Bruncvík se chápe slova. Marginálie k didaktickému využití
hrdinů středověké literatury
Bruntsvík grasps the words. Marginalia on the didactic use of the heroes of medieval literature
Author(s): Vendula Rejzlová, Matouš JaluškaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: old Czech literature; medievalism; didactics of literature; chivalric epic; narratology; Chronicle of Bruncvík; Alois Jirásek
Summary/Abstract: Teaching the thousand-year period of medieval European literature and six- undred 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 Stare pověsti česke (Legends of Old Bohemia).
Journal: Slovo a smysl
- Issue Year: 20/2023
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 112-128
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Czech