ISKM07 Literature, Culture and Humanities

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Synchronous online teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavlína Mazáčová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Hanuš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Karel Komárek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Dagmar Pichová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Michaela Soleiman pour Hashemi, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Horáček (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for the course.
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 course is included among the main philologically oriented courses of the study program. In its contents it shows the philological contexts in which literature and culture are viewed in the field of Information Studies and Librarianship. Humanities in the mirror of literature and culture are presented on key phenomena of philosophy, history, sociology, religion, Czech tradition and the child's aspect. The course has two main goals. On the one hand, the student will acquire an overview of the educational content and the study of professional literature in how it is possible to reflect literally cultural themes in multiplicity and to find links between philology, information science and librarianship. The second objective is to lead the student to be able to critically approach a selected topic in a written form. Individual parts of the course, represented by lecturers, define partial goals such as:
- to acquaint students with the concepts of Czech literary tradition, especially Cyril and Methodius and St. Wenceslas, its development from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age, as well as its changes and connections in communication with the present;
- lead students to understand the structural paradox of literature for children and youth and to find criteria for defining the boundary between contemporary literary production intended for children and youth and addressed to adults;
- lead students to characterize the method of historical work in relation to literature as a specific source of knowledge of history, and captured the difference between cultural and historical and literary-historical approaches;
- to teach students how to recognize the relationship between two important areas of culture, philosophy and beautiful literature, in terms of content and history, with special regard to the Czech cultural tradition;
- to teach students to understand the contexts of literary, religious and social history from the 19th century; - to clarify contacts and conflicts of religion, secularism and atheism;
- lead students to work with library information and resources from a thematic area.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course student:
- gaining knowledge, deep context insight, and the ability to analyze and synthesize aspects linking culture and literature within humanities;
- has a relevant overview of the thematic literature;
- is able to conceive a professional text in which he critically reflects literary-cultural themes and seeks interconnection between philology, information science and librarianship.
Within the sub-topics of the subject matter, the student:
- knows the basic concepts of the Czech literary tradition and presents its specifics;
- is able to use information about these concepts in practice (eg when writing an essay);
- Can work with types of sources and information in the virtual environment that are inaccurate, not listed or properly unhierarchized;
- understands differences between different approaches, though close scientific disciplines;
- is able to interpret selected works of beautiful literature from a philosophical point of view and place them in the context of world and European philosophy.
- has a broader literary-historical knowledge and interpretative skills in working with artistic texts;
- distinguishes between Christian and secular concepts in literature and culture;
- understands the concept of a child's aspect in the context of literary science, can apply it to the interpretation of literary works, recognizes the communication potential of the literary work in relation to the child's recipient
Syllabus
  • Humanities in the mirror of literature and culture are presented on key phenomena and at the same time form the educational content of the subject:
  • 1.-2. Literature, culture and Czech tradition;
  • 3.-4. Literature and children's aspect;
  • 5.-6. Literature, culture and philosophy;
  • 7.-8. Literature, culture and history;
  • 9.-10. Literature, culture and sociology;
  • 11.-12. Literature, culture and religion;
  • Final reflection
Literature
    recommended literature
  • GRUSKOVÁ, Anna. Dramatika Viedenskej moderny. DÚ Bratislava, DÚ Praha 1999
  • Petr Koťátko: Filosofie a literatura: čtení přes překážky, Filosofický časopis 65, 2017, 3, s. 341 an.
  • Jan Mukařovský: Umění a světový názor, in týž: Studie z estetiky, Praha 1966
  • PUTNA, Martin C. Česká katolická literatura v evropském kontextu 1848–1918. Praha: Torst, 1998.
  • Etela Farkašová: Paralely a prieniky, Bratislava 2015, ISBN 978-80-8061-886-5.
  • PUTNA, Martin C. Česká katolická literatura v kontextech 1918–1945. Praha: Torst, 2010.
  • časopis Host, číslo 2, ročník 2015 (věnován vztahu filozofie a literatury
  • Šubrtová, Milena. Současná literatura pro děti a mládež - literatura nejasných hranic. In Marta Žilková. O interpretácii umeleckého textu 26. Transformácia detského aspektu a recepčná prax. Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, 2011. s. 187-198
  • KUBÍČEK, Tomáš – WIENDL, Jan (eds.) Víra a výraz. Sborník z konference „...bývalo u mne zotvíráno...“ Východiska a perspektivy české křesťanské poezie a prózy 20. století. Brno: Host, 2005.
  • Rudd, David. Theorising and Theories: The Conditions of Possibility of Children’s Literature. International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 2004. 29-43
  • Literární památky epochy velkomoravské 863-885. Translated by Josef Vašica. 3. opr. vyd. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2014, 364 s. ISBN 9788074292170. info
  • CHARVÁT, Petr. Václav, kníže Čechů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2011, 196 s. ISBN 9788074291685. info
  • VEYNE, Paul. Jak se píšou dějiny. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2010, 444 s. ISBN 9788087378267. info
  • SOLEIMAN POUR HASHEMI, Michaela. Sondy do cyrilometodějské německy psané barokní homiletiky (Probes into Cyril and Method Baroque homiletics written in German). In Slovesné baroko ve středoevropském prostoru. 1. vyd. Praha: nakladatelství ARSCI, 2010, p. 217-227. Jazykověda, 4. svazek. ISBN 978-80-7420-008-3. info
  • MUSIL, Robert. Muž bez vlastností. Translated by Anna Siebenscheinová. Vyd. 3., v Argu 2. Praha: Argo, 2008, 741 s. ISBN 9788025700655. info
  • GOLDFLAM, Arnošt. Muž bez vlastností : podle románu Roberta Musila. Vyd. 1. Brno: Větrné mlýny, 2002, 84 s. info
  • STRELKA, Joseph Peter. Literatura a politika : pohledy z literárněvědné perspektivy. Translated by Lucy Topoľská - Radek Malý. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2001, 215 s. ISBN 8085959909. info
  • KAUTMAN, František. K typologii literární kritiky a literární vědy. Praha: Primus, 1996, 189 s. ISBN 80-85625-35-0. info
  • CANETTI, Elias. Die Blendung : Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993, 511 s. ISBN 3596119014. info
  • KOPECKÝ, Milan. Komenský jako umělec slova. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 138 s. ISBN 8021003790. URL info
  • CANETTI, Elias. Zaslepení. Edited by Jiří Stromšík. Vyd. 2., tohoto překladu a. Praha: Odeon, 1984, 456 s. info
  • MIKO, František. Hra a poznanie v detskej próze. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: Mladé letá, 1980, 277 s. info
  • BROCH, Hermann. Náměsíčníci. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1966. info
Teaching methods
Thematic lecture;
Seminar:
- Reading and discussing texts of beautiful and professional literature and problematic issues;
- Written reflection of selected topics from the content of the subject
Assessment methods
The course ends with an exam which has a form of knowledge synthesis;
To successfully complete the course, you need to:
- actively participate in the lectures and seminar part of the subject - discussion, cooperation; - to process all written assignments
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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