FPF:UBKKM025 Overview of the world literatu

UBKKM025 Overview of the world literature

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2019

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Hana Bednaříková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

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Prerequisites (in Czech)

TYP_STUDIA(N)

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 course is to familirize students withe the history of the World literature of the 20th century and of his turn.

Syllabus

Modernism and avant-gardes in the World literature in the beginning of the 20th century
Modernist novel (J. Joyce, V. Woolf, M. Proust)
Literary movements after the 2nd world war (e. g. existencialism, neorealism, nouveau roman, theatre of the absurd, beat generation, magic realism)
Postmodernism in literature

Literature

required literature

recommended literature

BLOOM, H. Kánon západní literatury. Praha, 2000. info
NADEAU, M. Dějiny surrealismu. Olomouc, 1995. info
HILSKÝ, M.; ZELENKA, M. (edd.). Od Poea k postmodernismu (Proměny americké prózy). Praha, 1993. info
HODROVÁ, D. Hledání románu. Praha, 1989. info

Teaching methods

Lecturing

Assessment methods

Test

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 2 HOD/SEM.

Teacher's information

A level of the knowledge of the content of the course and ability of the analysis of literary texts.