UBKCJLNP05 Literary aesthetics

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Zelinský, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Zelinský, CSc.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the lectures is to provide students the basic information on the literature and aesthetics with respect to the development in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Learning outcomes
Student is able to: - define aesthetics and its principles - understand aesthetics in the context of literature - understand principles of aesthetic movements in the 20. and 21st centuries
Syllabus
  • 1. General aesthetics and its history 2. Literary aesthetics 3. What is literature? Literary text, convention, canon 4. Literary aesthetics in the Prague linguistic school 5. Semantic gesture and J. Mukařovský 6. Sense and meaning, aesthetic school in the 20th century 7. Formalism and structuralism 8. Semiotics and psychoanalysis 9. Marxist literary theory and history 10. Deconstruction, feminist literary criticism 11. Narratology and readership 12. To think about literature in the 21st century 13. Revision
Literature
    required literature
  • CULLER, J. Krátký úvod do literární teorie. Brno, 2002. info
  • ZIMA, P. V. Literární estetika. Olomouc, 1998. info
  • WELLEK, R. - WARREN, A. Teorie literatury. Olomouc, 1996. info
  • CHVATÍK, K. Strukturální estetika. Praha : Victoria Publ., 1994. info
    recommended literature
  • NÜNNING, A. (ed.). Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury. Brno, 2006. info
  • Jan Mukařovský. Studie I. Brno: Host, 2000. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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