CJBC413 Poetics of Czech Art Nouveau: Several Views of Czech Literature by the period "fin the siécle"

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Matula, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 C41
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The course offers a broadening view of the various tendencies in genres and styles in Czech literature in the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The students will learn selected authors and their works which are usually neglected in compulsory courses aimed at literature of the 19th and 20th century. Students will improve their interpretative skills by reading miscellaneous texts of different styles, genres and also quality. They will be able to demonstrate peculiar syncretism of literary movements and tendencies of a given period and they shift their interpretative possibilies out of too narrow frame of literary texts – towards other fine arts which are adequately chosen with regard to literature (plastic arts, sculpture). Upon successful completion of the course, students should make up knowledge in Czech language of the period "fin the siecle".
Students will be able to:
understand to literary development;
recognize poetics of literary movements;
identify the features of high brow and low brow literature;
learn how to deal with primary sources and literature on subject.
Syllabus
  • Definition of poetics of Czech Art Nouveau
  • Novella-feuilleton by J.Lier
  • War short story and novella by K.Šarlih
  • The Study of psychopathologic features by E.Tréval
  • "parlour" prose by V.Hladík, K.Engelmüller and J.Matějka
  • Burgeois realistic caricatures by V.Štech
  • Reception of clasicism in prose by J.Hilbert and O.Theer
  • Feministic tendencies in the work by V.B.Kunětická
  • Essayistic short story by F.X.Šalda and A.Procházka
  • Fairytales by Q.M.Vyskočil and P.Sula
  • Books of travels by J.Kořenský, V.Mrštík and J.Havlasa
  • Social and national determinism in prose set in Brno by J. Merhaut and F. Roháček
  • "moody" essays by V.Mrštík and F.X.Svoboda
Literature
  • Salony v české kultuře 19. století : sborník příspěvků z 18. ročníku sympozia k problematice 19.století, Plzeň, 12.-14. března 1998. Edited by Helena Lorenzová - Taťána Petrasová. 1. vyd. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 1999, 273 s. ISBN 8085917432. info
  • NOVÁK, Jan Václav and Arne NOVÁK. Přehledné dějiny literatury české : od nejstarších dob až po naše dny. 4. přeprac. a rozš. vyd. V Brně: Atlantis, 1995, 1804 s. ISBN 8071081051. info
  • HORSKÁ, Pavla. Praha - 1900 - Paříž. Praha: Melantrich, 1992, 32 s. info
  • PYTLÍK, Radko. Na přelomu století : soubor statí o vývojovém rytmu literatury let devadesátých. Vyd. 1. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1988, 199 s. URL info
  • WITTLICH, Petr. Umění a život : doba secese. Photo by Prokop Paul - Alexandr Paul. Praha: Artia, 1987, 207 s. URL info
  • VLČEK, Tomáš. Praha 1900 : studie k dějinám kultury a umění Prahy v letech 1890-1914. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1986, 317 s. URL info
  • WITTLICH, Petr. Česká secese. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1982, 379 s. URL info
  • KREJČÍ, Karel. Česká literatura a kulturní proudy evropské. 1. vyd. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1975, 387 s. URL info
  • Srdce vlasti : Praha očima básníků a umělců. Edited by Jan Grmela. Praha: Českomoravský Kompas, 1940, 543 s. info
  • MÁCHAL, Jan. Boje o nové směry v české literatuře, (1880-1900). V Praze: nákladem Jednoty českých filologů, 1926, viii, 115. info
Teaching methods
Methods of presentation, application, interpretation and discussion are used in the seminar. Students present their knowledge and skills in oral and written form.
Assessment methods
Assesment: essay, active participation and attendance.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Při nadlimitním počtu přihlášených studentů vybere vyučující účastníky na základě vědomostního testu nebo pohovoru.
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