Romantism and National Identity in Central Europe - přednáška - YS573EE00

• Anglický název: Romantism and National Identity in Central Europe
• Zajišťuje: Program SHV - Společenskovědní modul (24-SM)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2002
• Semestr: oba
• E-Kredity: 2
• Rozsah, examinace: 0/0, KZ [HT]
• Počet míst: zimní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen); letní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: zrušen
• Jazyk výuky: čeština
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Staré označení: S573EE00I
• Poznámka: předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS

Anotace

Poslední úprava: JOSIFKO (09.01.2008)

Throughout 19th Century Central Europe, the ideas of Romanticism helped awaken national identities and rekindled hopes of national emancipation. Organic models of community, based on ties of nature, culture and language, gave birth to grand narratives of national history. The upsurge of nationalism created sharp divisions in multilingual and multiethnic societies, leading to a deep and protracted crisis of many Central European nations lasting from the beginning of WWI to the 1990s. This course will focus on Romanticism and related movements in art, literature and philosophy in the past two centuries within Central Europe. From its origins in the late Enlightenment period through its manifestations in folklorism, Panslavisim, utopias, nationalist epics, or titanism, Romanticism played a key role in the development of Central European culture. In addition, we will also examine Romanticism in literary works of twentieth-century Central European writers, including Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Karel Čapek, Milan Kundera and Vaclav Havel.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: JOSIFKO (09.01.2008)

ROMANTICISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE

COURSE SYLLABUS

Martin Procházka

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Description: For many Central European nations Romanticism was a decisive cultural influence that shaped their emancipation movements in the nineteenth century.

Organic models of community based on the affinities between nature, culture and language became the foundation of nationalistic ideologies. The upsurge of nationalism gave birth to grand narratives of national history, and created sharp divides in multilingual and multiethnic societies. The outcome of these developments was a deep and protracted crisis of many Central European nations in the twentieth century, affecting the best works of their cultures.

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part we will study the origins and different forms of Romanticism in Central European cultures (Czech, Slovak, and partially also Austrian, German, Polish, and Hungarian), and read specimens of Czech romantic literature (K.H. Mácha's verse tale May, selected poems from the Queen's Court Manuscript) and selected theoretical or historical texts (see below in the section Reference). We will also discuss the refashioning of romantic paradigms in the communist ideologies of bipolar world and "people's culture". Our main aim will be the understanding of basic cultural notions and paradigms, such as multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, patriotism, nationalism, the invention of tradition, cultural translation, or imagined community, the explanation of difficult, culturally specific terms, namely antiquarianism, philology, national revival or Biedermeier, and the comparison of the Central European notions of ethnocentric nationality with the U.S. and British concepts of the nation and national identity. For those who do not have any experience with European romantic literature some preliminary reading of English romantics, especially lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge, is recommended.

In the second part we will closely read some representative works of twentieth-century Central European literatures (see below under "Fiction, Poetry, and Drama"). We will examine the ways these works reflect romantic themes or cultural paradigms, and respond to the questions and dilemmas of national identity. Our purpose will be to understand the persistence and transformation of Romanticism in modern and contemporary Central European cultures, its creative influence and destructive effects.

The presentation of individual topics will combine the form of lecture (explaining selected topics in the coursebook or reference texts, or important features of social, historical or literary context of the discussed book), and the form of discussion. Discussions will be introduced by short but carefully prepared position papers (5 mins.) given at most sessions by all students in the class.

Literature:

Coursebook:

Procházka, Martin, In Search of National Identity (will be distributed in digital version or as a master copy for photocopying)

Fiction, Poetry, Drama:

Čapek, Karel, War with the Newts, trans. R. Weatherall (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998).

Havel, Václav, The Garden Party, in Selected Plays, trans. Vera Blackwell et al. (London: Faber & Faber, 1992).

Kafka, Franz, "The Judgement", "Singer Josephine", in: The Complete Short Stories (New York: Vintage, 1992)

__________, The Castle, in The Complete Novels (New York: Vintage, 1992).

Kundera, Milan, Immortality, trans. Peter Kussi (London: Faber & Faber, 1992)

Mácha, Karel Hynek, May, trans. Edith Pargeter (Prague: Orbis, 1967)

Musil, Robert, The Man without Qualities, trans. Sophie Wilkins and Barter Pike (London: Picador, 1997)

Poems from The Queen's Court Manuscript: Zaboy, Slawoy, and Ludeck Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, 10.55 (September 1821):149-150; John Bowring, Ancient Bohemian Ballads, The Westminster Review, 12.24 (April 1830):304-317 (photocopies provided)

Reference:

Abrams, M.H., The Mirror and the Lamp (New York: Norton, 1958)

Abrams, M.H., Natural Supernaturalism (New York: Norton, 1972)
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983)

Bhabha, Homi K., The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994)
Brock, Peter, Skilling, Gordon H. (eds.), The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century (Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 1970)
Butler, Marilyn, Romantics, Rebels, Reactionaries (Oxford: OUP, 1981)
Deleuze, Gilles, Guattari, Félix, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, trans. Dana Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1986)

Furst, Lilian, Romanticism in Perspective (London: Macmillan, 1969)
Hobsbawm, Eric J., Ranger, Terence (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

Hrbata Zdeněk, Procházka, Martin, "European Romanticism and Czech National Revival", Litteraria Pragensia, 3.5 (1993):70 87

Johnston, William, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)
Lass, Andrew, "Romantic Documents and Political Monuments: the Meaning Fulfillment of History in 19th Century Czech Nationalism," American Ethnologist, 15 (1988): 456 471

McGann, Jerome, The Romantic Ideology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1983)
Nemoianu, Virgil, The Taming of Romanticism. European Literature in the Age of Biedermeier (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1984)

Porter, Roy, Teich, Mikuláš (eds.), Romanticism in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Procházka, Martin, "Romantic Revivals: Cultural Translations, Universalism, and Nationalism", in Susan Bassnett and Martin Procházka (eds.), Cultural Learning: Language Learning, Selected Papers from the Second International British Studies Conference (Prague: The British Council and Charles University, 1997), 75-89.

______________, "Byron and Romantic Nationalism in Central Europe: the Case of Czechs and Slovaks", in: Richard Cardwell (ed.), Lord Byron the European. Essays from the International Byron Society, Studies in British Literature, vol. 31 (Lewiston, Kingston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998), 55-74.
_______________, "Byron's Reputation in Bohemia and Czech Nineteenth Century Nationalism", The Byron Journal, 28 (2000): 37-48
________________, "Prisoner's Predicament: Public Privacy in Havel's Letters to Olga", Representations (University of California Press), 43 (summer 1993):126 154.

Součková, Milada, The Czech Romantics (The Hague: Mouton 1958)
Smith, Anthony D., The Nation in History. Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and

Nationalism (Cambridge: Polity, 2000)

Wellek, René, Essays on Czech Literature (The Hague: Mouton 1963)
Note: The sources in the "Reference" section marked by an asterisk (*) are recommended, not required.

Exams: There will be a midterm and a final exam. The former will follow after the first part of the course and will have a form of a test. The final exam will be cumulative and will have a form of an in-class essay (4 handwritten pages minimum). Though model exam topics will be publicized, students will draw specific topics at the beginning of the exam. Exams are closed-book; consulting books, materials or notes will not be permitted.

Homework: For each discussion all students will prepare short position papers (5 mins.). In addition, they will submit an essay of 3000 words on a topic of their choice. The outline of this essay (300 wds. max.) must be discussed with me. The submission deadline for essays is the last class in the semester.

Grading: class Participation 10%, Homework 30 %, Midterm 20 %, Final 40%.

Outline of the Course:

Week

1. 2/20

2. 2/27

3.

3/6

4. 3/13

5. 3/20

6. 3/27

7. 4/3

8. 4/10

9. 4/17

10. 4/24

11.

t.b.a

12.

t.b.a

13.

5/15 Topic

Introduction. Central European notions of Nation and Nationality

Natural, Organic and Imagined Communities

What Is a National Revival?

Invention of Tradition, Cultural Translation, part I

Invention of Tradition, Cultural Translation, part II

Romantic Individualism and National Revival

Review Session. Midterm Exam

Kafka: 1. Legacy of Romantic Nationalism and "Minor Culture"

Kafka: 2. Organic Community and Bureaucratic State

Musil: Transformation of Romantic Individualism

Čapek: Practical Humanism versus Ethnocentrism

Havel: Search of Identity and Absurdity of Totalitarianism

Kundera: Beyond Romanticism and National Culture. Review Session Readings

Coursebook, chapter 1

Coursebook, chapter 2 (intro); Anderson, Imagined Communities (selection); Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp, chapter 7, part 2 (extract)

Coursebook, chapter 2 (1-7); Hrbata, Procházka, "European Romanticism and Czech National Revival"; Butler, "English Romanticism", in: Porter, Teich, Romanticism in a National Context;

Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism (extract from chap. 1)

Coursebook, chapters 3 to 5; Hobsbawm, Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (intro and the essay by Trevor-Roper)

Queen's Court Manuscript (selected poems); Procházka, "Romantic Revivals"; Lass, " Romantic Documents and Political Monuments"

Coursebook, chapter 7; Procházka, "Byron's Reputation in Bohemia", Mácha, May

Kafka, "Singer Josephine", "The Judgement"; Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, chap. 3

The Castle

The Man without Qualities (selection)

War with the Newts

The Garden Party; Procházka, "Prisoner's Predicament"

Immortality

Vstupní požadavky

Poslední úprava: JOSIFKO (09.01.2008)

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