SRUSK_17 Knižní kultura I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Křepela (lecturer), Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
OBOR(SRUS)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
Course objectives
This course will acquaint the students with issues of book culture in two main areas. In a series of selected chapters, the first part will focus on history and terminology, exposing the phenomenon of written and printed artefacts from the outset of human culture up to the contemporary book and multimedia production. The second part will treat practical issues of book production and publishing, including translation and editing work, as well as legal aspects of the book business. Students will be given tasks to perform individually and should thus obtain a basic knowledge of editing skills.
Syllabus
  • 1) genesis of writing, earliest text records and literary artefacts, "materialisation" of memory, book in the Antiquity
  • 2) book culture at the beginning of European culture – basic concepts in and character of the publishing practices in the early Mediaeval era
  • 3) book as a tool of cultural emancipation, the spread of knowledge, consequences of Guttenberg's invention
  • 4) the changing form of the book – various interpretations of the phenomenon of the book
  • 5) the importance of the availability of books for the Enlightenment model of culture – books and daily newspapers as the backbone of the incipient civic society, technical conditions of the spread of the printing technology, expansion of industrial book printing and the invention of rotary printing press
  • 6) the role of book in the (post-) modern society – popularisation of reading (and the positive and negative aspects of it), the concepts of kitsch/artistic artifact in literature (characteristics and formal aesthetic evaluation), new techniques of reproduction, the demise of classic book, book and the multimedia
  • 7) a short history of publishing – the phenomenon of publishing houses in Europe, the Central European context of 19th and 20th centuries
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2016.
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