1408604 - Opsta knjizevnost 2

Course specification
Course title
Acronym		1408604
Study programme
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Zorica Bečanović-Nikolić
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		prof. dr Zorica Bečanović-Nikolić
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		6.0	Status
Condition			Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		A Comparative survey of the major lines of different traditions of the western canon from the Middle Ages to Romanticism, via the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, and Enlightenment. The students should develop skills in detecting, understanding, and discussing the major literary, theoretical, and cultural phenomena in the different national traditions. They will be competent to analyze intercultural influences and to approach them from the comparatist perspective.
The outcome		Comprehensive knowledge of the literary, theoretical, cultural, and historical aspects of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment, and Romanticism.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Every lecture includes consideration of the theoretical principles of the respective period. Cultural phenomena of the Middle Ages: Christianity, courts and chivalry, medieval epic poetry, troubadour poetry. Dante's Commedia, Petrarch's Canzoniere, petrarchism and anti-petrarchism; Bocaccio's Decameron, Machiavelli's Prince, Erasmus' The Praise of Folly, Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' novels, Bakhtin on Rabelais, Shakespeare and the Renaissance drama, Cervantes' Don Quixote. Milton's Paradise Lost, Classicism: Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Boileau, 18th century novel in Europe, Romanticism in Germany, England, France and Russia.
Contents of exercises		Discussions. Interpretation of the literary works.
Literature
E. R. Kurcijus: Evropska književnost i latinski srednji vek; Đulio Feroni, Istorija italijanske književnosti. Bahtin, Fransoa Rable i narodna smehovna kultura srednjeg veka; istorije engleske, francuske, nemačke, španske književnosti. Studije i zbornici o poetukama i književnostima renesanse, klasicizma i romantizma. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
1	1
Methods of teaching		Lectures. Discussions.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		20	Test paper	30
Practical lessons			Oral examination	30
Projects
Colloquia		20
Seminars