Course: German Philology - Literary Seminar

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Course title German Philology - Literary Seminar
Course code KGN/LS10
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Solomon Kristýna, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
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?

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
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.
Prerequisites
The seminar is intended for all students of the Palacký University.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Seminar Work

Active participation and completing the tasks are necessary to obtain the credits.
Recommended literature
  • (1983). DTV Atlas deutsche Literatur.
  • V závislosti na zvolené epoše, tématu/Depending on the period, topic.
  • Bayless, Martha. A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages. New York. 2020.
  • Braak, Ivo. (1980). Poetik in Stichworten. Kiel.
  • Frenzel. (1962). Daten deutscher Dichtung, DTV.
  • Freund, Winfried. (1990). Deutsche Lyrik. München.
  • Gumbrecht/Link-Heer (Hrsg.). (1985). Epochenschwellen und Epochenstrukturen im Diskurs der Literatur und Sprachtheorie. Frankfurt/M. Suhrkamp.
  • Jauß. (1970). Literaturgeschichte als Provokation. Frankfurt/M Suhrkamp.
  • Pethainou, Kleio. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions. Budapest. 2023.
  • Petrů, Eduard. (2000). Úvod do studia literární vědy. Olomouc.
  • Ridder, Klaus, and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler. Deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin. 2020.
  • Strelka. (2000). Literarische Interpretation. Tübigen.
  • Wellek/Warren. (1972). Theorie der Literatur. Frankfurt.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -