SKANSIV16 Selected Chapters from the Scandinavian Literature II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Agneta Ch. Alarka Kempe (lecturer)
Mgr. Kateřina Marksová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Agneta Ch. Alarka Kempe
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
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
The course gives an overview of the ongoing history of Scandinavian literature since the Second World War to the present. The concept is based on social, cultural and literary processes in the Nordic countries in response to developments in the rest of Europe.
Syllabus
  • Scandinavian literature during the second World War The division of Europe and the search for a new literary identity Stig Dagerman and Swedish literature Modernism in the 60s Dag Solstad and Norwegian literature Neorealism and the transformation of literary genres Topics of Scandinavian literature at the turn of the millennium The most important authors in Denmark, Norway, Sweden The most famous authors translated into Czech Detective genre in an international context
Literature
  • Markstedt, Carl-Johan. Känn på litteraturen 1. Västra Frölunda 2007 (ISBN: 987-91-622-7599-0)
  • Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury : koncepce / osobnosti / základní pojmy. Edited by Ansgar Nünning - Jiří Trávníček - Jiří Holý, Translated by Al. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2006, 912 stran. ISBN 8072941704. info
  • GUSTAFSON, Alrik. Dějiny švédské literatury. Translated by Libor Štukavec. Vydání 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 481 stran. ISBN 8021017678. URL info
  • ROSSEL, Sven Hakon. Skandinavische literatur :1870-1970. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1973. ISBN 3-17-234081-3. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
Presentations, oral exam
Language of instruction
Swedish
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2020.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2016/SKANSIV16