CZECH LITERATURE 2 MOD.2

The course is part of the curriculum and aims at understanding the history of Czech literature and culture, the theory of literary history and the analysis of literary text.


The aim of the course is to deepen the knowledge of cultural and literary production in the Czech language as well as of a literary and cultural investigation. The analysis of the text is inserted in the historical - cultural discourse both in a diachronic sense, that is as a history of literature, and synchronically, as a specific phenomenon within a pulsating cultural system. The achievement of these objectives allows the student to enrich his literary and cultural education both in analytical and synthetic terms.

1. Knowledge and understanding
● Know the basic linguistic terminology and understand the texts that make it
use.
● To know literary production and its interaction with the different spheres of culture.
● To know the theory of analysis of the literary text in its linguistic, literary and cultural components.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
● (Know the basic linguistic terminology and understand the texts that make it
use.) Knowing how to properly use linguistic terminology in all processes
application and communication of acquired knowledge.
● (Knowing the literary production and its interaction with the different spheres of culture.) Knowing how to relate the analysis of the specific text with contemporary and coherent critical production in addition to the mechanisms for using the text
● (To know the tools of analysis of the literary text in its linguistic, literary, cultural components.) To be able to apply the analysis tools and the literary production as a whole to the single specific text.

4. Communication skills
● Know how to communicate the specificities of literary reflection, using one
appropriate terminology.
● Knowing how to interact with peers and with the tutor, in a critical and respectful manner, in the presence and
on the virtual classroom forum.
5. Learning skills
.
● Knowing how to critically consult the reference texts and the bibliography in them
contained.

Knowledge of the English language is required in order to study the exam bibliography.
Knowledge of the Czech language is not required.

The aim of the course is to provide a general overview of the Czech avant-garde period of the first half of the twentieth century. Particular attention will be devoted to poetry and the subsequent transition to surrealism. The Czech avant-garde will be related to the other avant-garde movements of Central and Eastern Europe (Polish Futurism and Serbian and Romanian Surrealism) as well as with the Western European context. The key personalities of Karel Teige, Jaroslav Seifert and Vítězslav Nezval will be addressed in the light of their literary production of the 1920s and 1930s.
The literary production will be inserted within a wider cultural discourse closely linked to the social and political changes that characterize the period examined (structuralism, communist thought, massification of culture)

The final exam consists of an oral interview on the contents of the module.

During the course (in the second half of the course) a partial exam will be done in which the students will have to make an oral presentation on a specific topic (text, author, critic) assigned based on the study of critical materials and then discussed in the classroom .

The course consists of lectures. During the course (in the second half of the course) a partial exam will be done in which the students will have to make an oral presentation on a specific topic (text, author, critic) assigned based on the study of critical materials and then discussed in the classroom .

Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher for the assignment of the specific topic to be presented during the examination

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