CJBC524 Authors with their roots in 60s - are they still attractive?

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Čulík (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Mon 16:40–19:55 A32 stara
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Learning Outcomes:
- The course will enable students to understand the poetics and the structure of literary works written in the era of the liberalising communist system in the 1960s;
- It will teach the students to analyse the differences between political propaganda and a work of art;
- It will examine the role of political elements in poetry and literary fiction and ;
- It will assess the role of a work of original literary fiction within a society living under political pressure ;
- It will examine the fundamental questions associated with the role of a literary work in society
Syllabus
  • Miroslav Holub, Ačkoli
  • The seminar will analyse the structure of this work by Miroslav Holub: It will consider the extraordinary popularity of this autor in the English speaking world. The seminar will examine the reasons why Holub has become a major author of the contemporary international literary canon, while his role within the Czech literary canon is more or less secondary.
  • Arnošt Lustig, Démanty noci
  • The seminar will examine the question to what extent it is possible to forge a highly traumatic personal experience of the author (in this case, experience from a Nazi concentration camp) into an original, communicable work of art which at the same time attempts to be a general statement about the human condition.
  • Ludvík Vaculík, Sekyra
  • Vaculíks Sekyra (The Axe) was regarded, from the thematic as well as from the formal point of view, as one of the most important novels of the 1960s, as a generational statement. The seminar will examine which elements of the work made the novel so significant within its era and to what extent this significance was determined politically or structurally, or both.
  • Josef Škvorecký, Mirákl
  • The seminar will analyse the relationship between political experience, as recorded in this novel, an artistic statement and its communicability. The analysis of the works thematic structure will examine the authors aim to create a cultural and political statement about a particular civilisational era.
Literature
  • LUSTIG, Arnošt. Démanty noci (Přít.) : Noc naděje ; Démanty noci ; Dita Sachsová. info
  • LEHÁR, Jan. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2004, 1078 s. ISBN 80-7106-308-8. info
  • LEHÁR, Jan. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2004, 1078 s. ISBN 80-7106-308-8. info
  • VACULÍK, Ludvík. Sekyra. Vydání čtvrté. Brno: Atlantis, 2003, 172 stran. ISBN 8071082376. info
  • Česká literatura od roku 1945 : nejkompletnější interaktivní multimediální encyklopedie shrnující poznatky literární vědy od roku 1945. Praha: Infinity, 1997, 2 zvukové. info
  • ŠKVORECKÝ, Josef. Mirákl. Vyd. 5. Praha: Ivo Železný, 1997, 524 s. ISBN 8023735314. info
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Obléhání zevnitř. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1996, 420 s. ISBN 80-85639-77-7. info
  • SUCHOMEL, Milan. Literatura z času krize (The literatury of). Brno: Atlantis, 1993, 143 pp. ISBN 80-7108-051-9. info
  • SVOZIL, Bohumil. Vůle k intelektuální poezii : o básnické tvorbě Miroslava Holuba. Vyd. 1. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1971, 127 s. URL info
  • HOLUB, Miroslav. Ačkoli. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1969, 80 s. URL info
  • OPELÍK, Jiří. Nenáviděné řemeslo : výbor z kritik 1957-1968. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1969. info
  • JUNGMANN, Milan. Obléhání Tróje : literární kritiky a listy ze zápisníku z let 1958-1968. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1969, 188 s. URL info
Assessment methods
Assessment:Credit for the course will be awarded on submission of an essay of 2000 words by 30th June, 2009.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
General note: Seminář se bude konat pro maximálně 25 studentů.
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