XCJk07 Chapters in Czech and World Literature for Children and Young Adults 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.3. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
MgA. Miroslav Jindra, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ester Nováková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
XCJk07/OS01: Fri 14. 5. 15:00–18:50 učebna 7, M. Jindra
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
Consultations in lecture form follow the changes of the Czech and world co-temporary children’s and youth literature. After successful completion of the course, the student is familiar with the development of the children’s literature in the last quarter of the century regarding genres and thematic units, which also take into account the target demographic of pre-reading children.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, students will be able to:
- characterize individual genres of children’s and youth literature of the post-revolutionary era;
- analyze current trends in children’s literature;
- identify and analyze the production of important literary figures;
- connect the development of the Czech children’s and youth literature with general socio-cultural events.
Syllabus
  • 1. Co-temporary original fairy tale. 2. Folk tales and fairy tales as adapted for children. 3. How the current Czech literature was influenced by world literature for children. 4. Structure of children’s magazines. 5. Picture book. 6. The roles played by of comics and drawn series as syncretic genres in the development of the interpretative activities of pre-reading child. 7. Thematical untabooing in current Czech narrative prose with a child hero (the issues of racism, handicap, old age, illness, and death in very young children’s literature). 8. Forms of current children’s poetry, connections to the nonsense and playful genres of folklore poetry. 9. Regionalism and children’s literature. 10. The dangers of trivialities and kitsch in children’s literature, the features of trivial literature in texts for very young children.
Literature
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež 2. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2012, 456 pp. ISBN 978-80-7277-506-4. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Pohádkové příběhy v české literatuře pro děti a mládež (1990-2010) (Fairy tales in the Czech literature for children and youth (1990-2010)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 327 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5692-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5692-2011. info
  • TOMAN, Jaroslav. Konstanty a proměny moderní české poezie pro děti : (tvorba, recepce, reflexe). [České Budějovice]: Vlastimil Johanus, 2008, 271 s. ISBN 9788090424722. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena and Ivan DOROVSKÝ. Autoři světové literatury pro děti a mládež (Children and Youth Literature Authors of the World). 1st ed. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, s.r.o., 2007. Nakladatelství Olomouc. ISBN 978-80-7182-228-8. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Brněnské impulzy v literatuře pro děti. Z dějin světové literatury pro děti a mládež I. Slavkov u Brna: BM Typo, 2007, 67 pp. edice Ladění. ISBN 978-80-903707-4-6. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava. Sedm klíčů k otevření literatury pro děti a mládež 90. let XX. století : reflexe české tvorby a recepce. Olomouc: Votobia, 2004, 457 s. ISBN 8070426683. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Svatava and Milena ROSOVÁ. Žánry, osobnosti, díla : (historický vývoj žánrů české literatury pro mládež - antologie). 3. upr. vyd. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita - Filozofická fakulta, 2002, 236 s. ISBN 8070426047. info
Teaching methods
Type of course: consultations. Lectures are followed by students´independent reading.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: written examination which tests students´ knowledge of recommended literature and topics listed in the syllabus (see study materials in the IS – university information system). The form of the test will take place either in person or online, depending on anti-epidemic measures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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