ZURb1426 Literary reportage

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. František Schildberger, Ph.D. (seminar tutor), Ing. Rudolf Burgr, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Rudolf Burgr, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Boris Rafailov, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
ZURb1101 Journalism
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is designed to theoretically and practically introduce participants to the traditional journalistic genre of literary reportage - i.e. reportage that, in addition to its news commitment (topicality, social relevance), also aims at a certain literary quality and uses, to an appropriate extent and in an appropriate manner, the means of beautiful writing.
Syllabus
  • Theoretical part:
  • 1. reportage from the narratological point of view; the reporter as a literary character sui generis;
  • 2. reportage from the genological point of view: the gradual constitution of reportage as a distinctive textual type, especially in the 20th century;
  • 3. reportage from a sociological point of view: reportage as argument and counter-argument in social debate;
  • 4. reportage from a historical perspective: "reportage before reportage" - examples of reportage texts in classical literatures;
  • 5. the 1920s and 1930s as the classical period of literary reportage;
  • 6. the crisis of Czech reportage in the 1950s and its revival in the 1960s;
  • 7. Egon Erwin Kisch;
  • 8. constitutive figures of the literary reportage genre in the second half of the 20th century (Ryszard Kapuściński, Günter Wallraff);
  • Practical part:
  • Creating your own literary reportage:
  • - researching and shaping topics (discussion);
  • - choosing an appropriate authorial perspective (discussion);
  • - selection of linguistic and stylistic devices (discussion);
  • - fieldwork;
  • - work on the text;
  • - evaluation of texts (discussion)
Literature
    required literature
  • SCHILDBERGER, František. Podoby české literární reportáže (Forms of Czech Literary Reportage). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 215 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, sv. č. 502. ISBN 978-80-210-9656-1. info
    recommended literature
  • OSVALDOVÁ, Barbora and Jana ČEŇKOVÁ. Česká publicistika mezi dvěma světovými válkami. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2017, 189 stran. ISBN 9788020027542. info
  • O reportáži, o reportérech. Edited by Barbora Osvaldová - Radim Kopáč - Alice Němcová Tejkalová. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2010, 130 s. ISBN 9788024617817. info
Teaching methods
seminar, class discussion, reading, evaluation of texts
Assessment methods
To receive credit, you must write your own literary report and present and defend it in a final group discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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