Central European Drama at the Beginning of the 20th Century (Slovenian Ivan Cankar and Croatian Miroslav Krleža) - AJVES00584

• Title: Středoevropská drama na začátku 20. století (Ivan Cankar a Miroslav Krleža)
• Guaranteed by: Department of Ethnology and Central European and Balkan Studies (21-UESEBS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: 1
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• Key competences: critical thinking
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Level: specialized
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc.
• Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc. (09.10.2023)

In the lecture, we will focus on drama in Central Europe (in Slovenia and Croatia) at the beginning of the 20th century - in the period of modernism and expressionism. We will deal with the dramas of two key writers - representatives from South Slavic literature: Slovenian Ivan Cankar and Croatian Miroslav Krleža. We will focus on their plays, which critically reflected society in their period, which criticized national myths and depicted negative phenomena in the national society and Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In the analyses, we will discuss modern and traditional elements in their dramatic work.

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc. (09.10.2023)

Oral exam and essay (5-7 pages) 

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc. (09.10.2023)

References:

SLODNJAK, A.: Ivan Cankar in Slovene and world literature. London: Modern Humanities Research Association for the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1981.

 

DOROVSKÝ, Ivan: Dramatické umění jižních Slovanů: část. 1918-1945, 1. dil,  Brno. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, Filozofická fakulta, 1995.

DOROVSKÝ, Ivan (ed.): Studie z literárněvědné slavistiky. Brno: Masaryková univerzita 1999.

DOROVSKI, I. a kol.: Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha 2001.

HRABÁK, J.: Poetika. Praha 1977.

PAVERA, L. – VŠETIČKA, F.: Lexikon literárních pojmů. Olomouc 2002.

MUKAŘOVSKÝ, J.: Cestami poetiky a estetiky. Praha 1971.

VLAŠÍN, Š. a kol.: Slovník literární teorie. Praha 1977.

URBANČIČ, B.: Česko-slovinské kulturní styky. Praha 1995.

 

Literature:

Ivan Cankar, The Lackeys: A Play in Five Acts (The complete plays of Ivan Cankar Book 6) Kindle Edition.

Ivan Cankar, King of Betajnova: A Drama in Three Acts (The complete plays of Ivan Cankar Book 4).

Miroslav Krleža, Gospoda Glembajevi (The Glembays) in Harbors Rich in Ships: Selected Revolutionary Writings. Translated by Željko Cipriš. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Alenka Jensterle Doležal, CSc. (09.10.2023)

1. Characteristics of the period. Drama and theatre in Europe at the turn of the Century and at the beginning of 20th Century. The development of modern drama. Transition from the 19th to the 20th century. Modernism and Expressionism.

2. Slovenian and Croatian drama in the modern period at the beginning of the 20th century.

3. Ivan Cankar and the development of Slovenian drama. The main characteristics of his drama. His plays between realism and symbolism.

4. Analysis of the drama Ivan Cankar, Kralj na Betajnovi, (The King of Betajnova) 1902.

5. Analysis of the drama Ivan Cankar, Hlapci (The Serfs, 1910)

6. Miroslav Krleža and the development of Croatian drama. The main characteristics of his drama.

7. Miroslav Krleža, Gospoda Glembayevi (Messrs. Glembay. A Drama in Three Acts from the Life of One Agramer Patrician Family of Glembay), 1928.

8. Miroslav Krleža, Agonija, "At agony", 1928.

9. Miroslav Krleža, "Leda", 1932.  

10. Summary of  his dramatic work. “The Glembaj Family” as an indictment of the decadence of the Croatian bourgeoisie under the rule of Austria-Hungary.

11. Comparative analyses.

12. Concluding remarks.