FASD01 General Methodology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Roman Madecki, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject of the course in general methodology are te general problems of philological areas studies and its social functions, methods, disciplinary structure and new questions including the innovative concepts of studies itselves. The aim of the curse consists in reaching the ability of a doctoral student to work individually with the stimuli of scientific research both of the past and the present, apply them flexibly to the analysed material, including the subject of the dissertation. A part of the course is also a practical text analyses and procedures of scholarly work. The output of the course is a separate study covering 10 normative pages.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the doctoral student will acquire the knowledge about the history and the present time of philological area studies, about the newest procedures and shifts in its disciplines, will be able to grasp the complex of methodology and apply it to his/her own analyses including the key parts of the dissertation.
Syllabus
  • Subject of research - area (cultural, historical, geographical, linguistic) A concise guide to the expert methods of the classical, modern and postmodern period Philology and literary studies Historiography and its contemporary challenges How to design a philological-area study What is the theory of cultural areas The general theory of science Philological area study as an interdisciplinary bridge Area and its extent
Literature
    required literature
  • Mukařovský, J.: Studie z poetiky. Praha 1982.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Základní okruhy filologické a literárněvědné metodologie a teorie (elementy, materiály, úvahy, pojetí, texty). Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, Trnava 2010.
  • Kautman, F., K typologii literární kritiky a literární vědy. Praha 1996.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Literární genologie (Theory of Literary Genres). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 118 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6894-0. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Areál a filologická studia. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 154 s. ISBN 9788021064713. URL info
    recommended literature
  • Lotman, J.: Text a kultúra. Bratislava 1994.
  • Pavera, L. - Všetička, F.: Lexikon literárních pojmů. Nakladatelství Olomouc, Olomouc 2002.
  • Pavera, L. - Všetička, F.: Lexikon literárních pojmů. Nakladatelství Olomouc, Olomouc 2002.
  • Krausová‚ N.: Poetika v časoch za a proti. Bratislava 1999.
  • Tomaševskij, B.: Teorie literatury. Praha 1970.
  • Zelenka, M.: Literární věda a slavistika. Academia, Praha 2002.
  • Lyotard, J. F.: O postmodernismu. Praha 1993.
  • Veselovskij, A. N.: Historická poetika. Bratislava 1992.
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Literatura v souvislostech : několik příběhů o tom, jak také číst literaturu z širšího pohledu (Literature in its context : several stories about how to read literature from a wider viewpoint). 1. vyd. České Budějovice: Vlastimil Johanus, 2011, 151 pp. ISBN 978-80-87510-04-9. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. René Wellek a meziválečné Československo. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1433-4. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • Slovník literárních směrů a skupin. Edited by Štěpán Vlašín. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1983, 367 s. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar forms, completion of a seminar work in 10 normative pages
Assessment methods
testing, text analysis, defence and evaluation of a seminar work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 3x 2 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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