15SJSJ056 - Correlations between Serbian and Hungarian Literatures

Course specification
Course title Correlations between Serbian and Hungarian Literatures
Acronym 15SJSJ056
Study programme Serbian Language and Literature for Ethnic Minorities
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
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    ESPB 3.0 Status
    Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
    The goal Introduction to Serbian–Hungarian literary and cultural contacts from the Middle Ages until today.
    The outcome Recognizing mutual traits and differences between Serbian and Hungarian culture and literature.
    Contents
    Contents of lectures Introduction to the methods of contemporary comparatistics (culturological approach, the notions of tradition, region, and foreign context). Differences and similarities between Serbian culture in the Middle Ages, and the culture of the Kingdom of Hungary. Serbian culture at the dawn of a new era. Hungarian literary and historic figures in the South Slavic epic tradition. The characteristics of the Serbian and Hungarian Enlightenment. The decasyllable in the poetry of the Hungarian Romantics. The Hungarian short story from the end of the 19th century in the context of the Serbian short story from the same period. Serbian and Hungarian Modernism. Stereotypes about the Balkans in the works of Hungarian post-modern writers. The South-Slavic cultural space from the viewpoint of Hungarian authors in Vojvodina, Serbia. Danilo Kiš and Hungarian poets. The reception of Serbian post-modern prose in Hungary.
    Contents of exercises Excerpts from Serbian and Hungarian literature are read and compared, epic poems about the Ugričić families, poems of Hungarian Romantics written in the so-called Serbian manner, translations-adaptations of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Dezső Kosztolányi’s Belgrade travelogue, and excerpts from Ottó Tolnai’s autobiography Költő disznózsírból [Poet of Lard] are interpreted, and the Hungarian intertexts in the prose of Danilo Kiš and his view of Central Europe are analysed.
    Literature
    1. 1. Đere Zoltan, Tibor Pal, Kasaš Aleksandar: Istorija Mađara, Beograd, Klio, 2002. 2. Pokai, Petar: 1100-godišnjica doseljavanja Mađara u Vojvodinu, Novi Sad, 1997. 3. David, Andraš: Mostovi iuzajamnosti, Bratstvo i jedinstvo, Novi Sad, 1977. 4. Seli, Ištvan: Izabrane studije, Novi Sad, 1980. 5. Pot, Ištvan: Srpsko-mađarski kulturni odnosi u XIX veku, G Milanović-Dečje novine-Vukova zadužbina-Matica srpska, Bg.-Novi Sad, 1993. 6. Pal, Šandor: Dvojica u istoj koži, Srpska čitaonica i knjižnica Irig, (Original title)
    Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
    Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
    2 2
    Methods of teaching Monological-dialogical method, interpretative and interactive method, and discussion in the practical classes.
    Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
    Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
    Activites during lectures 20 Test paper
    Practical lessons Oral examination 60
    Projects 20
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