FJ0B728 Literary Myth in French Literature after 1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
Mon 15:00–16:35 34
Prerequisites
FJIA012 French Literature I
Passing the course FJIA012 - French Literature I.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The link between literature and myth presents several definitory questions. The definitory conceptions of the myth determine specific approaches of the criticism (in afterwar France: psychoanalytical criticism, psychocriticism, mythocriticism, structuralism, etc.). This will be the theoretical starting point for the analysis of the myth and mytholocigal elements - should they be mere hypotexts or sophisticated literary mythopoietic procedures. The theoretical part of the course will be completed by the analysis of concrete texts (Decoin, Le Clézio, Tristan, Tournier, etc.).
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: myth and mythological elements in French literature after 1945. 2. Definition of basic concepts: myth, mythology, symbol, allegory, mythopoiesis. 3. Different aproaches of the myth in French criticism: Goldmann (marxist sociology), Barthes (semiology), Frazer (traditional sociology), Dumézil (structural sociology), Lévi-Strauss, Jean Pouillon (struktural anthropology), Eliade (history of religions), Bachelard (phenomonology of the imagination), Freud (psychoanalisis), Jung (analytical psychology). 4. Myth and literature: Bellemin-Noël (psychoanalytic criticism), Mauron (psychocriticism), Durand (mythocriticism), Vernant, Sellier (structuralism). 5. Myth in literary texts: myth as hypotext, mythopoiesis. 6. Analysis of literary texts: (Decoin, Le Clézio, Tristan, Tournier, Charrière, etc.).
Literature
  • Raymond Trousson, Thčmes et mythes, Bruxelles, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles 1981
  • Pierre Albouy, Mythes et mythologies dans la littérature française, Paris, Colin 1969
  • Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l'espace, Paris, Quadrige/PUF 1957 (1994)
  • Gilbert Durand, Champs de l'imaginaire, Grenoble, ELLUG Université Stendhal 1996
  • Pierre Brunel, Mythocritique. Théorie et parcours, Paris, PUF 1992
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant, Mythe et religion en Grece ancienne, Paris, Seuil 1990
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie structurale, Paris, Plon 1958
  • ELIADE, Mircea and Ioan P. CULIANU. Le dictionnaire des religions (Orig.) : Slovník náboženství. info
  • DUMÉZIL, Georges. Mýtus a epos. Vyd. 1. Praha: OIKOYMENH. 695 s. ISBN 80-7298-034-3. 2001. info
  • DUMÉZIL, Georges. Mýty a bohové Indoevropanů. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh. 263 s. ISBN 80-86005-25-9. 1997. info
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mythologiques I-IV. I. Le cru et le cuit; II. Du miel aux cendres; III. L'Origine des manieres de table; IV. L'Homme nu, Paris, Plon 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. Translated by Kateřina Dejmalová. 1. vyd. Praha: Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku. 429 s. 1995. info
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. Translated by Kateřina Dejmalová. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh. 463 s. ISBN 80-86005-19-4. 1996. info
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh. 343 s. ISBN 80-86005-53-4. 1997. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr. Le Roman mythologique de Michel Tournier (Michel Tournier' Mythological Novel). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně. 158 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně č. 352. ISBN 80-210-3382-7. 2004. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr. Francouzský mytologický román (French mytholgical novel). In Litteraria humanitas. IX. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity - Ústav slavistiky. p. 109-116. ISBN 80-210-2531-X. 2001. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr. Mythe, roman et temporalité. (Myth, Novel and Temporality.). Etudes Romanes de Brno. Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity Brno, XLIV, No 15, p. 7-14. ISSN 0231-7532. 1995. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr. Histoire et mythe: en marge de Michel Tournier et d'Umberto Eco (Historu and Myth: some remarks about Michel Tournier and Umberto Eco). Études Romanes de Brno. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, XXIII, No 1, p. 41-50. ISSN 0231-7532. 1993. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr. La Mythopiésis de Michel Tournier (The Mythopiesis in Michel Tournier's novels). Études Romanes de Brno. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, XXII, No 1, p. 19-31. ISSN 0231-7532. 1992. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinnou součástí zkoušky je referát přednesený v rámci výuky. Zkouška je ústní.
Language of instruction
French
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
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