Course: Czech-German Literary Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Course title Czech-German Literary Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Course code KGER/CNLV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
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)
  • Petrbok Václav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Language defence in Bohemia. Traditions of Baroque historicism and patriotism. The phenomenon of lingua venceslaina. Theresian and Josephine utilitarianism and centralism. Reactions to it. The phenomenon of delatinization. Institutional foundations for the cultivation of German and Czech language and literature 2. Literature in the Bohemian lands in the second half of the 18th century, their linguistic variants and their relation to each other (e.g. V. Thám, A. J. Puchmajer, J. G. Meinert, F. A. Pabst, etc.). 3. Discussions on national models in the Bohemian lands during the Napoleonic Wars and the pre-March period in the Czech- and German-speaking environment (J. G. Herder, J. Jungmann, A. Uhle, J. J. Polt, E. M. Arndt, F., Jahn, B. Bolzano) 4. Literary life in the first half of the 19th century. Bilingualism and the work of Czech poets in the first half of the 19th century. The magazines Ost und West and Květy (K. H. Mácha, F. Bach, F. Zvěřina of Ruhewald, K. Sabina, A. Springer) 5. Revolution 1848/1849. Political Journalism, Cartoons, Memoirs (F. Palacký, K. Sabina, F. Schuselka, K. Havlíček, A. Meissner, M. Hartmann) 6. Myths and stereotypes in literature. I. Grenzlandroman. Rural Germanic idyll in danger of Slavic sex II. Interpretation of the social question from the national point of view (F. Mauthner, S. Čech) 8. Women's writing between German and Czech (M. D. Rettigová, B. Němcová, J. Kubin, K. Světlá, M. Jesenská) 9. Modernist concepts of the national question and its relation to literature (H. G. Schauer, T. G. Masaryk, F. V. Krejčí, F. Jodl, A. Sauer, A. Kraus, A. Procházka, F. Spina) 10. The occupation of public space, the "struggle" for Prague: the phenomenon of the so-called Prague novel (P. Leppin, K. H. Strobl, F. Kafka, M. Brod, J. Hašek, J. Arbes) 11. The establishment of the independent state and its literary response (F. C. Weiskopf, W. Pleyer, K. Poláček, L. Winder, K. Konrád, W. Tschuppik) 12. Cultural mediation, its strategies, merits and pitfalls (A. Waldau, F. Adler, O. Wiener, P. Eisner, J. Grmela, J. Haas Nečasová). 13. German-speaking exile in the first Czechoslovakia and the Czech environment (O. Fischer, O. M. Graf, T. Mann, A. Rühle-Gerstel, M. Jesenská)

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Through the reading and interpretation of relevant texts and further interpretation of the contemporary context, the seminar will attempt to compare some of the contact and analogical similarities and adoptions, as well as differences of an ideological, socio-cultural and literary-historical nature between Czech and German literature up to the time of the so-called First Czechoslovak Republic, with special attention paid to the contemporary specificity (national, regional and confessional) of the literatures of both languages.
- gain knowledge about Czech-German relations in the field of literature in the long 19th and early 20th centuries - begins to understand the perspectives of research - learn to analyse literary texts
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active, participation in discussions during the seminar, preparation and presentation of a paper or seminar thesis Oral examination
Recommended literature
  • Becheer, P. a kol. (vyd.). Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der böhmischen Länder. Stuttgart, 2017.
  • Csáky, M. Das Gedächtnis Zetraleuropas. Kulturelle und literarische Projektionen auf eine Region. Wien, 2019.
  • Džambo, J. Praha-Prag 1900-1945: Literaturstadt zweier Sprachen, vieler Mittler. Passau, 2010.
  • Krolop, K. Studie o německé literatuře. Praha, 2018.
  • Křen, J. (ed). Obraz Němců, Rakouska a Německa v české společnosti 19. a 20. století. Praha, 1998.


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