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E-learning course Modern Literature and Christianity

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Abstract

Modern Literature and Christianity: pilot e-learning course, created in cooperation between the Department of Church History and Literary History and Mgr. Pavlina Bílková.

In twelve thirty-minute lectures, supplemented by a powerpoint presentation, the course presents a sequence of major literary and publishing personalities who, in the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries related their work or activities - either critically or positively - to the problem of spirituality, within the framework determined by literary modernism. The personalities represented are the following Francophone and Anglophone authors, Charles Baudelaire, E.

A. Poe, Paul Verlaine, Charles Péguy, in one case also a Russian author, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, who had a noticeable impact on Czech modernism and its relationship to spirituality, starting with F.

X. Šalda, through Otokar Březina, J. S.

Machar, Josef Florian to Jakub Deml.