CJp505 Forms of recent Czech and world literature for youth

Faculty of Education
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
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
Thu 16:00–16:50 učebna 10
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Based on acquired knowledge of matters of literary history, the student is able to independently interpret and critically evaluate current Czech and world children’s literary production, is able to orient in the current book market, and choose from it works appropriate for their own literary-educational work, and using it for the interdisciplinary overlap.
Learning outcomes
Student knows the literary work of notabilities of Czech and world literature for children and youth from the beginning of the 21st century, he/she is able to classify it in development contexts and to interpret it. Student realizes common key features to this literary production. Student is able to characterize the predominant themes and compositional procedures and resources in the contemporary literature for children and youth.
Syllabus
  • 1. Changes in Czech and world children’s and youth literature after the year 2000 (topics, ways of adaptation, important authors). 2. The domination of a visual narrator, changes of the book form. 3.‒ 6. Current topics in co-temporary children’s and youth prose. 7. ‒ 9. Winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and ALMA of the last decade. 10. Current theoretical approaches to children’s and youth literature. 11. Current events in the field of children’s and youth literature. 12. National and international issues of children’s and youth literature.
Literature
  • Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež. Zahraniční spisovatelé. Praha: Libri, 2012.
  • časopis Bookbird (archiv přístupný z www.ibby.org)
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava. S holokaustem za zády. Téma holokaustu v české a překladové literatuře pro děti a mládež po roce 1989. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7464-992-9.324 stran.
  • časopis Bibiana (archiv přístupný z www.bibiana.sk)
  • MANDYS, Pavel. 2 x 101 knih pro děti a mládež : nejlepší a nejvlivnější knihy. 1. vydání. V Praze: Albatros, 2013, 430 stran. ISBN 9788000033365. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež 2. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2012, 456 pp. ISBN 978-80-7277-506-4. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Pohádkové příběhy v české literatuře pro děti a mládež (1990-2010) (Fairy tales in the Czech literature for children and youth (1990-2010)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 327 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5692-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5692-2011. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava. Figury a figurace : studie o ilustracích, obrázkových knihách, albech, leporelech a komiksech. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav pro regionální studia, 2010, 173 stran. ISBN 9788073688592. info
Teaching methods
The lectures are accompanied by presentations of belletristic sources, students are expected to read the recommended literature independently.
Assessment methods
Credits are granted for submission of an essay (3-5 pages), which is worth max. 30 points and which evaluates expertise, own interpretative approach and the style of language. To receive credit, student must reach at least 25 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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