General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | Ancient Popular Topoi and Motifs in Culture and Literature |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | Prof. Radosław Piętka |
Lecturer's email | platon@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Professor |
Faculty | Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology |
Semester | 2022/2023 (summer) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 4 |
USOS code | 03-AP-APT |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
- to obtain state-of-the-art knowledge of the subject matter of the lecture;
- to deepen one’s knowledge of selected problems of classical culture;
- to obtain knowledge of the coexistence of methodological trends;
- to obtain the knowledge of basic terminology and methods typical of several methodologies;
- to develop the ability to recognize and assess methods used in earlier and recent research;
- to develop skills at applying the tools typical of specific methodological trends.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
general familiarity with classics; basic familiarity with the terminology of history of arts and theory of literature; having read a number of classical texts, original or translated; attending other lectures on classical culture.
Syllabus
Course learning content: |
Concepts and ideas: motif, commonplace, theme, symbol, archetype, myth; |
Classical motifs reworked in modern culture; |
Homeric epic about war and travelling: short history of the universal metaphors of human life; |
Ancient bestiary and modern posthuman reflections; |
Astral imagination, ancient and modern; |
Ancient poleology in modern guise: motif of the city (and its ruins) in contemporary art and literature; |
Ancient motifs in contemporary cinema. |
Reading list
to be announced in class (e.g. E. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Oxford 2013 [1953]; M. Beard, J. Henderson, Classics. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford 1997; Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema. Ed. M.M. Winkler. Oxford 2001; Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English. Ed. S.J. Harrison. Oxford 2009; Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Ed. D. Lowe, K. Shahabudin. Newcastle 2009).