| Course title | Czech Literature III |
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| Course code | KBH/CLIII |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| 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. Three communication circles in the years 1948-1989 (official literature, unpublished and samizdat literature, exile literature) 2. Reflections of World War II in postwar literature 3. Literary groups after 1945 4. Group 42 5. Czech surrealism between 1945 and 1989 6. Ideological disputes about literature after 1945 (disputes about Fr. Halas, Jar. Seifert, Jan Zahradníček, Jos. Škvorecký, etc.) and the ideological norm of the 1950s 7. The "Květen" group and the beginnings of liberalization in the second half of the 1950s 8. The relaxation of ideological supervision in the 1960s. Important literary magazines of the 1960s 9. Existentialism in postwar literature 10. Novels about the clash between the individual and society, the individual and history 11. Experimental poetry and prose 12. The search for the youngest generation of poets in the 1960s and its development during the normalization period 13. The onset and manifestations of "normalization" in Czech literature 14. Literary exile after 1945 15. Post-war unpublished literature and the literary underground of the 1970s 16. Post-war dramatic works 17. Historical novels 18. Post-war diaries and memoirs 19. Post-war spiritual and meditative literature 20. Important figures in literary criticism
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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
student gains the ability to historical thinking on literary processes in the context of social development in the period 1940-1989 |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
KBH/CIIIS |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Examination: Written part - test (circling the correct answer from the options A - E). To proceed to the oral interview, students must obtain 50% of the correct answers. During the oral interview with the examiner, students will answer two questions. One question will be selected from the topics covered in the lecture series (CLIII). The second question will be interpretative: based on the reading list and a selected book title, the student will analyze a literary work and place it in its literary and historical context. The student will submit 25 titles for the exam. Twelve books are part of the so-called required reading, and the student will choose 13 books at their own discretion. |
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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 |