VIKBB03 Digest of Czech Literature History II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. František Schildberger, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marie Hradilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 9:10–10:45 U37
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
This course aims at revealing important development tendencies in the context of Czech and world literature of the 20th century. Aestethical, topical and other relations will be shown by significant personalities of Czech literature. Primarily we will deal with interpretations of particular works and an insight to their meanings. This course will include a brief introduction to literary theory (poetics) and approaches to interpretations. Students are required to work with secondary sources.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to
denominate the basic characteristics of artistic text in contrast to factual or informative one;
Orientate themselves in the most important artistic approaches and tendencies that influenced the development of Czech literature.
Syllabus
  • 1. Franz Kafka and absurdity in the Czech literature of 20th century. 2. Representants of catholic tendency in Czech literature of the 20th century 3. The group 42 4. The potentialities of a diary (Deml, Orten, Kolář, Zábrana, Vaculík) 5. Interwar avandgarde and Czech surrealism throughout the century 6. Karel Čapek 7. Oldřich Mikulášek, Jan Skácel, Karel Šiktanc, Jiří Šotola and literary journal of that time 8. Milan Kundera and Josef Škvorecký: Czech and world literature 9. František Halas a Vladimír Holan 10. František Hrubín and his poetry, prose and drama 11. Work of Bohumil Hrabal in a context 12. Czech postmodern novel (Kratochvil, Hodrová, Urban etc.)
Literature
  • Stich, Alexandr, Janáčková, Jaroslava, Lehár, Jan, Holý, Jiří. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny: Praha, 2006
  • GALÍK, Josef. Panorama české literatury :(literární dějiny od počátků do současnosti). Edited by Lubomír Machala - Eduard Petrů. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1994, 547 s. ISBN 80-85839-04-0. info
Teaching methods
The basic teaching method rely on acquainting with particular artistic works of poetry and prose, their construction analysis, context of origin of these works identification and recognition the reasons of their artistic impressiveness.
Assessment methods
Educational methods:
seminars, activity in seminars, reading (recommended texts)
Requests to undergo:
The course is concluded with a written seminar paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
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