From Prus to Proust 3001-PDP-OG

The aim of the lecture is to acquaint students with the most important phenomena in the mid-nineteenth and 20th century prose. Boleslaw Prus's prose works is treated as a kind of guidebook for this area, set by the names such as, Dickens, Balzak, Zola, Berent, Żeromski, Irzykowski, James, Woolf and Joyce. The course is to show the transformation of technique and philosophy of writing novels as well as to acquaint students with the languages of prose of that time such as: realism, naturalism, impressionism, expressionism, grotesque. An important path in the reflection is the problem of realism and the transformations of the formula of "reality" which is linked to the phenomenon of the crisis of representation. The lecture complements the classes about the history of Polish literature during positivism and “Young Poland” period. Students of departments treat this course as a complementation to general knowledge related to literature.

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

A Polish Language student has had a lecture on the history of literature of positivism and ‘Young Poland’ and classes in the history of Polish literature of the periods of romanticism and positivism. Students of departments treat this course as a complementation to general knowledge related to literature. For students of Polish Language studies the lecture extend the compulsory materials of classes and allows to better prepare to the MA seminar about literature in the second half of the nineteenth century. Students of departments treat this course as a complementation to general knowledge related to literature.

Learning outcomes

Upon finishing the subject of the lecture a student:
- examines the transformation of forms of Polish and European novels from the second half of the nineteenth century until the twenties of the twentieth century, but also the transformation of subjectivity inscribed in literary characters and the formulas of their identities
- recognizes the formal solutions characteristic of realistic, naturalistic and modernist novel, combining the changes in the novelists writing techniques with inspirations from the fields of philosophy and cognitive theory
- explains the importance of different forms of narrative and various forms of descriptions
- can recognize the history of modernist novels in the problematic perspective

Assessment criteria

Minimum credit requirement is the presence at the lectures

Bibliography

E.Auerbach, Mimesis. Rzeczywistość przedstawiona w literaturze Zachodu, tłum. Z.Żabicki
M.Bachtin, Estetyka twórczości słownej, tłum. D.Ulicka
R.Barthes, S/Z , tłum. M.P.Markowski, M.Gołębiewska
W.Benjamin, Anioł historii, tłum. K.Krzemieniowa
G.Borkowska, Cudzoziemki. Szkice o prozie kobiecej
K.Bartoszyński, Powieść w świecie literackości
M.Butor, Powieść jako poszukiwanie, tłum. J.Guze
G.Deleuze, Proust i znaki, tłum. M.P.Markowski
S.Fita, „Pozytywista ewangeliczny”. Studia o Bolesławie Prusie
R.Girard, Prawda powieściowa i kłamstwo romantyczne, tłum. K.Kot
M.Głowiński, Powieść młodopolska
G.Lukacs, Teoria powieści, tłum. J.Goślicki
A.Martuszewska, Bolesława Prusa „prawidła sztuki literackiej”
A.Mazur, Transcendencja realistów
Z.Mitosek, Poznanie (w) powieści – od Balzaka do Masłowskiej
Modernizm: spotkania. Antologia, red. E.Paczoska i L.Magnone
E.Paczoska, Dojrzewanie, dojrzałość, niedojrzałość. Od Bolesława Prusa do Olgi Tokarczuk
M.Popiel, Oblicza wzniosłości. Estetyka powieści młodopolskiej
Praktyki opowiadania, red. B.Owczarek, Z.Mitosek i W.Grajewski
B.Prus, Notatki o kompozycji (oprac. A.Martuszewska)
I.Wat, Narodziny powieści

Additional information

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