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Lecturer(s)
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Matoušková Jiřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Voždová Marie, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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This course will cover the following topics: 1. Fundamenal steps in thematic and formal analysis of poetic text and the ways of its interpretation 2. Peculiarities of the poetic text 3. Verse, rhythm and rhyme, types of poems 4. Analysis of the poetry from the Romantic period, parnassianism, symbolism and surrealism 5. Analysis of the poetic production of the 20th century: Péguy, Claudel, modernism and post-modernism, dadaism and surrealism, Breton, Desnos, Eluard and Aragon. Apollinaire's modernism, Veléry's hermetic poetry. Saint-John Perse, Jouve, Char, Michaux. Jacques Prévert and the poetry of everyday life.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 75 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The objective of this course is to make the students familiar with the main literary approaches to poetical texts of the individual authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. The seminars are focused on a detailed thematic and formal analysis of the fundamental works.
1/ understanding of the development of French poetry in 19th and 20th centuries in the social and cultural context 2/ perfection of the ability to work with literary terminology 3/ perfection of the ability to interpret a text as a structure of meaning, to apply different historical and current methods of literary analysis on the particular texts 4/ to develop the ability to participate in a scholarly discussion
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam
1. Regular attendance and active participation in the seminars 2. preparation for each class, knowledge of the text to be analysed The exam will test the knowledge of literary theory and the ability to apply it on the analysis of poetic text.
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Recommended literature
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Buffard-Moret, B. (2004). Précis de versification. Paris.
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de Boisdeffre, P. (1958). Histoire vivante de la littérature d´aujourd´hui, 1938 - 1958. Paris: Perrin.
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Deshusses, P. (1984). Dix siecles de la littérature française. Paris: Bordas.
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Dessons, G. (1991). Introduction a l´analyse du Poeme. Paris: Dunod.
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Leuwers, D. (1990). Introduction ? la poésie moderne et contemporaine. Paris.
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Nadeau, M. (1944). Historie du surréalisme. Paris: Seuil.
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Raymond, M. (1940). De Baudelaire au surréalisme. Paris.
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Sabatier, R. (1988). Histoire de la poésie française. Paris: Albin Michel.
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van Tieghem, P. (1968). Les grandes doctrines littéraires en France. Paris: PUF.
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