SLAV10 Literature from Many Angles

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (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
Knowledge of English due to CEFR: B1–B2.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course focuses on the introduction to the study of literature, to literary criticism, genre and comparative and area studies, to literary methodology. The first part of the course consists of the introduction to the study of literature, its rise and substance, to literary methods, the second part concerns the structure of literary scholarship/criticism and its disciplines, the third part contains the chapters from the theory of literary genres and comparative and area studies.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the most important features of the study of literature, methodology of literary criticism, its neighbouring disciplines, auxiliary disciplines of literary criticism, comparative, genre and area studies, literary currents;
- read special texts from the sphere of literary criticism, grasp the corresponding terminology;
- write an essay in the thematic framework of the present subject
Syllabus
  • The substance of literature, two forms of literature, literature of fact, fiction, nonfiction, belles lettres
  • Methodology of literary criticism/scholarship, the develpoment of methods, Immanent methods, German and Czech formism, Russian formalism, Czech/Danish/French structuralism, phenomenology, modern hermeneutics, reception aesthetics, cognitivism
  • The structure of literary scholarship/criticism, disciplines of literary criticism
  • The neighbouring disciplines
  • The auxiliary disciplines
  • Literary history, periodization, periodization criterrtaia and bioundaries
  • Literary theory, its kernel and range
  • Poetics: tradition a innovation
  • Comparative literary studies, development and methodology
  • The rise of genre studies/genology as a literary subdiscipline – Paul van Tieghem
  • Genre systematics
  • The Polish centre of genre studies, journal Zagadnienia rodzajów literackich
  • S. Skwarczyńska, J. Trzynadlowski, J. Kleiner. Genre studies in the U.S.A – the journal Genre
  • Attempts at the reform of genre systematice
  • Genre lexicology – dictionaries of literary genres
  • Literary genres and literary currents
  • The delopment and function of literary currents
  • Area studies, origin and contemporary state
  • Centres and schools of literary scholarship
  • Terminology and methodology
  • The contemporary state and the futzer of litetrary scholarship
  • The position of Slavonic literary studies, the past and the present
Literature
  • Peter Barry: Beginning theory. An introduction to literary and cultural theory. Second edition Peter Barry, 2002. https://staffnew.uny.ac.id/upload/132299491/pendidikan/beginningtheoryanintroductiontoliteraryandculturaltheorysecondedition.pdf
  • Hernadi, P.: Beyond Genre. New Directions in Literary Classification. Ithaca and London 1972.
  • Ann B. Dobie: Theory into Practice. An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Wadsworth, 2002.
  • Julian Wolfreys: Introducing literary theories: A Guide and Glossary. Edinburgh University Press 2001.
  • Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory. An Introduction, First published in 1996 in this second edition in the United States by The University of Minnesota Press 2003. https://mthoyibi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/literary-theory_an-introduction_ter
  • Jonathan Culler: Literary Theory. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press 1997.
  • Literary scholarship and criticism. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Literary_Criticism_and_Scholarship/Russian_Criticism_and_Scholarship
  • David Miralles: Literary Theory. An Introduction. Class Reader. University of Oregon 2014. https://miralles.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/literary-theory-reader.pdf
  • Fowler, A.: Kinds of Literature. An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford 1982. Fowler, A.: The Life and Death of Literary Forms. In: New Directions in Literary History. Edited by Ralph Cohen. London 1974.
  • Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker: A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Pearson/Longman 2005.
Teaching methods
The planned forms of teaching activities: lecture with presentation; essays with a following discussion.
Assessment methods
Essay presentation, essay evaluation; oral exam
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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