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Course: Modernism - undone project

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Course title Modernism - undone project
Course code KSR/VMOD
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Pechal Zdeněk, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim (1900) Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (1912) Gustav Meyrink: Golem (1915) James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Jevgenij Zamjatin: We (1921) Wirginia Wolfová: Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) Herman Broch: Sleepwalkers (1932) Stefan Zweig: Beware of Pity (1938) J. P. Sartre: Nausea (1938) Ernst Jünger: On the Marble Cliffs (1939) Michail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1940) Ernst Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Ezra Pound: Cantos Vladimír Nabokov: Bend Sinister (1947)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes

Students will acquire knowledge about the processes that influenced the modern literature in the context of the first half of the 20th century.
Prerequisites
Ability of critical thinking, basic knowledge of tools of literary history and literary theory

Assessment methods and criteria
Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)

ability of critical thinking, basic knowledge of tools of literary history and literary theory
Recommended literature
  • & Rutherford, D. The Cambridge companion to early modern philosophy.
  • Benjamin, W., Grebeníčková, R., Střítecký, J., & Saudková, V. (1979). Dílo a jeho zdroj. Praha: Odeon.
  • Camus, A., & Steinová, D. Mýtus o Sisyfovi.
  • Kandinsky, W., Wittlich, P., & Pelánová, A. O duchovnosti v umění.
  • Kubíček, T., & Wiendl, J. (2013). Moderna-Moderny. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
  • Kubíček, T. Středoevropan Milan Kundera.
  • Kubíček, T. Vypravěč: kategorie narativní analýzy.
  • Málek, P. Melancholie moderny: alegorie, vypravěč, smrt.
  • Papoušek, V. (2010). Dějiny nové moderny: česká literatura v letech 1905?1923. Praha: Academia.
  • Papoušek, Vladimír. Gravitace Avantgard: Imaginace a řeč avantgard v českých literárních textech první poloviny dvacátého století.
  • Pechal, Z. Hra v románu Vladimíra Nabokova.
  • Sýkora, M. Vladimir Nabokov: od Mášeňky k Daru.


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): Russian for translators (2016) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 18.05.2024 00:11.