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Lecturer(s)
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Hrdličková Jana, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Survey of Topics: 1. Stereotypes about Czechs, Germans and Austrians at present and in the past, role of the media and art 2. Czechs in Prague German literature: i. Franz Werfel: "Barbara oder die Frömmigkeit" (1929) ii. Franz Werfel: "Der veruntreute Himmel" (1939) 3.-6. Czechs and Germans in "Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka" (1921-1923): Švejk vs. Brettschneider/Bullinger/Müller a) the book and Josef Lada´s illustration b) Brecht/Piscator: Schwejk-Inszenierung (1927) c) Brecht: Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1941-44) d) Karel Steklý (film director): Dobrý voják Švejk (Czech republic , 1956; starring Rudolf Hrušínský) 7. Karel Čapek: "Válka s mloky" (1935) 8. Arnošt Lustig: "Démanty noci" (1958) 9. Ingeborg Bachmann: "Böhmen liegt am Meer" (1964) 10. Ivan Kraus: "Pan vrah"(1996) 11. Dagmar Knöpfelová (film derector): "Durch diese Nacht sehe ich keinen einzigen Stern" (2005); František Halas: "Naše paní Božena Němcová" (1940), Jaroslav Seifert: Vějíř Boženy Němcové (1940) and "Píseň o Viktorce" (1950) 12. Jaroslav Rudiš: "Nebe pod Berlínem" (2007) 13. Developmental trends and changes, their causes. Summary.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar is a follow-up to the introductory course "Cultural Studies" and will focus on the phenomena of national identity, "the own" and "the foreign" and the way how these categories are expressed in selected works of German- and Czech-writing novelists since 1918. We will analyze not only stereotypes about Czechs, Austrians and Germans but also examine how these stereotypes change in the course of transfer from one language into the other. The seminar also traces the development of images of Czechs, Austrians and Germans in relation to the 20th century's turbulent political changes.
Training interpretation of literary texts, the work with films, training argumentation in the German language, perception of "my own" and "somebody else´s".
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Active participation in seminars, oral presentation, a seminar paper (an essay).
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Recommended literature
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Čapek, Karel. Válka s mloky. Praha, 2010. ISBN 978-80-253-1078-6.
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Džambo, Jozo. Die Slawen - deutsche und österreichische Zerbilder. München, 1997. ISBN 3-9805378-2-X.
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Eder, Jürgen. Der subversive Schelm. Bertolt Brechts "Schwejk im Zweiten Weltkrieg". Ústí nad Labem, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7414-014-3.
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Glettler, Monika. "České vlaštovky": o kojných a cihlářích ve Vídni. München, 1997. ISBN 3-9805378-2-X.
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Gruša, Jiří. Das Lob der Vorurteile. München, 1991.
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Hašek, Jaroslav. Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války. Praha, 1990. ISBN 80-202-0036-3.
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Mecklenburg, Norbert. Imagologie: Grundaspekte und Beispielbereiche literarischer Bilder der Anderen. München, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89129-552-6.
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Rudiš, Jaroslav. Nebe pod Berlínem. Praha, 2007. ISBN 978-80-85935-83-7.
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Werfel, Franz. Der Tod des Kleinbürgers. Frankfurt am Main, 1993. ISBN 3-596-29451-7.
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Werfel, Franz. Der veruntreute Himmel. Frankfurt am Main, 2005. ISBN 3-10-091038-9.
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