LMKB_a435 Literature and Music

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Fránek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Fránek, 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
Mon 12:00–13:40 B2.41, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
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: 22/25, 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
Course objectives
The topic of the lectures will be the relationship between literature and music in Czech society in the 19th and 20th centuries in the European context. In the individual lectures we will show how literature and music influenced each other, how they functioned in the gradually forming national culture, how they linked various social and representational functions, how literature and music interacted with the ideologies of the time, and how they helped to create and break down Czech national myths and stereotypes. The lectures are intended for all those interested in Czech culture.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to: - expand their knowledge of the relationship between literature and music; - deepen their knowledge of genres that work with music and words (e.g. song, melodrama, opera); - understand the relationship between literature and music in the historical and social context of 19th and 20th century Czech culture.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introductory lecture 2. Czechs, a nation of musicians? 3. The search for a national instrument - the varyto and the bagpipes 4. Where is my home? Troubles with the Czech anthem 5. Trouble with libretti, trouble with librettists 6. What is Czech is beautiful - the paradoxes of Smetana's The Bartered Bride 7. A nation to itself and about itself - Libuše not only Smetana's 8. Czech versus German - the mechanisms of exclusion from Czech musical culture 9. Music and literature in the efforts of the Czech interwar avant-garde 10. Now that we have what we wanted, the republic of work is - The builder's song, the cult of folklore and its deconstruction in Milan Kundera 11. The Grey Zone of Normalisation - Czech Folk Scene of the 1970s and 1980s Years
Literature
    required literature
  • MÜLLER, Richard and Tomáš CHUDÝ. Za obrysy média : literatura a medialita. Vydání první. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2020, 665 stran. ISBN 9788076580053. URL info
    recommended literature
  • Wolf, Werner, and Walter Bernhart. Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992-2014) Theory and Typology, Literature-Music Relations, Transmedial Narratology, Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2018
Teaching methods
lecture, explication to, in synopsis given, theme
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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