XCJp07 Chapters in Czech and World Literature for Children and Young Adults 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
MgA. Miroslav Jindra, 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
Tue 8:00–8:50 učebna 5
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
Lectures 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. Forms of current children’s poetry, connections to the nonsense and playful genres of folklore poetry.
  • 2. 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).
  • 3. How the current Czech literature was influenced by world literature for children.
  • 4. Folk tales and fairy tales as adapted for children. 5. Regionalism and children’s literature.
  • 6. Co-temporary original fairy tale.
  • 7. Picture book.
  • 8. Structure of children’s magazines.
  • 9. The roles played by of comics and drawn series as syncretic genres in the development of the interpretative activities of pre-reading child.
  • 10. The dangers of trivialities and kitsch in children’s literature, the features of trivial literature in texts for very young children.
Literature
  • HAHN, Daniel. The Oxford companion to children's literature. Edited by Michael Morpurgo. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xiii, 663. ISBN 9780199695140. info
  • 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: lectures. 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). Students will also write a search of a selected period of current book production of literature for children and youth, which will be presented in lectures. Detailed information is available in the Study materials of the course in the IS.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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