Course: Between modern and postmodern arts

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Course title Between modern and postmodern arts
Course code KBH/MMP
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Gilk Erik, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Topics: 1. The first and the second modernism 2. Modernism and avant-garde 3. Modern and postmodernism 4. Art and life, art vs. life 5. The mystery and irrationality 6. Expressionism as a part of avant-garde? 7. The past and tradition0 8. Narrative multiperspectivism 9. Identity and doubleness 10. The myth 11. The city and civilization

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The course is specialized indetailed recognizing terms as modern arts, avant-garde, post-avant-garde and postmodern arts, it means period sof progres sof European culture in the 20th century.
Very good ability to interpret the modern, esp. prose texts, and to describe poetics of a literary work.
Prerequisites
The knowledge of the modern art periods in the 20th century.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Seminar Work

Reading of the literary works that are analysed in the course.
Recommended literature
  • Lyotard, Jean-Francois. (1993). O postmodernismu. Praha.
  • Neubauer, Zdeněk. (1994). Přímluvce postmoderny. Praha.
  • Papoušek, Vladimír. (2014). Dějiny nové moderny 2. Lomy vertikál. Praha, Academia.
  • Papoušek, Vladimír. (2017). Dějiny nové moderny 3. Věk horizontál. Praha, Academia.
  • Papoušek, Vladimír. (2010). Dějiny nové moderny. Praha.
  • Strohsová, Eva. Zrození moderny. Praha, ČS 1963.
  • Vojvodík, Josef - Wiendl, Jan (eds.). (2011). Heslář české avantgardy. Praha.
  • Welsch, Wolfgang. (1994). Postmoderna - pluralita jako etická a politická hodnota. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -