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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Contemporary Ukrainian Literature: from Chernobyl to Maidan, from postmodernism to searching of new ways of expression 2. Twice forgotten Yurii Tarnavskiy and the New Yourk Group 3. The king of Ukrainian Postmodernism Yurii Andrukhovych (Rekreace / Moskoviáda) 4. Provocative intellectual Oksana Zabuzhko (Polní výzkum ukrajinského sexu) 5. Taras Prokashko, the guide to magical Carpathian Mountains (Jinací) 6. Inter arma silent musae (?): Serhii Zhadan ( , ), Lyubov Jakymchuk ( ) 7. Quiet contemplation (Kateryna Kalytko, Ostap Slyvynskiy) versus commited shouts (Hryhoriy Semenchuk, Pavlo Korobchuk) 8. A calm life in Austro-Hungarian myth: Sofia Andrukhovych (Felix Austria) 9. Two types of everydayness: Myroslav Laiuk (), Oleh Kotsarev () 10. From Semenko to Zavadskiy: a brief introduction to Ukrainian experimental poetry 11. Children's literature: Oksana Bula, Larysa Denysenko, Tvorcha maisternia "Agrafka" 12. The decline of fiction or Boom of literary reportage (Chapai, Yaremchuk, Kryshtopa, Kazanskiy, Stekh)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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This course will present and discuss Ukrainian prose and poetry, written since 1991, by analysing and interpretating the most important texts of contemporary Ukrainian literature. It will focus on main tendencies and understanding their importance in the context of not only Ukrainian, but central European and world literature, too. This course includes assigned reading of Czech translations (or original Ukrainian pieces, if interested).
Students will gain knowledge of the state of contemporary Ukrainian literature (prose and poetry), they will be oriented in its main tendencies and will be able to place Ukrainian literature into the context of (central) European and world literature. They will improve in analysing and interpretating (postmodern) literary text.
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Prerequisites
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Interest in literature and orientation in world literature of the 20th century is expected.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
- active participation in the course - topic discussion - a presentation on choosen author/book (5 pages) - regular homework assigned reading - up to 2 absences tolerated
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Recommended literature
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HUNDOROVA, T. (2005). Pisljačornobylska biblioteka. Ukrajinskyj literaturnyj postmodern. Kyjiv, Krytyka.
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HUNDOROVA, T. The Canon Reversed: New Ukrainian Literature of 1990s.
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CHARČUK, R. (2008). Sučasna ukrajinska proza. Postmodernyj period. Kyjiv, Vydavnyčyj centr Akademia.
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CHLAŇOVÁ, Tereza (ed.). (2010). Putování současnou ukrajinskou literární krajinou. Prozaická tvorba představitelů tzv. ?stanislavského fenoménu?.. Červený Kostelec, Pavel Mervart.
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KINDLEROVÁ, Rita (ed.). (2008). Expres Ukrajina. Antologie současné ukrajinské povídky.. Zlín, Kniha Zlín.
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LAJUK, Myroslav (ed.). (2018). Antolohija molodoji ukrajinskoji poezii III. tysjačolitťa. Kyjiv, A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha.
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STECH, Marko Robert, ŘEHOŘÍKOVÁ, Lucie (eds.). (2012). Ukrajina, davaj, Ukrajina!. Brno, Větrné mlýny.
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