Syllabus
1. The Cursed poets and the theme of faith. 2.
Czech modernism and Christian morality. 3. Charles Péguy.
Bohuslav Reynek. 6. Le Rosseau D'Or and Georges Bernanos. 7.
Paul Claudel, the world perspective, the Czech one. 8. Jakub Deml and Otokar Březina. 9.
Dramas of F. X. Šalda and the theme of religion. 10.
Biblical elements in the works of K. Čapek.
Annotation
The course explores the range of forms through which literary works "confront" faith and experience of God, articulate them artistically, and reflects. The focus of the course is a shared close reading of two selected authors per semester: emphasis is on capturing the dynamics of the emergence and dissemination of each impulse into the cultural and social milieu of the time.