15MKMK065 - World Novel

Course specification
Course title World Novel
Acronym 15MKMK065
Study programme Hungarian language and literature
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 3.0 Status
      Condition None. Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal The students get acquainted with the most relevant novel paradigms of the 20th century, through the motive of labyrinth as a kind of hell. They get a deeper knowledge on the poetics of metanarration, fiction, seeking and the forms of intertwined relationship between semiotics and narrative. They develop an orienting skill in the context of world literature.
      The outcome The students will be acquainted with the most relevant novel paradigms of the 20th century through the motive of labyrinth as a kind of hell. They will have knowledge about the poetics of metanarration, fiction, seeking and the forms of intertwined relationship between semiotics and narrative. They will have a developed orienting skill in the context of world literature.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures Labyrinth, island, night, insanity, artificial paradises as the metaphors of a journey through hell. Csicsik's circular journey: carnival-like, merry hell in Gogol's Dead souls. The untransparent underworld in Kafka's novel The Castle. The modern odyssey of Leopold Bloom - James Joyce: Ulysses. The labyrinths of jeans prose - Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye. The labyrinth of nihilism in jeans prose: Jack Kerouac: On the Road. The labyrinth of time - Proust: In Search of Lost Time. 1. The devil-like background of human commitment - Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus. Labyrinth of insanity - Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury. The topos of labyrinth in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márkez. Grotesque fiction of hell of the 20th century in Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. The book and the library as a labyrinth in Borges's works (Aleph, The Book of Sand, The Library of Babel, Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins, Secret Miracle). The book and the library as a labyrinth in Umberto Eco's detective novel The Name of the Rose. Cormac McCarthy> No Country for Old Men.
      Contents of exercises Presentations, writing papers, essays
      Literature
      1. Bollobás Enikő: Az amerikai irodalom története. Osiris, Bp., 2005 (Original title)
      2. Pál József szerk.: Világirodalom. Akadémiai Kiadó, Bp., 2005 (Original title)
      3. Maár Judit: A fantasztikus irodalom. Osiris, Bp., 2001 (Original title)
      4. Csányi Erzsébet: Farmernadrágos próza vajdasági tükörben. BTK–VMFK, Újvidék, 2010 (Original title)
      5. Bényei Tamás: Apokrif iratok. Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, Debrecen, 1997. (Original title)
      6. Thomka Beáta szerk.: Az irodalom elméletei 1–5. Jelenkor, Pécs, 1996–97 (Original title)
      7. Thomka Beáta szerk.: Narratívák 1–5. Kijárat. Bp. 1998–2001 (Original title)
      8. Meletyinszkij: A mítosz poétikája. Gondolat, Budapest, 1985. (Original title)
      9. Beckett, S.: Proust. Európa, Budapest, 1988. (Original title)
      10. Santarcangelo, Paolo: A labirintusok könyve. Európa, Budapest, 2009. (Original title)
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      2 0
      Methods of teaching lectures, presentations, interactive analysis of works, developing writing skills
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures 10 Test paper 0
      Practical lessons 20 Oral examination 70
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