CJBC72 Literary Underground 1950-1989

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jana Němcová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Trávníček, M.A.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Martina Sendlerová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This seminar deals with problems of alternative and underground literature, both in Czechoslovakia and United States, from nineteen fifties to nineteen eighties. Reading and subsequent critical evaluation of a seminar paper will form at least a half of each seminar session.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic terminology: alternative culture, underground literature, literature of the other choice 2. General situation of nineteen fifties. Official vs. unofficial literature 3. Total realism and painful poetry 4. Hrabal, Škvorecký, Zábrana 5.Nineteen sixties, American influence on Czech culture 6. Frank Zappa 7. Plastic People of the Universe, Charta 77 8. Egon Bondy, I.M.Jirous 9. New generation - Revolver Revue 10. Unofficial publishing (samizdat)of seventies and eighties
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Podmínky k získání zápočtu: vypracování a přednes seminární práce, max. 3 absence
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught: every week.
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