Course: Modern Russian Literature

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Course title Modern Russian Literature
Course code KSR/7MRL
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Russian
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pechal Zdeněk, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
Aesthetic milestones in the development of Russian prose. Comparative method, text link between the Russian literature XIX. and XX. century., context of Russian and world literature, artistic originality and literary tradition, paraphrasing poetry texts literature XIX. Century. in the context of literature XX. century.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
This contrastive seminar examines mainly the development of Russian prose. Focus is on the interpretations that place classical Russian novel to the modern world prose. This course leads to the understanding of the overall meaning of the analyzed works and their place within the context of Russian and world literature. It also studies the issue of innovation methods and, on the contrary, sticking to the literary tradition, issues of originality and derivation.
Understanding the new reading Russian classics, new interpretations.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the theory of literature, the historical context of Russian literature of the 19th and 20 century. Traditional interpretations of Russian classics.

Assessment methods and criteria
Essay

Recommended literature
  • Pospíšil, I.: Fenomén šílenství v ruské literatuře 19. a 20. stol. Brno 1995 Pospíšil, I.: Román znovuzrozený. Brno 2006. Pechal, Z.: Hra v románu Vladimíra Nabokova. UP Olomouc 1999.
  • Svatoň, V.: Z druhého břehu. Torst. Praha 2002. (studie a eseje o ruské literatuře). Svatoň, V: Proměny dávných příběhů. UK Praha. 2004.(o poetice ruské prózy). Drozda, M.: Narativní masky ruské prózy. UK, Praha 1990..
  • Pechal, Z. (2011). Dvojstvennost' u Dostojevskogo. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Pechal, Z. (2011). Fenomén živlu v ruské literatuře. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.


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