| Course title | Czech Literature III |
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| Course code | KBH/CIIIS |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 1 |
| 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 |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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1. Literature in reaction to the liberation. Restoring the relation between literature and society. Discussions of the nature of culture, the place and role of literature in the society 2. Looking for the sources of poetics: The forms of modern art after 1945. The Group 42 (Skupina 42), The Group Ra (Skupina Ra), and the postwar surrealism; postwar art manifestos 3. The work of the spiritual-orientated writers and the status of Catholic literature in 1945-1952 4. "The new literature" after 1948. Socialist realism, genre and thematic norms after 1948, and their literary representations 5. The change of the situation in literature in 1953; in search of reality and continuity. The book "Life around us" (Život kolem nás); short prose genres in the 50's and 60's of the 20th century 6. May (Květen) magazine and "the poetry of the weekday" authors (Poezie všedního dne); adoration and criticism 7. Solitaire poets in the 50's. Features of their poetics and their roles in relation to the literary development (František Hrubín, Vladimír Holan, Jan Skácel, Milan Kundera, Jaroslav Seifert, Oldřich Mikulášek) 8. Experimental prose in the 60's. Towards the limits of absurdity 9. The social problem novel on the way from the socialist novel to the social criticism novel 10. Changing the viewpoint of the war experience and the Holocaust theme in the literature of the second half of the 50's and the 60's 11. The poetry of the 60's: Restoring the independence 12. Ways of literary life in 1963-1972 13. Vladimír Páral and the official context of the Czech literature 14. Ludvík Vaculík and the samizdat context of the Czech literature 15. Milan Kundera and the exile context of the Czech literature 16. The situation of the Czech literature around 1989
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course is oriented to the history of the czech literature after 1945. It gives various but continuous views on the significant movement in the literature (and in the culture) and it helps to understend the situation of the literature in the society after 1945 and simultaneously it is an attempt to keep the specificity of the literature itself
on the basis of of holistic analysis of works of literature student gains the ability of critical thinking about development processes in the literature and about the possibilities for the analysis of literary texts from the perspective of literary history and literary criticism |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
parallel attending lectures on Czech literature III. |
| Recommended literature |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |