FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
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FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Information for the Preliminary Course in CZECH (with Slovak) 2015/2016 THE PRELIMINARY COURSE First-year teaching in Czech language and literature – in the form of university lectures, college classes/seminars and tutorials – is coordinated by: Dr Zuzana Říhová (Departmental Lecturer in Czech and Slovak) The timetable of classes in Michaelmas Term will be arranged at a meeting held towards the end of Freshers Week (= Nought Week). Beginners will receive around three hours of intensive Czech language classes per week, and more advanced students will be catered for as appropriate. Students also attend a weekly lecture on Czech literature and a weekly seminar on Czech literary texts. These continue throughout the year. There will also be tutorials for essays on Czech literature; these tutorials are usually held in Hilary and Trinity Terms. A number of links to local and outside web resources for students of Czech and Slovak language and literature are provided on the following web pages: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/links.html http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/czech.html Further details about the papers to be sat in the Preliminary Examination and set texts for literature are given below, followed by an introductory reading list, with recommended dictionaries, textbooks and some background reading. Four Czech examination papers are taken by all at the end of the first year (whether beginners or not) as follows: Czech Prelims information for students 2015/16 PAPERS I AND II: LANGUAGE Two language papers are taken in the Preliminary Examination, which is held at the end of the third term. These aim to test the ability to understand and translate straightforward modern Czech prose, active knowledge of elementary grammar, vocabulary and idiom, and basic writing skills. (Oral work is not tested by formal examination at this stage.) The level of language work set in the examination primarily aims to cater for ab initio candidates. (Any native speaker or relatively advanced student of the language will be set more demanding language work during the year.) PAPERS III AND IV: LITERATURE Two literature papers are also sat at the end of the year, one devoted to the Czech short story, the other to Czech drama and poetry. In Paper III the focus is on close study of several Czech short stories, using the following set texts: Milan Kundera: Falešný autostop Karel Čapek: Šlépěj Jan Neruda: Pan Ryšánek a pan Schlegel Egon Hostovský: Závrať For Paper IV we study one twentieth-century play, one collection of poetry and one long poem (Zone). Karel Čapek, R.U.R. Jiří Wolker: Svatý kopeček Karel Jaromír Erben: Kytice Czech Prelims information for students 2015/16 RE ADING LISTS (Language) The beginners’ language textbook which we are using is: James Naughton, Colloquial Czech (Routledge, 2011) – obtain the NEW third edition. You are also advised to acquire this concise grammar for reference purposes: James Naughton, Czech: an Essential Grammar (Routledge, 2005). Some online vocabulary testing material is available here, on WebLearn: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/modlang/czech/prelims Another detailed basic vocabulary aid is František Čermák, Michal Křen, A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Czech: core vocabulary for learners (Routledge, 2010). Other useful links are available here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/links.html http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/czech.html Recommended Dictionaries You will eventually need to acquire and use more than one dictionary. None covers every requirement for reading and translation. Recommended dictionaries include: Lingea – Anglicko-český slovník is perhaps the most detailed two-way dictionary that is freely available online at present. It can often detect headwords when searching from the inflected forms and when you type words without their diacritics. Josef Fronek, English-Czech Czech-English Dictionary (Anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník), Prague: Leda, 1998 etc.; handy noun tables, less good for verb aspectual pairs. Ivan Poldauf et al., Anglicko-český česko-anglický slovník, various editions, 1073 pp.; older but useful two-way dictionary with good information on aspectual pairs. Ivan Poldauf, Velký česko-anglický slovník, WD Publications, Čelákovice / Hippocrene Books, New York, 1188 pp.; various printings, very useful larger Czech-English volume, very good for identifying aspectual pairs. Josef Fronek, Velký česko-anglický slovník, Prague: Leda, 2000, 1597 pp.; another newer large Czech-English dictionary. Josef Fronek, Velký anglicko-český slovník, Praha: Leda, 2006; similar in size to the preceding. This single-volume monolingual dictionary is also very useful for examples of usage Josef Filipec et al., Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost, Prague: Academia, 1994 etc. (2nd ed.) + phrase-books etc. e.g. Berlitz, Collins, BBC, Rough Guide, Oxford Photo Czech Literature READING LIST The list below should be covered by candidates during the four years of their studies. The majority of work is now available in English, however, we encourage candidates to read in Czech. 19th-century authors: K. H. MÁCHA: Máj, Pouť Krkonošská, Marinka K. J. ERBEN: Kytice BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ: Babička, Divá Bára KAROLÍNA SVĚTLÁ: Kříž u potoka ZEYER: Tři legendy o krucifixu, Dům U tonoucí hvězdy JAKUB ARBES: Svatý Xaverius, Romaneta VÍTĚZSLAV HÁLEK: Muzikantská liduška JAN NERUDA: Povídky malostranské, Arabesky, Balady a romance KAREL HLAVÁČEK: Pozdě k ránu, Mstivá Kantiléna ANTONÍN SOVA: Zlomená duše 20th-century authors (to the present) VIKTOR DYK: Krysař JOSEF ČAPEK: Lelio RICHARD WEINER: Netečný divák, Škleb KAREL ČAPEK: Boží muka, Trapné povídky, Hordubal, Povětron, Obyčejný život, Povídky z jedné kapsy, Povídky z druhé kapsy JAROSLAV HAŠEK: Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za druhé světové války JIŘÍ WOLKER: Host do domu VÍTĚZSLAV NEZVAL: Pantomima, Básně noci, Valérie a týden divů, Absolutní hrobař JAROSLAV SEIFERT: Na vlnách TSF, Morový sloup FRANTIŠEK HALAS: Staré ženy, Kohout plaší smrt VLADISLAV VANČURA: Pekař Jan Marhoul, Pole orná a válečná, Markéta Lazarová, Konec krásných časů JAKUB DEML: Zapomenuté světlo VLADIMÍR HOLAN: Příběhy MILADA SOUČKOVÁ: Amor a Psyche, Neznámý člověk EGON HOSTOVSKÝ: Cizinec hledá byt, Listy z vyhnanství JIŘÍ KOLÁŘ: Limb a jiné básně, Dny v roce JOSEF KAINAR: Nové mýty JAN HANČ: Události JOSEF JEDLIČKA: Kde život náš je vpůli se svou poutí JAN ZÁBRANA: Utkvělé černé ikony, Celý život JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ: Zbabělci LADISLAV FUKS: Pan Theodor Mudstock, Spalovač mrtvol BOHUMIL HRABAL: Kain, Ostře sledované vlaky, Příliš hlučná samota, Oblsuhoval jsem anglického krále and so on… MILAN KUNDERA: Monology, Žert, Směšné lásky, Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí and so on… VÁCLAV HAVEL: Zahradní slavnost, Pokoušení, Odcházení and so on VĚRA LINHARTOVÁ: Prostor k rozlišení VLADIMÍR PÁRAL: Soukromá vichřice LUDVÍK VACULÍK: Morčata, Sekyra PAVEL KOHOUT: Katyně KAREL PECKA: Motáky nezvěstnému JÁCHYM TOPOL: Anděl, Chladnou zemí MICHAL VIEWEGH: Báječná léta pod psa JAN BALABÁN: Možná že odcházíme DANIELA HODROVÁ: Trýznivé město EMIL HAKL: O rodičích a dětech Here are some general surveys and anthologies of Czech literature you might find helpful: Lubomír Doležel: Narrative modes in Czech literature Jan Lehár: Česká literatura od počátků k dnešku Petr Čornej (ed.): Česká literatura na předělu století Dalibor Tureček: Česká literatura národního obrození Jiří Holý: Writers under Siege. Czech literature since 1945, there is a list of Anthologies of Czech literature in English translation!!! Vladimír Papoušek (ed.): Dějiny nové moderny Pavel Janoušek (ed). Dějiny české literatury 1945-1989 Arne Novák: Přehledné dějiny literatury české od nejstarších dob až po naše dny Dobrava Moldanová: Česká literatura 1890-1948 Lexikon české literatury Slovník české literatury: http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/ Z dějin českého myšlení o literatuře. Antologie k Dějinám české literatury 1945-1990 http://www.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/index.php?expand=/antologie/zdejin/1 Avantgarda známá a neznámá, sv. 1–3 http://www.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/index.php?expand=/antologie/avantgarda/AVA1 Slovník básnických knih http://www.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/index.php?expand=/prirucky/obsah/SBK Čeští spisovatelé počátku 19. a 20. století http://www.ucl.cas.cz/edicee/index.php?expand=/prirucky/obsah/CS Lubomír Machala: Panorama polistopadové české literatury V souřadnicích volnosti/ V souřadnicích mnohosti: Česká literatura mezi lety 1990 – 2010 v intepretacích