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Totalitarism and literature - JPM279
Title: Totalitarismus a literatura
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: 30 / 30 (30)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)
The course is held in the Czech language. This course is focused on relationship between totalitarianism and literature (arts). The aim of the course is to reach better understanding totalitarian regimes via their depiction in literature (in arts).
Aim of the course -
Last update: MLEJNEKJ (16.04.2008)

The aim of the course is to reach better understanding totalitarian regimes via their depiction in literature (in arts).

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)

1) Dystopian novels, for example: George Orwell: 1984, Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Jevgenij Zamjatin: My, Andrej Platonov: Čevengur.
2) Socialist realism, for example: N. A. Ostrovskij: Jak se kalila ocel, Maxim Gorkij: Matka, N. F. Pogodin: Kremelský orloj, Pavel Kohout: Dobrá píseň, Jan Otčenášek: Občan Brych, Antonín Zápotocký and his novels.
3) The reality of socialism - repressions, trials, ordinary life in totalitarian communist regimes, for example: Alexandr Solženicyn: Souostroví Gulag, Jeden den Ivana Děnisoviče, Gustav Herling-Grudziński: Jiný svět, Karel Pecka: Motáky nezvěstnému, Arthur Koestler: Tma o polednách, Kang Čchol-hwan, Pierre Rigoulot: Pchjongjangská akvária.

Teaching methods -
Last update: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)

There will be a lecture and a seminar.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)

Seminar paper. Test.

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Josef Mlejnek, Ph.D. (25.01.2021)

1) Dystopian novels before Orwell.
2) Soviet "space opera".

 
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