Course: Contemporary Czech literature

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Course title Contemporary Czech literature
Course code KBO/7315
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
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)
  • Fibiger Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Harák Ivo, PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Czech literature 1969-1989 - recapitulation of the pre-November period. (Political and cultural context.) 2. Official, samizdat and exile prose. Poetry in exile and samizdat, poetics of the underground, surrealism, poetry "on the edge", poetry in the service of the regime. 3. November Revolution of 1989. (Political and Cultural Context.) 4. Initial situation of Czech literature. Abolition of official censorship, freedom of speech, integration of three areas of communication, decentralization, contact with the world literary context, changes in the organization of writers, liberalization of publishing practice, literary periodicals. 5. Post-November development of Czech literature - basic tendencies. Creative methods, courses, authorial strategies, group activities. Literary postmodernism. Prosaic experiments, language experiments. 6. New media possibilities and technologies - literary servers, internet literary magazines. 7. Prizes, competitions, surveys. 8. Great personalities and important works of Czech prose in the 90s of the 20th century. 9. Great personalities and important works of Czech poetry and drama in the 1990s. 10. Great personalities and important works of Czech prose at the beginning of the 21st century. 11. Great personalities and important works of Czech poetry and drama at the beginning of the 21st century. 12. Regional authors of northern Bohemia.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on the interpretation of the development of Czech literature since 1989. Attention is paid to the nodal point of Czech history, the fundamental changes that took place in the Czech culture and literature after the fall of communism. Through interpretation and interpretation, fundamental works of Czech literature (prose, poetry and drama) of the given period are to be presented.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Machala, L. Literární bludiště. Praha: Brána - Knižní klub, 2001.
  • Machala. L. Panorama české literatury. 2. díl: po roce 1989. Praha: Knižní klub, 2015.


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