Course: History of German Literatures

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Course title History of German Literatures
Course code KGER/KLI4
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 20
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cornejo Renata, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Jičínská Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Němec Miroslav, doc. Dr. phil.
Course content
Examples of possible topics: - Theory of the state and utopia in baroque literature - Philosophy, aesthetics and literary theory in the Enlightenment - The French Revolution as a challenge for literature at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries - Literary strategy in the 19th century (novel, drama, lyric) - Historicism, positivism and realism in the second half of the 19th century - The issue of literary avant-garde at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - Transformations of drama in the 20th century - Mass media and their influence on literary life in the 20th century (the influence of film on modern novel and drama, transformations of canonization mechanisms, the role of trivial genres) - Literature, politics and power in the 20th century (literature in fascist Germany, in exile, in the GDR) - the crisis of language and the problem of identity in Austrian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to broaden and deepen the student's knowledge of his / her bachelor and follow-up master's degree in the history of German language literature from the Old German to the present, taking into account both synchronous and diachronic view of literary history.
The doctoral student has a very good knowledge of the history of literature of German-language literatures, both in the wider literary-historical and historical-philosophical context of the given literary period and in the development of individual genres.
Prerequisites
Selected Chapters from Literary Studies

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Written work of the doctoral student, elaborated on the basis of consultation of the topic with the guarantor or authorized teacher. The topic takes into account the lectures and doctoral dissertation project.
Recommended literature
  • ALLKEMPER, A. / OTTO, N. Deutsche Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlín, 2002.
  • BAHR, E. Dějiny německé literatury. Praha, 2005.
  • EMDEN, Ch./ MIDGLEY, D. R. German History, Literature and the Nation:Cambridge 2002. Bern/Oxford, 2004.
  • GNÜG, H. / MÖHRMANN, R. Frauen Literatur Geschichte: Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.. Frankfurt am Main, 2000.
  • HANSERS. Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 16. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart. München, 1980.
  • HORTON, A. Identity and Catastrophe in Post-war German Literature: A Historian's Reading of Significant Works.. Saarbrücken, 2009.
  • KINDLERS. Neues Literaturlexikon in 21 Bänden. München, 1996.
  • MARTINI, F. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart, 1991.
  • RÖTZER, H.-G. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. Epochen, Autoren, Werke. Bamberg, 1992.
  • SCHMIDT-DENGLER, W. Bruchlinien. Vorlesungen zur österreichsichen Literatur 1945-1990. Sankt Pölten, 1996.
  • WELLBERY, D.E. A new History of German Literature. Cambridge, 2005.
  • ZEYRINGER, K. Österreichische Literatur 1945-1998. Überblicke, Einschnitte. Wegmarken. Innsbruck, 1999.
  • ŽMEGAČ, V. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 18.Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart in 3 Bd. Weinheim, 1979.


Study plans that include the course
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