Chapters from Theory and History of Literature for Children and Youth 4

Tutor:

Jaroslav PROVAZNÍK

Synopsis:

A four-semester required course, primarily focused on the areas of literary theory which are significant for the drama training instrutor. Further areas of instruction are the fundamental phases of the development of Czech and world literature for children and youth and the changes in their genre composition. The course combines practical activity with lectures with an emphasis on the contextual connections.

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of the issues of literary theory and general literary history are required at least at the bachelor study level at a Artistic High school or educational branch. Also an ability to apprehend the various elements and value of an artistic text. Part of the seminar work is a systematic following of current literature particularly creations for children.

Study Objectives:

The aim of the course is a knowledge of the basic range and issues of general literary theory and literary theory for children and youth. A special and developed knowledge and skill to analyse key tools and procedures available to the artistic text's author, developing an ability to interpret a literary work, its structure and know all of its layers, recognizes its value and possibilities offered to the creative educator in working with children and youth. Another goal of instruction is the opening of a pathway for learning about literary societies, genres and genre variations important particularly for children's literature. The literary theory sections are an illustrative development of literature for children and youth (including issues of folk literary creations) from the viewpoint of their dramatic and drama training potential.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Introduction, fundamental concepts and relationships

2. Language - the gateway to a literary work.

> Non-illusion literature (literature discussing language) and addressing children.

3. The fundamental repertoire of topical vehicles.

4. Event, narrative, plot, plot content.

> Detective stories.

5. The narrator and his function in a literary work.

> Story with a children's hero.

6. The Aesthetic function of a literary work. The aesthetic function and its place among other functions. The specificity of literature for children and youth.

> Magazines for children and youth - the past and the present.

7. Subject and theme in a literary work.

> Prehistoric and ancient history of literature for children (from the begining of the 18th cent.

8. Language vehicles in a literary work:

> Folklore creations.

> Poetry for children of the 19th cent. (from J.J. Ryby to after the first golden era of Czech poetry for children; world context).

> Birth of nonsense poetry for children in England.

- The sound and graphic aspects of verse.

> The first golden era of Czech poetry for children (J.V. Sladka generation); the avant garde and poetry for children (1930s and 40s).

- Syntactic tools and issues in free verse.

> M. Lukešová and poetrz from the 1960s.

9. The fictional world in artistic literary works:

- Setting and function of the figures.

> Story with a child hero and its changes in the 19th cent and in the first half of the 20th cent.

- The narrator, Narrative situations.

> Story with a child hero in the second half of the 20th cent.

- Setting and function of the surroundings in a literary work.

> Adventure literature and literature for children and youth, their possibilities and risks in theatre and drama training practice.

> Sci-fi and Fantasy.

- Motive and Motive elements.

> Authorial fairy-tale and fairy-tale prose in the 19th cent. and its changes in the 20th cent. Typology of authorial fairy-tales and fairy-tale prose with consideration of the theatre and drama training practice.

10. Composition:

- Composition principles and procedures.

- Dominant/semantic gestures.

- The title of a literary work and its function.

> Perspectives in the latest literature for children and youth.

11. Genology:

- Types and genres of literature with consideration of literature for children and youth and it changes.

Study materials:

BRUKNER, Josef-FILIP, Jiří

1997 Poetický slovník (Praha: MF); 1. vyd.: Větší poetický slovník, ČS, Praha 1968

HAMAN, Aleš

1999 Úvod do studia literatury a interpretace díla (Praha: H & H)

HRABÁK, Josef

1958 Úvod do teorie verše (Praha: SPN) a další vydání

CHALOUPKA, Otakar, Vladimír NEZKUSIL

1973 Vybrané kapitoly z teorie dětské literatury I (Praha: Albatros)

1976 Vybrané kapitoly z teorie dětské literatury II (Praha: Albatros)

1979 Vybrané kapitoly z teorie dětské literatury III (Praha: Albatros)

JAKOBSON, Roman

1995 Poetická funkce (Praha: H&H)

MOCNÁ, Dagmar a kol.

2004 Encyklopedie literárních žánrů (Praha-Litomyšl: Paseka)

MUKAŘOVSKÝ, Jan

1982 Studie z poetiky (Praha: Odeon)

NOVÁK, J. V.-NOVÁK, Arne

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

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

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)

SLOVNÍK LITERÁRNÍ TEORIE

1977 Slovník literární teorie (Praha: ČS)

ŠMAHELOVÁ, Hana

1989 Návraty a proměny (Praha: Albatros)

ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena

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

URBANOVÁ, Svatava

2003 Meandry a metamorfózy dětské literatury (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)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)