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21D09003 - Knjizevnost apsurda

Course specification
Course title
Acronym 21D09003
Study programme
Module
Type of study
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 9.0 Status
      Condition student enrolled in doctoral studies Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal Acquiring knowledge about the philosophical foundations of the absurd, about the development of the literature of the absurd and about the methodology of studying the literature of the absurd. ​
      The outcome The student will be able to approach the study of an absurd text as the most complex to understand, which will be conditioned by the acquisition of the necessary philosophical and logical knowledge. The student will acquire the ability to think analytically about the category of absurdity in art.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures Theoretical foundations of the absurd. Philosophical understanding of the absurd. Nonsense and absurdity. Alogism. Paradox and absurdity. The logic of paradoxes. Bifurcations, catalepsy of time as a source of absurdity. Forerunners of literary absurdity. From the grotesque to the absurd. Absurdity in the literature of the 7th century. Absurdity with futurists, dadaists, oberiutes. Theater of the Absurd. The end of the absurd.
      Contents of exercises
      Literature
      1. M.Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd; N. Cornwell, The Absurd in Literature;A. Stoun Nakhimovsky, Laughter in the Void (Original title)
      2. K. Ičin, Mercaющie mirы A. Vvedensokgo, SPb 2023; Poэt Aleksandr Vvedenskiй, Moskva 2006; Harms-avangard Belgrad 2006; Эto ne moskovskiй konceptualizm, Belgrad 2021; (Original title)
      3. Ž.-F. Žakkar, Danil Harms, ili konec avangarda, 1995; D. Tokarev, Kurs na hudšee,Kurs na hudšee: absurd kak kategoriя teksta u Daniila Harmsa i Sэmюэlя Bekketa, Moskva 2002; M. Яmpolьskiй, Bespamяtstvo kak istok, Moskva 1998; Absurd i vokrug, Moskva 2004; (Original title)
      4. I. Smirnov, Psihodiahronologiя, Moskva 1994; V. Podoroga, Mimezis 2, Moskva 2006; A. Kobrinskiй, Poэtika OBЭRIU v kontekste russkogo avangarda, Moskva 2000; O. Burenina,, Simvolistskiй absurd, SPb 2005 (Original title)
      5. B. Muller, Absurde Literatur in Russland, Munchen 1978. (Original title)
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      4
      Methods of teaching lectures, presentations, discussion, scientific presentation
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures Test paper
      Practical lessons Oral examination 50
      Projects 50
      Colloquia
      Seminars