CJBC150 Czech Humour

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Romana Rodanová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Mon 16:40–18:15 C33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The course will phocus signiphicant personalities, phenomenas, schools and movements involved to the humour typical (also non - typical) for the czech culture of the 20.th century.
Syllabus
  • The curriculum: 1. Terminology, basic interpretion apparatus 2. Interdisciplinary approach 3. Hašek ; mystification (The Party of the Slow Progress in the Bounds of the Law) 4. Ladislav Klíma, Josef Váchal - grotesque 5. Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theater) ; The Recesse (the 1930s. - the 1940s) 6. Čapek's and Poláček's critics of the words and phrases ; caricature 7. The Theaters of the Small Forms – VCR projection (text: The Red Seven) 8. T. R. Field ; explosionalism (the 1950s, artist a graphic artist Vladimír Boudník) 9. The lyrics and the grotesque (Macourek, Žáček) ; excrementism (the parody of marxism-leninism) 10. The absurd drama ; The authentic humour of the underground (Bondy, Jirous, Pánek) 11. The Prague irony ; the Movement of the Šmidrs (the 50s - the 60s, research of „weirdness“) and Křižovnická school (depointized humour)
Literature
  • BORECKÝ, Vladimír. Teorie komiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Hynek, 2000, 210 s. ISBN 80-86202-65-8. info
  • BORECKÝ, Vladimír. Odvrácená tvář humoru : ke komice absurdity. Illustrated by Zbyšek Sion. Liberec: Dauphin, 1996, 198 s. : i. ISBN 80-860119-21-7. info
  • PYTLÍK, Radko. Fenomenologie humoru, aneb, Jak filozofovat smíchem. [Česká republika]: Emporius, 2000, 119 s. ISBN 8086346048. info
  • BERGSON, Henri. Smích. Translated by Eva Majorová - Ladislav Major. Vyd. 1. Praha: Naše vojsko, 1993, 91 s. ISBN 8020604049. info
  • FREUD, Sigmund. Vtip a jeho vztah k nevědomí : teoretická část (Přít.) : Totem a tabu ; Vtip a jeho vztah k nevědomí : teoretická část. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Podmínkou k zápočtu je aktivita v seminářích, 5 písemných příprav do seminářů, maximum tří absencí a referát.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
General note: Maximální počet účastníků v kursu je 25.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě vědomostního testu nebo pohovoru.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006.
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2007/CJBC150