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Lecturer(s)
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Solomon Kristýna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Evil and Cunning Women of the Middle Ages The course explores the counterpart to the chaste and virtuous lady of courtly literature. It focuses on medieval texts that depict women who use cunning, intelligence, and rhetorical skill to undermine male authority, exploit, deceive, and humiliate men. These female characters do not act out of innocence or love; instead, they pursue their own interests. They use men for wealth, power, or revenge, thereby reversing traditional ideals of loyalty, obedience, and moral superiority. Corpus Aristotle and Phyllis - The clever Phyllis outwits Aristotle and exposes male overconfidence. Three Cunning Women - Three women deceive their husbands through cunning schemes and role reversal. The Priest Killed Five Times - A woman repeatedly kills her greedy husband and ultimately triumphs. Herzmaere - A woman dominates and humiliates her husband both verbally and socially. The Nuns' Tournament - Women fight fiercely against one another in a tournament to win a penis as a trophy, exposing their opponents' weaknesses. The Half Pear - A lady mocks her husband and demonstrates her superiority. The Nibelungenlied - Characters such as Kriemhild and Brünhild question traditional female ideals and act independently, vindictively, and destructively.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Interpretation of texts of a specific period, genre, writer, or on a particular subject or topic.
Students will gain insight into literature and literary criticism in selected periods as well as knowledge on topics dealt with in German language literature. A special emphasis is laid on the knowledge of the historical and cultural-historical context. The resulting competence also consists in an independent interpretation of a literary text and its examination in the literary historical as well as general historical, aesthetical, sociological context and in a comparative relation to the literature of the student's mother tongue/or the second subject.
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Prerequisites
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The seminar is intended for all students of the Palacký University. ALL COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN GERMAN LANGUAGE!
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Didactic Test
Active participation in seminars, completion of the assigned primary texts, and a maximum of two absences.
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Recommended literature
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V závislosti na zvolené epoše, tématu/Depending on the period, topic.
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