RTDS27 Russian Literature and Other Arts

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Danuše Kšicová, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian language.
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
Course objectives
The discipline is based on principles of interdisciplinary comparative literature. Russian literature is considered as a part of a wider cultural context, therefore exatly so, as it really existed in different periods of its emergence, when representatives of different arts connected or divided identical or contradictory intellectual streams and philosophical views. However there was an interest in cultural development of their country in the implication, and also they naturally needed to absorb impulses from the other cultures. Art work analysed from the point of view of its shape of signs opens new possibilities to get down to hidden layers of its form. That’s why problems of ekphrasis and new possibilities of a heuristical approach come to the fore.
Syllabus
  • 1. Literature as a part of cultural universe: connections and differences
  • 2. The development of aesthetic thought
  • 3. Problems of Old Russian literature, visual arts and music (lives of saints and icon painting, relationships between music and verbal art, prosodic problems)
  • 4. The syncretism of Russian Baroque (word and form, scenic changes of Bible texts)
  • 5. Ode as a genre and classicist portret
  • 6. Sentimentalism and Rococo
  • 7. Romantism in literature, visual arts and music
  • 8. Problems of Positivism and Realism in Russian literature and visual arts
  • 9. The syncretism of Russian Modernism
  • 10. Problems of aesthetic thought of the 20th century
  • 11. Problems of ekphrasis
  • 12. Quest for mutual relationships between art and student’s own research
Assessment methods
Individual study of works from the reading list Application of acquired knowledge in student’s own research work Submission of an interdisciplinarily conceived chapter in student’s own research
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
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