Course: Central European Adventures of Slavic Literatures

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Course title Central European Adventures of Slavic Literatures
Course code KLKS/SDSL
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Poslední Petr, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Kouba Miroslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction - the objectives and methodology of the course. How to understand a literary adventure? 2. Central Europe - the definition of literary and geocultural phenomenon. Typology and retrospective of the basic concepts 3. From the ideologization to mytologization - a phenomenon of Central Europe through the eyes of the literary historian 4. Interpretative models of the oldest literary works in the modern socio-cultural contexts 5. Boundaries and the role of Old Slavonic literature in the later narrative of national literatures 6. Changes in the literary Baroque 7. Great Moravia - The Habsburg Monarchy: the literary parallels and intersections of the literary development 8. Romanticism in Slavic contexts - borders, chronology, interpretative models 9. National Revival in Central-European literatures. Interpretation and re-constructed narratives 10. Parameters of Slavic modernism - the possibilities of interpretation and aesthetic principles 11. Central literary regionalism between creative individuals and the national literature 12. Between modernism and postmodernism. Central European and Slavic literary transformation 13. Summarization: a summary of the more important moments

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The course aims to analyze the literary life in geoculture borders of Central Europe. Attention is focused on interpenetration of literary phenomena in the in chronological frame and their practical application to the development of national literatures. Interpretation of topics focuses on the current line of development of the relationship between the author, his identity, language and community of recipients (readers). The focus is therefore also a question of boundaries between national and supranational characteristics of literary process.
Students will be able to understand the multicultiral relations and events of culture history in Central Europe.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Creative work analysis, Discussion

80 % attendance at lectures. Individual reading.
Recommended literature
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