda Wyszniewskiego. Wrocław 1999.
  • The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Ed. by Charles Moser. Cambridge 1989.
  • KŠICOVÁ, Danuše. Od moderny k avantgardě. Rusko-české paralely. (From Modernism to the Avant-Garde. Russian-Czech Parallels.). Brno: MU, 2007, 467 pp. Spisy FF MU, č. 363. ISBN 978-80-210-4271-1. info
  • HRALA, Milan. Ruská moderní literatura 1890-2000. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2007, 767 s. ISBN 9788024612010. info
  • ČERVEŇÁK, Andrej. Dostojevského sny :(eseje a štúdie o snoch a Dostojevskom). 1. vyd. Pezinok: [s.n.], 1999, 199 s. ISBN 80-967911-2-5. info
  • Východoevropská moderna a její evropský kontext. Edited by Ladislav Zadražil. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1999, 193 s. ISBN 8071848026. info
  • KŠICOVÁ, Danuše. Secese. Slovo a tvar (Art Nouveau. Word and Image). Brno: MU, 1998, 320 pp. Spisy MU, FF, č.320. ISBN 80-210-1970-0. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Fenomén šílenství v ruské literatuře 19. a 20. století. In Fenomén šílenství v ruské literatuře 19. a 20. století. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1995. ISBN 80-210-1083-5. info
  • ZADRAŽILOVÁ, Miluše. Ruská literatura přelomu 19. a 20. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1995, 244 s. ISBN 8071840092. info
  • DROZDA, Miroslav. Narativní masky ruské prózy : od Puškina k Bělému : kapitoly z historické poetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1990, 263 s. 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
  • MATHAUSEROVÁ, Světla. Cestami staletí : systémové vztahy v dějinách ruské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988, 147 s. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Nepopulární studie : z dějin ruské avantgardy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1969, 199 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Students are encouraged to debate. They are supported equally in an individual or in the collective activity. Students perform their ideas via various papers, eposes. It shold form a path, as it is believed, towards self-creativity enabling to ground better one’s own opinions.
Assessment methods
The exam is based on the preliminarily declared handout that has been perfectly learnt by a student, who is now able to apply this material on practice. What especially is considered here is the style of the student’s work including his individual preparation. The semester handout (syllabus) is continuously discussed with students during the lessons and consulting hours of the teacher.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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