CZECH LITERATURE 1

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.

The texts analyzed are Italian translations - even basic knowledge of Czech is welcome but not a prerequisite.

The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the avant-garde Czech literary production of the first half of the twentieth century.
The course will deal with the movement of poetism (1920s) and surrealism (1930s) in Czechoslovakia. Literary production, which in avant-garde production is always interdisciplinary, will be inserted in the historical-cultural context of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic. At the same time, the Czech avant-garde movements will be included in the panorama of historical avant-gardes both at the level of Central-Eastern Europe and at the European level, giving particular attention to the French context.

D. Sayer: Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History, cap 5;
• E. Bojtar, “The Avant-Garde in Central and Eastern European Literature”, Art Journal, Vol.
49, No.1;(jstor)
• M.M. Sternstein: “Sensuous iconicity: The manifestoes and tactics of Czech poetism”, Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (31:2) [Jun 1998].
http://0-literature.proquest.com.fama.us.es/searchFulltext.do ?
• M. Tria: “Poetismo”, a cura di M. Tria, eSamizdat, 2004 (II), 3, pp. 195-203
• H. Voisine-Jechova: “Poétisme et surréalisme en Tchécoslovaquie” in Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle, Volume I: Histoire, a cura di J. Weisgerber, Amsterdam 1986;
• P. A. Bílek – J. Vojvodík – J. Wiendl (eds): A Glossary of Catchwords of the Czech Avant- Garde. Conceptions of Aesthetics and the Changing Faces of Art 1908–1958, Charles University, Introduzione e le voci: Alphabet; Exoticism, the poetic travelogue; Film: the seventh art, tenth muse; Mass (re-)production;

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

Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher for the assignment of a specific topic related to the program to be presented during the exam

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.
The course takes place in a blended mode at 50%. All information will be available in the teaching moodle space

Italian

Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher for the assignment of a specific topic related to the program to be presented during the exam

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