Syllabus
11. Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Karel Čapek. 12.
Jan Čep. Christian personalism.
French friends of Jan Čep. 13. Edith Stein, Anastasius Belt, Thomas Merton, poetry and religion. 14.
Ivan Martin Jirous. The literary underground and Christianity. 15.
Josef Jedlička and the Dantean myth. 16. Zdeněk Rotrekl.
A poet as perpendicular as water in a well. 17. Pavel Kolmačka.
The ordinariness of Christian life. 18. Štěpán Smolen: religious and social themes; essays. 19. Marek Orko Vácha, essays, prose, reflections. 20.
Miloš Doležal, documentary and poetry, to bear witness.
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.