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Course: Czech Literary Culture of the 19th Century

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Course title Czech Literary Culture of the 19th Century
Course code KLKS/CL19
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Říha Ivo, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
General overview: Literature at the end of 18th and the beginning of the 19th century - early phases of the revival process. Positions and images of Romanticism in the Czech literature in the first part of the 19th century. Romanticism, Biedermeier and the beginnings of Realism - the period from the 1830s to the 1850s. The generation around the "Máj" almanac (from the end of 1850s to the 1870s of 19th). The period of "Ruch", "Lumír", "Květy"; the tension of the so-called cosmopolitan and national orientation (from the 1870s to the 1890s). Realism and naturalism in Czech literature at the end of the 19th century (esp. the shift from an artistic image of the country and village; forms of historical fiction). The end of the 19th century, Modernism. Selected chapters: An exceptional author in conflict with the period: genesis, reception, and reactions to the work of Karel Hynek Mácha. An individual and an over-individual order: guilt and punishment in Erben's Kytice. Karel Havlíček Borovský - a poet and journalist. The personality and work of Božena Němcová: tension between reality and the way of artistic expression. Vítězslav Hálek and the coming May generation. Space and meaning in Jan Neruda's short stories. The Czech country novel and its female creators: the base of Karolína Světlá's work and its reflection in the work. Space - character - narrator's perspective: Arbes's Romaneto. Changes in the literary image of the Czech country: Karel Václav Rais, Teréza Nováková, and others. The double face of historical fiction: Alois Jirásek and Zikmund Winter. Country and Prague naturalistic prose: Josef Karel Šlejhar, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod. "Somebody played the oboe?": motive dominants in Karel Hlaváček's poetry.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
This course attempts to name and to provide deeper analysis of the nature of difference and exceptionality in concrete works, authors, genres, and thematic fields in the Czech literature of the 19th century. This cycle of lectures will offer students a complex outline of the most important developmental moments of this particular epoch in Czech letters.
A graduate of this course should be able to think independetly of the crucial developmental moments and phases of Czech literature of the 19th century. This qualification will emerge from attended lectures and at the same time from simultaneously gained reader´s own experience.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

The oral examination will focus on the knowledge of Czech literary history in the 19th century. At the exam, the list of primary and secondary literature studied is presented. Active participation in the CL19 seminars is a condition for admission to the oral examination - continual reading of reference texts, presentation of a paper on a chosen topic (submitted also in a written form).
Recommended literature
  • ČECH, L. (et al.). Literatura česká devatenáctého století. Díl první. Od Josefa Dobrovského k Jungmannově škole básnické. Praha, 1902.
  • ČECH, L. (et al.). Literatura česká devatenáctého století. Dílu třetího část druhá.Od Boženy Němcové k Janu Nerudovi. Praha, 1907.
  • HANUŠ, J. (et al.). Literatura česká devatenáctého století. Díl druhý. Od M. Zd. Poláka ke K. J. Erbenovi. Praha, 1903.
  • HANUŠ, J. (et al.). Literatura česká devatenáctého století. Dílu třetího část první. Od K. H. Máchy ke K. Havlíčkovi . Praha, 1907.
  • HROCH, M. Na prahu národní existence. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1999.
  • JANÁČKOVÁ, J. Stoletou alejí (O české próze minulého věku). Praha, 1985.
  • JEŘÁBEK, D. (ed.). O národní literaturu (Z úvah a polemik doby májovců a lumírovců). Praha, 1990.
  • KUTNAR, F. Obrozenské vlastenectví a nacionalismus. Praha, 2003.
  • LEHÁR, J., STICH, A., JANÁČKOVÁ, J., HOLÝ, J. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku (dopl. vyd. 2002, 2004). Praha, 1998.
  • MACURA, V. Český sen.. Praha, 1998.
  • MACURA, V. Znamení zrodu. České národní obrození jako kulturní typ. Praha: H+H, 1995.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, J. Kapitoly z české poetiky I, II. Praha, Svoboda, 1948.
  • NOVÁK, A., NOVÁK, J. V. Přehledné dějiny literatury české. (reprint čtvrtého vyd. Olomouc 1936 - 1939). Brno, 1995.
  • OTRUBA, M. Hledání národní literatury. Praha, 2013.
  • ŠALDA, F. X. Duše a dílo. Praha, 1973.
  • ŠMAHELOVÁ, H. Prolamování struktur . Praha, 2002.
  • ŠMAHELOVÁ, H. V síti dějin literatury národního obrození . 2011.
  • VANĚK, V. Mrtví tanečníci. Antologie české romantické prózy.. Praha, 2010.
  • VANĚK, V. Rozkošný hrob. Antologie české romantické poesie. Praha, 2009.
  • VODIČKA, F. Literární historie, její problémy a úkoly. In: F. V.: Struktura vývoje. (Nové vyd. 1998). Praha, 1969.
  • VODIČKA, F. (red.); POHORSKÝ, M. (red.). Dějiny české literatury II, III (tzv. "Akademické"). Praha, 1960.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Historical and Literary Studies (2015) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
University of Pardubice, date of update: 02.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2016/2017