CJA043NS Czech Literature from the Beginning to the 18th century - Follow-up Studies - Seminar

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vladimíra Maroušková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marie Škarpová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Helena Bednářová
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
dr. Bočková: The seminar focuses on mapping the basic tendencies in the development of old literature in a wider context of the culture as a whole. It focuses on several genres (seen both from synchronic and diachronic perspective) and attempts to characterise the basic contours of thinking, aesthetic categories and genre system in each particular cultural epoch. The starting point for further reading, interpretation and discussion will be a seminar paper dealing with a chosen topic.
doc. Horáková: The focus of the seminar lies in the characterisation of essential works of old Czech literature, based on work with representative texts with which the students will be acquainted in advance. Comparison is often used as the mode of working with the texts (e.g. "Alexandreis" and "Dalimil's Chronicle"; love lyrics of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque; the same for legends, satire and drama; religious writing of Štítný, Hus, Chelčický and Blahoslav; the poetry of Hasištejnský, Collinus, Campanus, Michna, Bridel, Kadlinský and Rosa). The character of the seminar is instrumental: in the introductory lessons the students are taught to read Gothic script; apart from forming for themselves a picture of the genre system, the students will also be orientated in the so called problematic issues which relate also to the old-literature extracts used in high-school textbooks.
Syllabus
  • dr. Bočková: M. Vavřinec z Březové and his portrayal of the Hussite era; the work and teaching of P. Chelčický; the work of Hynek z Poděbrad between Middle Ages and Renaissance; "Nová rada" and "Theriobulia" - the development of allegorical "advice" in Middle ages; J. Blahoslav in the context of the church Jednota Bratrská as well as in the wider context of Czech Humanism; Konáč's "Pravidlo lidského života" as a type of entertainment prose; K. Harant, the renaissance traveller and his travel book; Komenský's "Labyrint" between two epochs; Balbín's Baroque patriotism; F. Bridel and his "Co bůh? Člověk?"; A. Michna z Otradovic; poetry "a la mode"; the changes in literature of late Baroque period.
  • doc. Horáková: 1. Basic specific features of old Czech literature in comparison with modern literature (especially an allegoric approach to the representation of reality), the Bible as a source and inspiration 2. the genre system in Middle Ages 3.Old Slavic literature and its specific features, "Kosmas' Chronicle" 4. love lyrics in the Middle Ages 5. gallant epics in the Middle Ages 6. satire in the Middle Ages; 7-10. the genre system of literary renaissance/humanism (early, generalised and popularised humanism) 11-13. the genre system of baroque literature (early, high and last phases of baroque literature) 14. the basic works of Czech baroque poetry; the systemisation of acquired information.
Literature
  • LEHÁR, Jan. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2004, 1078 s. ISBN 80-7106-308-8. info
  • PETRŮ, Eduard. Vzdálené hlasy :studie o starší české literatuře. Olomouc: Votobia, 1996, 443 s. ISBN 80-7198-162-1. info
  • GALÍK, Josef. Panorama české literatury :(literární dějiny od počátků do současnosti). Edited by Lubomír Machala - Eduard Petrů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1994, 547 s. ISBN 80-85839-04-0. info
  • KOPECKÝ, Milan. Česká literatura od 20. let 17. století do 70. let 18. století [Kopecký, 1993]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993. ISBN 80-210-0696-X. info
  • KOPECKÝ, Milan. Český humanismus. 1. vyd. Praha: Melantrich, 1988, 282 s. URL info
  • ŠKARKA, Antonín. Půl tisíciletí českého písemnictví. Edited by Emanuel Macek - Pavel Spunar - Jan Lehár. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1986, 502 s. URL info
  • LEHÁR, Jan. Nejstarší česká epika : Dalimilova kronika, Alexandreida, první veršované legendy. Translated by Rudolf Mertlík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1983, 230 s. URL info
  • Výbor z české literatury od počátků po dobu Husovu. Edited by Bohuslav Havránek - Josef Hrabák. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1957, 851 s. URL info
  • VILIKOVSKÝ, Jan. Písemnictví českého středověku. Vydání první. V Praze: Universum, 1948, 255 stran. URL info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Podmínky pro udělení zápočtu:
dr. Bočková - přednesení referátu a aktivní práce v semináři.
doc. Horáková - odevzdání písemné práce (její prezentování na semináři není závazné) a aktivní účast. Podmínkou pro přijetí ke zkoušce je seznam četby včetně dvou odborných studií se staročeskou tematikou. Problémové okruhy ke zkoušce (zadané z aspektu žánrově-tematického i chronologického) jsou profilovány na seminářích.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Seminář navazuje na seminář Starší čes. lit. I. bakalářského programu a je povinně volitelný.
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Nutná individuální domluva s vyučující.
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