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Kar

Tanító- és Óvóképző Kar

Szervezet

TÓK Magyar Nyelvi és Irodalmi Tanszék

Kód

ERA64E

Cím

Összehasonlító irodalom- és kultúratudomány

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

ECTS

4

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

During the course, students are first introduced to the theoretical features of comparison. Later this knowledge will enable them to carry out examinations across the literatures of different eras or across literature and other arts, or even across the culture and literature of different nations

Tantárgy tartalma

Course content: Introduction to comparative literary and cultural studies, European and American literature, literary canons, interarts studies (dance, painting, sculpture, film, photography), antique and modern literatures, comparative cultural studies Introduction 2-3. Edgar Allan POE, The Raven in POE, Collected Stories and Poems, CRW Publishing, London, 2010, 323-325.                 4-5. William BLAKE, Songs of Innocence and Experience, General Press, Budapest, 2006, 20- 92. 2 Illustrated online version: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence 6. William BLAKE, Songs of Innocence and Experience, General Press, Budapest, 2006, 96- 95-174. Illustrated online version: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_Experience 8. Publius OVIDIUS Naso, Transformations, book 3, chapter 5, lines: 339-508. Online: https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses3.html#5 CARAVAGGIO, Narcissus, 1599, 110 × 92 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Roma, Plazzo Barbarini) 9. Giovanni BOCCACCIO, The Decameron. Tale of IV/5., Oxford University Press, 2008 (Oxford World’s Classics), 283-286. John KEATS, Isabella or The Pot of Basil. https://www.bartleby.com/126/38.html Paintings (Isabella and The Pot of Basil) of William Holmun Hunt (1867), John Everett Millais (1849), John White Alexander (1897), John William Waterhouse (1907-1911). 10. Percy Bysshe SHELLEY, On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery. Online: https://poets.org/poem/medusa-leonardo-da-vinci-florentine-gallery A Flemish painter, Medusa’s Head, ca. 1600, Height: 49 cm (19.2″); Width: 74 cm (29.1″), Uffizi Gallery, Florence. 11. Edgar Allan POE, The Tell-Tale Heart in POE, Collected Stories and Poems, CRW Publishing, London, 2010, 138-141. 12. Ernest HEMINGWAY, Indian Camp in HEMINGWAY, The Short Stories, Scribner Classics, New York/New York, 1997, 92-96. Online: https://archive.org/stream/IndianCampErnestHemingway_661/IndianCampByErnestHemingw ay_djvu.txt

Számonkérés és értékelés

Evaluation and requirements: delivering two 20 minutes long presentation, on two different topics of your choosing, with permisson of the lecturer (15%). Participation in class (15%). Final-oral exam (70%). Presentation: The presentations should be 20-25 minutes long. Deliver a presentation on a topic of their choosing, with the lecturer’s approval. We will have one presentation on every class. Avoid generalization or summary the plot of the literary work during your interpretartions. You can use any tools or no tools to make your presentations, however it is a requirement to compose a shareable handout or slide show as an outline of your presentation. Building intercultural teams is important if you are cooperating with someone, so please choose a partner from a different country, if it possible

Irodalomjegyzék

General bibliography and secondary literature 1. Jonathan CULLER, Literary Theory. A very short introduction, Oxford UP, Oxford-New York, 1997 (Very Short Introduction). 2. Harold BLOOM, The Western Canon. The books and school of ages, Riverhead Books, New York, 1995. 3. Northrop FRYE, Fearful Symmetry. A Study of William Blake, Princeton University Press, 1990. 4. World Literature in Theory, ed. David Damrosch, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 5. The Norton Introduction to Literature, ed. Kelly J. Mays, W. W. Norton & Company, New York-London, 2018. 6. G. B. SHAW, On Shakespeare. An Anthology of Bernard Shaw’s Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare, ed. Edwin Wilson, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York, 1961. 7. Canons, ed. Robert von Hallberg, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-London, 1984

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