MED15 Roman Literature I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Athena Alchazidu, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Šebelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
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 A21
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
At the end of the course, students should be able to obtain the basic knowledge of the French, Italian and Spanish literatures from the beginnings to the end of the 19th century.
Specially, they will be able to answer questions concerning the relationships among particular national literatures (with examples), as well as those concerning their contribution to the esthetic development of particular genres and periods.
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. Translated by Václav Černý. 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
    not specified
  • 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 focusing on topics presented in course content. Minimal 70% success rate.
Language of instruction
Czech
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.

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