CJBC504 Literary collage

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petra James, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 N01023
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Course objectives
In this seminar we will cover the development of the technique of the literary collage since the beginning of the avant-garde movement. However, we will focus more precisely on the modification of this literary form in the post-avant-garde poetics of the fifties and the sixties of the twentieth century. This literary form has always existed in the Czech context in a parallel to the development of foreign literature, mainly the French and the Anglo-saxon. That is why we want to trace the most important points of interaction and mutual reflection that accompany this modernist poetical practice since its beginnings. Taking into consideration the character of the genre studied we will also point out the important points of the development in the field of plastic arts. In the program bellow we specify the aspects of the literary collage we want to study in detail.
Syllabus
  • I. Collage as a revolution of the poetic language I.1. Lautréamont Chants de Maldoror and Poesie I, II I.2. Influence of Lautréamont in the Czech literary context Vít?zslav Nezval, Jind?ich Heisler, Toyen, Jind?ich Štýrský, Bohumil Hrabal I.3. Stéphane Mallarmé between the symbolism and the modernism I.4. Czech way to modernism (Otokar B?ezina and his followers) II. Collage as a poetical structure of a town II.1. The figure of Flâneur Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin Louis Aragon - Le paysan de Paris Czech tradition of the deambulation (poetisme, Vítezslav Nezval- Pražský chodec, Ulice Gît-le-coeur) II.2. Town as a modern labyrinth Bohumil Hrabal (toto m?sto je ve spole?né pé?i obyvatel)-Claude Simon (Les Corps Conducteurs,-The Conducting Bodies)-William Burroughs (The Third Mind) III. Collage as an interpretation of the History III.1. Michel Butor (Mobile) Bohumil Hrabal (Legenda zahraná na strunách napnutých mezi kolébkou a rakví) III.2. Jiří Kolář (?erná lyra, ?eská suita, diary notes Dny v roce a roky v dnech atd.) Bohumil Hrabal (Morytáty a legendy) IV. Collage and its existential dimension; the poetics of violence and destruction IV.1. Literary collage in the context of development of the modern art Dada (Marcel Duchamp), surrealisme, popart (Robert Rauschenberg) , art brut (Jean Dubuffet) IV.2. Bohumil Hrabal and popart, poetika p?epln?nosti IV.3. Modifications of the spoken language in the collage Skupina 42 (Groupe 42) (Ji?í Kolá?), Vladimír Holan V. Collage and the crisis of the traditional mimésis V.1. Nouveau roman (new novel), Claude Simon
Literature
  • JANKOVIČ, Milan. Kapitoly z poetiky Bohumila Hrabala. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1996, 205 s., [1. ISBN 80-7215-003-0. info
  • BENJAMIN, Walter. Dílo a jeho zdroj. Translated by Věra Saudková. Vydání první. Praha: Odeon, 1979, 428 stran. URL info
Language of instruction
Czech
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