BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cenes.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221116T1115Z-1668597311.215-EO-19820-25@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T022306Z CREATED:20221109T163706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221109T163706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221129T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221129T133000 SUMMARY: From Tahiti to China: Czech Literature Seizing the World DESCRIPTION: How much influence can literature of one small land-locked cou ntry wield outside its borders? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
How much influence can literature of one s mall land-locked country wield outside its borders? Surprisingly\, a lot\, as evidenced by the various linguistic and cultural phenomena that had occu rred around the world because of Czech fiction. This online talk is part of the Slavic Lecture Series.
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< strong>Title: "From Tahiti to China: Czech Literature Seizing the World"
Abstract: A quick glance at several twentieth century Czech authors will reveal\, for example\, how adventure novels bro ught about the opening of the first bookstore as well as the first driving school in Tahiti\, what are the fictional origins of the universally known word robot\, what narrative prompted the fashionable study of Czech languag e in Korea\, and why the word kitsch arrived in China via the pages of a fa mous novel. The domestic benefits of this literary success will also be dis cussed.
Bio: Hana Pich ova\, Professor of Slavic Language and Literatures at the University of Nor th Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, was born in Czechoslovakia. When she was eighte en\, her family emigrated to the United States of America. Following her gr aduate studies at the University of Wisconsin\, she taught in the Departmen t of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas and Univer sity of North Carolina. Her academic interests deal with twentieth century Czech literature and culture\, culminating in two books The Art of Memor y in Exile and The Case of the Missing Statue.
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