CJBC145 Milan Kundera

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Čulík (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Helena Bednářová
Timetable
Mon 16:40–20:00 49
Prerequisites
Students are expected to be familiar with the works to be analysed.
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar is could be subtitled: Milan Kundera: The journey there and back again. It will analyse the complete work by Milan Kundera, from his juvenile poems Man, A Wide Garden, to his latest novel Ignorance, which deals with the predicament of emigrés and with globalisation themes. The seminar will compare and contrast major motifs and themes of Kundera's work and will argue that the early work by Milan Kundera, which the author now suppresses, is closely connected with his mature writings.
1. Člověk, zahrada širá, Poslední máj; O sporech dědických, Monology 2. Majitelé klíčů, Umění románu I a II 3. Směšné lásky a Žert 4. Dvě uši a Dvě svatby/Ptákovina, Jakub a jeho pán 5. Valčík na rozloučenou, Život je jinde 6. Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí 7. Kniha smíchu a zapomnění 8. Nesmrtelnost 9. Pomalost, Identita 10. Nevědomost 11.-12. The students will send the essay to the lecturer by email. They will also receive the lecturer's comments and evaluation by email from the United Kingdom.
Syllabus
  • The seminars will be devoted to the analysis of literary texts by Milan Kundera. Each seminar will take a short student presentation (not more than 15 minutes) as a point of departure.
Literature
  • Jan Čulík, Milan Kundera in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 232, 2000, pp. 208-226
  • LE GRAND, Eva. Kundera, aneb, Paměť touhy. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1998, 204 s. ISBN 80-7198-305-5. info
  • KOSKOVÁ, Helena. Milan Kundera. Vyd. 1. Jinočany: H & H, 1998, 189 s. ISBN 8086022196. info
  • CHVATÍK, Květoslav. Svět románů Milana Kundery. [Brno]: Atlantis, 1994. ISBN 8071080802. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zápočet se bude udílet na základě písemného eseje v rozsahu cca 2000 slov (6-7 normostran).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
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