Course: World Literature

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Course title World Literature
Course code KČJ/SLI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
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)
  • Krejčík Přemysl, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Pfeiferová Dana, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
  • Novotný Jiří, Mgr.
  • Vaňková Jana, PhDr.
Course content
Beginning of literary evolution. Ancient literature. Literature of the Middle Ages. Literature of Renaissance and reformation. Literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Literature of the 19th century. Literature of the 20th century. 1. What is world literature? Introductory lecture, definition of concepts. 2. Ancient literature: Egypt (Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun, Book of the Dead), Mesopotamia (Epic of Gilgamesh), India (Bhagavad Gita), China (Talks of Confucius, Tao Te Ching) 3. Ancient literature: Roman poetry (Ovid, Virgil, Horatius, Sappho), Greek drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides) 4. Heroic and chivalric epics. 5. The birth of the novel - the turn of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (F. Rabelais, J. Swift, G. Chaucer) 6. Literature of the Renaissance period (W. Shakespeare, M. de Cervantes, Dante, E. Rotterdamský) 7. Baroque literature, the period of the Reformation (J. A. Comenský, Calderon de la Barca, T. Tasso) 8. Literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, classicism, enlightenment (P. Corneille, J. Racine, Moliére, Voltaire, D. Diderot, C. Goldoni, commedia dell´arte) 9. Literature of the 19th century, pre-romanticism, romanticism (J.W. Goethe, F. Schiller, A.S. Pushkin, M.J. Lermontov, G.G. Byron) 10. Realism, naturalism (Ch. Dickens, H. Ibsen, H. de Balzac, L. N. Tolstoy, F. M. Dostoevsky, N. V. Gogol, E. Zola) 11. Artistic trends of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (Fin de si?cle, symbolism and the "cursed poet", cubism, expressionism, surrealism, decadence) 12. The emergence of the new novel (J. Joyce, M. Proust), absurd drama (S. Beckett, E. Ionesco), existentialism (A. Camus, J.-P. Sartre) 13. The novel in the postmodern era (V. Nabokov, M. Kundera, U. Eco)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
no specific assumptions are prescribed
Skills
no specific assumptions are prescribed
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
explain the historical literary development and its context both literary and artistic
analyse national and transnational contexts, the specificity of literary creation at different times and areas
Skills
analyse the literary work with respect to its literary historical context
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bc. study: independently acquire additional professional knowledge, skills and competences based mainly on practical experience and its evaluation, but also by independent study of theoretical knowledge of the field, Bc. study: they use their professional knowledge, professional skills and general competence in at least one foreign language, Bc. study: summarize the opinions of other team members in a comprehensible manner,
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Interactive lecture
Lecture with visual aids
Task-based study method
Skills
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Interactive lecture
Task-based study method
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Task-based study method
assessment methods
Knowledge
Continuous assessment
Seminar work
Skills
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Self-evaluation
Recommended literature
  • Světová literatura. 1.. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984.
  • Světová literatura. 2., 19. století. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986.
  • Světová literatura. 3., 20. století do druhé světové války. Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986.
  • Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis : zobrazení skutečnosti v západoevropských literaturách. 2. vyd. Praha : Mladá fronta, 1998. ISBN 80-204-0738-3.
  • Bachtin, Michail Michajlovič. François Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance. Vyd. 2., V nakl. Argo 1. Praha : Argo, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7203-776-6.
  • Černý, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti 1. Praha, 1996.
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti 2.
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti 3.
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti 4.
  • Eco, Umberto. Dějiny ošklivosti. Vyd. 1. Praha : Argo, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7203-893-0.
  • Eco, Umberto. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Vyd. 2. Praha : Argo, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7203-892-3.
  • Hodrová, Daniela. Hledání románu : Kapitoly z historie a typologie žánru. 1. vyd. Praha : Československý spisovatel, 1989.
  • Chvatík, Květoslav. Svět románů Milana Kundery. 1. vyd. [Brno] : Atlantis, 1994. ISBN 80-7108-080-2.
  • Pospíšil, Ivo. Světové literatury 20. století v kostce : americká, britská, francouzská, italská, Latinské Ameriky, německá, ruská, španělská. 1. vyd. Praha : Libri, 1999. ISBN 80-85983-80-X.
  • Staněk, Josef. Dějiny světové literatury pro školy i soukromé studium s 59 podobiznami. Praha : Dědictví Havlíčkovo, 1932.


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