Annotation
This one-semester master's course (seminar and lecture) seeks to explain the dynamics of european literature development between the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age. We will follow the European literature of the Middle Ages through the lens of heroic epic and court culture.
Next, we will try to capture the decisive impulses of Italian provenance: renaissance, humanist classicism and baroque. We will reflect the evolution of the genre spectrum, the authors of general and global impact (here especially Dante, Cervantes and Shakespeare), but also the views on man, the key values and not least the heroes of the great stories of our civilization, as each epoch enlightens them (Don Quixote, Hamlet).
The lecturer will provide a basic orientation on a specific issue (see "topic" and "programme theses" in the programme below). The syllabus includes an extensive electronic reader in MS Teams (see "texts" in the programme below).
Students will systematically familiarize themselves not only with the primary texts, but also with the czech and foreign tradition of their critical evaluation on examples of concrete critical studies (see "+texts" in parentheses in the program below).