FPF:UBKCJLBP56 Underground Culture - Course Information
UBKCJLBP56 Underground Culture
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jakub Chrobák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jakub Chrobák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jakub Chrobák, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Ability of basic orientation in historical and cultural contexts after 1945.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech language and literature (programme FPF, CJAL)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the phenomena of underground and unofficial culture after 1945 and after 1968.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student will be able to: - interpret the main texts of the Czech literary underground - recognize the specifics of Czech underground culture - describe the main changes in Czech unofficial literature.
- Syllabus
- 1. Basic terms, methodological approaches and difficulties 2. Chronology, periodization and underground waves 3. Predecessors I. Skupina 42 4. Predecessors II. Surrealism 5. Midnight Edition (Edice Půlnoc) 6. Method of total realism 7. Embarrassing poetry (Ivo Vodseďálek and Egon Bondy) 8. The underground generation born in the 1960s I. 9. The underground generation born in the 1960s II. (selected authors) 10. Egon Bondy I. - poetry 11. Egon Bondy II. - prose (philosophy) 12. Ivan Martin "Magor" Jirous 13. The youngest generation of the underground
- Literature
- required literature
- MACHOVEC, M. (ed.) Pohledy zevnitř. Příbram: Pistorius & Olšanská, 2008.
- KUDRNA, L. (ed.) Reflexe undergroundu. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2016.
- PILAŘ, M. Underground. Kapitoly o českém literárním undergroundu. Brno: Host, 1999.
- JANOUŠEK, P. et al Dějiny české literatury 1945-1989. IV. Svazek 1969-1989. Praha: Academia, 2008.
- Alan, Josef a kol. Alternativní kultura. Příběh české společnosti 1945-1989. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha, 2001. info
- recommended literature
- ŠVEHLA, M. Magor a jeho doba. Život Ivana M. Jirouse. Praha: Torst, 2017.
- MACHOVEC, M. (ed.) „Hnědá kniha“ o procesech s českým undergroundem. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2012.
- MAINX, O. Poezie jako mýtus, svědectví a hra. Kapitoly z básnické poetiky Egona Bondyho. Ostrava: Protimluv, 2007.
- JIROUS, I. M. Magorův zápisník. Praha: Torst, 1997.
- FIDELIUS, P. Řeč komunistické moci. Praha: Triáda, 2016.
- TUREČEK, D. Fikční svět lyriky J. H. Krchovského, Česká literatura, 2006, č. 2-3, s. 315-322.
- MAINX, Oskar. Zmrtvýchvstání v antickém háji (Resurrection in Ancient Grove). In Petr Kužel. Myšlení a tvorba Egona Bondyho. 1st ed. Praha: Filosofia, 2018, p. 409-424. ISBN 978-80-7007-525-8. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, discussions, home reading.
- Assessment methods
- Continuous home preparation (reading); final seminar work, essay.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2025, recent)
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