RJB417 Theory of Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 B2.51
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
At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the development of the methods of literary criticism and the elementary categories of the theory of literature as well as the structure of literary criticism and its contemporary state with regard to the Russian and Slavonic specific features of the methodology and theory of literary criticism. He will be able to read with understanding the selected theoretical texts and comment upon them, to master the basic terminology and to complete his/her own work analyzing some aspects of the methodology and theory of literary criticism with regard to Slavonic literary studies.
Syllabus
  • 1. General problems. Literature and its social functions. Literary criticism, its structure, close and auxiliary disciplines. The methods of literary criticism, among others philological, impressionistic, biographical, sociological-positivist, psychological methods (A. Potebnya, W. Dilthey, S. Freud, C. G. Jung and other), immanent methods (Russian Formalist School, New Criticism, various forms of structuralism). Interwar Czechoslovakia as crossroads of the methodology of literary criticism. Russian Formalist School, structuralism, phenomenology, contrastive personalities of Roman Jakobson and René Wellek. Poststructuralist methods – hermeneutics, deconstructivism, cognitive criticism and others. Postmodern context. Russian and other Slavonci 19th-century literary criticism and scholarship. 20th-century Russian and other Slavonic literary criticism/scholarship: formalism, freudism, structuralism, poststructuralist methods and schools, medieval studies and their methodological transcendences. New trends in contemporary Russian literary criticism.

  • 2. Theory of literature. Theory of literature and poetics. Verse theory.Prose theory. Drama theory.

  • 3. Conceptions, disciplines, genres, and currents. Comparative literary studies. Outline of the development of comparative studies. Bi-literariness, poly-literariness and more extensive literary complexes. Contactology – typology. World literature. Various conceptions of comparative literary studies. General comparative literary studies. Area conception of comparative literary studies. Genre studies. Genre systematics. Theory of literary genres/kinds. Theory of the novel. Literary currents. Terms/notions, definitions, authors, texts. Contemporary state of literary criticism. Area approach and integration of philology and social sciences as an aspect of literary criticism.

Literature
  • Žilka, Tibor: Vademecum poetiky. Nitra 2006.
  • Valček, P.: Slovník literárnej teórie. Literárne informačné centrum, Bratislava 2006.
  • Hrabák, J.: Poetika. Praha 1973, 1977.
  • Harpáň. M.: Teória literatúry. Bratislava 1994.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Základní okruhy filologické a literárněvědné metodologie a teorie (elementy, materiály, úvahy, pojetí, texty) (The Basic Spheres of Philological and Literary Methodology and Theory (Elements, Materials, Reflections, Conceptions, Texts)). Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, 2010, 275 pp. ISBN 978-80-8105-191-3. info
  • ŠTRAUS, František. Príručný slovník literárnovedných termínov. 2. rozš. a preprac. vyd. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov, 2005, 416 s. ISBN 8080612080. info
  • MOCNÁ, Dagmar and Josef PETERKA. Encyklopedie literárních žánrů. 1. vyd. Litomyšl: Paseka, 2004, 699 s. ISBN 807185669X. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Areál - sociální vědy - filologie. In Areál - sociální vědy - filologie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, p. 3-25, 22 pp. Areál - sociální vědy - filologie. info
  • PAVERA, Libor and František VŠETIČKA. Lexikon literárních pojmů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 422 s. ISBN 80-7182-124-1. info
  • PETRŮ, Eduard. Úvod do studia literární vědy. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 2000, 187 s. ISBN 80-85839-44-X. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • INGARDEN, Roman. Umělecké dílo literární. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1989, 419 s. info
  • HVIŠČ, Jozef. Poetika literárnych žánrov. Vyd. 1. V Bratislave: Tatran, 1985, 210 s. info
  • ŽILKA, Tibor. Poetický slovník. Bratislava: Tatran, 1984, 370 stran. info
  • HVIŠČ, Jozef. Problémy literárnej genológie. Bratislava: Veda, 1979. info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Príspevky k literárnej teórii : poetika románu. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1967. info
  • HRABÁK, Josef. Úvod do teorie verše. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1956, 183 s. URL info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar
Assessment methods
To complete the seminar work from theory of literature containing 180 000 characters including spaces and all formal necessities.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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