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Course: Tradition and Individual Gift

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Course title Tradition and Individual Gift
Course code KLKS/TRAD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
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
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
Home assignment evaluation, Discussion

Credit is based on submitting a list of primary and secondary literature from the given field and a written analysis of a chosen topic (this analysis should be 5-10 pages in length).
Recommended literature
  • Dějiny české literatury II, III. Sv. II: red. F. Vodička, Praha 1960; sv. III: red. M. Pohorský. Praha, 1961.
  • ELIOT, T. S. Tradice a individuální talent. In: T. S. E.: O básnictví a básnících. Praha, 1991.
  • HECZKOVÁ, L. Píšící Minervy. Vybrané kapitoly z dějin české literární kritiky. Praha, 2009.
  • JANÁČKOVÁ, J. Stoletou alejí (O české próze minulého věku). Praha, 1985.
  • JIRÁT, V. Portréty a studie. Praha, 1978.
  • LEHÁR, J., STICH, A., JANÁČKOVÁ, J., HOLÝ, J. Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku (dopl. vyd. 2002, 2004). Praha, 1998.
  • MACURA, V. Znamení zrodu (České národní obrození jako kulturní typ). Jinočany, 1995.
  • MUKAŘOVSKÝ, J. Kapitoly z české poetiky I, II. Praha, Svoboda, 1948.
  • NOVÁK, A., NOVÁK, J.V. Přehledné dějiny literatury české (reprint čtvrtého vydání, R. Prombergr, Olomouc 1936 - 1939). Brno, 1995.
  • ŠALDA, F. X. Duše a dílo. Praha, 1973.
  • URBAN, O. Česká společnost 1848-1918. Praha, 1982.
  • VODIČKA, F. Struktura vývoje. Praha 1969, nové vyd.: Praha 1998.


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 (2013) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
University of Pardubice, date of update: 21.07.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2016/2017