JSB351 South Slavic Literatures of the 20th Century

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Seminar is based on reading parts of representative literature works, that means solid and consistent home preparation.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Aim of this course is to present key movements, authors and works in South Slavic literatures in the first half of the 20th century. Main emphasis will be given on stating the milestones of Yugoslav and Bulgarian literary development from 1918 until 1952. Students will be introduced into its forms in contrastive perspective, based on contextual analysis of representative contemporary works, lectures and study of the literature. Main attention will be paid to literary phenomena that overlap the borders of South Slavic area.
Learning outcomes
Absolvent will gain overview about the most important authors and works in a significant period of development of South Slavic literatures and will extend his ability to analyse and interpret literature works.
Syllabus
  • 1) World, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria: Literature of the 20th century in Comparative Perspective
  • 2) Phases, Milestones, Parallels: Literary Modernism in Individual South Slavic Literatures
  • 3) In the name of literary cosmopolite: avant-garde movements in South Slavic literatures in the interwar period
  • 4) To honour and to develop literary tradition: social realism in South Slavic literatures of the interwar period
  • 5) In the service of antifascist resistance: WWII in South Slavic literatures
  • 6) Captured by ideology: socialist realism in South Slavic literatures
  • 7) In the name of existentialism and allegory: the first examples of late modernism in South Slavic literatures in the post-war period
Literature
    required literature
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha: Libri, 2001, 683 pp. info
  • NEDVĚDOVÁ, Milada. Slovník spisovatelů. srbská a černohorská, charvátská, bosensko-hercegovská, slovinská a makedonská literatura. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1979, 555 s. info
  • Slovník spisovatelů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1978, 484 s. info
  • PAVELKA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Slovník epoch, směrů, skupin a manifestů. Brno: Georgetown, 1993, 290 s. ISBN 8090160409. info
  • Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury : koncepce / osobnosti / základní pojmy. Edited by Ansgar Nünning - Jiří Trávníček - Jiří Holý, Translated by Al. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2006, 912 stran. ISBN 8072941704. info
    recommended literature
  • POSPÍŠIL, Ivo and Simoneta DEMBICKÁ. Světové literatury 20. století v kostce : americká, britská, francouzská, italská, Latinské Ameriky, německá, ruská, španělská. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 1999, 239 s. ISBN 80-85983-80-X. info
  • DOLEŽAL, Jan: Dvě století srbského románu. Praha 2009.
  • KOZÁR, Aleš. Poezie slovinského expresionismu. Vydání první. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015, 185 stran. ISBN 9788073959579. info
  • KUDĚLKA, Viktor. Slovinská literatura. Díl 2. Brno: UJEP, 1976. 153 s.
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Dramatické umění jižních Slovanů. Část 1, 1918-1941. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1995. ISBN 80-210-1068-1. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, home reading, discussion in seminaries. Seminaries will be based on solid home preparation (reading of chosen works and their analysis).
Assessment methods
Prerequisites for granting the credit: regular attendance and thorough home preparation on weekly basis inlcuding reading the assigned literature; active participation in class discussion. Course will be finalized in form of written examination about the discessed topics and literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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