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