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Lecturer(s)
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Spáčilová Libuše, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Fialová Ingeborg, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Horňáček Milan, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Krappmann Joerg, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Die literarische Utopie By means of detailed analyses of literary texts and their socio-political conditions in the lecture key phases in the changeable genre of utopia will be demonstrated. The main points are: utopian preliminary stages in antiquity, eschatological/chiliastic forms in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance as the first climax of utopia, the emergence of time utopia in the Enlightenment, utopian possibility thinking in modern times, dystopian doomsday scenarios in the 20th century, and feminist utopias/dystopias of contemporary literature.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Die literarische Utopie The utopia as a literary genre originated in humanism. It was named after the work Utopia, in which in 1516 Thomas Morus contrasted the chaotic political situation of his time with a fictitious regulatory model, which was, of course, immediately problematized in the dialogical layout of the text. He, thus, determined the narrative basic structure of the (not only) literary utopia, which consists of the interplay of a critical analysis of the present and a design of constructive counter-images of historical reality. This structure has remained constant up to the present, despite all criticism of the utopians' escape from reality and despite all changes of the genre up to the dystopias of the 20th century (Semjatow, Orwell, Huxley). The aim of the lecture is on one hand to demonstrate processes of literary history by means of a functional history of utopia and on the other hand to reveal the experimental character and the anthropologically based possibility thinking of utopian writing. However, one may also wonder how utopia can be depicted in an "exciting" way when the as an ideal presented world no longer needs the commitment of a hero and his actions. So where do utopian novels get their "plot" (in Jurij Lotman's sense)?
Competence in interlacing literature and political science; Literary theory especially genre theory and narratology.
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Prerequisites
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The lecture is intended for all students of M.A. or Ph.D. studium.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
Completion requirements will be specified by individual lecturers. The series of lectures will be completed with an oral or written exam.
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Recommended literature
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V závislosti na zvolené epoše, tématu/Depending on the period, topic.
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Affeldt-Schmidt, Birgit. (1991). Fortschrittsutopien. Vom Wandel der utopischen Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Metzler.
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Amberger/Möbius (Hrsg.). (2017). Auf Utopias Spuren. Wiesbaden: Springer.
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Biesterfeld, Wolfgang. (1982). Die literarische Utopie. Stuttgart: Metzler.
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Hahn/Hausmann (Hrsg.). (2012). Visionen des Urbanen. (Anti-)-utopische Stadtentwürfe in der französischen Wort- und Bidkunst. Heidelberg: Winrer.
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Morris/Kross (eds.). (2009). The A to Z of Utopianism. Lanham/Toronto: Scarecrow.
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Saage, Richard. (2006). Utopisches Denken im historischen Prozess. Berlin: LIT.
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Schölderle, Thomas. (2012). Geschichte der Utopie. Köln: Böhlau.
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Voßkamp, Wilhelm. (2018). Utopiegeschichte: Zusammenfassender Überblick. In: Ders.: Emblematik der Zukunft. Poetik und Geschichte literarischer Utopien von Thomas Morus bis Robert Musil, 77-91.. Berlin: de Gruyter.
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