LMKA_a01 Modern Literature in European Culture and Media context I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Kotásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Dědinová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Fránek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Vokřínek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Miroslav Kotásek, 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
Tue 16:00–17:40 D51, except Tue 14. 11.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(ND)
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 20/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will cover the main tendencies in the development of European literature, from the end of the 19th century to the year 1945. Literature will not be understood as an aesthetic phenomenon that can be examined primarily by means of philology. Literature, as represented by these lectures, is, at the most basic level, interconnected with the changes in visual perception (film, photography), changes of social space (big cities, industrialization), changes in the perception of human body and individuality (phenomenology, psychoanalysis), and time (Einstein), as well as the profound change in the term "culture" itself (e.g. in reaction to the First World War; developments in scientific conception of the world, which gradually becomes normative in Western society).
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course the students will be able to:
-understand the development of literature in the context of social and cultural changes,
-understand intermedia connections between literature and other art forms,
-analyse literary texts as a part of the commonly understood socially-cultural context,
-analyse and articulate differences in meaning resulting from different media being used – e.g. the difference between a literary text and its film adaptation.
Syllabus
  • 19. 9. Introduction: The Modern as Paradigm Shift (Kotásek)
  • 26. 9. Cultural field transformation: photography, film (Kotásek)
  • 3. 10. Cultural field transformation:popular culture (Kotásek)
  • 10. 10. The influence of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on literature (Vokřínek)
  • 17. 10. Theories of the Modern and Avantgard (Bubeníček)
  • 24. 10. Science fiction beginnings (Dědinová)
  • 31. 10. Intermedial parallels of Symbolism and Inpressionism (Vokřínek)
  • 7. 11. Antiutopia (Dědinová)
  • 14. 11. Reading week
  • 21. 11. The Czech Avantgarde 1920s-30s: literature, fine arts, architecture (Bubeníček)
  • 28. 11. Is there an experiment in prose? Modernist selfreference, Weiner and Součková (Kotásek)
  • 5. 12. Czech literature in film 1930s-40s (Bubeníček)
  • 12. 12. Surrealism up until 1945 (Kotásek)
  • 19. 12. Zápočtový týden
Literature
    required literature
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Dějiny nové moderny : česká literatura v letech 1905-1923. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2010, 627 s. ISBN 9788020017925. info
    recommended literature
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. and Max HORKHEIMER. Dialektika osvícenství : filosofické fragmenty. Translated by Michael Hauser - Milan Váňa. Vydání první. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2009, 247 stran. ISBN 9788072982677. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Gravitace avantgard : imaginace a řeč avantgard v českých literárních textech první poloviny dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha: Akropolis, 2007, 144 s. ISBN 9788086903521. info
  • BENJAMIN, Walter. The arcades project. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, Translated by Howard Eiland - Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, xiv, 1073. ISBN 0674008022. info
  • Český surrealismus :1929-1953. Edited by Lenka Bydžovská - Karel Srp. 1. vyd. Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 1996, 485 s. ISBN 80-7010-047-8. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
  • CHALUPECKÝ, Jindřich. Expresionisté :Richard Weiner, Jakub Deml, Ladislav Klíma, podivný Hašek. [Praha]: Torst, 1992, 200 s. ISBN 80-85639-00-9. info
Teaching methods
The lectures include commentary, analysis, and instructive interpretation that demonstrate the theory and methodology discussed.
Assessment methods
Written essay and oral exam. Essay deadline is set a week before the examination term. The exam concerns the topics dealt with in the particular lectures. The knowledge of the compulsory reading is presupposed at the exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Pro posluchače oboru LMK (jednooboroví) je předmět povinný - kredity A, pro posluchače LMK (dvouoboroví) a bohemistiky povinně volitelný (kredity B), pro ostatní studenty volitelný (kredity C).
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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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