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Lecturer(s)
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Koten Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction 2. Ancient literature and its heritage; Epos and tragic drama; 3. Old-Greek novel 4. Genre structure of Middle-age literature; 5. Middle-age romance (novel); Stories about King Arthur 6. Beginnings of novel; Rabelais, Cervantes 7. Elizabethan theatre era; 8. Shakespeare and his world; Shakespeare´s plays 9. Novel in the age of Enlightenment, pre-Romanticism and Sentimentalism 10. Literature of Romanticism and Realism; 11. Realism novel aesthetics 12. Beginning of modern lyric; Modern movements in second half of nineteenth century 13. Modernism; Movements, famous personalities, thesis 14. Literature in Middle-Europe
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course of lectures focuses on selected literature movements, personalities and literary pieces. The aim is to describe principal impulses and concrete problems of concrete periods of progress of literature. The selection of topics mostly deals with basic problems of literature-education canon. Explanation method during lectures focuses on genres, individual poetics and movement or concrete era poetics. At seminars, students apply lecture knowledge in interpretations of selected literary pieces. There is an oral and written examination at the end of the seminar (oral examination focuses on books student have read during semester).
The student is sectionally oriented in the selected problems of development and changes of european and world literature. He is able to understand the genre traditions, the move of the themes and creative processes characteristic for each period. He is acquainted with the most important works of world literature and with the interpretation of its meaning. He acquires interpretative competence.
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Prerequisites
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knowledge of the field on the level of GCSE exam knowledge of disciplines connected to the central domain of study knowledge of appropriate terminology
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
attendance activity presentation test semestral essay
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Recommended literature
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Auerbach, E. Mimesis. Mladá fronta, 1998.
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Bachtin, M. M. Francois Rabelais a lidová kultura středověku a renesance. Praha: Argo, 2007.
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Bejblík A. a kol. Alžbětinské divadlo I-III. Praha:, 1978.
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Bloom, H. Kánon západní literatury: knihy, které prošly zkouškou věků. Praha: Prostor, 2000.
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Casanova, P. Světová republika literatury. Praha: Karolinum, 2012.
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Curtius, E. R. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha: Triáda, 1998.
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Geertz, C. Interpretace kultur. Praha: Slon, 2000.
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Girard, R. Lež romantismu a pravda románu. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1968.
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Kol. Slovník světových literárních děl. Praha: Odeon, 1988.
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Veyne, P. Věřili Řekové svým mýtům?. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1999.
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