FJ0B806 Comparative readings

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Katia Émilie V. Hayek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Katia Émilie V. Hayek, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Libuše Svobodová
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:40 G12
Prerequisites
language level B2-C1
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Political Imaginations - Literature and History According to Tzvetan Todorov, Literature in Peril (2007), understanding a literary work means combining an "internal approach", i.e. the singular writing of the texts, and an "external approach", i.e. the study of the aesthetic, historical and ideological contexts of its creation. This amounts to affirming that, on the one hand, production and reception cannot be dissociated and that, on the other hand, understanding the work is synonymous with understanding the world. The aim of this seminar is to understand the interrelation between the political, in the broadest sense of the term, and the poetic, that is to say, to consider what the aesthetic choices made by writers say about their world and how they question ours. The course is suitable for students wishing to develop their knowledge of literature, cultural studies and translation.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to: - deepen the analysis of literary texts through contextualisation - use the comparative method that he will have discovered to grasp the continuity and literary particularities of works, especially in French literature. He will have enriched their knowledge of literary theory and literary history with a view to interpreting texts.
Syllabus
  • The course is organised in sequences composed of different sessions. These sequences are based on a corpus of literary text extracts intended for comparative analysis and accompanied if necessary by more theoretical and historical general texts. The semester will thus be divided into three main areas linked by the actual analysis of the texts: I acquisition of the comparative method II theoretical contribution (fiction and reality, the character, the new theatre, the novel of the 21st century, etc.) III combination of internal and external approaches in textual analysis: from the relationship of the imaginary to the reality of the world (social and political organisation from the question of identity to ecology) A corpus of texts will be given at the beginning of the seminar.
Literature
  • A comparative history of literatures in European languages : Histoire comparée des littératures de langues Européennes. Edited by Albert S. Gérard - Győry M. Vajda. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. info
  • Art, histoire, société. Paris: Flammarion. info
  • FRANCO, Bernard. La littérature comparée : histoire, domaines et méthodes. Malakoff: Armand Colin, 2016, 391 stran. ISBN 9782200272180. info
  • BRUNEL, Pierre. Le commentaire et la dissertation de littérature générale et comparée. Edited by Jean-Marc Moura. Paris: Armand Colin, 2014, 253 s. ISBN 9782200291266. info
  • BRUNEL, Pierre, Claude PICHOIS and André-Michel ROUSSEAU. Qu'est-ce que la littérature comparée? 2. éd. Paris: Armand Colin, 2000, 172 s. ISBN 2200261047. info
  • Fiction, narratologie, texte, genre : actes du symposium de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée XIème congrès international (Paris, août 1985). Edited by Jean Bessière. New York: Peter Lang, 1989, 239 s. ISBN 0820407917. info
  • Précis de littérature comparée. Edited by Pierre Brunel - Yves Chevrel. 1re éd. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1989, 376 s. ISBN 2130420710. info
  • BARBÉRIS, Pierre. Aux sources du réalisme : aristocrates et bourgeois : du texte à l'histoire. [Paris]: Inédit, 1978, 441 s. ISBN 2264009454. info
Teaching methods
lectures, textual analysis, oral presentation and class discussion
Assessment methods
in oral form, a textual analysis based on both approaches and/or, in written form, a comparative commentary based on the internal and external approaches.
Language of instruction
French
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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