Chapters from History of Children's Literature 2

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Synopsis:

The fundamental genre subject of Czech and world literature for children and youth and its changes with an emphasis on its drama, that is theate potential. A view into the development of theatre for children and youth.

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have a general knowledge of issues in literary theory and general literary thoery at the middle-school level, a sense of the value of an literary text and an interest in artistic creation for children and youths. Part of the coursework is a systematic following of current literature, particularly creations for children.

Study Objectives:

To provide students with a basic knowledge of the specifics of literary creations for children and youths. To orient them in the various genres and genre variants which may become a source of material for theatre for children and youth. Expand their perception of literary texts and their instruments. Develop their abilities and skills in analysing and intepreting a literary text, to recognize their value and drama potential.

Outline and Syllabus:

Introduction, some basic concepts, relationships, contexts

- fundamental mapping of literary genres for children and youth.

- issues of intentional and unintentional reading for children and youth

- a literary work and its layers

- language - the gateway to a literary work

- contemporary literary context and literature for children and youth.

The Fairy Tale

- types and genres of folk literature; fairy tale genre variants

- specifics of magical fairy tales - events, characters and their attributes in a fairy tale (Propovsky view of the magical fairy tales)

- the journey of the fairy tale to literature (Apuleius, the middle-ages, Renaissance, the Baroque and Fairy trend including Perraulta, 18th. century)

- Pre-Romantism and Romantismand the fairy tale

- Fairy tale genesis theory; the struggle for the fairy tale

- Motif elements, motif, motif lines

- characters and their images in literary works (x v the theatre)

- Andersen and the authored fairy tale

- Lewis Carroll and nonsense branches of authored fairy tales

- Issues of authored fairy tales and fairy tale prose (historical and genre viewpoints - from the 19th. Century to the present)

„Stories from Life“ - stories with children's heros

- Genre and historical pictures - main types and phases

- Narrator issues - narrative situations

- Plot and subject; story, text, narration

The specificity of literature for children and youth and theatre for children

- The so-called children's aspect; the danger of infantilism

- Aesthetic functions and their place among other functions

Theatre for children

- Basic phases of the history of Czech theatre for children

Study materials:

BRUKNER, Josef-FILIP, Jiří

1997 Poetický slovník (Praha: MF)

CHALOUPKA, Otakar, Vladimír NEZKUSIL

1973, 1976, 1979 Vybrané kapitoly z teorie dětské literatury I, II, III (Praha: Albatros)

NOVÁK, J. V., Arne NOVÁK

1936-1939 Přehledné dějiny literatury české od nejstarších dob až po naše dny (Olomouc: R. Promberger - 4., přepr. a rozš. vyd.)

NÜNNING, Ansgar (ed.)

2001 Metzler Lexikon Liteatur- und Kulturtheorie. Ansätze - Personen - Grundbegriffe; přel. Aleš Urválek-Zuzana Adamová, Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury (Brno: HOST, 2006)

POSPÍŠIL, Otakar-SUK, Václav František

1924 Dětská literatura česká. Příručka dějin literárních pro školu, knihovny i širší veřejnost (Praha: Státní nakladatelství v Praze)

PROPP, Vladimir Jakovlevič

1928 Morfologija ?volšebnoj? skazki; přel. Miroslav Červenka, Marcela Pittermannová a Hana Šmahelová, Morfologie pohádky a jiné studie (Praha: H & H, 1999)

PROVAZNÍK, Jaroslav

2000 „Pohádka mezi dětským a dospělým světem“, in Daniela Fischerová, Pták Ohnivák, ed. Miloslav Klíma (Praha: Národní divadlo)

2002 „Literatura pro české děti v posledním desetiletí“, Duha 16, č. 1

RIMMON-KENAN(OVÁ), Shlomith

1983 Narrative Fiction Contemporary Poetics, přel. Vanda Pickettová, Poetika vyprávění (Brno: HOST, 2001)

SEDLÁK, Ján

1971 Epické žánre v literatúre pre mládež (Bratislava: SPN)

SIROVÁTKA, Oldřich

1998 Česká pohádka a pověst v lidové tradici a dětské literatuře (Praha: Ústav pro etnografii a folkloristiku AV ČR)

ŠMAHELOVÁ, Hana

1989 Návraty a proměny (Praha: Albatros)

ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena

1998 Kapitoly ze světové literatury pro mládež I, II (Brno: CERM)

URBANOVÁ, Svatava a kol.

2004 Sedm klíčů k otevření literatury pro děti a mládež 90. let XX. století. (Reflexe české tvorby a reflexe) (Olomouc: Votobia)

VORÁČEK, Jaroslav, Otakar CHALOUPKA

1984 Kontury české literatury pro mládež (Praha: Albatros) - pouze 2. vyd.

WELLEK, René-WARREN, Austin

1948 Theory of Literature; přel. Miloš Calda, Teorie literatury (Olomouc: Votobia, 1996)

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Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský režie a dramaturgie ALD (compulsory optional subject)