UCJNNKLIT2 Literary Text Analysis 2

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Paul Martin Langner (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
without precondition
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 seminar is to deepen students' ability to work with literary texts and analyze it in terms of form and content. Following the seminar Literarische Textanalyse 1, which dealt with the literature of the 20th century, the annotated seminar focuses on the literature of older periods. The subject of the analysis are texts of all literary types, both complete texts and excerpts.
Learning outcomes
Orientation in the contemporary English literature of various genres. The skill of critical analysis of literary texts.
Syllabus
  • 1.–2. Fables and short epics (Christian F. Gellert and Gotthold E. Lessing)
  • 3. Bourgeois mourning (Gotthold E. Lessing)
  • 4. Ballad (Gottfried A. Bürger, Johann W. Goethe a Friedrich Schiller)
  • 5.–6. Romantic poetry (Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano a Joseph von Eichendorff)
  • 7.–8. Engaged (tendency) literature
  • 9. Heinrich Heine: „Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen“
  • 10. Georg Büchner: „Woyzeck“
  • 11.–12. Historical prose
  • 13. Final discussion and summary
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, group projects, presentations, homework, reading.
Assessment methods
written test, active cooperation
Language of instruction
German
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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