| Course title | Czech experimental literature of 20th century |
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| Course code | KBH/EXP20 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + 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 | unspecified |
| 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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Lecture circuits Experimental literature (definition and history of the term) Experiment and its forms in modern literature Experiment in the Czech avant-garde Experiment as a reaction to the official art of totalitarianism The French New Novel in the Czech context Concrete and visual poetry Experiments in contemporary Czech literature The programme of the seminar will be composed by selecting from the following topics: Experiment to New Art (Vítězslav Nezval: Pantomime) Is it possible to combine philosophy and popular literary forms? (Ladislav Klíma: Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha Experimental Oscillation between Expressionism and Surrealism (Richard Weiner: Hra doopravdy) An experiment against the so-called realistic narrative (Milada Součková: Bel canto) An experiment with a diary (Jiří Kolář: Prometheova játra) Experiment as a reaction to totalitarian art (Ivo Vodseďálek: Trapná poezie+ Egon Bondy: Totální realismus) Experimentation with formal and typographic possibilities (Václav Havel: Antikódy) Reckless (?) experiment (Věra Linhartová: Rozprava o zdviži) Experiment as a mission (Josef Hiršal - Bohumila Grögerová: JOB BOJ) Experiment ? la New novel? (Alena Vostrá: Vlažná vlna) From Civilism through Experiment to Meditation (Emil Juliš: Nevyhnutelnosti) The New Novel and Karel Milota (Noc zrcadel) Model Prose in the Conception of Vladimír Páral (Veletrh splněných přání) Is this still art literature? (Jan Pelc: ... a bude hůř) Experimentation in the postmodern sense (Jiří Kratochvil: Urmedvěd or Noční tango) A verbal and visual experiment (Hnát Daněk: Pouť a Cesta Hnátova) Absurdity as an experimental category? (Marian Palla: Zápisky uklízečky Maud' + Njkpůúp kkléedc) Is it possible to aestheticize disgust? (Václav Kahuda: Houština) Experimental Narrative Inventory (Jiří Drašnar: Noc na pláži) Total Experiment (Zdeněk Vlk: Malá ošklivá láska) Experiment with computer poetry [Petr Stengl: Spam: spojené kartáčovny, bleděmoderní králíček (bmk :-) a velká lžíce] Experimental fusion of poems and comics (Ivan Motýl - Petr Szyroki: Struska)
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
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The discipline is divided into a working lecture (45 min) and a seminar (90 min). The lecture session will focus on the characteristics of the concept of literary experiment and its history and critical reception. Another aim will be to reflect on the procedures and mechanisms that determine in the perceptual consciousness what work is already experimental and what is not yet experimental, in the context of literary-historical phenomena such as modernism, avant-garde, etc. The seminar will analyse and interpret selected works of Czech literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, among other things, with reference to the relationship to tradition, against which each new artefact and the emerging generation defines itself, but also with regard to the contribution of experimental works in shaping contemporary aesthetic values or initiating their transformation.
Gaining knowledge in the European experimental literature of the 20th century. |
| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance, Analysis of Activities ( Technical works)
Active participation in seminars (max. 2 absences), presentation of 1 paper (range 5-7 ns, comprehensive analysis and interpretation, including the use of secondary literature) and 1 co-paper (range min. 2 ns, overview of critical responses to the work, supplemented by own opinion) - if the papers are not presented at the seminar, their written versions must be submitted + completion of the tasks currently assigned in the seminar. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester |
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