LIKOT04 World Literature and World Literatures

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
LIKOT01 Comparative Literature & Genre
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
To know the substance of the notions "world literature" and "world literatures", world literary canon, various conceptions of world literature, to acquire the general knowledge of the development of world literature of our civilizational sphere due to individual stages of cultural development, to have an idea of the whole of world literature and to know its basic facts.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the doctoral student will be able to understand various conceptions of the notions "world literature" and "world literatures", to know the major stages of the development of world literature due to cultural epochs, to know the dominant poetological tendences, currents, genres, and styles, to know the world literary canon and its modifications and the basic facts, to have the compulsory reading completed, partly in foreign languages.
Syllabus
  • 1) Comparative literary studies and the conception of world literature and world literatures 2) Outline of ancient literatures (ancient Egypt, literature of Mesopotamia starting from Sumer, India, China, Japan, Tibet; in case of East and South of Asia to demonstrate their development in the Middle Ages) 3) Ancient literature in Greece and Rome 4) European medieval literature 5) The Renaissance-Humanist-Reformation Epoch 6) Baroque and Rococo 7) European Neoclassicism 8) The Crisis of Neoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism, Sentimentalism,and Romanticism 9) The 19th-century Realism 10) Neo-Romanticism and Modernism 11) Avantgarde tendencies in the 20th century 12) Neo-Realism in the 20th century and its relations to Modernism and Avantgarde 13) Postmodernism 14) The contemporary state of world literature 15) A selected subject from national literatures
Literature
  • Stupka, V.: Uvedení do dějin světových literatur I-II. Brno 1973-1974.
  • ŠAUR, Josef, Michal PRZYBYLSKI, Ivo POSPÍŠIL, Pavel PILCH, Eliška GUNIŠOVÁ, Jaroslava SMEJKALOVÁ, Lenka PAUČOVÁ, Kateřina KOLÁŘOVÁ, Nela MARTINKOVÁ and Anton Nikolajevič SOMOV. Slovanské literatury a jazyky v objetí politiky (20. století) (The Slavonic Literatures and Languages Embraced by Politics (the 20th Century)). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 166 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8068-3. info
  • WOLLMAN, Slavomír. Slovanské literatury ve střední Evropě (Slavic Literatures in Central Europe). Zelenka, Miloš (ed.). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 236 pp. Slavica Universitatis Masarykianae, sv. 1. ISBN 978-80-210-6127-9. info
  • WOLLMAN, Frank. Slovesnost Slovanů. Edited by Ivo Pospíšil - Miloš Zelenka. 2. vyd., v Tribunu EU vyd. 1. Brno: Tribun EU, 2012, 474 s. ISBN 9788026302230. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Slovanské literatury a dnešek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, 240 s. ISBN 9788021046672. URL info
  • CONTE, Gian Biagio. Dějiny římské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 2003, 790 s. ISBN 8085917874. info
  • CANFORA, Luciano. Dějiny řecké literatury. Translated by Dagmar Bartoňková. Vyd. 1. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 2001, 893 s. ISBN 8085917696. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Světové literatury 20. století v kostce (---). Praha: Libri, 1999. ISBN 80-85983-80-X. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Balkán a Mediterán. Literárně historické studie. In Balkán a Mediterán. Literárně historické a teoretické studie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1532-2. info
  • Istorija vsemirnoj literatury : v devjati tomach. Edited by Il‘ja Moisejevič Fradkin - Aleksej Matvejevič Zverev - Vsevolod Al. Moskva: Nauka, 1994, 848 stran. ISBN 5020114235. info
  • ĎURIŠIN, Dionýz. Communautés interlittéraires specifiques. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 1993, 241, 100. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • VODIČKA, Felix. Svět literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1992, 220 s. ISBN 8004259073. info
  • STIEBITZ, Ferdinand. Stručné dějiny římské literatury. 4. vyd. Brno: Rektorát Masarykovy univerzity, 1991, 390 stran. ISBN 8021002689. info
  • Slovník světových literárních děl. Edited by Vladimír Macura. Vyd. 2. Praha: Odeon, 1989, 475 s. ISBN 8020700048. info
  • ĎURIŠIN, Dionýz. Osobitné medziliterárne spoločenstvá. Bratislava: Veda, 1987. info
  • Setkání a proměny : vznik moderní literatury v Asii. Edited by Zlata Černá. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1976, 284 s. URL info
  • FEL'DMAN-KONRAD, Natalija Isajevna. Západ a východ. 1. vyd. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1973, 247 s. info
  • KRYSTÝNEK, Jiří. Slovanské literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1964, 95 s. info
  • MÁCHAL, Jan. Slovanské literatury. V Praze: nákladem Matice české, 1929, 795 stran. info
  • MÁCHAL, Jan. Slovanské literatury. V Praze: nákladem Matice české, 1925, 605 stran. info
  • MÁCHAL, Jan. Slovanské literatury. V Praze: nákladem Matice české, 1922, 319 stran. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar, consultations, completion of a seminar work on the subject of the course, reading texts
Assessment methods
completion of a seminar work. testing, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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