| Course title | German Philology - Literary Lecture: Realism |
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| Course code | KGN/LP13 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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Literature of the 19th Century - From Early Realism to the Change to Modernity In the 19th century, the concepts/models of realism were developed in European literatures, which determined writing until the beginning of the 20th century and are still effective in contemporary literature. Above all, novels and stories were written that are still counted as world literature today. An (incomplete) list ranges from The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal 1839) and Madame Bovary (Flaubert 1857) in French, Oliver Twist (Dickens 1837), Moby Dick (Melville 1851) and Middlemarch (George Eliot 1871) in English, Fathers and Sons (Turgenev 1861) and Anna Karenina (Tolstoy 1878) in Russian, and the texts of Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda or Alois Jirásek in Czech literature. In German-language literature, too, realism gave rise to works that still dominate school reading today, are again received anew in films and television series, and are an integral part of quiz formats. A special feature of German-language realism is that texts of international significance were written in all three German-language literatures (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The differences and similarities of the German-language "realisms" will be specifically addressed in the lecture. The lecture will trace, in mostly chronological order, the literary processes that led to the formation and differentiation of realism, which developed programmatically first in Germany after the revolutions of 1848. Both this main phase and the question of early realism (Mörike, Stifter) in the first half of the 19th century as well as the interrelation between late realism (Fontane, Raabe, Ebner-Eschenbach) and the literary currents of modernism already beginning at the end of the 19th century will be traced. The lecture thus describes the period from the saddle period around 1800 to the turn of the century 1900 and thus forms the bridge between the two core dates that are so important for European culture.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The lecture gives an overview of the literary processes that led from the saddle period around 1800 as the first phase of modernity to the second phase around 1900. This simultaneously describes the knowledge-poetological shift from philosophy to natural science.
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. |
| Prerequisites |
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The lecture is intended for all students of the Palacký University. Students of other than German programmes who sign up for this "course" can choose any actual course from the modular selection of the Department for German studies that belongs to the "Literature" modulus, whether it is a lecture to particular periods of German literature from the Middle Ages to modern literature, or seminars to particular authors, works, problems or exercises in translation of fiction. Actual selection of all literary courses including the timetable details is to be found before the beginning of each term on the departmental web pages www.germanistika.cz.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Oral exam, Written 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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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |