ROMDJK Multilingualism and cultural interfaces

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Aleš Urválek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Ability to get orientated in different languages and cultures.
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
Solid insight into the language and cultural interface and its contribution to literature, both in terms of diachronicity and individual cultural regions.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- to identify issues of language and cultural interface from the point of view of diachrony and selected cultural regions
- to trace this issue on selected examples from older and current literature
Syllabus
  • 1. Constituting the first literary language: French literature, Italian literature, English literature, German literature, Slavic literature
  • 2. Aesthetics of multilingualism from the Middle Ages to modernity: macaronic poetry, Rabelais
  • 3. Multilingualism and the risinf of national cultures: issues of national and individual identity (Gellner, Anderson), identity models, center and periphery (Bouchard, Kyloušek).
  • 4. multilingualism and cultural interfaces in situation of colonialism, decolonization, postcolonialism and neonationalism: creole languages, indigenous languages peoples Bouchard, Anderson, Saïd, Bhabha, Parisot, Glissant).
Literature
    required literature
  • The making of the nations and cultures of the New World :an essay in comparative history. Edited by Gérard Bouchard - Michelle Weinroth - Paul Leduc Browne. 1 online r. ISBN 9780773574526. info
  • Ashcroft, Bill; Griffiths, Gareth; Tiffin, Helen, The Empire Writes Back : Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989.
  • SAÏD, Edward. Orientalism. London : Penguin Books, 2003
  • CASANOVA, Pascale. Světová republika literatury. Edited by Čestmír Pelikán. 1. české vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2012, 439 s. ISBN 9788024620367. info
  • FANON, Frantz. Černá kůže, bílé masky : postkoloniální myšlení I. Translated by Irena Kozelská. Vydání první. Praha: Tranzit, 2011, 191 stran. ISBN 9788087259122. info
  • BOUCHARD, Gérard. Genèse des nations et cultures du nouveau monde : essai d'histoire comparée. Montréal, Québec: Boréal, 2001, 503 s. ISBN 2764601107. info
  • BHABHA, Homi K. The location of culture. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1998, xiii, 285. ISBN 0415054060. info
  • GLISSANT, Édouard. Tout-monde. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1993, 610 s. ISBN 9782070393619. info
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. and extended ed. London: Verso, 1991, xv, 224. ISBN 0860915468. info
  • GELLNER, Arnošt. Nations and nationalism (Orig.) : Národy a nacionalismus. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. info
    recommended literature
  • DANTE ALIGHIERI, 1265-1321. De vulgari eloquentia (Obsaž.) : Tutte le opere [Dante Alighieri, 1993]. info
  • Ernst Robert Curtius, Evropská literatura a latinský středověk. Praha: Triáda, 1998 - 738 s. ISBN 80-86138-07-0
  • Handbook of stemmatology : history, methodology, digital approaches. Edited by Philipp Roelli. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, vi, 688. ISBN 9783110674170. info
  • BOUCHARD, Gérard. Interculturalism : a view from Quebec. Translated by Howard Scott. English-language edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015, ix, 221. ISBN 9781442647763. info
  • GLISSANT, Édouard. Introduction à une poétique du divers. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2013, 144 s. ISBN 9782070746491. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr, Klára KOLINSKÁ, Kateřina PRAJZNEROVÁ, Tomáš POSPÍŠIL, Eva BERÁNKOVÁ VOLDŘICHOVÁ and Petr HORÁK. My, oni, já : hledání identity v kanadské literatuře a filmu (Us-them-me : the search for indentity in Canadian literature and film). Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2009, 327 pp. Host ; č. 413. ISBN 978-80-7294-306-7. info
  • CASADEI, Alberto and Marco SANTAGATA. Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea. Prima edizione. Roma: Editori Laterza, GLF, 2007, xi, 451. ISBN 9788842082743. info
  • CASADEI, Alberto and Marco SANTAGATA. Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna. Prima edizione. Roma: Editori Laterza, GLF, 2007, xiii, 503. ISBN 9788842082736. info
  • Mythes et sociétés des Amériques. Edited by Gérard Bouchard - Bernard J. Andrès. Montréal: Québec/Amérique, 2007, 432 s. ISBN 9782764405826. info
  • GATTI, Maurizio. Être écrivain amérindien au Québec : indianité et création littéraire. Edited by François Paré. Montréal: Hurtubise HMH, 2006, 215 s. ISBN 289428943X. info
  • GATTI, Maurizio. Littérature amérindienne du Québec : écrits de langue française. Edited by Robert Lalonde. Montréal, Québec: Hurtubise HMH, 2004, 271 s. ISBN 2894287569. info
  • BOUCHARD, Chantal. La langue et le nombril : une histoire sociolinguistique du Québec. Nouv. éd. mise à jour. [Saint-Laurent, Québec]: Fides, 2002, 289 s. ISBN 2762124263. info
  • MEMMI, Albert. Le racisme : description, définition, traitement. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1985, 220 stran. ISBN 207035461X. info
  • RABELAIS, François. Gargantua a Pantagruel. Vyd. v Odeonu 2. Praha: Odeon, 1968, 495 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, group project.
Assessment methods
Seminar work (project output).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blok.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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