Course: Contemporary Canon of Slavic Literatures

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Course title Contemporary Canon of Slavic Literatures
Course code KLKS/SKSL
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
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)
  • Kouba Miroslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
I. Introduction - Methodology of the course; selective bibliography. II. Literary canon - definition spectrum. III. Literary turn: Slavic Literatures after the 1989. Creative and genre specifics in the context of social changes. New sources of artistic poetics. IV. Social changes and literary creation: the literary revival in the situation after 1989 and the contemporary theoretical canonization. V. Problematic contexts of literary exile in Slavic milieus. VI. Relationship between home and exile cultural scene: Slavic contexts of this problem. VII. Origins and development dynamics of literary postmodernism in Slavic literatures; chronological boundaries. VIII. Relationship of high and low literature, popular literature in Slavic milieus; literature of the center. Genre and thematic spectrum of the problem. IX. Slavic literatures and literary history in the postmodern era. Concepts of literary history - the transformation of literary narrative. How to understand the Slavic literatures nowadays. X. Assumptions of postmodern literary canonization. Theoretical questions: when and under what circumstances, becomes the author in contemporary Slavic literatures part of the canon. Transformations literary canon before 1989/90 and today. Canonical works of Slavic literatures through the ages. XI. Literary canon and its movie adaptation. Dialogue of literature and movie adaptations in the context of contemporary literary canon. XII. Emblematic phenomena of literary canonization in present time. Processes, solutions, trend. XIII. - Summary and the most important moments.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Projection
Learning outcomes
This course tries in the context of social changes in the late 80th and 90th of last century to map the basic lineage of Slavic literatures. Contains is not limited only to the literary history of the latest literary development in these national cultures, but also seeks to reflect the many problematic phenomena, such as the relationship and the nature of the Slavic literary exile, palpable genre-disintegration, problematic relations between low and high literary forms and nature of popular genres, forms of the Slavic literary postmodernism and the role of literature in forming of historical memory (including the dialogue of literature and movie adaptations of national history). Particular attention is paid to the canonization processes and forms of literary canons in the individual Slavic environments.
The student gets an idea of the concept of a literary canon in geocultural Slavic literatures. At the same time get acquainted not only with the specifics and the development of Slavic literatures after 1990, but also with key issues that form conditions for literary interpretation of the literary canons.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Oral performance analysis, Discussion

Recommended literature
  • Brtáň, Rudo. Barokový slavizmus. Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, 1939.
  • Černý, Václav. Soustavný přehled obecných dějin literatury naší vzdělanosti I.-IV.. Praha, 2005.
  • Fedrová, Stanislava (ed.). Otázky českého kánonu. Praha, 2006.
  • Janaszek-Ivaničkova, Halina (ed.). Literatury słowiańskie po roku 1989 : nowe zjawiska, tendencje, perspektywy. Tom 1, Transformacja. Warszawa, 2005.
  • Jungmannová, Lenka (ed.). Česká literatura rozhraní a okraje. Praha, 2010.
  • Kjosev, Aleksandar. Balgarskija kanon? Krizata na literaturnoto nasledstvo. Sofija, 1998.
  • Krejčí, Karel. Sociologie literatury. Praha, 2008.
  • Macura, Vladimír. Český sen. Praha, 1998.
  • Macura, Vladimír. Znamení zrodu (České národní obrození jako kulturní typ). Jinočany, 1995.
  • Máchal, Jan. Slovanské literatury I.-III.. Praha, 1929.
  • Papoušek, Vladimír; Tureček, Dalibor: . Hledání literárních dějin. Praha - Litomyšl, 2005.
  • Stempczyńska, Barbara; Mięsowska, Lidia (eds.). "Literatura środka" : kontekst słowiański. Katowice, 2011.
  • Tureček, Dalibor. Národní literatura a komparatistika. Brno, 2009.
  • Wollman, Frank. Slovesnost Slovanů. Praha, 1928.


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): Slavonic Studies of the European Union (2013) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Slavonic Studies of the European Union (2013) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Slavonic Studies of the European Union (2015) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Slavonic Studies of the European Union (2013) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer