480120 SE Czech and Slovak avantgarde of the interwar period (2018S)

B.A. Seminar on Literature

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 48 - Slawistik

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 05.02.2018 08:00 to Mo 26.02.2018 12:00
Deregistration possible until Sa 31.03.2018 23:59

Details

max. 25 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Adam Bzoch

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

    
    Tuesday
    06.03.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    13.03.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    20.03.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    10.04.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    17.04.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    24.04.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    08.05.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    15.05.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    29.05.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    05.06.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    12.06.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    19.06.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40
    
    Tuesday
    26.06.
    11:30 - 13:00
    Besprechungsraum Slawistik Unicampus Hof 3 2R-EG-40

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course is an introduction to the cultural history of the Czech and Slovak avant-garde of Surrealism in the period between 1929 and 1945 and its relations to the French Surrealism and European intellectual (scientific) initiatives such asRussian Formalism, structural linguistics, Viennese neo-positivistic school, and psychoanalysis. It focuses on literary manifestos, construction of aesthetic theory, literary scholarship, linguistics and philosophy on the one hand and on the poetical practice of the avant-garde of Czech and Slovak Surrealism on the other. Selected historical documents (manifestos and theoretical texts) and examples of poetry / works of art (collages, paintings) will be discussed, but also some examples of the crafts (book art). Methodologically, the course is based on historical-discursive analysis of programmatic texts, historical and poetical interpretation of artistic texts (poetry), and historical and aesthetic interpretation of selected works of art (paintings).

Assessment and permitted materials

Short presentations and bachelor theses (30-40 pages) on specified or accepted topics.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students have to understand the historical development of the Czech and Slovak Surrealist avant-garde in its European cultural and socio-political context. They have to identify the rhetoric and characteristic features of the aesthetic of the European, Czech and Slovak Surrealism and their social, artistic and scientific claims.
The assessment standard is measured by the ability to provide historical interpretation of programmatic and artistic texts of the Czech and Slovak Surrealism.

Examination topics

Historical survey of the development of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia and its theoretical implications during the Interbellum, or, till 1945; selected discursive and literary texts (their historical interpretation).

Reading list

Selection of discursive and poetical texts by Vítezslav Nezval, Konstatin Biebl, Karel Teige, Bohuslav Brouk, Jan Mukarovský, Mikuláš Bakoš, Igor Hrušovský, Karl Terebessy, Vladimír Reisel, Ján Rak, Michal Považan, Rudolf Fabry. The texts will be given to the students at the beginning of the course in German informative translations.

Sekundäre, bzw. weiterführende Literatur:
Maurice Nadeau: Surrealismus. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002.
Surrealismus in Paris 1919-1939. Reclam, Leipzig 1986.
Anja Tippner: Permanente Avatgarde? Surrealismus in Prag. Böhlau Verlag, Wien / Köln / Weimar 2009.
Karel Srp / Lenka Bydžovská: Ceský surrealismus 1929-1953.,Argo, Praha 1996.
Karel Srp / Lenka Bydžovská: Krása bude krecovitá. Surrealismus v Ceskoslovensku 1933-1939. Arbor Vitae, Praha 2016.
Josef Vojvodík: Imagines Corporis. Host, Brno 2006.
Adam Bžoch: Psychoanalyse in der Slowakei. Psycho-sozial Verlag, Gießen 2013.
Ceskoslovenský štrukturalizmus a viedenský pozitivizmus. Stimul, Bratislava 1992. (Sammelband.)
Mikuláš Bakoš: Avantgarda 38. Bratislava 1969.
Bohuslav Kovác: Alchýmia zázracného. Slovenský spisovatel, Bratislava 1968.

Quellen zur Primärliteratur:
Karel Teige: Osvobozování života a poezie. Studie ze 40. let. Aurora, Praha 1994.
Vítezslav Nezval: Dílo XXV. Manifesty, eseje a kritické projevy z let 1931-1941. Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Praha 1974.
Vítezslav Nezval: Absolutní hrobar. Fr. Borový, Praha 1937.
Konstantin Biebl: Dílo. Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Praha 1951.
Ani labut ani Luna. Praha 1995. (Erstdruck: 1936.)
Nadrealizmus. Avantgarda 38 (Ed. Milan Hamada). Bratislava, Kalligram 2006. (Anthologie.)
Rudolf Fabry: Metamorfózy metafor. Pallas, Bratislava 1978.
Vo dne a v noci. Bratislava 1941.
Sen a skutocnost. Bratislava 1940.
Karol Terebessy: Jazyk, kultúra a hlbinná psychológia. Bratislava, Kalligram 1999.
Karl Terebssy: Zum Problem der Ambivalenz in der Sprachenentwicklung. Urbánek, Trnava 1944.

Association in the course directory

B-64-Q, B-64-T

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