Syllabus
Course contents: Sources of aesthetic thinking and roots of literary scientific methods. The typology of literary scientific methods yesterday and today.
Philological method and immanent (autonomous, textual) methods. Biographical and psychological methods, intuitivism, bergsonism, new psychological criticism.
Positivism and literary sociology. Anthroposophical approach.
From German and Czech formism and Russian formalism to Czech structuralism. The role of phenomenology. "Soft" and "hard" approaches to literary science: René Wellek.
The inspirational role of Russian literary science. Post-structuralism.
Hermeneutics. Deconstructivism.
Czech and Slovak situation after structuralism. Methods and subjects: comparatistics, genology, narratology etc.
Language and stylistic analysis. Attempts to newly reconstruct philology ("new philology").
Analyses from the point of view of literary science and culture studies: the role of environs.
Annotation
Course aim: Students learn about theory and use of methods of literary scientific analysis, they develop their skills of analysis and interpretation of literary works.
Course contents: Sources of aesthetic thinking and roots of literary scientific methods. The typology of literary scientific methods yesterday and today. Philological method and immanent (autonomous, textual) methods. Biographical and psychological methods, intuitivism, bergsonism, new psychological criticism. Positivism and literary sociology.
Anthroposophical approach. From German and Czech formism and Russian formalism to Czech structuralism. The role of phenomenology. ?Soft? and ?hard? approaches to literary science: René Wellek. The inspirational role of Russian literary science. Post-structuralism. Hermeneutics. Deconstructivism. Czech and Slovak situation after structuralism. Methods and subjects: comparatistics, genology, narratology etc. Language and stylistic analysis. Attempts to newly reconstruct philology
(?new philology?). Analyses from the point of view of literary science and culture studies: the role of environs.