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Bohemistika Courses: Spring 2021 Why study Czech? Czech is the language spoken in the Czech Czech 1102: Elementary Czech II Republic (formerly part of : CzechCzech StudiesStudies TRF 10:10-11:25 Czech and Slovak are different languages, although they are closely related). There are at Columbia University Czech 1202: Intermediate Czech II more than 10.5 million native speakers of na Kolumbijské univerzitě TRF 11:40-12:55 Czech world-wide. There are over 9,000 Americans living in the . Czech 4334: Readings in Czech The Czech capital is generally acknowledged II (Advanced Czech II) to be one of the world’s most beautiful cities. TR 1:10-2:25 Located in the heart of Europe, Prague has a vibrant cultural life and music scene that offers Courses: Summer A 2021 something for everyone. Culture Comp Lit: Czech 4045: Czech Society The have a rich literary and cultural & Culture Since the Fall of tradition that you will begin to explore in your TR 2:10-4:00 studies. How many nations of ten million people have produced as many world-

Elementary Czech I & II and renowned figures as the Czechs have? Intermediate Czech I & II Language are 4-credit, 4-skills language courses based on Czech is a gateway language. It is a member of 2020-2021 the most up-to-date textbooks for learning the Slavic family—related to Russian and even Czech as a foreign language, amply closer to Polish and Slovak—and these Courses: Fall 2020 supplemented by authentic texts and media. languages can be learned more easily with a Readings in I & II knowledge of Czech. Unlike Russian, Czech Czech 1101: Elementary Czech I are 3-credit courses emphasizing the uses a modified alphabet. Czech is not an TRF 10:10-11:25 development of advanced reading and writing easy language to learn, but all the more skills. Students choose the texts to be read and rewarding for the challenge it represents. Czech 1201: Intermediate Czech I discussed (fiction, poetry, , essays, Fun facts -The Czech Republic has the highest per TRF 11:40-12:55 journalism, non-fiction) based on their own interests in consultation with the instructor. capita beer consumption in the world—over 37 gallons per person annually. Czech 4333: Readings in Czech -The word was coined by a Czech. Literature I (Advanced Czech I) Students at Cornell University can enroll in courses through the Shared -Prague’s was founded TR 1:10-2:25 Course Initiative: http://lrc.cornell.edu/sci in 1348, making it not only the oldest university in Eastern or Central Europe, but Comp Lit: Czech 4030: Postwar All courses taught by also older than many universities in Western Czech Literature Dr. Christopher W. Harwood Europe. TR 2:40-3:55 [email protected] Courses in English Comparative Literature: Czech W4030 – Other courses on Czech literature & culture Postwar Czech Literature offered at Columbia on a rotating basis: on Czech literature and culture Fall 2020 – TR 2:40-3:55 — Comp Lit: Czech 4020 – Czech Culture Fall 2020 – TR 2:40-3:55 Before Czechoslovakia Postwar Czech Literature An interpretive cultural history of the Czechs from earliest times to the founding of the first Czechoslovak republic in 1918. Emphasis on the origins, decline, and resurgence of Czech national identity as reflected in the visual arts, architecture, music, historiography, and especially the literature of the Czechs. Primary texts for the course: Comp Lit: Czech 4035 – The Writers Václav Havel, essays from Open Letters of Prague After providing a brief overview of the history (1965-1990) A comparative reading of texts from 1895- of the and Czech literature from Julius Fučík, Report from the Gallows (1943) 1938 by German, German-Jewish, Czech and earliest times, the course will turn to a survey , “The Slient Barricade” (1946) Russian authors who lived in and were inspired of some of the most important authors and Jiří Weil, Life with a Star (1949) by Prague. The course traces common themes texts of the postwar period. Considerable Ludvík Aškenazy, “The Glow” (1951) running through the works of many of these attention will be devoted to the influence on , stories written in the 1950s, Prague writers and considers the applicability Czech literature both of the Communist regime revised & published in 1965 of various possible definitions of the literary of 1948-1989 and of modern international Věra Linhartová, stories from Space for genius loci of the city. trends in the arts and philosophy. Some of the Differentiation (1964) most prominent themes to be raised in Václav Havel, The Memorandum (1965) Comp Lit: Czech 4038 – : discussion of the texts include: Excerpts from speeches at the 4th Congress of Literature and Film  expressions of national identity, or the the Czechoslovak Writers Union (June 1967) An interdisciplinary investigation of the social denial thereof Ludvík Vaculík, “Manifesto of 2,000 Words” and political history of Czechoslovakia in the  literary reflections of World War II and the (June 27, 1968) first quarter-century after World War II, and of Holocaust Zdena Salivarová, Summer in Prague (1972) the extraordinarily rich flowering of Czech  the realities and poetics of life under Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude (1976) culture—especially literature, theater and totalitarian rule , The Unbearable Lightness of film—that occurred in the 1960s.  the influence of Kafka, and Being (1984) theater of the absurd Alexandra Berková, stories from Book with a Comp Lit: Czech 4045 – Czech Society and  the role of the writer as the nation’s Red Cover (1986) Culture Since the Fall of Communism conscience and catalyst for socio-political Zuzana Brabcová, Far from the Tree (1987) An interdisciplinary investigation of the change Jáchym Topol, City Sister Silver (1994) political, social and cultural developments that  the phenomena of internal & external exile Jiří Kratochvil, “The Story of King have most powerfully shaped the  ethics and aesthetics of Candaules” (1994) consciousness of Czech people in the 1990s  the realities and poetics of life in the post- Irena Dousková, B. Proudew (1999) and the 21st century. communist landscape Marek Šindelka, Aberrant (2008)