Course: Selected chapters from French literature

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Course title Selected chapters from French literature
Course code KRF/VKFL
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction French
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Voždová Marie, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Zatloukal Jan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
French poetry of the period of symbolism and surrealism. Precursors of modern poetry. Baudelaire. Rimbaud. Verlaine. Mallarmé. Lautréamont. Detailed analysis of selected works: Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, Verlaine's Chanson d'automne and its translations into Czech. Rimbaud's Illuminations. Ideology and poetry of the beginning of the 20th century, Péguy, Claudel. Modernism and postmodernism. Dada movement and surrealism. Breton, Desnos, Eluard, Aragon. Apollinaire's modernism, return to classicism in Valéry's works. Saint-John Perse, Jouve, Char, Michaux.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Homework for Teaching - 25 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 25 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to enrich the student's knowledge of French poetry of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
The acquired competences correspond with the specified objectives of the course.
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

The conditionsfor a successful completion of this course are active participation and fulfillment of all the requirements set by the teacher.
Recommended literature
  • de Boisdeffre, P. (1958). Histoire vivante de la littérature d´aujourd´hui, 1938 - 1958. Paris: Perrin.
  • Fischer, J.,O. (1973). Dějiny francouzské literatury 19. a 20. století. Praha: Academia.
  • Fryčer, J. (1984). Básníci pařížské bohémy. Praha: Odeon.
  • Marcel, R. (1933). De Baudelaire au surréalisme. Paris: R.-A. Correa.
  • Nadeau, M. (1944). Historie du surréalisme. Paris: Seuil.
  • Pohorský, A. (2000). Prokletí a básníci. Praha: Garamond.
  • Sabatier, R. (1988). Histoire de la poésie française. Paris: Albin Michel.
  • van Tieghem, P. (1968). Les grandes doctrines littéraires en France. Paris: PUF.


Study plans that include the course
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