REMgrB15 Interpretation of a Literary Text I (Early Literature)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Kulhánková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:10–15:45 A22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Schopnost porozumění řeckému literárnímu i odbornému textu.
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
Byzantine and Modern Greek literary texts are read and interpreted in the seminar. The list of literature changes every year, depending on the topic of the course. In the autimn term 2018 the seminar is dedicated to the Byzantine epos Digenis Akritis and the Cretan poem Erotokritos.
Learning outcomes
In the course of the seminar, students learn the principles of literary work with text and at the end of the seminar they are capable of independent interpretation of an assigned literary work.
Syllabus
  • Introducsion
  • Digenis Akritis, version G.
  • Digenis Akritis, version E.
  • The Lay of Armouris
  • Reading scholarly literature and discussion.
Literature
  • BROWNING 1975: Robert Browning, Enlightenment and Repression in Byzantium in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Past and Present, LXIX, 3–23
  • ALEXIOU M. 1982: Margaret Alexiou, Literary Subversion and the Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: A Stylistic Analysis of the Timarion (ch. 6–10), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies VIII, 29–45.
  • Agapitos, P. “Grammar, genre and patronage in the twelfth century: redefining a scientific paradigm in the history of Byzantine literature”, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014) 1-22.
  • KAZHDAN – EPSTEIN 1985: Alexander Kazhdan – Ann Wharton Epstein, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Berkeley – Los Angeles – London.
  • MAGDALINO, Paul. The empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2002, xix, 557. ISBN 0521526531. info
  • VLACHAKOS, Petros K. Timariōn : ī peri tōn kat' auton pathīmatōn. Thessaloníkī: Zītros, 2001, 276 s. ISBN 9607760697. info
  • The perception of the past in twelfth-century Europe. Edited by Paul Magdalino. Rio Grande, OH: Hambledon Press, 1992, xvi, 240 p. ISBN 1852850663. info
Teaching methods
The course has a form of a seminar.
Assessment methods
Active participation and homework.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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