Methodology in Literary Studies 3020-BA2MBL
The class continues and deepens the content presented in the subject Introduction to Literary Studies. In the course, students will become familiar with the main currents of literary theory. The course discusses the most important critical schools, their representatives, including literary scholars from the Baltic States, and representative theoretical texts. In addition, class participants will learn the basic terminology of literary studies in the Baltic languages.
The class participants will then analyse selected literary texts (Polish translations from Baltic literatures, whenever possible) with the help of selected theories.
Course topics:
1. Introduction to the methodology of literary research.
2. Formalism and New Criticism.
3. Structuralism.
4. Semiotics and semiology.
5. Post-structuralism and deconstruction.
6. Marxist criticism.
7 Psychoanalysis.
8. Feminism.
9. Gender and queer.
10. Phenomenology and hermeneutics.
11. Pragmatism and neopragmatism.
12. Narratology and cognitivism.
13. Hstoricism and New Historicism, postcolonialism.
14. Ecocriticism.
15. Course overview and presentation of final essay concepts.
Estimated number of hours needed to achieve the defined learning outcomes:
a) number of contact hours: 30 hours (1 ECTS)
b) ongoing preparation for classes: 30 hours (1 ECTS)
(c) preparation of the credit work: 30 hours (1 ECTS)
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student:
KNOWLEDGE
- knows and understands selected theories and methodologies of research in literary studies,
- knows and understands terminology of literary studies in Polish, Lithuanian, and Latvian,
- recognises the names of leading scholars of literature,
- knows and understands the role and relationship of literary studies with other fields of humanities;
SKILLS
- can analyse a literary work using theories and tools learnt,
- can discuss, argue and draw conclusions about an analysis of a literary work, also in writing,
- is able to use literary terminology in Polish and in the Baltic languages;
SOCIAL COMPETENCES
- is ready to further develop his/her knowledge and skills,
- is ready to discuss and properly evaluate the significance of humanistic reflection.
Assessment criteria
Evaluation of participation and preparation for classes, final essay - analysis of a selected literary text in the light of one of the discussed theories.
Students are entitled to 2 absences in a semester, each subsequent one should be credited in a way agreed with the teacher.
During the course, students may use AI tools e.g. to collect materials, compile the state of research and create bibliographies. The use of AI tools for interpretative purposes, for the creation of a written text or fragments of the text is excluded.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
Teorie literatury XX wieku. Podręcznik, Ed. by A. Burzyńska, M.P. Markowski, Kraków 2006.
Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia, pod red. A. Burzyńskiej, M.P. Markowskiego, Kraków 2006.
V. Daujotytė, Lietuvių literatūros kritika. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla 2007.
V. Daujotytė, Literatūros fenomenologija: problemikos kontūrai. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla 2003.
V. Daujotytė, Literatūros filosofija. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla 2001.
XX amžiaus literatūros teorijos, T. 1-2. Red. A. Jurgutienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas.
Mūsdienu literatūras teorijas. Red. K. Vērdiņš i I. E. Kalniņa. Rīga: LU LFMI, 2013.
Critical Theory Today. A user-friendly guide, pod red. L. Tyson. Routledge 2015.
Selected essays:
H. Bloom, Strach przed kontaminacją, [w tegoż:], Lęk przed wpływem, Kraków 2002, s. 9-44.
J. Fiedorczuk, Cyborg w ogrodzie. Wprowadzenie do ekokrytyki. Gdańsk 2015.
H.-G. Gadamer, Tekst i interpretacja, [w:] A. Burzyńska, M. P. Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia, Kraków 2006.
G. Genette, Palimpsesty. Literatura drugiego stopnia. Gdańsk 2014.
M. Heidegger, Cóż po poecie w czasie marnym?, [w tegoż:], Ścieżki lasu, Warszawa 1985.
E. Husserl, Idea fenomenologii, wykład III i IV, [w tegoż:] Idea fenomenologii. Pięć wykładów, Warszawa 1990, s. 53-77.
R. Jakobson, Poetyka w świetle językoznawstwa, [w:] A. Burzyńska, M. P. Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia, Kraków 2006.
V. Propp, Morfologia bajki. „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1968, 59/4, s. 203-242.
P. Ricoeur, Symbol daje do myślenia, [w tegoż:], Egzystencja i hermeneutyka, Warszawa 1985.
S. Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. Routledge 1982.
W. Szkłowski, Sztuka jako chwyt, [w:] A. Burzyńska, M. P. Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia, Kraków 2006.
E. Said, Orientalizm. Wprowadzenie, [w:] A. Burzyńska, M. P. Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia, Kraków 2006.
H. White, Znaczenie narracyjności dla przedstawiania rzeczywistości, [w tegoż:] Poetyka pisarstwa historycznego, Kraków 2000 (II wyd. 2010), s. 135-170.
Selected literary texts.
Additional information
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