CJBC803 What to Read from Contemporary Czech Literature?

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015

The course is not taught in Spring 2015

Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ondřej Bláha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michaela Paučo (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
Course objectives
The seminar seeks to introduce students into a contemporary Czech literature, especially into books which have been appreciated by critics and readers. All books will be available for borrowing in the course, elearning support (reviewes, profiles of authors and their work, etc.) will be prepared as well. The seminar takes place every two weeks to allow students read selected books. Students will interpret works of contemporary Czech literature under the guidance of experienced teachers from Department of Czech literature and Library studies. This seminar is offered for all students who are interested in a contemporary Czech literature.
After finishing the seminar the students will gain: understand main tendencies in contemporary Czech literatury, interpret literary works regarding the course, describe their poetics and reflect them in a wider literary context.
Syllabus
  • Class A:
  • 1. Contemporary Czech literature I(a lecture, 20.9.)
  • 2. Petr Šabach: Občanský průkaz (4.10.)
  • 3. J. H. Krchovský: Básně (18.10.)
  • 4. Emil Hakl: O rodičích a dětech (1.11.)
  • 5. Michal Viewegh: Báječná léta pod psa (15.11.)
  • 6. Kateřina Tučková: Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (29.11.)
  • 7. Contemporary Czech literature II (a lecture, 13.12.)
  • Class B:
  • 1. Contemporary Czech literature I (a lecture, 20.9.)
  • 2. Kateřina Tučková: Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (11.10.)
  • 3. Michal Viewegh: Báječná léta pod psa (25.10.)
  • 4. J. H. Krchovský: Básně (8.11.)
  • 5. Petr Šabach: Občanský průkaz (22.11.)
  • 6. Emil Hakl: O rodičích a dětech (6.12.)
  • 7. Contemporary Czech literature I (a lecture, 13.12.)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BALAŠTÍK, Miroslav. Postgenerace (Zátiší a bojiště poezie 90. let 20. století) (Post - Generation (Still-life and battlefield of the Poetry of the 1990s)). Brno: Host, 2010, 168 pp. ISBN 978-80-7294-355-5. info
  • LEHÁR, Jan. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2004, 1078 s. ISBN 80-7106-308-8. info
  • MACHALA, Lubomír. Literární bludiště : bilance polistopadové prózy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 2001, 241 s. ISBN 8024207354. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
In order to be given the credit the students have to prepare for handouts, read selected literary work, elearning materials and interpret them in courses.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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