CJp054 Guide to the Czech Literature

Faculty of Education
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Chocholatý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Poláček, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJp054/01: Thu 9:20–11:00 učebna 30, M. Chocholatý
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will show the students in its seminars the issues of editorial work and editing for both the professional magazine, as well as for a publisher focused on professional literature and fiction. The objective of the course is to increase the knowledge and improving abilities a magazine editor might need for each individual section of the magazine, or what a publishing editor might need to prepare a book title for publishing. The students will be able to use these abilities not just in the given field, but also in their own teaching practice (for example when preparing school publications or while working on a school magazine).
Syllabus
  • Selected chapters of the history of Czech literature of the 19th and 20th century. 1. The issues of Czech romanticism (Mácha’s Máj). 2. The beginnings of realism in Czech prose (in regards to Božena Němcová’s production). 3. The generation of May School (in regards to Jan Neruda’s poetry). 4. The issues of Czech symbolism (in regards to Otokar Březina’s and Antonín Sova’s production). 5. Expressionism in Czech prose of the 20th century. (Richard Weiner, Jakub Deml, Ladislav Klíma) 6. Poetism (in regards to Vítězslav Nezval’s production). 7. Psychological prose of the 1930’s and 1940’s (in regards to Jaroslav Havlíček’s, Egon Hostovský’s and Jarmila Glazarová’s production). 8. Prose of epistemological skepticism (in regards to Karel Čapek’s production). 9. Group 42. 10. Jewish themes in postwar literature (holocaust themes): Arnošt Lustig, Ladislav Fuks) 11. Vladimír Holan – type of meditative poetry. 12. Bohumil Hrabal and Vladimír Páral – two contradictory types of Czech prose of the 1960’s.
Literature
  • HRABÁK, Josef, Dušan JEŘÁBEK and Zdeňka TICHÁ. Průvodce po dějinách české literatury. 3. vydání. Praha: Panorama, 1984, 521 stran. URL info
Teaching methods
In the form of lectures, students will get a broader knowledge of literary trends and movements in the given period, as well as of their poetics. They will further develop their literary knowledge and interpretational skills with the aim to communicate with a literary work more effectively. They will creatively use their knowledge gained not only in contact classes but also in their individual study of recommended literature which they will be able to discuss regularly with their teacher.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: emphasis is put on students´active participation in classes, and their ability to evaluate a literary work, compare it in the context od current national and world literary production and defend their views using precise terminology.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět bude realizován při minimálním počtu 10 zapsaných studentů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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