Writers, Feminists, Inspirers 2026/2027

Guaranteeing unit: KCR

Guarantor: Ing. Ivica Linderová, PhD.

Lecturer: RNDr. Milan Kameník

Lecturer's medallion: Graduate of Charles University in Prague, majoring in geography. He worked as a climatologist, editor of the magazine 100 1 ZZ, translator from German and French, lecturer at the Polyglot language school. Author of the books The Cold Planet, Attila, Bernard of Clairvaux and Alain-Fournier. As a U3V lecturer he focuses on geography, history, mythology, religion and literature.

Annotation: "I'd rather not have had the novel, I'd rather not have read it..." We all know the lyrics to this song. But in this course, we're not going to be looking for the hero, Oliver Twist. We'll be interested in novel heroines, writers, feminists, women who have influenced world literature in some way. Perhaps by inspiring male writers. And we'll show the magical places they told us about in their works. We will take the audience to England, France, Denmark, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Norway, Germany, New Caledonia, Greece and Italy. We have a category of real-life women (Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Regine Olsen, Catherine Sintès, Simone de Beauvoir, Emily Brontë, Louise Michel, Sapho) and a group of fictional characters (Jane Buxton, Lucy Westenra, Yvonne de Galais) who have nevertheless made a significant mark on literary history. It is a selection oriented, with few exceptions, towards the 19th and 20th centuries. Through the fates of these heroines in prose and poetry, we want to document the tortuous and thorny paths of female emancipation.

Number of Semesters: 2

Teaching Day:Thursday

Times of instruction: 1st en. from 13:00-14:30, 2. sk. 2:45-4:15 p.m.

Other Requirements: Interest in literary history, feminism, mythology, history and geography

Course Completion: A final short paper on which literary figure most impressed the student.

Please note: The team of the University of the Third Age of the University of Applied Sciences reserves the right to make changes for organizational reasons (lecturer, date, time of classes). Any changes will always be communicated to those interested in the course in a timely manner.

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