CJLB206 Popular Print 1500-1800

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Marie Hanzelková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Zuzana Urválková, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to popular prints from the period 1500-1800, popular genres, their specifics and their literary, social and historical context. Special attention will be paid to the intertextuality that is typical of popular culture.
Learning outcomes
The student
- understands the concepts of popular culture and popular prints, can list their characteristic features;
- can work with sources in databases (Vokabulář webový, Melodiarium, THB, Špalíček, Manuscriptorium);
- is able to describe the materiality of popular printings;
- can compare Old Czech texts, their motifs, literary devices and function, can look for intertextual connections.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. Definition of the term, genres, context, sources and sources
  • 2. Excursions in MZK
  • 3. The beginnings of printed news: "Turkish newspapers"
  • 4. "News" on disasters
  • 5. Songs of Simon Lomnický from Budeč
  • 6. Aesop, Grobian, Fortunatus, Enspígl, Markolt, etc.
  • 7. The image of women Czech chapbooks: Grizelda, Jenovéfa, Meluzína 8. Satires on women: The Mandate and the Rule of Women, Furnace for old women
  • 9. Reflection on Hussitism: Historia about the inhabitants and martyrs of Litoměřice
  • 10. Drama: Peasant Carnival
  • 11. Superstitious printings
  • 12. Pilgrimage chapbooks
  • 13. Workshop at the MZM
  • 14. Presentation of student projects
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FUMERTON, Patricia, Pavel KOSEK and Marie HANZELKOVÁ. Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press B. V., 2022, 498 pp. ISBN 978-94-6372-155-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721554. URL info
  • FISKE, John. Jak rozumět populární kultuře. Edited by Petr A. Bílek. Vydání první. Praha: Akropolis, 2017, 319 stran. ISBN 9788074701900. info
  • WÖGERBAUER, Michael, Petr PÍŠA, Petr ŠÁMAL and Pavel JANÁČEK. V obecném zájmu : cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře 1749-2014. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 2015, 863 stran. ISBN 9788088069119. info
  • ŠIMEČEK, Zdeněk and Jiří TRÁVNÍČEK. Knihy kupovati... : dějiny knižního trhu v českých zemích. 1. vydání. Praha: Academia, 2014, 499 stran. ISBN 9788020024046. info
Teaching methods
- analysis and interpretation of texts
- excursions
- working with databases
- creative writing
- project-based learning
Assessment methods
Group project or essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Předmět bude otevřen a vyučován při minimálním počtu 6 zapsaných studujících.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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