LIKOn03 Introduction to the Theory and History of Literature Comparatistics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Milan Pokorný, PhD. (lecturer)
PhDr. Milan Pokorný, PhD. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Przybylski
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 12:30–14:05 B2.34
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 course is to provide the students with the introduction to both the general principles of comparative literature and to the history of this literary discipline. At the end of the course the student should have the basic idea of this discipline and can apply its principles to concrete literary material.
Syllabus
  • General
  • Comparison, Comparative Literature and What and How Could Be Compared
  • Outline the History of Comparative Studies
  • Biliterariness, Polyliterariness and Major Comparative Entities Contactology - Typology
  • World Literature
  • Various Concepts of Comparative Literature
  • Hermeneutics in Comparativr Studies
  • General Comparative Studies
  • Area Concept of Comparative Studies
  • Specific
  • Ďurišin’s Concept of Comparative Studies
  • Comparative Literary Studies and New Approaches in Literary Criticism (feminist criticism and literary crticism, multiculturalism, enriched methodological returns: manuscriptology, sociology and psychology of literature, hermeneutics and cultural history, area studies, Central Europe).
  • Philology, Slavonic Studies and Scientific Life (MAPRJAL, ICCEES, Slavists‘ International Committee of Slavists (congresses in Bratislava 1993, Cracow 1998, Ljubljana 2003, Warsaw 1995, Tampere 2000, Berlin 2005, Sankt-Peterburg 2003, Ochrid 2008)
  • Traditions of Central European Comparative Studies (Roman Jakobson, Matija Murko, René Wellek, Frank Wollman, Dionýz Ďurišin etc.).
  • Several Team Projects, Romanticism, Literary History, Central Europe, the study of literature in Central Europe after 1989).
Literature
  • Ďurišin, D. a kolektiv: Osobitné medziliterárne spoločenstvá I-VI. Bratislava 1987-1993.
  • Ďurišin, D.: Čo je svetová literatúra? Bratislava 1993.
  • Ďurišin, D.: Teória literárnej komparatistiky. Bratislava 1975.
  • Ďurišin, D.: Teória medziliterárneho procesu I. Bratislava 1995.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo and Jiří GAZDA. Integrovaná žánrová typologie : (komparativní genologie) : projekt, metodologie, terminologie, struktura oboru, studie. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 182 s. ISBN 8021021926. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Světové literatury 20. století v kostce (---). Praha: Libri, 1999. ISBN 80-85983-80-X. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Genologie a proměny literatury (Genre Studies and Modifications of Literature). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, FF, 1998, 154 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity. ISBN 80-210-1872-0. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Pojem a koncepce světové literatury. Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty brněnské university. D, Řada literárněvědná. Brno: Filosofická fakulta brněnské university, 1996, p. 103-112. ISSN 0231-7818. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. René Wellek a meziválečné Československo. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1433-4. info
  • VESELOVSKIJ, Aleksandr Nikolajevič. Historická poetika. Translated by Ján Komorovský. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Tatran, 1992, 277 s. ISBN 8022203165. info
  • HRABÁK, Josef. Literární komparatistika. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976, 206 s. URL info
  • FEL'DMAN-KONRAD, Natalija Isajevna. Západ a východ. 1. vyd. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1973, 247 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and class discussion
Assessment methods
Class presentation of written seminar paper, class discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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