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Lecturer(s)
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Gilk Erik, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics: 1. Features of literature of a small nation; 2. Definition of basic terms: modern, modernism, avant-garde, and their reciprocal relations; 3. Czech Modern in the 90ies of the 19th century: a paradigm shift 4. Emancipation of an art and literary criticism; 5. First avant-garde trends and their reflection in Czech culture before 1914; 6. Pre-war avant-garde, Karel Čapek´s generation and Almanac for the year 1914; 7. Proletarian literature and poetry after WWI; 8. Czech Avant-Garde groups in the 20ies: Devětsil and Literature Group; 9. Poetism(us) as an only Czech -ism and its poetics; 10. Czech modification of Surrealism; 11. Skupina 42 and its reassessment of avant-garde; 12. Usage of avant-garde artistic procedures and instruments after WWII.
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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 aim of the course is to provide students with a good overview of Czech literature in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century and its development in the socio-political and Central European context.
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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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Bílek, Petr A. - Vojvodík, Josef - Wiendl, Jan (eds.). A glossary of a Catchword of the Czech avant-garde: conceptions of aesthetics and the changing faces of art 1908?1958. Praha: FF UK - Togga 2011.
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Cottington, David. Avant-Garde: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013.
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Filipová, Marta. (2020). Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art. New York.
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Ort, Thomas. Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Čapek and his generation, 1911-1938. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Poggioli, Renato. The Theory of the Avant-Garde. Cambridge (US): Harvard University Press 2013.
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