FF:RJA118 Old Literature of East Slavs a - Course Information

RJA118 Old Literature of East Slavs and 18th-Century Russian Literature

Extent and Intensity

1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Josef Dohnal, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

none

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

• Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)

Course objectives

The subject covers the period from the beginnings of the written word on the territory of Eastern Slavs up to the period of the great Petrine reforms in the 18th century. The lecture is devoted to the interpretation of the poetics of Old Russian literature linked with the historical and general cultural background, stressing Slavonic and European contacts. The seminar is devoted to reading and interpreting texts in Old Russian or Old Church Slavonic originals and modern Russian translations. At the end of the course, the student will have the knowledge about Old Russian literature and its position in the context of world medieval literature and about its role in the formation of modern Russian literature.

18th century Russian literature - at the end of the course the students will be able:
- to understand the transition of genres at the end of 17th century and at the beginning of the 18th century, to know the meaning of the reforms of Peter the Ist for the social life in Russia
- to take the period of classicism as a milestone of the development of Russian literature, to know the role of translations for forming up of the Russian literature and of the literary language
- to know the main genres of Russian literature of that period
- to understand the period of democratisation of literature in the last third of the 18th century and the rise of sentimentalism

Syllabus

• Presuppositions of the rise of literature in the territory of Eastern Slavs Christianization and the rise of literature in Kiev Rus, functional division, genre spectrum and genre syncretism Christian texts (Bible, apocrypha, hagiography) Traditions of East-Slavonic chronicles(letopisanije). Sermons and didactic literature Translated stories in Kiev Rus and their sources Igor Tale Literature of the period of feudal differentiation 14th - 15th-century prose Religious currents in the 14th-17th centuries and their reflection in literature 16th-century literature Stories about the smuta(smutnoje vremja, smuta) Political and cultural specific features of the territory of contemporary Ukraine and Byelorusia/Belorussia The 17th-century secular story (bytovaja povest') Satiric literature Translations and paraphrases of West-European literatures Life of Avvakum Syllabic poetry(virši) Beginnings of the Russian theatre and drama in the 17th century 17th and 18th-century literature as a transitive zone of East-Slavonic Middle Ages and modern times 18th century Russian literature
• 8. S. Polockij and his place in Russian literature, Peter the Ist and his reforms, their meaning for the cultural and literary development in Russia
• 9. the rise of Russian classicism, translations and translated literature
• 10. theory of literature, satire, fable, drama and ode in neoclassicism, the main neoclassicist writers, their life and work
• 11. the decline of neoclassicism, the rise of popular literature targeted on lower strata of the society
• 12. the rise of journalism and the satirical journals (Novikov, …)
• 13. so called democratic prose, comedy and satire in the last third of the 18th century, the Russian sentimentalism, its rise, development, genres and authors

Literature

• Kovačičová, O.: Kontexty ruskej literatúry. Aspekty tradície v ruskej literatúre 11.-20. storočia. Bratislava 1999.
• Ljackij, E.: Historický přehled ruské literatury. Část II. Ruské písemnictví osmnáctého století. Praha 1941.
• Stepanov, V. P.: Istorija russkoj literatury 18 veka. Leningrad 1968.
• Kopaničák, J.: Istorija drevnej russkoj literatury. Bratislava 1993.
• Lichačov, D. S.: Velikoje nasledije. Klassičeskije proizvedenija literatury Drevnej Rusi. Moskva 1975.
• Čiževskij, D.: History of Russian Literature, from the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque. The Hague 1960.
• Jelínková, J.: Staroruská literatura. In: Pospíšil, I. (ed.): Panoráma ruské literatury, Brno 1993, s. 9-20.
• Ljackij, E.: Historický přehled ruské literatury. Část I. Staré ruské písemnictví (XI.-XVII. stol.). Nákladem Slovanského ústavu, Praha 1937, přel. Žofie Pohorecká.
• Pereverzev, V.: Literatura Drevnej Rusi. Moskva 1971).
• POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Existence, struktura, rozpětí a transcendence staroruské literatury (Existence, Structure, Range and Transcendence of Old Russian Literature). Slavica Litteraria. Brno: Masarykova univerzita FF, 1998, vol. 1, X 1, p. 27-37. ISSN 1212-1509. info
• Písemnictví ruského středověku : od křtu Vladimíra Velikého po Dmitrije Donského : výběr textů 11.-14. století. Edited by Emilie Bláhová - Zoe Hauptová - Václav Konzal. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 364 stran. ISBN 8070210168. info
• Písemnictví ruského středověku : od křtu Vladimíra Velikého po Dmitrije Donského : výběr textů 11.-14. století. Edited by Emilie Bláhová - Zoe Hauptová - Václav Konzal. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 364 stran. ISBN 8070210168. info
• MATHAUSEROVÁ, Světla. Cestami staletí : systémové vztahy v dějinách ruské literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988, 147 s. info
• JELÍNKOVÁ, Jana and Zdeňka DOSTÁLOVÁ. Čítanka z ruské literatury : XI.-XVIII. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 290 s. info
• Istorija russkoj literatury : v četyrech tomach. Edited by Je. N. Kuprejanova. Leningrad: Nauka, 1981, 653 s. info
• Istorija russkoj literatury : v četyrech tomach. Edited by Dmitrij Sergejevič Lichačev - Georgij Pantelejmonovič Makogonenko. Leningrad: Nauka, 1980, 812 s. info
• LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. "Slovo o polku Igoreve" i kul'tura jego vremeni. Leningrad: Chudožestvennaja literatura, 1978. info
• Liry i truby : russkaja poezija XVIII veka. Edited by Dmitrij Dmitrijevič Blagoj. Kijev: Veselka, 1976. info
• LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. Poetika staroruské literatury. Translated by Ladislav Zadražil. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 351 s. URL info
• LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. Poetika drevnerusskoj literatury. Leningrad: Nauka, 1967, 372 s. info
• GUDZIJ, Nikolaj Kallinikovič. Istorija drevnej russkoj literatury. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1956, 510 stran. info
• BLAGOJ, Dmitrij Dmitrijevič. Istorija russkoj literatury XVIII veka. Izdanije 3, pererabotannoje. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1955, 567 stran. info
• Chrestomatija po drevnej russkoj literature XI-XVII vekov : dlja vysšich učebnych zavedenij. Edited by Nikolaj Kallinikovič Gudzij. Izd. 5-oje, ispravlennoje i. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1952, 550 s. info

Teaching methods

lecture seminar activities presentation of results of the individual analysis of literary text discussion

Assessment methods

lectures combined with interactive classes connecting theoretical parts with discussions, reading text samples commenting on the texts oral exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

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