RTDS29 The Poetics of Russian Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 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.
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
Basic concepts of poetics in its historical development since Aristotle over Lessing, Schelling, Hegel to Peirce. Representatives of Russian literary criticism and aesthetics (A. N. Veselovskou, A. A. Potebňa, V. B. Šklovskij, V. V. Vinogradov, Ju. Tynjanov, R. Jakobson, V. M. Žirmunskij, V. Ja. Propp, Ju. M. Lotman, M. M. Bachtin and others). Basic concepts of semiotics. Theory of signs and its application in interdisciplinary comparative investigation. Literary genres and schools in genealogy of Russian literature. Poetics of literary kinds and genres, their specificity and correlation. The quetions followed include, among others: problems of style and structure, semantics and philosophy.
Syllabus
  • 1. The principle of poetics of literary creation
  • 2. Poetics from the point of view of genology (Genre Studies)
  • 3. Poetics of literary styles and schools
  • 4. Principles of historical poetics
  • 5. Principles of comparative poetics
  • 6. The development of poetics in the history of literary criticism
  • 7. Famous representatives of poetics and their contribution
  • 8. Russian poetics in its historical development
  • 9. Prominent personalities of Russian poetics
  • 10. Topical problems of poetics
  • 11. Analysis of text from the point of view of its poetics
  • 12. Application of acquired knowledge to an individual literary material
Assessment methods
Individual study of works from the reading list Application of acquired knowledge in student’s own research work Submission of a chapter focused on poetics of a literary work 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, Autumn 2008, 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, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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