CMLT 22001 - Bringing Up the Novel in Bohemia

Institution:

University of Chicago

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In Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia, Michal Viewegh engages with thinkers ranging from the Czech critic Jan Mukarovsky to the French theoretician Roland Barthes and writers from world literature (e.g., Graham Greene, Jorge Borges) to the paragons of the Czech novel (e.g., Karel Capek, Milan Kundera). This course explores the history of the Czech novel that begins with Jan Amos Comenius and Bo ena Nemcová. We then look at the development of the Czech novel through the works of Franz Kafka, Karel Capek, Milan Kundera, Josef kvorecky, and Bohumil Hrabal. Finally we reread Viewegh and some of his contemporaries (e.g., Jachym Topol, Daniela Hodrová) within the context of this newly formed history of the Czech novel . E. Peters. Spring.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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