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Lecturer(s)
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Kubíček Tomáš, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Departures and sources: Surrealist points of departure: concrete irrationality, the principals of analogy, objective chance and desire, the language of senses and senseless language of words, objects, images and films. The sources and places of action: the unconscious, games, the exotic and hermetic worlds, coffee houses, apartments, exiles at home and abroad, laughter and sorrow and endless returns. Original text: Mandala Ballads from a Marble Head The Lamentations of Isodora Ducasse Hra na slepou bábu Hrdlořezy a zvukomalby
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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 introduce students to the artistic and literary style of surrealism through the eyes of a poet, photographer and scholar. An analysis of his own work will focus on the defining structural and rhetorical principles that inform a poetics, which insists on aesthetic playfulness, ideational openness and on the power of imagination as the inexhaustible tools of criticism aimed at a pseudo-modern society drunk on consumerism. If poetic translation is by definition a creative gesture, then what all comes into play when the bilingual author is his own translator? At the end, students will try out what they have learned by composing and translating their own poetic texts, images or performances.
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Prerequisites
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The course assumes mandatory attendance and discussion in combination with assigned readings in the form of critical essays and original texts.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Course credit reflects full attendance and participation in all activities including the delivery of a poetic work or critical essay.
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Recommended literature
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Effenberger, V., & Chvatík, K. (1969). Realita a poesie: k vývojové dialektice moderního umění. Praha: Mladá fronta.
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