Syllabus
11. Modernity and morality.
F. X. Šalda: The Child (1923).
Theorist: Jan Patočka.12. Modernism, Politics and Religion.
F. X.
F. X. Šalda: Representatives (1921).13.
New Forms. G.
Apollinaire, Pásmo (1913), technique and biblical motifs. K. Čapek: R.U.R. (1920)14.
New concepts and possibilities of cultural transmission: the work of K. Čapek in the Anglo-American environment. Young nations as carriers of new culture.15.
Modernism in polemic with faith: the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T. S.
Eliot.16. The phenomenon of Petrkov.
Bohuslav Reynek and Suzanne Renaud.17. The polemics of Baroque and Humanism in a modern context.
Durych in the polemic with Karel Čapek. Henri Pourrat, Caspar of the Mountains.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: If the sun had not returned.18. Modernism and History, Modernism and Historical Faith.
Sigrid Undset, Kristina Vavrintsova. Reinhold Schneider and the history of his translations into English.19.
Faith and reaction to modernity: returns to premodern inspirations: J. R.
R. Tolkien.20.
Faith, modernity and theology: the work of Flannery O'Connor and the theology of Friedrich von Hugel. Theorist: Michael Mears Bruner: The Subversive Gospel.
Annotation
The lecture offers overall orientation in chosen aspects of literary modernity which can be detected in the artistic and art-related discourse from the 2nd half of 19th century onwards. It examines specific expressions of modernity and modernism throughout the European literature of the 20th century with close attention to the spiritual emphases that were present in this discourse.
Motto: “Catholicism brought a terrible sacrifice to its (understandable, but uncontrolled) fear of “time”: most part of the spiritual elite between 1830 and 1950 (Heer, The Intellectual History of Europe)