| 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) Jan Zahradníček: La Saletta. Signs of Power. 2) Diary: Testimony and Self-Reflection. Jiří Kolář: Prometheus' Liver. x Written on Postcards. 3) Symbols of Solitude. Zbyněk Hejda. I Won't Meet Anyone There. All Delight. The Proximity of Death. Lady Feltham. 4) The Breakdown of Dialogue. The Crisis of Language. A Novel of Disillusionment. Ivan Klíma: The Hour of Silence. 5) Josef Jedlička: Where Our Life is Halfway Through Its Journey. 6) Being a stranger I. Egon Hostovský: A stranger looking for an apartment. x Three nights. 7) Being a stranger II. Vladimír Körner: Adelheid. The Valley of the Bees. x Post bellum. 8) The dark mirror of the soul. Ladislav Fuks: Variations for a Dark String. The Cremator. 9) Milan Kundera: The Joke. 10) Bohuslav Reynek: Snow on the Porch, Frost on the Window, Departure of the Swallows. 11) Alexandr Kliment: Boredom in Bohemia. 12) Jaroslav Seifert. Concert on the Island. The Plague Column. To Be a Poet.
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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
Requirements for credit: only two absences, preparation of a paper (5 standard pages) or an interpretative contribution (4 standard pages). Reading of assigned books for each seminar. |
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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 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 (2019) | 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 (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 |