LMKB_a434 Diverse modernity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Miroslav Kotásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 C32, except Tue 16. 4.
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 17/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
In the seminar fundamental works from the period 1914–1948 will be analyzed. The seminar aims at demostrating the diversity of aesthetic strategies used by authors adhering to different aesthetic and political agenda. The works will be situated within a broad historic, intellectual and artistic backround. Their connecetedness with European cultural millieu of the time will also be discussed.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course the student will be able to:
- identify and comment on relevant aspects of Czech literary modernism;
- identify and describe different -isms of the time;
- understand Czech Modernism in the context of Euro-American literature and culture of the time;
- analyze and interpret literary modernist works from the point of view of the undergoing social and political changes.
Syllabus
  • 20. 2. Delimiting the Modern and the Avant-garde (Bubeníček)
  • 27. 2. Literature and the metropolis alienation: case Kafka (Bubeníček)
  • 5. 3. Post-avantgarde? Jiří Kolář (Bubeníček)
  • 12. 3. (Bubeníček)
  • 19. 3. (Bubeníček)
  • 26. 3. (Bubeníček)
  • 2. 4. A plea for the Modern: J. Chalupecký, V. Effenberger (Strnadová)
  • 9. 4. Fragmentary mish-mash of Futurism and machines: Futurist Manifesto, The Art of Noise (Kotásek)
  • 16. 4. Reading Week
  • 23. 4. Fragmentáry mish-mash of eroticism: Nezval, Štyrský (Kotásek)
  • 30. 4. Fragmentáry mishm-mash of detective stories: Štefl and his Modernism symptomatology - Vrah duší (Kotásek)
  • 7. 5. Fragmentary mish-mash of the photographic kind: Man Ray, surrealism. OR: Psychopathological fragmentary mish-mash: case of Paul Schreber (Kotásek)
  • 14. 5. Self-reflective fragmentary mish-mash: Součková – Hlava umělce. OR: Richard Weiner: Prázdná židle (Kotásek)
  • 21. 5. Fragmentary mish-mash of construction, photography an typography: Bau ein Haus! – Bauhaus (Kotásek)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Dějiny "nové" moderny : česká literatura v letech 1935-1947. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2017, 833 stran. ISBN 9788020027368. info
  • BÜRGER, Peter. Teorie avantgardy ; Stárnutí moderny : stati o výtvarném umění. Edited by Peter Bürger, Translated by Václav Magid - Tomáš Dimter - Martin P. Vydání první. Praha: Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Vědecko-výzkumné pracoviště, 2015, 345 stran. ISBN 9788087108598. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Dějiny nové moderny : česká literatura v letech 1924-1934. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2014, 622 stran. ISBN 9788020022967. info
  • Heslář české avantgardy : estetické koncepty a proměny uměleckých postupů v letech 1908-1958. Edited by Josef Vojvodík - Jan Wiendl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Togga, 2011, 477 s. ISBN 9788087258569. info
  • KUČERA, Martin. Kultura v českých dějinách 19. století : ke zrodu, genezi a smyslu avantgard. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2011, 619 s. ISBN 9788020019622. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Dějiny nové moderny : česká literatura v letech 1905-1923. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2010, 627 s. ISBN 9788020017925. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Vladimír. Gravitace avantgard : imaginace a řeč avantgard v českých literárních textech první poloviny dvacátého století. 1. vyd. Praha: Akropolis, 2007, 144 s. ISBN 9788086903521. info
Teaching methods
Class discussions; home reading.
Assessment methods
Students will be evaluated based on their seminar paper (essay) or oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
Credit evaluation note: 5 kreditů v případě ukončení zk.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021.
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