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How did the Cold War - as theme, translation practice and hermeneutic activity - affect the reading of literature, in particular poetry? How did those particular historical circumstances change the nature of World Literature? Can literature, or more particularly poetry, survive as an autonomous space, irreducible to historical or ideological circumstances? What does such transmission tell us about the way that anglophone culture absorbs new models, during the Cold War, and beyond?
In the first semester we will begin with the theoretical discourses of both World Literature and Transnationalism, then test these against cultural praxis in the Cold War by considering the Czech context of the 1950s, with especial reference to the Czech poet and translator, Jan Zábrana. Consideration of Zábrana's transnational scope enables new readings of US poetry in the period. Knowledge of Czech is required. Although this course stretches over two semesters, students may take only one component if they wish. American Literature Specialization Irish Studies Specialization English Literature Specialization Students from Comparative Literature and Czech Literature also welcome. Poslední úprava: UAAQUINJ (30.11.2013)
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Essay of 3000 words to be submitted no later than 1 month after completion of the seminar, 70% attendance and active engagement in the seminar. Poslední úprava: UAAQUINJ (18.07.2013)
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Useful Links: The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s Centre for Research of Czechoslovak Socialist Realist Literature and Art Anthology of Czech literary criticism and polemics, 1948-1958
Secondary Sources: Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Trans. M. B. Debevoise. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Damrosch, David. What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Khagram, Sanjeev, and Peggy Levitt, eds. The Transnational Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2008. Kosatík, Pavel. Fenomén Kohout. Prague: Paseka, 2001. McGrath, Thomas. Selected Poems, 1938-1988. Ed. Sam Hamill. Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1988. Moretti, Franco. "Conjectures on World Literature". New Left Review. (Jan-Feb 2000). Piette, Adam. The Literary Cold War: 1945 to Vietnam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Prendergast, Christopher, ed. Debating World Literature. London: Verso, 2004. Ramazani, Jahan. A Transnational Poetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Stonor-Saunders, Frances. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Letters. New York: New Press, 2000. Veselá, Pavla. "Literature." Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Ed. Ruud Van Dijk. New York: Routledge, 2008. 545-548. Zábrana, Jan. Stránky z deníku. Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1968. Zábrana, Jan, ed. Pátá roční doba: americká radikální poezie. Prague: Mladá fronta, 1959. Poslední úprava: UAAQUINJ (30.11.2013)
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1. Introduction
2. Methods of Transmission I: World Literature Pascale Casanova, from The World Republic of Letters, chapter 1, "Principles of a World Literature History"; passages from the rest of the book.
3. Methods of Transmission II: Transnationalism Khagram, Sanjeev, and Peggy Levitt, eds. The Transnational Studies Reader (2008), ch. 1
4. Cold War Cold War Politics and Culture Timeline
5. Cold War Culture Pavla Veselá, "Literature in the Cold War"
6. Poetry: Czech Context (8-15 Nov) Antonín Brousek, ed. Podivuhodní kouzelníci: čítanka českého stalinismu v řeči vázané z let 1945-55 (1987), Afterword
7. The View from Prague: Zábrana’s America (22 Nov) Jan Zábrana, ed. Pátá roční doba: americká radikální poezie (1959)
8. Poetry of the American Left (29 Nov) Alan Filreis. "Modern Poetry and Anticommunism" (2005)
6 December: Presentation by Brian Goodman on Philip Roth, Ivan Klíma and Cold War Prose.
9. Jan Zábrana’s Cold War Poetry (13-20 Dec) Stránky z deníku (1968) Poslední úprava: UAAQUINJ (30.11.2013)
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