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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. The position of literature in the early New Age hierarchy of art. The cultural, political, religious and social development of the Czech lands. The language relations of the notion "Bohemical" - literature written in Czech, German, Latin and Jiddish. 2. Hymnography I - spiritual and hymnal song in the Reformation tradition (Weisse, Roh, Komenský, Herman) 3. Hymnography II - tradition (Leisentrit, Schlindel, Braun, Koniáš) 4. Hymnography III - interconfessional and Czech-German relations (Spee and Kadlinský, Khuen a Michna, Christelius, Hymnodia catholica) 5. Homiletica I - sermons in the Reformation tradition (Mathesius, funeral sermons) 6. Homiletica II - position o of conceptualism in the Catholic tradition of the end of the 17th century (Todtfeller) 7. Homiletica III - conceptualism in the Catholic tradition from the beginning of the 18th century (Felsenecker, Hailmann, occasional sermons) 8. Religious literature I - different character of educational literature for people in the Protestant (Habermann) and the Catholic environment (Martin von Cochem) 9. Religious literature II - the phenomenon of the Catholic PB (prayer Book) and its metamorphoses and its position in religious life. (Martin of Kochem, Mibes, Nebeklíč and missionary Prayer-Books) 10. Pilgrim literature and literature of the Brethren -i.e. literature associated with or linked to pilgrim places and to activities of religious "brotherhoods", the genre spectrum, Baroque syncretism (Balbín) 11. Hagiography - literature based on legends (legends of the patrons of Czech lands, descriptions of the lives of the saints), The Great Life of Jesus Christ by Martin of Kochem 12. Literature of tractates - the early New Age confessional and polemic literature (Kraus) 13. Travelogues (Tektander, Müller), historiography (Hájek, Balbín, Sartorius) and the other marginal genres in the Czech-German and interconfessional context 14. František Antonín Špork - literature of the Špork Circle in the Czech-German and interconfessional context
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Students will be confronted with the German-written literature of the Early New Age (the Renaissance and Baroque Periods), which was gradually coming into existence in context of the Bohemian territory (in Bohemia, in Moravia, and Silesia; and until the year 1638 even in Lusatia) from the 16th until the beginning of 18th century. This course is focused on investigation and research in mutual penetration of German and Czech- written (even Latin-written) Protestant and Catholic literature both at the level of genres and motifs on the one hand and at the level of mutual influencing, taking over and translating. Special attention in this course is devoted to Reformation and Catholic hymnography, homily (homiletics), religious literature and other genres which were prevailing at that time. In the centre of attention are analysis and interpretation of specific texts in the Czech-German intercultural context. The course makes use of knowledge from the sphere of language development and prepares conditions for assigning diploma theses in cooperation with the archives and museums in this region as well as outside this region. The restricted elective course "Biblical Motifs and Christian Tradition in German Literature" and the course called "Development of the German Language in the Czech-German Literary Context."
The knowledge and understanding of the early New Age texts in the Czech-German intercultural context, the deepening of the ability to analyse and interpret literary texts, training abstract thinking skills.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit Requirements: 1. Active participation in seminars 2. Oral presentation and a seminar paper written on the elected theme
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Recommended literature
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Petrbok, V. Stýkání nebo potýkání? Několik kapitol k dějinám česko-německo-rakouských literárních vztahů v českých zemích mezi Bílou horou a napoleonskými válkami. Praha, 2012.
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Trunz, E. Pansophie und Manierismus im Kreise Kaiser Rudolfs II., in: Zeman, Herbert (Hg.): Die österreichische Literatur. Ihr Profil von den Anfängen im Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert (1050 ? 1750), Bd. 2. Graz, 1986.
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