Bruncvík se chápe slova. Marginálie k didaktickému využití hrdinů středověké literatury

• Authors: Rejzlová Vendula , Jaluška Matouš

Title variants

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Bruncvík Wants to Have a Say: Notes on the Didactic Use of Heroes from Medieval Literature

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Teaching the thousand-year period of medieval European literature and six-hundred years of Old Czech literature in Czech secondary education is often confronted by two interrelated challenges: the subjects are traditionally taught through a chronological approach to literary history in the first year of school, while presenting language, literary genres, themes, and ideas that are distant and difficult to understand for contemporary readers, particularly the target student group (15–16 years of age). A majority of teachers are unwilling to deal with old literature in their lessons. Can we find a way to modify and improve this practice? In this paper we try to grasp the perceived difficulty and otherness of this corpus in a constructive way and show that it can be productively used, for example, by moving away from the traditional chronological framework and focusing on probing texts (especially narratives) that link the present to the past. We show this possibility through the example of the story of Bruncvík, comparing its medieval version to a more recent version by Alois Jirásek in his Staré pověsti české (Legends of Old Bohemia).

Keywords

CS

Staročeská literatura; medievalismus; didaktika literatury; rytířská epika; naratologie; Kronika o Bruncvíkovi; Alois Jirásek

EN

old Czech literature; medievalism; didactics of literature; chivalric epic; narratology; Chronicle of Bruncvík; Alois Jirásek

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 112-128

Contributors

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Rejzlová Vendula

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR

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Jaluška Matouš

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR