Course: World literature I

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Course title World literature I
Course code KBO/7413
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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)
  • Hník Ondřej, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Valenta Zdeněk, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Ancient literature and its heritage. Epic poem and tragedy. 2. Greek novel. 3. Genology of medieval literature. 4. Medieval romance. 5. The beginnings of the novel. Rabelais and Cervantes. 6. Elizabethan Theater. 7. Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare's plays. 8. A novel in the time of the Enlightenment, pre-Romanticism, sentimentalism. 9. Romantic and realistic literature. 10. The birth of modern poetry; modern trends of the second half of the 19th century. 11. Modernism. Movements, personalities, theses. 12. Literature in Central Europe.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The lecture series focuses on selected movements, personalities and works of world literature in an effort to capture the key impulses and specific problems of individual developmental stages of literature. The choice of topics is oriented mainly according to the central problems of the school canon; the interpretation is focused on individual genres, poetics of individual authors and movements. Seminar teaching complements the interpretation with shared interpretation of selected works. The control of the study is performed by written tests (credit).

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Bloom, H. Kánon západní literatury: knihy, které prošly zkouškou věků. Praha: Prostor, 2000.
  • Curtius, E. R. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha, 1998.
  • HILSKÝ, M. Shakespeare a jeviště svět. Praha: Academia, 2015.
  • JAKUBÍČEK, D. Světová literatura druhé poloviny 19. století - Realismus. Olomoouc: Hanex, 2014.


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