CJBC115 Czech Avantgarde of the 20's and its Rapresentatives I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Rambousek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Helena Bednářová
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 4, Wed 18:20–19:55 5
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Přednáška je určena posluchačům specializace český jazyk a literatura především nižším ročníkům), ale i posluchačům příbuzných oborů (žurnalistika, estetika atp.)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
A two semestr lecture that will present the students with basic information concerning Czech avntgarde of the perid between the two wars together with its theoretical and artistic heritage, polemic discussions of the time and of artistic development and social engagement of the authors. The lecture will also present some interpretation of chosen poetic works. The main aim of the seminar will be to point at the developmnet of the authors and specific features of his individual style. The lecture will also point at some possibilities at how to work with the texts in teaching literature at the middle schools. The characteristics of the authors will cover, if possible, the whole authors work. The lecturer will begin with defining the term of avntgarde, will mention basic avantgard streams in modern European art (Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism) and then he will talk about the development of Czech avantgarde and parallel streams - from post-war vitalism to surrealism. A special atention will be paid to discussions of the 1930s and the artistic creation of the end of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s. In that time the left-wing authors began to defend the democratic ideas of the first republic (works issued after the death of Masaryk and in 1938, the war resistence).
Syllabus
  • The lecture will be devided as follows:
  • 1. The definition of the avant-garde, avantgarde streams in European art of the firast half of the 20th century.
  • 2.- 4. Situation in Czech literature after the Great War, Vitalism, Expresionism, Proletarian poetry, Devětsil, the first works by Vančura, Neumann, Wolker, Hora, Hořejší. Literární skupina in Brno and its magazine Host. Brno Devětsil.
  • 5.- 6. The personality of Karel Teige, manifests of Poetism in Host, Šalda and his attitude towards avantgarde art.
  • 7. The exclusion of seven writers from the Czech Communist Party in 1929. The crisis of Poetism. Hora: Deset let.
  • 8. Literary critic and historian Bedřich Václavek. Avantgarde etape of Julius Fučík.
  • 9. The prose of Poetism (Vančura, Nezval, Konrád, Paulík). Briefly about the avantgarde theatre in the 1920s.
  • 10. - 11. Interpreting some typical poems of Poetism (Seifert, Nezval, Biebl).
  • 12. Hora: Itálie. Avantgarde beginnings of Halas, Závada and Holan. Interpreting poems from Halas: Sépie.
  • 13. The creation and activities of Surrealist group, discussions of the 1930s, interpreting some chosen poems from Nezval: Žena v množném čísle.
  • 14. The death of T.G. Masaryka in Czech poetry.
  • 15. Poetic works inspired by the events of 1938 (Hora, Halas, Holan, Seifert, Nezval, Neumann).
  • 16. The art of resistance. The attitudes of the younger generation towards avantgard (Orten, Bednář, Kainar, Blatný).
  • 17. May 1945 in Czech poetry (Seifert, Halas, Holan, Nezval ad.).
  • 18. The 1950s and the relationship of the cultural politics of that time and avantgard (L. Štoll). Autocensorship of older texts.
  • 19.- 20. Poetic development of Jaroslav Seifert.
  • 21 - 22. Poetic development of Vítězslav Nezval.
  • 23. - 24. Poetic development of František Halas.
  • 25. The work of Konstantin Biebl.
  • 26. - 28. A closing look at the history of avantgarde. Critics witing on avantgarde in the 1960s Chvatík, Sus, Pešat, Brabec aj.). Evaluation of avantgarde today: (Podivena: Češi v dějinách nové doby).
Literature
  • Dějiny české literatury. Edited by Jan Mukařovský. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 714 s. ISBN 80-85865-48-3. info
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Slovník básnických knih : díla české poezie od obrození do roku 1945. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1990. ISBN 80-202-0217-X. info
  • Slovník literárních směrů a skupin. Edited by Štěpán Vlašín. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1983, 367 s. info
  • Magická zrcadla : antologie poetismu. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1982. info
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan. Studie z poetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1982, 906 s. URL info
  • VLAŠÍN, Štěpán. Avantgarda známá i neznámá. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1972, 781 s. URL info
  • VLAŠÍN, Štěpán. Avantgarda známá i neznámá. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1971, 763 s. URL info
  • VLAŠÍN, Štěpán. Avantgarda známá i neznámá. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1970, 501 s. URL info
  • NOVÁK, Luděk. Století moderního malířství : 1865-1965. 1. vyd. Praha: Orbis, 1968, 412 s. URL info
  • Magnetická pole [8466]. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1967. info
  • Poetismus. Edited by Květoslav Chvatík - Zdeněk Pešat. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1967, 381 s. URL info
  • NEZVAL, Vítězslav. Moderní básnické směry. Edited by Milan Blahynka. Vyd. 2., v ČS 1. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1964, 374 s. info
  • DE MICHELI, Mario. Umělecké avantgardy dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1964, 378 s. URL info
  • ŠALDA, F. X. O nejmladší poesii české : dvě přednášky a dvě stati. Praha: Otto Girgal, 1928, 105 s. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přednáška bude v obou semestrech uzavřena ústním nebo písemným kolokviem (3 - 4 otázky).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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