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Course: Ego-documents as a Historical Source

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Course title Ego-documents as a Historical Source
Course code UHV/EGOD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
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)
  • Lenderová Milena, prof. PhDr. CSc.
  • Stráníková Jana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Characteristics of the ego-documents and their typology. Their preservation, the edition. The ego-documents as a source for the historians - the difficulties of their reviewing and interpretation. Characteristics of the correspondence; the correspondence as a source. The development of the correspondence; the "golden age" of the correspondence. The precondition and the motivation for writing letters, their form - the language, styl. Specifics of letters in connection to social status - the letter as a carrier of the message and as a field for cultivation of correspondence art. Literary and nonliterary writing. The diaries - the precondition and the motivation for their writing. The memoires, 19th century - the century of memoires and diaries. The reader-writer-text relationship - the self-censorship and self-reflection. The historian or other nowadays reader and the ego-documents. Ego-documents as a protoliterary text and the "deformation" of the reality. The diary as a source - criticism of a source, possibilities of its use. Ego-documents as a primary literary expression and as a distortion of reality.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to understand to what extent materials of a personal character - such as memoirs, diaries, and personal correspondence - mirror the inner world of people and their relations. These are often the first step to literary - and that means artistic - self-expression.
The students will also encounter contemporary scholastic trends in this field, ways of approaching personal materials, and methods of their criticism and interpretation.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

Credit is dependent upon active participation in seminars; an oral presentation; and a book review of one specialized foreign-language publication.
Recommended literature
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  • ANDEREGG Johannes , KUNZ Edith Anna. Schreibe mir oft! Zum Medium Brief zwischen 1750 und 1830. Göttingen, 2001. ISBN 3-525-20813-8.
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  • BAASNER Rainer . Briefkultur im 19. Jahrhundert. Tübingen, 1999. ISBN 3-484-10791-X.
  • BAGGERMAN, Arianne - DEKKER, Rudolf - MASCUCH, Michael. Controlling Time and Shaping the Self. Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Siixteenth Century. Leiden - Boston, 2011. ISBN 978-90-04-19500-4.
  • BLÁHOVÁ, K. (ed.). Komunikace a izolace v české kultuře 19. století.. Praha, 2002.
  • CIESLAR, J. Hlas deníku.. Praha, 2002.
  • CLINE,CH. Women´s Diaries, Journals, and Letters. An Annotated Bibliography.. New York, London, 1989.
  • DAVIS, N.Z. Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives. Cambridge; London.. Harvard university press, 1997.
  • FOUCAULT, M. Archeologie vědění.. Praha, 2002.
  • Furger, Carmen. Briefsteller : das Medium "Brief" im 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert.. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-412-20420-4.
  • GREYERZ, k.; MEDICK,H.; VEIT, P. (Hg.). Von der dargestellten Person zum erinnerten Ich. Europäische Selbstzeuginisse als historische Quellen (1500 - 1850).. Böhlau Verlag Köln Wien, 2001.
  • HÄMMERLE Christa - SAURER Edith. Briefkulturen und ihr Geschlecht: zur Geschichte der privaten Korrespondenz vom 16. Jahrhundert bis heute. Wien, 2003. ISBN 3-205-99398-5.
  • JANÁČKOVÁ, J. et alii (ed.). Řeč dopisů Boženy Němcové.. Praha, 2001.
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  • KOUPIL, Ondřej. Grammatykáři. Gramatografická a kulturní reflexe češtiny 1533-1672. Praha, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-2734-2.
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  • LENDEROVÁ, M. A ptáš se, knížko má .. Ženské deníky 19. století.. Praha, 2008.
  • LENDEROVÁ, M.; KUBEŠ, J. (ed.). Osobní deník a korespondence - snaha o reprezentaci, autoreflexi nebo (proto)literární vyjádření? Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice, Series C, suppl. 9.. Pardubice, 2004.
  • MAŤA, P. Nejstarší české a moravské deníky. (Kultura každodenního života v raném novověku a některé nové perspektivní prameny.) Folia Histoica Bohemica 18,. Praha , s. 99 -- 120., 1997.
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  • REINLEIN Tanja. Der Brief als Medium der Empfindsamkeit. Erschriebene Identitäten und Inszenierungspotentiale. Würzburg, 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2516-4.
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  • SCHULZE, W. (ed). Ego--Dokumente. Annäherung an den Menschen in der Geschichte. Berlín, 1996.
  • TERCH, H. Österreichische Selbstzeugnisse des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (1400-1650). Eine Darstellung in Einzelbeiträgen,. Wien--Köln--Weimar, 1998.
  • VÁCLAVEK Bedřich. Český listář. 292 českých listů z šesti století. Praha, 1949.
  • VÁLEK, V. K specifičnosti memoárové literatury.. Brno, 1984.
  • VÁLEK, V. Memoárová literatura 20. století.. Brno, 2000.
  • VELLUSIG Robert Heinz. Schriftliche Gespräche. Briefkultur im 18. Jahrhundert. Wien, 2000. ISBN 3-205-99205-9.


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 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Historical and Literary Studies (2015) Category: History courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
University of Pardubice, date of update: 02.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2016/2017