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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. The birth of the Czech national identity I. (Josef Dobrovský) 2. The birth of the Czech national identity II. (Josef Jungmann) 3. Ján Kollár and Literary Panslavism 4. Romanticism: Karel Hynek Mácha - May 5. Biedermeier: Božena Němcová: ?The Grandmother? ? the book that every Czech knows 6. Karel Jaromír Erben: A Bouquet 7. Vítězslav Hálek: Evening songs 8. Jan Neruda: Prague Tales 9. Julius Zeyer: The Path to Decadence 10. Memory Trace of Jewishness in the Memoir Literature of Authors of the Late 19th Century 11. Parnasism: Jaroslav Vrchlický 12. J. S. Machar - The Antiquity vs Christianity
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course will provide students with basic information about the cultural situation of the 19th century and its significance for the reconstruction of Czech national identity.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Active participation (80 %), speech, reading.
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Recommended literature
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Encyklopedia of Literary Translation into English. Ed. Olive Classe. London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 2000.
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Čulík, Jan. Czech literature [an overview] https://web.archive.org/web/20090210100858/http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Culik_Czechliterature.htm.
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Filipová, Marta. (2020). Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art. New York.
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Pynsent, Robert. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994.
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