Basics of Rhetoric and Poetics 3

Tutor:

Vratislav ŠRÁMEK

Synopsis:

A seminar combined with a lecture for the 1st and 2nd years, the content of which is familiarization with the stylistic differentiation of Czech in relation to the language of the dramatic arts, with lingustic structure of drama from classical antiquity to the present, with the possibilities for vocal realization, especially of staged verse.

Prerequisites:

Study Objectives:

Familiarization and theory and practice of language construction of a dramatic text (classical, renaissance, romantic dramas etc.) and possibilities for their vocal realization in Czech translations. Familiarization with contemporary translation practice.

Outline and Syllabus:

The birth of classical drama in the context of democratic Athens (Aristotle). Classical prosody and Czech translation practice.

The classical heritage: a) classicist drama, French Alexandrine in Czech translations, b) renaissance drama, blank verse - translated and original Czech

So-called Spanish verse and its Czech translation.

Possibilities for vocal realization of various verse structures with emphasis on the prose specifics of Czech.

Study materials:

Basic literature (besides that listed for the subjects Theatre in Czech Culture - in particular Stich o českém jazyce a dramatickém textu 19. století and Theatrical Terminology - in particular Warrenova a Wellekova Teorie literatury), or Creative Directing (Treatises on language and speech by E.F. Burian and other directors):

Aristoteles Rétorika (v překladu A. Kříže), 2.vyd. 1999

M.F. Quintilianus: Základy rétoriky, Praha 1985

Vilém Mathesius: Řeč a sloh. Praha 1966

Jan Mukařovský, Kapitoly z české poetiky I.-III., Praha 1948 (selected treatises, most of which appear in other symposia of the Mukařovský study)

Roman Jakobson: Poetická funkce, Jinočany 1995 (selected treatises)

Josef Hrabák: Poetika, II. vydání 1977

Josef Hrabák: Úvod do teorie verše, různá vydání

Jiřina Hůrková: Česká výslovnostní norma, Praha, 1995

Divadlo 1967 květen (issue dedicated to the national language and the language of drama and the theatre with studies by Stich, Obst et al)

Jiřina Hůrková, Hana Makovičková: Základy jevištní mluvy, I. díl Praha 1984, II. díl Praha 1986

also possibly Radovan Lukavský: Kultura mluvené slova, Praha 2000

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	místnost S201 Hallerův sál () 12:30–14:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ČD (compulsory subject)