XCJp07 Chapters in Czech and World Literature for Children and Young Adults 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
MgA. Miroslav Jindra, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Tue 16:00–16:50 učebna 32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The lectures follow the forms and transformations of contemporary Czech and world literature for children and youth. After successfully completing the course, the student is familiar with the development of literature for children and young from the early 1990s to the present in genre and thematic units, which also take into account the target category of pre-reading children.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, students will be able to:
- characterize individual genres of children’s and youth literature of the post-revolutionary era;
- analyze current trends in children’s literature;
- identify and analyze the production of important literary figures;
- connect the development of the Czech children’s and youth literature with general socio-cultural events.
Syllabus
  • 1. Changes in literary production for children and youth in the 1990s, inspiration of contemporary Czech literature by world literature for children.
  • 2. The danger of triviality and kitsch in children's literature, signs of trivial literature in texts intended for the youngest children.
  • 3. Composition and structure of children's magazines.
  • 4. Adaptation of folk tales and legends for children.
  • 5. Contemporary author's fairy tale.
  • 6. Picture book, the role of comics and cartoon series as syncretic genres in the development of the interpretive activities of a child of pre-reading age.
  • 7. Thematic de-tabooization in contemporary Czech narrative prose with a children's hero (problems of racism, handicap, old age, illness, and death in children's literature, etc.).
  • 8. Forms of contemporary author's poetry for children, a continuation of the nonsensical and playful line of folklore poetry.
  • 9. Adaptation of literature for children and youth into other media (film, television, radio, theater, etc.)
  • 10. Regionalism and children's literature.
Literature
  • Keywords for children's literature. Edited by Philip Nel - Lissa Paul - Nina Christensen. Second edition. New York: New York University Press, 2021, xvii, 252. ISBN 9781479899678. info
  • HAHN, Daniel. The Oxford companion to children's literature. Edited by Michael Morpurgo. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiii, 663. ISBN 9780199695140. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež 2. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2012, 456 pp. ISBN 978-80-7277-506-4. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Pohádkové příběhy v české literatuře pro děti a mládež (1990-2010) (Fairy tales in the Czech literature for children and youth (1990-2010)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 327 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5692-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5692-2011. info
  • TOMAN, Jaroslav. Konstanty a proměny moderní české poezie pro děti : (tvorba, recepce, reflexe). [České Budějovice]: Vlastimil Johanus, 2008, 271 s. ISBN 9788090424722. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena and Ivan DOROVSKÝ. Autoři světové literatury pro děti a mládež (Children and Youth Literature Authors of the World). 1st ed. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, s.r.o., 2007. Nakladatelství Olomouc. ISBN 978-80-7182-228-8. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Brněnské impulzy v literatuře pro děti. Z dějin světové literatury pro děti a mládež I. Slavkov u Brna: BM Typo, 2007, 67 pp. edice Ladění. ISBN 978-80-903707-4-6. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava. Sedm klíčů k otevření literatury pro děti a mládež 90. let XX. století : reflexe české tvorby a recepce. Olomouc: Votobia, 2004, 457 s. ISBN 8070426683. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava and Milena ROSOVÁ. Žánry, osobnosti, díla : (historický vývoj žánrů české literatury pro mládež - antologie). 3. upr. vyd. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita - Filozofická fakulta, 2002, 236 s. ISBN 8070426047. info
Teaching methods
Type of course: lectures. Lectures are followed by students´independent reading.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: written examination which tests students´ knowledge of recommended literature and topics listed in the syllabus (see study materials in the IS – university information system). Students will also write a search of a selected period of current book production of literature for children and youth, which will be presented in lectures. Detailed information is available in the study materials of the course in the IS.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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