CZECH LITERATURE

The course is part of the LEEAP 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 Czech language is required to access the original texts and scientific production.

The aim of the course is to provide a framework of the Shoah in the Czech / Czechoslovak cultural production of the second half of the twentieth century and of the early twenty-first century.
Particular attention will be given to the literary production of the Sixties (Lustig, Fucks) regardering the question of the Shoah and the relationship with cinema in terms of film adaptation.
Methodology used to analyze the texts: phenomenology of the body, memory studies and trauma (cultural and individual), alongside the traditional methods.

Partial literature

Chvatik, "La politica culturale in cecoslovacchia dal 1945 al 1980”, eSamizdat 2009 VII
http://www.esamizdat.it/rivista/2009/2-3/pdf/21_chvatik_eS_2009_(VII)_2-3.pdf


Charles E. May, “Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read” in P. Winter, J. Lothe, H.H. Skei ed., The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis, (2011).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242233322_Why_Short_Stories_Are_Essential_and_Why_They_Are_Seldom_Read

P. Winther, “Closure and preclosure as narrative grid in short story analysis” in P. Winter, J. Lothe, H.H. Skei ed., The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis, (2011). (spazio noodle)

A. Catalano, Sole rosso su Praga;

Dějiny české literatury 1945–1989, II. díl, Zpracoval kolektiv autorů pod vedením Pavla Janouška; parti

Literární časopisy
Spory o podobu socialistické literatury
Budovatelská próza
Rozrušování budovatelského schématu a postupný návrat subjektu

Dějiny české literatury 1945–1989, III. díl, Zpracoval kolektiv autorů pod vedením Pavla Janouška, Academia 2008 - parti

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

The course consists of lectures and seminars during which 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. Students must also present a final dissertation on a topic assigned in the classroom to be discussed during the oral examination.

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