BJA210 19th/20th-Century Literature of the Bulgarian and Macedonian Area

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Przybylski (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Przybylski (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Krejčí, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SBA205 Old South Slavonic Orth. Lit.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Course brings the survey of literary production taking place at the territory of Bulgaria and historical Macedonia in 19th and at the beginning of 20th centuries, working with appropriate texts. Attention has been paid to the phenomenon of national revival. Course highlights also the phenomenon of folk oral literature e and its collectors. In case of Macedonian area, different concepts of literary Macedonian language are analyzed. Interest is paid also to the reflections of Romanticism in Bulgarian and Macedonian literature es. Lecture is considerably focused to sixties and seventies in Bulgarian culture (G. S. Rakovski, Ljuben Karavelov, Christo Botev). Special attention has been paid also to the personage of Ivan Vazov. Period of Macedonian separatism taking place in eighties and nineties of 19th century is analyzed, as well as the work of Krsto Petkov Misirkov. Conclusion of the lecture represents the analysis of two waves of Bulgarian modernism. At the end of the course the student would be capable to interpret the genesis of modern Bulgarian literature e from ponderous literary trials up to the European Bulgarian modernism and it is able to explain mutual Bulgarian – Macedonian literary fundaments.
Syllabus
  • 1. Fight for independent Bulgarian Church and its cultural consequences. 2. Origins of modern Bulgarian poetry. 3. Selected issues of versology and naratology, studied using the examples of Bulgarian and Macedonian literature. 4. Elements of romanticism in Macedonian literature e, issue of bi-literary features. Significance of folk oral literature e and its collectors. 5. Revolutionary democrats Rakovski, Botev, Karavelov. 6. Phenomenon of Macedonian national revival, different concepts of possible form of literary Macedonian language. 7. Bulgarian realism. 8. Ivan Vazov and Konstantin Veličkov. 9. Critical realism. 10. Origins of Bulgarian literary critical thinking, first wave of Bulgarian modernism. 11. Period of Macedonian separatism in eighties and nineties of the19th century and the work of Krst Petkov Misirkov. 12. Bulgarian symbolists 13. Selected problems of Bulgarian and Macedonian drama.
Literature
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha: Libri, 2001, 683 pp. info
  • IGOV, Svetlozar. Kratka istorija na bălgarskata literatura. Sofija: Prosveta, 1996, 574 pp. ISBN 954-01-0732-6. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Makedonie :zrození, nebo obrození národa? Vyd. 1. Boskovice: Albert, 1995, 77 s., [2]. ISBN 80-85834-29-4. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Balkánské meziliterární společenství. Brno: [s.n.], 1993, 60 s. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Studii za balkanskiot literaturen proces vo XIX i XX vek. Skopje: Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite, 1992, 217 s. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. Rajko Žinzifov : vozdějstvije russkoj i ukrainskoj literatury na jego tvorčestvo. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1988, 141 s. URL info
  • ZAREV, Pantelej. Panorama na bălgarskata literatura : [v pet toma]. Sofija: Nauka i izkustvo, 1978. info
  • ZAREV, Pantelej. Panorama na bălgarskata literatura : [v pet toma]. Sofija: Nauka i izkustvo, 1978. info
  • Slovník spisovatelů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon - nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1978, 484 s. info
  • ZAREV, Pantelej. Panorama na bălgarskata literatura : [v pet toma]. Sofija: Nauka i izkustvo, 1977, 597 s.k. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. České země a Balkán : /kapitoly z dějin česko/makedonských a makedonsko/českých styků. Vyd. 1. Brno: Universita J. E. Purkyně, 1974, 236 s., [1. info
  • DOROVSKÝ, Ivan. České země a Balkán : kapitoly z dějin česko-makedonských a makedonsko-českých styků. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Universita J. E. Purkyně v Brně, 1973, 236 s., [1. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, home reading, class discussion.
Assessment methods
Subject involves lecture and seminar, where results of home reading and preparation are analyzed. Exam is oral, involves also old Bulgarian literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
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