UBKD0023 Topics of old world literature

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2022
Extent and Intensity
4/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Hana Bednaříková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Hana Bednaříková, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lecture deals with the main periods and stages in the development of the classical World literature from its early beginnings to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Syllabus
  • The frame of lecture reading is aimed to the historical patterns and periods in the World literature. The reading is based on frame of the most important complex of texts and authors in the cultural and historical contexts.
    1) The myth and the world (Epic of Gilgamesh, ancient literary monuments of Egypt, India and China)
    2) The Greek and Roman antiquity: the beginning of European literature (Homer: Iliad and Odyssey, ancient Greek drama and Aristot´s Poetics, P. Vergilius Maro Aeneid and ancient Roman latin poetry etc.)
    3) Specificity of medieval literatures (periodization, literary genres, cultural mentality, the role of latin and national languages (monastical culture, epics)
    4) Imagery in medieval literature (troubadours, allegory: Roman de la Rose, chivalric romances)
    5) Epoch of transition: Dante Alighieri
    6) Change of imagery in the age of Renaissance (G. Boccaccio, G. Chaucer)
    7) Poetry in the age of Renaissance and mannerism (F. Petrarca, L. Ariosto,
    P. de Ronsard, G. Marino, metaphysical poets)
    8) Reflexion of the world in the age of Renaissance (N. Machiavelli, Erasmus of Rotterdam, M. de Montaigne, F. Rabelais)
    9) The baroque: pathos, monumentality, reaction of classicism (J. Milton,
    J. Racine, P. Corneille)
    10) Artistic conceptions in the age of Enlightenment (Voltaire, G. E. Lessing)
    11) Pre-romanticism: the change of sensibility (Sturm und Drang, early works of
    J. W. Goethe, E. Young)
Literature
    required literature
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin naší vzdělanosti 4. Pseudoklasicismus, preromantismus, romantismus a realismus. Jinočany, 2009. info
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti (3): Baroko. Jinočany, 2005. info
  • MILIČKA, K. Básníci velkých příběhů. Světová literatura 1. Praha, 2002. info
  • MILIČKA, K. Od víry k rozumu. Světová literatura 2. Praha, 2002. info
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti (2): Podzim středověku a renesance. Jinočany, 1998. info
  • ČERNÝ, V. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti 1. Středověk. Jinočany, 1996. info
    recommended literature
  • MACURA, V. a kol.:. Slovník světových literárních děl 1 - 2. Praha 1989. info
  • DAMROSH, D. What Is World Literature? Princeton, 2003. info
  • CURTIUS, E. R. Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha, 1998. info
  • AUERBACH, E. Mimesis. Praha, 1998. info
  • SYPHER, W. Od renesance k baroku. Praha, 1971. info
  • ČERNÝ, V. Studie ze starší světové literatury. Praha, 1969. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 4 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
The condition of obtaining credit is based on competency to discuss on chosen topic.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024.
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