CWL23 Literary Currents in World Literature

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2025

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Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (přednášející)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (cvičící)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Ústav slavistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav slavistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Předpoklady
knowledge of English due to CEFR: B1-B2
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course has an important position in the study programme, it is a synthesis of the theory and history of world comparative literature. The first part of the course consists of the introduction to artistic currents and streams, the methodology of literary history and world literary canon. The comparison of artistic currents and streams and their realisation in national literatures as well as in the world literature canon, typology of their poetics, the analysis of concrete artistic epochs, such as Antiquity, Middel Ages with Romanesque art and literature, Gothic epoch, Renaissance and Humanism, Baroque and Rococo arts, Neoclassicism as the last great return to ancient forms, Sentimentalism, Preromanticism, and Romanticism, Realism, Neoromanticism, Modernism and its national branches up to avantgard currents culminating in cubism and surrealism, their theory and history and national forms and genres cover the core of the subject.
Výstupy z učení
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the most important features of the development of the history of world literature currents and streams, the most influential poetics, the major periods in the history of world literature, the dominant literary currents and their relation to the development of arts in general;
- read basic literary artefacts in the original and understand their poetics;
- compare single literary currents and streams in national literatures and cultural areas both in and outside Europe;
- apply principles of modern literary history to literary currents and their national genre forms;
- demonstrate axiological potentials of literary currents;
- write an essay analyzing various literary currents on a comparative basis.
Osnova
  • 1) The Characteristics of the Literature of Antiquity
  • 2) The Literature of the Middle Ages: Romanesque, Gothic Literature among Other Kinds of Art
  • 3) The Renaissance and Humanism Turning Points
  • 4) Ancient and Medieval Universality and Globalisation
  • 5) The Renaissance Partialization, Beginnings of Secularization of Arts
  • 6) The Complex Chain of Renaissance - Humanism - Mannerism Reformation - Baroque - Rococo
  • 7) Neoclassicism as the Last Great Return to Graeco-Roman Forms
  • 8) The Shifts in the Genre System - Sentimentalism, Preromanticism, Romanticism, Postromanticism
  • 9) Realistic Poetics and Realistic Genres, the Novel
  • 10) The Anatomy of World Modernism
  • 11) Modernist Poetics and Artistic Avant-Gard
  • 12) The New Realism: Neorealism, Socialist Realism, Convergent Poetological Tendencies
  • 13) Postmodernist Poetics as a Substantial Change
  • 14) The Attempts at the 21st-Century Synthesis, Postsecularism
  • 15) Literary Currents as a Pattern and Auxiliary Tool of Literary Criticism
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Ernst Robert Curtius: European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Princeton 1953.
  • Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Leiden 2000.
    doporučená literatura
  • Richard Murphy: Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,1999.
  • Ira Mark Milne: Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements (2 ed.). Gale, Detroit 2009.
  • W. Sypher: Loss of the Self in Modern Literature and Art. Greenwood, Westport 1979.
  • Cornwell, Neil: The Absurd in Literature, New York, NY: Manchester University Press 2006.
Výukové metody
The planned forms of teaching activities: lecture with presentation; seminar presentations of seminar essays with a following discussion; class discussions concerning obligatory reading homeworks: analyses of select reading.
Metody hodnocení
essay presentation; two written tests with 20 questions, 20 points maximum, successful result 15 points; final oral exam
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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