FF:MED15 Roman Literature I - Course Information
MED15 Roman Literature I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Eva Lalkovičová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Magdaléna Nahálková (lecturer) - Poskytovatelé Specifické podpory výuky
- Mgr. Marek Lang, Ph.D. (zapisovatel)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 16:00–17:40 G32, except Mon 13. 11.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The main aim of the course is to mediate the basic knowledge of the French, Italian and Spanish literature from the origins to the end of 19th century.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able:
- to describe the periodization of Romance literatures,
- to discuss the questions concerning the relationships between the particular national literatures, as well as those concerning their contribution to the esthetic development of particular genres and periods,
- to apply acquired knowledge on individual literary works. - Syllabus
- 1. FRENCH LITERATURE. Introduction. Middle Ages (Chansons de geste. Court poetry. Theater. Eustache Deschamps, Charles d'Orléans, Francois Villon). Renaissance (Francois Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard, Michel de Montaigne; P. de Ronsard.) Reading: Ronsard: Les Amours.
- 2. Baroque. Classicism (Pierre Corneille, Moliére, Jean Racine). Reading: Phedre.
- 3. 18th century. Enlightenment, encyclopedism. (Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, Lesage, Marivaux.) Reading: Jacques le Fataliste.
- 4. Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism. (Hugo, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Musset, Vigny, Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac, Daudet, Maupassant, Zola.) Reading: Le Rouge et le noir.
- 5. Symbolism and decadence. Avant-garde. (Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Breton, Eluard) Reading: Les Fleurs du mal. Les Champs magnetiques.
- 6. The first part of the 20th century. (Traditional, revolutionary and humanistic novel. Existencialism. Theatre of the Absurd.) Reading: A la recherche du temps perdu.
- 7. From the fifties to the present. (Nouveau roman. Theater of the Absurd.)
- 8. ITALIAN LITERATURE. Introduction. Middle Ages. Duecento. First literary texts in "volgare". Dolce stil nuovo. The beginnings of trecento. Dante Alighieri.
- 9. Trecento. Early Renaissance. Francesco Petrarca. Giovanni Boccaccio. Renaissance and Humanism. Quattrocento (Ennea Silvio Piccolomini). Mannerism. Cinquecento (Lodovico Ariosto, Michelangelo, Torquato Tasso).
- 10. Seicento (Giambattista Marino; commedia dell'arte). Settecento (Accademia dell'Arcadia; Carlo Goldoni; Scipione Maffei; Giuseppe Parini)
- 11. Ottocento. Preromantism and romantism. Realism. Symbolism. (Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni; Giovanni Pascolo, Gabriele d'Annunzio).
- Primo novecento (A. T. Marinetti; the journals: Lacerba, Valori plastici). Secondo novecento (Eugenio Montale, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Eco, Antonio Tabucchi).
- 12.SPANISH LITERATURE. Medieval poetry, Chansons de geste. The song of the Cid. The Golden Age literature. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote Theatre: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream. Romanticism: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Legends. 13. Summary.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- LEPAPE, Pierre. Země literatury : od Štrasburských přísah do Sartrova pohřbu. Translated by Nora Obrtelová. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2006, 519 s. ISBN 9788072942183. info
- Slovník francouzsky píšících spisovatelů : Francie, Belgie, Lucembursko, Švýcarsko, Kanada, Maghreb a severní Afrika, "Černá" Afrika, Libanon, oblast Indického a Tichého oceánu. Edited by Jaroslav Fryčer. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2002, 759 s. ISBN 8072771302. info
- DE SANCTIS, Francesco. Dějiny italské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1959, xiii, 601. URL info
- PELÁN, Jiří. Slovník italských spisovatelů. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2004, 751 s. ISBN 8072771809. info
- ŠEBELOVÁ, Zuzana. Antologie textů k italské literatuře 13.-19.století (Anthology of Italian Literature 13th-19th Century). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 219 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7021-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
- BĚLIČ, Oldřich and Josef FORBELSKÝ. Dějiny španělské literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 261 s. info
- BURIANOVÁ, Zuzana and Eduard HODOUŠEK. Slovník spisovatelů Španělska a Portugalska : baskická literatura, galicijská literatura, katalánská literatura, portugalská literatura, španělská literatura. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 1999, 653 s. ISBN 8085983540. info
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- ALCHAZIDU, Athena, Yolanda PÉREZ SINUSÍA and Paula GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ. Esbozo de la historia de la literatura espaňola. Brno: Anton Pasienka, 2004, 284 pp. ISBN 80-902652-3-5. info
- DARCOS, Xavier. Histoire de la littérature française. Paris: Hachette, 1992, 527 s. ISBN 2010165888. info
- DOTTI, Ugo. Storia della letteratura italiana. 1a edizione. Roma: Carocci, 2007, 596 stran. ISBN 9788843042531. info
- POSPÍŠIL, Ivo and Simoneta DEMBICKÁ. Světové literatury 20. století v kostce : americká, britská, francouzská, italská, Latinské Ameriky, německá, ruská, španělská. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 1999, 239 s. ISBN 80-85983-80-X. info
- SARAIVA, António José and Óscar LOPES. Dějiny portugalské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1972, 633 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- The course is provided as lectures. Students are required to attend the lectures regulary. Apart from that, regular home-reading of particular chapters or the whole works from the list of reading (available at the beginning of the course) in the Czech translation is required.
- Assessment methods
- The recommended reading will be part of the exam at the end of the second semester. The first semester is concluded with a Literary History test focused on topics presented during the first semester. Final exam- written test (success rate: 60%).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
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.
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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