CONTEMPORARY POLISH LITERATURE

Timetable

Module 1 – 4 hours

Polish Prose and the Other: Queer Motifs

Lecturer: Prof. Błażej Warkocki, Department of Anthropology of Literature, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

Module 2 – 4 hours

Images of Emancipation and Feminist Motifs in Polish Literature

Lecturer: Dr. Lucyna Marzec, Department of 20th-Century Literature, Literary Theory and the Art of Translation, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

Module 3 – 4 hours

War and the Holocaust in Polish Literature

Lecturer: Dr. Sylwia Karolak, Department of Anthropology of Literature, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

For students who wish to obtain 3 ECTS

Module 4 – 4 hours

Digital Literature in Poland: Word Art and Multimedia Literature

Lecturers: Prof. Elżbieta Winiecka, Department of Modern Literature and Culture, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU; Prof. Konrad Dominas, Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Unit, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU; Dr. Mariusz Pisarski, DARIAH-PL Project, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

Module 5 – 4 hours

Classical Antiquity in Modern Polish Literature and Film

Lecturer: Prof. Radosław Piętka, Institute of Classical Philology, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

Module 6 – 4 hours

Singing Revolutions? Central European Protest Songs between 1968 and 1989

Lecturer: Dr. Urszula Kowalska-Nadolna, Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, AMU

SYMPOSIUM SESSION – 3 or 6 hours

ON SITE – AMU, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology

The symposium is open to all students and lecturers. Each participant gives a presentation on one of their chosen modules (e.g. Classical Antiquity in Modern Polish Literature and Film). Each presentation is followed by a discussion involving lecturers and students. 

Module aim (aims)

Course Description: The Contemporary Polish Literature course will consist of 6 modules taught in a hybrid mode: 1) Polish Prose and the Other: Queer Motifs (the queer motifs in Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries in the context of Polish culture and LGBTQ emancipatory discourses); 2) Images of Emancipation and Feminist Motifs in Polish Literature (critical images of emancipation and feminist themes in Polish literature and their social and cultural background); 3) War and the Holocaust in Polish Literature (familiarize students with the Polish canon of literary representations of the camps; develop a toolkit for analyzing and comparing literary works addressing Nazi concentration and death camps); 4) Digital Literature in Poland: Word Art and Multimedia Literature (the key features of digital literary forms through Polish case studies); 5) Classical Antiquity in Modern Polish Literature and Film (the reception of antiquity in contemporary Polish literature and film); 6) Singing Revolutions? Central European Protest Songs between 1968 and 1989 (the problem of independent Central European culture, with particular emphasis on Polish and Czech singing poetry, folk singers and the cooperation of Central European independent cultural circles before the political transformation in 1989). The final part of the course will be a Symposium Session to be held at AMU, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology. The symposium will be open to all students and lecturers. Each participant will give a presentation on one of their chosen modules. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion involving lecturers and students. 

Learning Outcomes: Having completed this course, students will be able to 1) know the main issues related to the queer motifs in Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries; 2) indicate the most important events, names and cultural phenomena, from Polish and Central European history, shaping and influencing the social, literary and cultural space of region in the second half of the 20th century; 3) recognise the most important examples of antiquity in contemporary Polish literature and film; 4) know the basic canon of literary representations of the camps; 5) can discuss the most important aspects of Polish hypertext literature.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

12 hours of lessons (3 x Modules) + 3 hours of Symposium Session = 15 hours / 3 ECTS

OR

24 hours of lessons (6 x Modules) + 6 hours of Symposium Session = 30 hours / 6 ECTS

hybrid; Symposium Session on site; Spring/Summer 2024; English

Conditions for passing the course: giving a multimedia presentation on one of the modules during the symposium

Max. no. EPICUR students: 12

Syllabus

Reading list