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Lecturer(s)
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Fialová Ingeborg, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Krappmann Joerg, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Individual topics and literature 1. Positivism and Literary theory Positivism as a dominant philosophical movement in the 2nd half of the 19th century and its influence on literary theory; aims and methods of literary positivism and its personalities (H. Taine, W. Scherer) 2. Literary hermeneutics its beginnings and history; its development after the 2nd world war as a reaction to its abuse by Nazis; its methods and aims (hermeneutic difference, hermeneutic circle) and prominent personalities (F.D.E. Schleiermacher, E. Staiger, R. Alewyn) 3. Marxism and literary theory the position of literature in works by K. Marx and B. Engels; social realism; G. Lukács 4. Psychoanalytical literary theory psychology and literary theory before S. Freud; S. Freud and his approach to literary theory 5. Structuralism Russian formalism as a forerunner of structuralism; F. de Saussure, Prague linguistic circle 6. Semiotics (U. Eco) 7. Reader-response criticism its origin and history; reader as a constitutive element of a literary text (H. R. Jauß); theory of "empty spaces" (R. Ingarden) 8. M. Foucault and discourse analysis 9. Deconstruction its position within the postmodern movement; its approach to language; important personalities (J. Derrida, P. de Man) 10. Intertextuality
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the lecture is to provide students with the most important schools of literary theory, their history, approaches and methods.
Students will be able to define their own position in the spectrum of literary theory and they will be able to identify and classify literary theoretical methods when working with secondary sources.
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Prerequisites
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Intended primarily for the students of the master study program.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
Completion requirements will be specified by individual lecturers. The series of lectures will be completed with an oral or written exam.
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Recommended literature
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Eagleton, Terry. (1994). Einführung in die Literaturtheorie. Stuttgart.
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Heinz-Ludwig Arnold und Heinrich Detering (Hg.). (2005). Grundzüge der Literaturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung. München.
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Huber, Martin. (2008). Methoden der Textanalyse. Hagen.
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Jahraus, Oliver. (2004). Literaturtheorie. Tübingen/Basel.
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Köppe, Timann; Winko, Simone. (2008). Neuere Literaturtheorien. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart/Weimar.
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Martin Sexl (Hg.). (2004). Einführung in die Literaturtheorie. München u.a.
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Thomas Anz. (2007). Handbuch Literaturwissenschaft. Gegenstände - Konzepte - Institutionen. Stuttgart/Weimar.
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Titzman, Michael. (1977). Strukturale Textanalyse. Theorie und Praxis der Interpretation. München.
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Vera und Ansgar Nünning. (2010). Methoden der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Textanalyse. Ansätze - Grundlagen - Modelanalyse. Stuttgart.
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