1408211 - Tragicki junak

Course specification
Course title
Acronym		1408211
Study programme
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Kornelije Kvas
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		3.0	Status
Condition		None.	Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		The aim of the course is to acquire the basic literary-theoretical knowledge of the tragic hero of the literary works of antiquity.
The outcome		The outcome of the course is the application of acquired theoretical knowledge in understanding the functioning of the ancient tragedy and the epic.
Contents
Contents of lectures		A tragic thought in ancient Greece. Homer’s epics and hero’s tragedy. Achilles and tragic of warrior’s ideal. Hector’s tragedy. Aristotle about a tragic hero. Aristotle about guilty of a tragic hero. Ethics and tragedy. A tragic hero and forms of provoking a tragic páthos. Plot and the character of a tragic hero. Hegel’s view of tragic hero. Nietzsche’s understanding of a tragic hero. Metaphysical forces and a tragic hero. Individuality of a tragic hero. Passion as initiator of the hero’s actions.
Contents of exercises		Exercises, discussions, study work.
Literature
Aristotel, O pjesničkom umijeću, prevod i objašnjenja Zdeslav Dukat, August Cesarec, Zagreb 1983. (Original title) Seth L. Schein, Smrtni junak, Zagreb, Globus, 1989. (Original title) R. D. Dawe, „Neka razmišljanja o ate i hamartiji“, Književna smotra, 1978, br. 31-32, str. 86-103. (Original title) Hegel, "O tragediji", u knjizi Teorija tragedije, priredio Zoran Stojanović, Beograd, Nolit, 1984, str. 38-57. (Original title) Niče, Rođenje tragedije, Beograd, BIGZ, 1983. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
2
Methods of teaching
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		30	Test paper	50
Practical lessons			Oral examination
Projects		20
Colloquia
Seminars