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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPTIONAL RESOURCES

 

 

 

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