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Course: Russian Literature in Cultural Context 1

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Course title Russian Literature in Cultural Context 1
Course code KRF/9RLK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course unspecified
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Sováková Jana, PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1. Characteristics of the so called Golden Age of Russian literature, implicit and explicit influences involved in the literature development. Taking poetological impulses of European literatures and their innovative action in Russian literature. 2. Specific features of the development of Russian literature and culture in the historic process from the end of 18th century to the end of the 19th century. 3. Czarist censorship, the origin of the opposition literature substituting the absence of democratic institutions for the whole century. 4. The work of Pushkin and Lermontov in the cultural and social context. 5. Relationship of literature and religion (Orthodox Christianity), Gogol's work in cultural and social context. 6. - 7. Genre paradigm of Russian literature. Specific features of the genre development of the Russian novel (Pushkin-Lermontov-Gogol-Turgenev-Chernyshevsky-Tolstoy Dostoyevsky). 8. Russian idealist philosophy and its influence on literature. 9. Personality and work of L. Tolstoy in the cultural and social context and its importance for European literature. 10. Personality and work of F. M. Dostoevsky in the cultural and social context and its importance for European literature. 11. Drama of A. Chekhov in the cultural and social context. 12. - 13. Writers of Russian literature of the 19th century in the context of European literatures.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Seminar
  • Individual project (40) - 35 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Based on the knowledge of trends of Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries demonstrate the ability of the inclusion of Russian literature in the European context .
learning outcomes
Students are well versed in Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries , is able to insert the creation of famous Russian writers in European literary context.
teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
assessment methods
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • XX vek. Tridcatyje gody: iz istorii meždunarodnych svjazej russkoj literatury. Naučnoje izdanije.. Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istorija, 2013. ISBN 978-5-905987-8-92.
  • BAL´BUROV, E. A. Russkaja filosofskaja proza: voprosy poetiki. Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskoj kul´tury, 2010. ISBN 978-5-9551-0406-5.
  • DOBRENKO, J., ed. a TICHONOV, G. ed. Istorija russkoj literaturnoj kritiki: sovetskaja i postsovetskaja epochi.. Moskva: Novoje literaturnoje obozrenije, 2011. ISBN 978-5-86793-918-2.
  • MASARYK, T. G. Rusko a Evropa (3 díly).. Praha, 1995. ISBN 8090197116.
  • MATHAUSEROVÁ, S. Cestami století. Systémové vztahy v dějinách ruské literatury. Praha, 1986.
  • Mednis, N. J. Poetika i semiotika russkoj literatury. Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskoj kul´tury, 2011. ISBN 978-5-9551-0482-9.
  • PAROLEK, R., HONZÍK, J. Ruská klasická literatura. Praha, 1977.
  • POSPÍŠIL, I. Ruský románu znovu navštívený. Brno, 2005. ISBN 80-7204-423-0.
  • Pospíšil, Ivo. K teorii ruské literatury a jejím souvislostem. Vyd. 1. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2013. ISBN 978-80-210-6216-0.
  • RICHTEREK, O. Dialog kultur v uměleckém překladu. Hradec Králové, 1999. ISBN 80-86148-22-10.
  • ŠESTAKOV, V. P., ed. Russkaja utopija v kontekste mirovoj kul´tury.. Sankt-Peterburg: Aletejja, 2013. ISBN 978-5-91419-894-4.
  • TIME, G. A. Rossija i Germanija: filosofskij diskurs v russkoj literature XIX-XX vekov.. Sankt-Peterburg: Nestor-Istorija, 2011. ISBN 978-5-98187-655-4.
  • ZAHRÁDKA, M. Ruská literatura XIX. století v kontextu evropských literatur. Olomouc, 2005. ISBN 80-86624-25-0.


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University of West Bohemia, date of update: 26.07.2024 23:53. Data created for academic year 2024/2025