REQUIRED
READINGS
LITERATURE:
Bezruc,
Petr. “Kyjov,” “Ostrava,” “I Am the First of the Tesin People.”
Brezina,
Otakar. “Pure Morning,” “Legend of the Secret Guilt,” “World of Plants,” “Responses.”
Capek,
Karel. R.U.R. (Rossum’s
Universal Robots).
Cech,
Svatopluk. Our Native Tongue.
Chelcicky,
Petr. Concerning War and Cities.
Erben,
K. J. “The Willow.”
Friedmann,
Pavel. “The Butterfly.”
Hachenburg.
Hanus. “Terezin.”
Havel,
Vaclav. The Memorandum, “The End of the Modern Era,” “Politics, Morality, and Civility from
Summer Meditations.”
Hirschberg,
Stuart, and Terry Hirschberg. The
Many Worlds of Literature. Newark:
Rutgers, 2000.
Hrabal,
Bohumil. Too Loud a Solitude.
Hus,
Jan. “Letter from Constance.”
Kafka,
Franz. The Metamorphosis.
Kollar,
Jan. “The Daughter of Slava.”
Krasko,
Ivan. “The Slave,” “Jehovah.”
Machar,
J. S. “On Golgotha,” “Tractate on Patriotism.”
Mif. “Terezin.”
Neruda. “To My Mother.”
Seifert,
Jaroslav. “Mozart in Prague: Thirteen
Rondels.”
Sova,
Antonin. “On the Hill-Side,” “To Theodor Mommsen,” “Eternal Unrest,” “O, That Joy Might Come,”
“Yellow Flowers,” “The Morning
Wind.”
Theer,
Otakar. “Fire,” “Spake My Heart,” “Drifting as in Dream He Dwells.”
Toman,
Karel. “The Sun-dial,” “February,”
“April,” “Fire.”
Vrchlicky,
Jaroslav. “Adagio,” “Melancholy,” “Serenade XXII,”
“Ecologue IV,” “The Grave-Yard
in Song,” “Marco Polo.”
ARTICLES:
“An
American in Prague.” Travel and
Leisure. Nov. 1998: 192-233.
Barnard,
Charles N. “Old Stone and New Stone.” National Geographic Traveler. 77-92.
May/June. 1993.
Books. The Context Books. Art and Photography.
258-265.
Burke,
Justin. “Americans Bring Bohemian
Lifestyle to Czech Republic.” The
Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar.
1994: ll-13.
“Center
for Culture. Czech Literature.” Kafka
and Capek.
“Culture.” The Lonely Planet. Yahoo! Travel. 1997.
“Czech
and Slovak Literature in English.” Czech
and Slovak Writing in Transition. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tay10010/tansl.html
Foneseca,
Isabel. “Among the Gypsies.” The New Yorker. 25 Sept. 1995: 84-97.
http://travel.
Yahoo.com/Destinations/Europe/Countries/Czech_Republic/cult.html
Holy,
Jiri. “Czech Literature Since
1980’s.” Institute of Czech
Literature, Czech Academy for
Sciences. http://www2.arts
“K
Book Review.” Exquisite Literature from
Around the World. Kbookrev@aol.com
Lindberg, Eric. “Bohemia’s Golden City.” Odyssey. Fall 1999: 28-33.
“Literature.” http://web.vol.cz/travelnet/travel/culture/inter.html
Makarova,
Elena. “University Over The
Abyss.” Terezin Lectures.
Meyers,
Lewis. “Instructor’s Ed. Findings,
Readings for Critical Writing.
Lexington Health, 1995.
“Music
Listening and Notation.” Appendix. 550-554.
Steves,
Rick. Popular Prague. Transitions Abroad. Sept./Oct. 1998.
Taylor,
Joshua C. Learning to Look: A
Handbook for the Visual Arts. 2nd ed. Chicago: U. of Chicago P,
1981.
Multimedia:
CD Go to the LRC Circulation Desk and ask
for “Legends of Prague” CD ROM
http://www.nemix.com/html/legends.html
Websites:
Radio
Prague http://www.radio.cz
http://culture.cz/cgi-bin/culture/go.pl?/wwhome.cz.html
http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~ab267
http://www.czechsite.com.lvr/index.shtml
http://www.czechsite.com.lvr/language.html
Books
on Czech Republic:
Holy,
Ladislav. The Little Czech and the
Great Czech. National Identity and the Post-Communist Social
Transformation. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Kovaly,
Heda Margolius. Under a Cruel Star:
A Life in Prague 1941-1968. Reviewed
at
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32328897407420
Kovtun,
George J., ed. Czech and Slovak
History: An American Bibliography
Leff,
Carol Skalnik. The Czech and Slovak
Republics: Nation Versus State. Nations
of Modern World Europe.
Lunt, Susie, ed. World Bibliographic Series
Pynsent,
Robert B. Questions of Identity:
Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. Oxford UP.
Valdimir
Brych. ed. A Thousand Years of Czech. Reviewed at
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23789865300286
Film:
Kolya. 1996 Oscar
Menzel,
Jiri. Hrabal’s Closely Watched
Trains
Television:
PBS
Program on Prague