CJBC540 Culture memory

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petra James, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
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
The seminar will focus on the representation of cultural memory in contemporary Czech prose writings. It will introduce the development of methodology in the field of cultural memory studies and its possible transfers to other domains of human sciences, especially to literary theory. In the context of contemporary Czech literature, the seminar will focus on the ways the authors choose in order to depict problematic themes of Czech history, particularly the legacy of the Hussite movement, the legacy of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century and the question of Sudetenland and the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The seminar will also evoke the issue of representation of the holocaust in contemporary art.
At the end of the seminar the student will be able to:
-understand the basic concepts of cultural memory
-apply the concepts to the filed of literary fiction
-reflect on problematic aspects of Czech history
Syllabus
  • Structure of the seminar:
  • -metodological problems of cultural memory studies
  • -cultural memory in historiography and literary theory
  • -manifestations of cultural memory issues in contemporary Czech prose writings: M. Urban, J. Kratochvil, Jaromír Rudiš
Literature
  • BEREND, Ivan T. ; RÁNKI, György, The European periphery and industrialisation 1780-1914, Budapest/ Cambridge, Akadémiai Kiadó/ Cambridge University Press, 1982
  • SNYDER, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Londres, Vintage, 2011
  • CORNIS-POPE, Marcel ; NEUBAUER, John, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1-4, Amsterdam/Philadelphie, John Benjamins, 2002-2010
  • CORNIS-POPE, Marcel ; NEUBAUER, John, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1-4, Amsterdam/Philadelphie, John Benjamins, 2002-2010
  • BRANDES, Detlef ; SUNDHAUSSEN, Holm ; TROEBST, Stefan, Lexikon der Vertreibungen : Deportation, Zwangsaussiedlung und ethnische Säuberung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Böhlau Verlag, 2010
  • SNYDER, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Londres, Vintage, 2011
  • SNYDER, Timothy, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Yale University Press, 2003
  • SCHLÖGEL, Karl, Die Mitte liegt ostwärts. Die Deutschen, der verlorene Osten und Mitteleuropa, Berlin, Corso bei Seidler, 1986
  • CORNIS-POPE, Marcel ; NEUBAUER, John, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1-4, Amsterdam/Philadelphie, John Benjamins, 2002-2010
  • CORNIS-POPE, Marcel ; NEUBAUER, John, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1-4, Amsterdam/Philadelphie, John Benjamins, 2002-2010
  • BRANDES, Detlef ; SUNDHAUSSEN, Holm ; TROEBST, Stefan, Lexikon der Vertreibungen : Deportation, Zwangsaussiedlung und ethnische Säuberung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Böhlau Verlag, 2010
  • CORNIS-POPE, Marcel ; NEUBAUER, John, History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe : Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, vol. 1-4, Amsterdam/Philadelphie, John Benjamins, 2002-2010
  • ASSMAN, Aleida; CONRAD, Sebastian, Memory in a Global Age. Discourses, Practices and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Pán příběhů : prozaik Jiří Kratochvil. 1. vyd. Praha: ARSCI, 2008, 130 s. ISBN 9788086078816. info
  • TRAVERSO, Enzo. Trhlina v dějinách : esej o Osvětimi a intelektuálech. Translated by Helena Beguivinová. Vyd 1. Praha: Academia, 2006, 235 s. ISBN 8020014012. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
essay (paper)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 1 x v semestru, 6.-8.12.2012, 10:00-13:30 hod.
General note: 10:00-13:30 v pracovně č. 308 Ústavu české literatury, budova D, ulice A. Nováka 1.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Maximální počet 20 účastníků v kurzu. Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě pohovoru.
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