CJBC579 Experimentální a nekonvenční česká literatura po r. 1989

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Machala, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 C11, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 9/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The discipline is divided into a working lecture (45 min) and a seminar (45 min). The lecture session will focus on the characteristics of the concept of literary experiment and its history and critical reception. Another aim will be an analytical reflection on the forms of experimental and unconventional literature after 1989. The seminar will be conceived as an inventory of the results of the post-Soviet prose and poetry explorations of new (or forgotten) creative possibilities, and last but not least, it will also present the reception these works have received from literary critics.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to characterize experimental literature and its specific forms in Czech literature after 1989; he/she will also be able to analyze, interpret and critically evaluate specific experimental works; part of the learning process will be the actual creation of experimental texts.
Syllabus
  • Lecture topics: 1) Experimental literature (attempt to define) 2) Polystop experimental literature (situation sketch) 3) Experimenting with the story 4) Linguistic experimentation – lyrical and imaginative 5) Language as a reflector and formative factor 6) Experimental Poetry (Visual) 7) Modern communication technology as an inspiration and means for a poetic experiment 8) AI and artistic creation Proposal of topics for seminar papers: 1) From civilism through experiment to meditation (Emil Juliš: Inevitability) 2) Experiment or retro? (Karel Milota: Barrel) 3) Experimentation in postmodern intentions (Jiří Kratochvil: Urmedvěd or Night Tango) 4) Verbal and visual experiment (Hnát Daněk: Pilgrimage and journey of Hnát) 5) Screening of narrative possibilities (Petr Ulrych: Illusions) 6) Absurdity as an experimental category? (Marian Palla: Notes of Maud the Cleaner' + Njkpůúp kkléedc) 7) Can disgust be aestheticized? (Václav Kahuda: The Story of the Basilisk) 8) Experiment with computer poetry 1 (Jiří Materna, ed.: Poetry of the artificial world) 9) Experimental narrative inventory (Jiří Drašnar: Night on the beach) 10) Poetic experiment versus consumer mass media massage (Jiří Dynka: Tamponade) 11) Playfulness and experimentation (Gabriel Pleska: Garlic, garlic!) 12) Family saga and structural experiment (Jan Vrak: Ordinary things) 13) Experiment through the centuries (Zdeněk Vlk: Friend of the heat, "Tereza" and Mokrá čtvrť) 14) Philosophical disputation in an experimental version (Ladislav Šerý: Laser Romance) 15) An Experiment with an Unreliable Narrator (Lucie Fowler: Dust Catchers) 16) Experiment with computer poetry 2 [Petr Štengl: Spam: connected brush houses, pale modern rabbit (bmk :-) and a big spoon] 17) Experimental Computer Drama (AI: When a Robot Writes a Play) 18) Experimental literary diary (David Drábek: Ochechule) 19) Total Experiment (Zdeněk Vlk: Little Ugly Love) 20) Experimental fusion of poems and comics (Ivan Motýl – Petr Szyroki: Slag)
Literature
    required literature
  • Česká vizuální poezie : teoretické texty. Edited by Eva Krátká. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2013, 307 s. ISBN 9788072947362. info
  • Na hranicích podobnosti : česká poezie po roce 1945 v komparativní perspektivě. Edited by Eliška D. Härtelová - Josef Hrdlička. Vydání první. Praha: Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, 2022, 321 stran. ISBN 9788076710979. info
  • KRÁTKÁ, Eva. Vizuální poezie : pojmy, kategorie a typologie ve světovém kontextu. První vydání. Brno: Host, 2016, 234 stran. ISBN 9788074915017. info
  • MILOTA, Karel. Vzorec řeči. Edited by Jan Šulc - Milena Vojtková. Vydání první. Praha: Torst, 2016, 794 stran. ISBN 9788072154265. info
    recommended literature
  • Nonsens : parafráze, paběrky, parodie, padělky. Edited by Bohumila Grögerová - Josef Hiršal. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 193 s. ISBN 80-204-0659-X. info
  • Třídit slova : literatura a konceptuální tendence 1949-2015. Edited by Ondřej Buddeus - Markéta Magidová. Vydání první. Praha: tranzit.cz, 2015, 528 stran. ISBN 9788087259344. info
  • Česká experimentální poezie : Vrh kostek. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical and literary-historical interpretation, analysis and interpretation of experimental works, discussion, own creation of experimental works
Assessment methods
Preparation and presentation of an expert report (5-7 ns), discussion, creation and presentation of own experimental text.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: Předmět bude otevřen a vyučován při minimálním počtu 10 zapsaných studujících.
Teacher's information
In addition to the thematic schedule of lectures, the Outline of the Discipline also contains a proposal of topics from which the listeners will choose the assignment of their papers (or they can propose their own topic). Credit may be given for active participation in the seminars and for the elaboration and presentation of a paper; a colloquium will be awarded for the elaboration of one's own experimental text, its presentation at the colloquium panel and participation in the panel discussion. Further literature - Bohemica Olomucensia 2010, No. 1 (the issue of the journal contains contributions from the international and interdisciplinary symposium Artistic Experiment); Kol. Mitka, Marek: Correlations of Experiment and Theory in (Post)Postmodern Central European Literatures. Habilitation theses. Prešov 2020; Panorama of Czech Literature 1, 2. Prague 2015; Pandora No. 14, 2007 (issue of a cultural and literary review devoted to contemporary literary experiment) Basic internet resources - Institute of Czech Literature: www.ucl.cas.cz Czech National Bibliography: http://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=file&file_name=base-list Dictionary of Czech Literature: http://slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/index.jsp Czech Literary Centre (CzechLit): https://www.czechlit.cz/cz
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