Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies
- Code
- BBI-MIR-855E
- Title
- World Literature Seminar
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Knowledge: - The student is familiar with the methods of making comparisons between literary tendencies and basic concepts of history and philosophy. Skills: - The student is able to make comparisons between trends in Hungarian literature and World literature. - The student is capable of examining regional differences in World literature, and is able to understand the key characteristics of different genres and cultures. - The student is capable of poetic analysis of literary works and of placing them in cultural-historical context. - The student recognises the potentials of translations in cultural mediation. - The student can communicate in at least one foreign language and is able to read academic essays. Attitudes: - The student represents the multifaceted nature of Hungarian and European linguistic, religious, societal, historical and contemporary identity. - The student is open to understand Hungarian and various other cultural communities. - The student makes an effort to improve one’s academic language skills. Autonomy, responsibility: The student takes responsibility for the professional development of individuals and groups.
- Course content
- The seminar, closely related in topic to the lectures, gives a more detailed picture of the characteristics of periods and motifs in world literature. The examples given during the seminars allow students to study multiple schools, genres and influential authors. Similarly to the lectures, the seminars approach world literature as dialogue of regions and national literatures, while also examining the relationship between literature and other forms of arts. The seminar calls attention to the difficulties a Hungarian scholar must face with when investigating international literary tendencies. During the seminar, the student is required to complete an independent research project relating to the topics discussed in the seminar.
- Assessment method
- The student is required to create an independent research project relating to one of the topics investigated in class.
- Bibliography
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees. Abstract Models for Literary History, Verso, London, 2007.