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Lecturer(s)
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Jičínská Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Kant: Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? 2. Lessing: Emilia Galotti 3. Lessing and his theory of drama. The concept of the bourgeois mourning play. 4. Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers. The development of the novel. Literary fiction 5. Schiller: Die Räuber. Drama development 6. Goethe's early lyrics. Rhetorical figures 7. Theory of genre classification. Literary forms of ballad, sonnet, elegy. 8. Goethe: Faust I. Weimar Classicism. Literary subject matter, motif, archetype 9. Between Classicism and Romanticism: Hölderlin. Symbols 10. Folk poetry, fairy tales. Allegorical reading 11. Romance: E. T. A. Hoffmann. Romantic irony 12. Biedermeier and the Vormärz: Mörike, Heine 13. Final discussion on the final papers
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the analysis of texts from the Enlightenment to the Vormärz epoch (1720-1848) both in their cultural and historical context and in terms of formal features. The aim is to introduce students to a literary text as a specific author's statement and to show a way to its understanding. On the examples of key texts from the given epoch, individual genres, genre criteria, or their development (drama, novel), and rhetorical figures will be discussed. While analyzing lyrical texts, emphasis will also be given on the recognition of the metre, the rhyme, the function of the lyrical subject, and the relationship of these features to the meaning of the text.
Students will gain an overview of the cultural and historical context from the Enlightenment to the Vormärz epoch (1720-1848). They will also get acquainted with key literary texts of the time and learn how to interpret them.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
To obtain credit - Active participation in seminars - Completion of all assignments - Oral presentation, ppt presentation - Final paper
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Recommended literature
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Bahr, E. Dějiny německé literatury 2. Praha, 2006.
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Borries, E. und E. v. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Bd. 3: Die Weimarer Klassik, Goethes Spätwerk. 4. Aufl.. München, 2001.
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Goethe, J. W. Goethes Werke in 12 Bänden. Berlin, 1966.
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Lessing, G. E. Emilia Galotti: ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Stuttgart, 1973.
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Schiller, F. Schillers Werke in fünf Bänden. 2. Bd.: Die Räuber, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, Kabale und Liebe. Berlin, 1969.
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