FF:VIKBB01 History of Books and Libraries - Course Information

VIKBB01 History of Books and Libraries

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Petr Voit, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Petr Škyřík, Ph.D.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Sabina Kubisová
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

each even Monday 12:30–14:05 C11

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Information and Library Studies (programme FF, B-IS) (2)

Course objectives

At the end of this course, students will gain a basic idea of ​​the modern conception of literary culture, from the point of view of literary process, internal and external structure of the book and the effect on the reader.

Syllabus

• 1. The author, publisher, printer and bookseller in transformations of the centuries 2. Type foundry, typesetting and letterpress printing, the development of the printing press and printing technology from its origins to the modern printing. The importance of the printing press 3. Typing font (texture, rotunda, bastarda, gotikoantikva, Gothic, fracture, Antiqua) 4. Types and forms of documents (single-paper, code, monographs, convolute , beam work, addition, additional printing, overweight, administrative prints, commercial print, small print, broadside prints, superstitious prints, casual prints, block- book, picture book) 5. The structure of the book on the 15th to 19 century - the text (incipit, explicit, structure of the text, title page and its composition, frame parts) 6 The structure of the book on the 15th to 19 century - the decor and the image (line, bar, frame, border, frieze, vignette, frills, initials, signet, diagram, illustration, frontispiece) 7. The genre system (religious and secular genres of literature) and editorial program of the printeries 8. The Illustrations (technology, missions, development) 9. Bookbinding (technology, missions, development) 10. The beginnings of Czech typography and the formation of the readership 11. The effect of typography on the technique of reading 12. Books, libraries, provenance 13. Problems and perspectives in the field of "book culture "

Literature

recommended literature
• VOIT, Petr. Encyklopedie knihy : starší knihtisk a příbuzné obory mezi polovinou 15. a počátkem 19. století : papír, písmo a písmolijectví, knihtisk a jiné grafické techniky, tiskaři, nakladatelé, knihkupci, ilustrátoři a kartografové, literární. Druhé vydání. Praha: Libri ve spolupráci s Královskou kanonií premonstrátů na Strahově, 2008, Strana 656. ISBN 9788072773909. info
• MANGUEL, Alberto. Dějiny čtení. Translated by Olga Trávníčková. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2007, 480 s. ISBN 9788072942312. info
• BOHATCOVÁ, Mirjam. Česká kniha v proměnách staletí. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1990, 622 s. ISBN 80-7038-131-0. info
• KOPECKÝ, Milan. Úvod do studia staročeských rukopisů a tisků. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1978, 179 s. URL info
• FUNKE, Fritz. Buchkunde : ein Überblick über die Geschichte des Buch- und Schriftwesens. 2. verb. und erw. Aufl. Leipzig: VEB Verlag für Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, 1963. info
• HORÁK, František. Česká kniha v minulosti a její výzdoba. 1. vyd. Praha: František Novák, 1948, 253 s. URL info

Teaching methods

The aim of the teaching method is to support abstract thinking of students: lectures will therefore be combined with guided discussions of the visual material.

Assessment methods

credit granted on the basis of a written test

Language of instruction

Czech

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