Objectives and competences
The main objective of this subject is to prepare a student to work independently on a concrete literary text and through this to think about the modern Hungarian literature in a sovereign and conceptually suitable way, also in a broader European context.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Lectures and seminars are focused on interpretation of the most important prose works of contemporary authors (Péter Esterházy, Nobel prize - winner Imre Kertész, Péter Nádas, László Garaczi, Endre Kukorelly, László Krasznahorkai László Darvasi, Ádám Bodor…). They deal with the fields of a contemporary (post)modern novel, short stories and drama. The subject analyses individual literary corpuses and at the same time it follows the shifts, which took place on different fields of already mentioned post-modern era – literary ideological concepts and their influence on codification of a literary system. On concrete examples it finds out and deals with the shifts on a thematic, stylistic, linguistic and ideal field of Hungarian post-modern literature.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorial
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
- interpreting a wide corpus of texts of contemporary Hungarian prose,
- understanding, knowing and distinguishing between narrative and intertextual procedures of canonized and trivial literature,
- correcting the older literary historic interpretations,
- capable of judging the present social-political problems in the framework of critical approach to discourse,
- qualified for an independent reflexion on an particular literary text and its interpretation,
- understand the reasons and meaning of individual phenomena in a contemporary Hungarian literature, and he will also be able to explain literary processes and to analyse literary structures by himself.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/key skills and other attributes:
A student knows the basic literary – theoretical terminology and through it he is capable of analysing poetic, prose and dramatic texts.
Readings
Thomka Beáta: Beszél egy hang. Elbeszélők, poétikák. Kijárat Kiadó. Budapest. 2001.
Szövegek között V. (Fejezetek a mai magyar irodalomból). Szerk. Fried István. SZTE BTK. Szeged. 2001. 117-143.o.
Másodfokon. Esterházy Péter Harmonia caelestis és javított kiadás című műveiről. Szerk.Böhm Gábor. Kijárat. Budapest. 2003. 62-76.o.
Testre szabott élet. Nádas Péter Saját halá lés párhuzamos történetek című műveiről. Kijárat. Budapest. 2007.
Írott és olvasott identitás. Az önéletrajzi műfaj kontextusai. Szerk. Mekis D. János és Z. Varga Zoltán. L Harmattan. Budapest. 2008.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Oral examination
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