FPF:UBKCJLNP01 Literary history methods - Course Information

UBKCJLNP01 Literary history methods

Extent and Intensity

1/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Libor Martinek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Tichý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Tichý, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Libor Martinek, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Timetable

Mon 15:35–16:20 M13

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

UBKCJLNP01/A: Mon 16:25–18:00 M13, M. Tichý

Prerequisites

None.

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

• Czech language and literature (programme FPF, CJLnp)

Course objectives

The course, from a historical perspective, maps various approaches to writing literary history since the second half of the 19th century. The attention is paid to reading and reflecting texts of literary history.

Learning outcomes

The student will be able to:
- describe main methodologies in the 19th and 20th cent.;
- identify differences between various approaches;
- determine the relationship between literary history and general history;
- reflect methodological basis in particular text of literary history;
- reflect his/her own approaches in literary history writing (diploma thesis) in a critical manner.

Syllabus

• 1. The birth of literary history "as a science" – positivism, German Literaturwissenschaft.
• 2. Anti-positivistic methodologies in the late 19th century – Estopsychology, Geisteswissenschaft; syntheses: Lanson's „explication de texte“.
• 3. Czech literary history's beginnings – Vlček's school, Arne Novák.
• 4. „Liquidation“ of literary history by formalism in the 1. half of the 20th century (Russian formalism, new criticism).
• 5. Czech structuralistic historicism.
• 6. Marxism in literary history, Vodička's "theory of tasks".
• 7. Marxistic inspirations in western Europe: L. Goldmann, R. Williams, cultural materialism, „distant reading“ concept.
• 8. Hermeneutical approaches to history (Gadamer) and the turn to a reader: Konstanz school (Jauss), Annales school inspirations: „history of literary works of art“ (Chartier), reader-response criticism (Fish).
• 9. Discussing narrativity of (literary) history: Barthes, White, Ricoeur, Veyne, Certeau…
• 10. Foucault makes the revolution in history.
• 11. P. Bourdieu's „new science of works of art“ .
• 12. New historicism / cultural poetics.
• 13. Czech discussion on literary history since the 1990s.

Literature

required literature
• KUBÍČEK, T. Felix Vodička – názor a metoda. Praha: Academia, 2010.
• MÜLLER, R., ŠEBEK, J. (eds.) Texty v oběhu: Antologie z kulturně materialistického myšlení o literatuře. Praha: Academia, 2014.
• PAPOUŠEK, V., TUREČEK, D. Hledání literárních dějin. Praha - Litomyšl, 2005. info

recommended literature
• MORETTI, F. Grafy, mapy, stromy: abstraktní modely literární historie. Praha: Karolinum, 2014.
• DE CERTAU, M. Psaní dějin. Brno: CDK, 2012.
• Slovo a smysl, 2004, č. 2
• JANOUŠEK, P. Černá kočka aneb Subjekt znalce v myšlení o literatuře a jeho komunikační strategie. Praha, 2012. info
• COSETINO, A. Vědecký realismus a literatura. Praha, 2011. info
• BOURDIEU, P. Pravidla umění. Brno, 2010. info
• BLÁHOVÁ, K. České dějepisectví v dialogu s Evropou (1890-1914). Praha, 2009. info
• WIENDL, J. (ed.). Hledání literárních dějin v diskusi. Praha - Litomyšl, 2007. info
• BOLTON, J. (ed.). Nový historismus / New historicism. Brno, 2007. info
• FOUCAULT, M. Archeologie vědění. Praha, 2002. info
• Čtenář jako výzva. Výbor z prací kostnické školy recepční estetiky. Brno, 2001. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, commented reading.

Assessment methods

Oral exam: discussion of methodology issues.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials

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