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Lecturer(s)
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Solomon Kristýna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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No. Topic 1 Introduction to Medieval German Verse Tales: Genre, Origins and Textual Transmission 2 Theories of the Comic: Humour, Laughter and Comedy in the Middle Ages 3 Cunning, Deception and Gender Roles: Drei listige Frauen 4 Body Comedy and Social Order: Die halbe Birne 5 Religious Institutions as an Object of Comedy: Das Nonnenturnier 6 Violence, Repetition and Grotesque Comedy: Der fünfmal getötete Pfarrer 7 Criticism of Monastic Life and Bawdy Comedy: Die drei Mönche zu Kolmar 8 Female Cunning and the Transgression of Moral Boundaries: Die böse Adelheid 9 The Reversal of Power Relations and Gender Comedy: Aristoteles und Phyllis 10 Comedy and Violence in Medieval German Verse Tales 11 Comedy, the Body and Eroticism 12 Medieval and Modern Humour Compared: What Did People Laugh at Then, and What Do We Laugh at Today?
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Interpretation of texts of a specific period, genre, writer, or on a particular subject or topic.
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. The resulting competence also consists in an independent interpretation of a literary text and its examination in the literary historical as well as general historical, aesthetical, sociological context and in a comparative relation to the literature of the student's mother tongue/or the second subject.
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Prerequisites
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The seminar is intended for all students of the Palacký University.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Seminar Work
Active participation and completing the tasks are necessary to obtain the credits.
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Recommended literature
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(1983). DTV Atlas deutsche Literatur.
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V závislosti na zvolené epoše, tématu/Depending on the period, topic.
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Bayless, Martha. A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages. New York. 2020.
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Braak, Ivo. (1980). Poetik in Stichworten. Kiel.
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Frenzel. (1962). Daten deutscher Dichtung, DTV.
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Freund, Winfried. (1990). Deutsche Lyrik. München.
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Gumbrecht/Link-Heer (Hrsg.). (1985). Epochenschwellen und Epochenstrukturen im Diskurs der Literatur und Sprachtheorie. Frankfurt/M. Suhrkamp.
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Jauß. (1970). Literaturgeschichte als Provokation. Frankfurt/M Suhrkamp.
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Pethainou, Kleio. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions. Budapest. 2023.
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Petrů, Eduard. (2000). Úvod do studia literární vědy. Olomouc.
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Ridder, Klaus, and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler. Deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin. 2020.
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Strelka. (2000). Literarische Interpretation. Tübigen.
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Wellek/Warren. (1972). Theorie der Literatur. Frankfurt.
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