RSn095 Russian Literary Criticism

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Monday 16:00–17:40 B2.52
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
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Course objectives
The course covers the basic spheres of Russian literary studies, or more precisely of criticism and the view of the Russian literature from 18th to 21st centuries in the form of the two main tendencies—philological and sociopsychological—in the way they were formed in Russia from the 1820s and culminated in Russian psychological and Formalist School, in Russian and Soviet phenomenology and Soviet structuralism and renewed psychological, semiotic, anthropological and spiritual streams from the 1980s eventually connected with postmodernist atmosphere. The course is also devoted to the poetics of literature, to the theory of literary history, to new tendencies in comparative and genre studies and to the study of selected literary methods (positivism, formalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, deconstruction) trying to connect them with the psychological and intuitivist doctrine embodied in the work of significant personalities of Russian literary criticism. The seminar is devoted to reading texts, prevalently Russian, and to discussing students' papers. At the end of the course, the student will be able to read, understand and interpret both classical and modern Russian texts of literary criticism.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will have a general knowledge about the development of Russian literary studies and criticism from 18th century up to the present day.
He will be able to orient in the particular streams, will know how to apply them to his own research, will understand the language of Russian literary criticism and its outputs and to independently work with them and analyze them.
Syllabus
  • 1) The overview of the methodologies of literary criticism and the position of Russian literary criticism.
  • 2) The development of Russian academic literary studies and criticism in the 19th century.
  • 3) The contribution of Russian literary criticism in 20th century.
  • 4) Russian literary criticism and interwar Czechoslovakia.
  • 5) The key personalities of 20th-century Russian literary criticism.
  • 6) The language of Russian literary criticism today.
  • 7) Czech literary criticism and Russian interpretation .
Literature
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  • Lotman, Jurij: Analiz poetičeskogo teksta: struktura sticha. Prosveščenije, Leningrad 1972.
  • Slavica Litteraria X 1, X 2, Brno 1998, 1999.
  • Smirnov, I.: Chudožestvennyj smysl i evoljucija poetičeskich sistem. Nauka, Moskva 1977.
  • Smirnov, I.: Megaistorija: K istoričeskoj tipologii kuľtury. Agraf, Moskva 2000.
  • Komparatistika a genológia. Bratislava 1973.
  • Hodrová, D.: Román ve 20. století - jeho teorie a praxe. Česká literatura 1994, 3, s. 227-254.
  • Smirnov, I.: Psichodiachronologika. Psichoistorija russkoj literatury ot romantizma do našich dnej. Novoje literaturnoje obozrenije, Moskva 1994.
  • Lotman, Jurij: Semiosfera. Iskusstvo. Sankt-Peterburg 2001.
  • Lotman, Jurij: Istorija i tipologija russkoj kuľtury. Iskusstvo, Sankt-Peterburg 2002.
  • O poetice literárních druhů (M. Červenka, J. Holý, M. Jankovič, P. Janoušek, M. Kubínová, M. Mravcová). Sestavila a redigovala Marie Kubínová. Praha 1995.
  • Russkoje literaturovedenije v novom tysjačeletii. Moskva 2003.
  • Lotman, Jurij: Text a kultúra. Archa, Bratislava 1994.
  • Gasparov, M. L.: Očerk istorii russkogo sticha. Fortuna Limited, Moskva 2000.
  • Baršt, K. A.: Russkoje literaturovedenije XX veka.. Učebnoje posobije v dvuch častjach. St.-Peterburg 1997.
  • Popov, Valerij: Dmitrij Lichačov. Molodaja gvardija, Moskva 2013.
  • Lotman, J. - Uspenskij, B.: Die Rolle dualistischer Modelle in der Dynamik der russischen Kultur. Poetica 1979, s. 1-40.
  • Lotman, J.: Semiosfera. Iskusstvo, Sankt-Peterburgrug 2001.
  • Lotman, Jurij: Besedy o russkoj kuĺture: byt i tradici russkogo dvorjanstva. Iskusstvo, Sankt-Peterburg 1994.
  • Pospíšil, I.: Pátrání po nové identitě. Rusistické a vztahové reflexe. Brno 2008.
  • Lotman, Jurij: Struktura chudožestvennogo teksta. Iskusstvo, Moskva 1970.
  • Berg, M.: Literaturokratija: problema prisvojenija i pereraspredelenija vlasti v literature. Moskva 2000.
  • Zubok, V. M.: D. S. Lichačov v obščestvennoj žizni Rossii konca XX veka. Jevropejskij dom, Sankt-Peterburg 2011.
  • LOTMAN, Jurij Michajlovič. Kultura a exploze. Translated by Miluše Zadražilová. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2013, 178 s. ISBN 9788072946211. info
  • ÈJCHENBAUM, Boris Michajlovič. Jak je udělán Gogolův plášť a jiné studie. Translated by Hana Kosáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triáda, 2012, 322 s. ISBN 9788074740626. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Pátrání po nové identitě : (rusistické a vztahové reflexe). Vyd. 1. Brno: SVN Regiony, 2008, 273 s. ISBN 808673515X. info
  • MATHAUSER, Zdeněk. Báseň na dosah Eidosu : ke stopám fenomenologie v ruské literatuře a literární vědě. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2005, 375 s. ISBN 8073080915. info
  • ŠKLOVSKIJ, Viktor Borisovič. Teorie prózy. 3. vyd., V nakl. Akropolis 1. Praha: Akropolis, 2003, 287 s. ISBN 8073040263. info
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo. Genologie a proměny literatury. Vyd. 1. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1998, 154 s. ISBN 8021018720. URL info
  • KAUTMAN, František. K typologii literární kritiky a literární vědy. Praha: Primus, 1996, 189 s. ISBN 80-85625-35-0. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1996, 456 s. ISBN 80-901971-7-5. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1996, 495 s. ISBN 80-901971-6-7. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Rusko a Evropa :studie o duchovních proudech v Rusku. Praha: Ústav T.G. Masaryka, 1995, 394 s. ISBN 80-901971-1-6. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Místa s tajemstvím :(kapitoly z literární topologie). Vyd. 1. Praha: Koniasch Latin Press, 1994, 211 s. ISBN 80-85917-03-3. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Román zasvěcení. Jinočany: H & H, 1993, 230 s., [1. ISBN 80-85787-34-2. info
  • KAUTMAN, František. F.M. Dostojevskij : věčný problém člověka. Praha: Rozmluvy, 1992. info
  • VESELOVSKIJ, Aleksandr Nikolajevič. Historická poetika. Translated by Ján Komorovský. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Tatran, 1992, 277 s. ISBN 8022203165. info
  • HODROVÁ, Daniela. Hledání románu : kapitoly z historie a typologie žánru. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Československý spisovatel, 1989, 275 p. URL info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Estetika slovesnej tvorby. V Bratislave: Tatran, 1988. info
  • TYNJANOV, Jurij Nikolajevič. Literární fakt. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1988, 755 s. URL info
  • HVIŠČ, Jozef. Problémy literárnej genológie. Bratislava: Veda, 1979. info
  • POTEBNJA, Aleksandr Afanas‘jevi. Èstetika i poètika. Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1976, 613 s. info
  • LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič. Poetika staroruské literatury. Translated by Ladislav Zadražil. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 351 s. URL info
  • BACHTIN, Michail Michajlovič. Voprosy literatury i estetiki : issledovanija raznych let. Moskva: Chudožestvennaja literatura, 1975, 500 s. info
  • LICHAČEV, Dmitrij Sergejevič and Světla MATHAUSEROVÁ. Člověk v literatuře staré Rusi. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1974, 186 s. URL info
  • Kompozice prózy : sborník sovětských prací z dvacátých let. Edited by František Všetička, Translated by Otakar Mohyla - Jaroslav Hulák. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1971, 185 s. URL info
  • TOMAŠEVSKIJ, Boris Viktorovič. Teorie literatury. 1. vyd. Praha: Lidové nakladatelství, 1970, 157 s. URL info
  • KRAUSOVÁ, Nora. Príspevky k literárnej teórii : poetika románu. V Bratislave: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1967. info
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Teaching methods
1) The genetic and comparative explication of the Russian 18th–20th-century literary criticism.
2) The reading of selected texts from Russian literary criticism accentuating sociological, psychological, immanent and cultural-semiotic methods.
3) Presentation of studentsʼ research, the following discussion and evaluation.
Assessment methods
The course has a form of lectures and seminars, reading textual illustrations from selected Russian literary criticism, paper presentation.
Current evaluation: individual evaluation of studentsʼ activity in seminars (analyses of critical texts), evaluation of paper presentation including the impressiveness and the rhetorical aspect, special evaluation of written outputs in the form of a seminar essay and written tests.
The exam itself contains the checking of individual reading of selected authors, discussions concerning the seminar essay, analysis of a short text extract, the oral exam on the basis of the accessible synopsis and the lecture, all both in Russian and Czech on the comparative basis.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
General note: pro všechny slavistické obory.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024.
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