CJBC76 Book inside the Book

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Bednářová, 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
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Course objectives
Books develop from preexisting books. It is evident through the whole literary tradition but it is especially true with texts, where a different text enters into another as a quotation, allusion or as an object. Students in the seminar will examine how one book can penetrate another one and how it can help to construct its meaning; topics of reading, writing and translating will be also examined.
Syllabus
  • Topics to choose from:
  • 1)Love in books: francesca and Paolo are reading Lancelot in Dante: La divina commendia
  • 2)The letters by Madame de Sévigne and Homeric allusions in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu II
  • 3)The influence of the lyrical poetry by Trakl on Halas: Kohout plaší smrt
  • 4)Eugen Onegin and the poetry of Zhivago in Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
  • 5)Traces of Maurice Baring in Čep: Hranice stínu
  • 6)Reading Gospel in Dostojevskij: Crime and Punishment
  • 7)Translating Balzac and Daudet in Tabucchi: Pereira claims
  • 8)Sanctuary: an irruption of Madame Bovary into the American south of Faulkner
  • 9)The multiplicity of novels or the defense of book in Calvino: If on a Winters Night a Traveller
  • 10)The art of writing letters in Choderlos de Laclos
  • 11)Stories of Thousand and one Nights: a constant renewal of story as a quest for indentity and transformation of the universe
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Seminář bude probíhat formou nepravidelných setkání. Část výuky se uskuteční ve výukovém středisku MU na Cikháji. Podmínky k udělení zápočtu:
- znalost všech čtyř nebo pěti základních děl, s nimiž se bude v semináři pracovat
- skupinový referát
- připravenost a vůle k dialogu
z
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: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Pouze pro 20 studujících. / Část výuky proběhne o víkendu ve výukovém středisku MU na Cikháji.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Spring 2005.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2003, recent)
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