Course: Analysis and Interpretation of Poetic Literary Text

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Course title Analysis and Interpretation of Poetic Literary Text
Course code KRF/AIPO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction French
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Matoušková Jiřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Voždová Marie, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
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.

Learning activities and teaching methods
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
Learning outcomes
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
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Recommended literature
  • Buffard-Moret, B. (2004). Précis de versification. Paris.
  • de Boisdeffre, P. (1958). Histoire vivante de la littérature d´aujourd´hui, 1938 - 1958. Paris: Perrin.
  • Deshusses, P. (1984). Dix siecles de la littérature française. Paris: Bordas.
  • Dessons, G. (1991). Introduction a l´analyse du Poeme. Paris: Dunod.
  • Leuwers, D. (1990). Introduction ? la poésie moderne et contemporaine. Paris.
  • Nadeau, M. (1944). Historie du surréalisme. Paris: Seuil.
  • Raymond, M. (1940). De Baudelaire au surréalisme. Paris.
  • Sabatier, R. (1988). Histoire de la poésie française. Paris: Albin Michel.
  • van Tieghem, P. (1968). Les grandes doctrines littéraires en France. Paris: PUF.


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