CJBC552 From Letter to Performance: Czech Experimental Poetry

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Kuběnský (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:50–12:25 U22
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: 0/20, 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
This course will offer the possibility to get to know an influential movement in Czech experimental poetry of the sixties and the seventies (with some time overlaps on both sides). The goal is to understand the specific aesthetics of experimental poetry based on multimedial ground plan, to familiarize with creative processes and author poetics of the most important representatives of this movement and to outline its development in historic perspective. The main contents of individual lessons will mostly be the analysis of specific poetic works accompanied by a framework for each topic discussed.
Syllabus
  • 1. introduction to the theme - basic terms, aesthetic programmes
  • 2. context - antecendents of experimental poetry, simultaneous efforts in fine art and literature
  • 3. from literary collage to destatism - poetics of Jiří Kolář from 50th to 60th
  • 4. concrete poetry and society - subversivity of art statement in constellations of Václav Havel and others
  • 5. sound and literature - phonic poetry and graphical music
  • 6. text as a construct, letter as a material - (non)communication with the reader, lettrism and poetry in the picture
  • 7. action art and instructional poetry
  • 8. variation and permutation - poetic of Emil Juliš
  • 9. remarkable solitaires - poetics of Josef Honys and Miroslav Topinka
  • 10. continuation of the experiment during the normalization
  • 11. new generation - legacy of experimental poetry after 1989
  • 12. experimental poetry as a an international movement
Teaching methods
Lectures, analysis of selected books and class discussions.
Assessment methods
Active participation in class, reading study materials, preparation and realisation of collective interpretations. The course ends with colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
General note: Předmět bude otevřen a vyučován při minimálním počtu 6 zapsaných studujících.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016.
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