Analysis of the literary text 3200-M1-2ATL
1. Theory. Structure of the narrative text
2. Analysis
2.1. Narrative text levels
• J.L.Borges "Death and the Compass" ("La muerte y la brújula")
• J.L.Borges, "Crime Story" ("El cuento policial" in: Borges oral)
2.2. Narrator and narrative perspective
Theory: Seymour Chatman, ch. "Covert versus Overt Narrator" in: Story and Discourse
• Julio Cortázar "Continuity of parks" ("Continuidad de los parques")
• Julio Cortázar "Deity of the Cyclades" ("El ídolo de las Cícladas")
• Julio Cortázar "Axolotl" ("Axolotl")
2.3. Time
Theory: Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse, Ithaca and London 1978, pp. 62-79.
• Alejo Carpentier "Similar to the night", Time war; Reader, Warsaw 1974 ("Semejante a la noche", Guerra del tiempo)
• Alejo Carpentier "Return to the grain", War of time ("Viaje a la semilla", Guerra del tiempo)
2.4. Space
Theory: Janusz Sławiński, "Space in Literature" in: M. Głowiński and A. Opień-Sławińska, Space and Literature, Wrocław 1978 ((https://pl.scribd.com/document/369095271/Janusz-S%C5% 82awi% C5% 84ski-Space% 84% C5-in-the-literature).
• Julio Cortázar "Busy house" ("Casa tomada")
2.5. Story
Theory: Roland Barthes "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Stories" (http: //bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Pamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo ...)
• J.L. Borges "Garden with forked paths" ("El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan").
3. Literary categories and concepts
3.1. intertextuality
Theory: Gérard Genette, Palimpsesty. Second degree literature, Gdańsk 2014, chapter I-II. Version: https://books.google.com/books?id=KbYzNp94C9oC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
• J.L.Borges "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote" ("Pierre Menard, author of del Quijote")
• Alejo Carpentier Baroque concert, Reader, Warsaw 1977 (Concierto barroco): fragments
3.2. Realism
Theory: Philippe Hamon Un discours contraint. (Polish version: Restrictions of realistic discourse: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiX8NO1irbgAhUsmYsKHT-aCegwQFFaAl .muzhp.pl% 2Fmedia% 2F% 2Ffiles% 2FPamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej% 2FPamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej-r1983-T74-n1-% 2FPamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej r1983-T74-n1-s221-262% 2FPamietnik_Literacki_czasopismo_kwartalne_poswiecone_historii_i_krytyce_literatury_polskiej-r1983-T74-n1-s221-262.pdf & ultrasound = AOvVaw3qIf0FYbOSCgoHc2JOwiPn
• J.L.Borges "Emma Zunz"
3.3. Fantastic
Theory: Adam Elbanowski, Fantasy: Preliminary Definitions and Terms (photocopied)
Theory: Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction à la littérature fantastique (The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, http://mylovelibrabry.com/epdflibraryus/free1.php?asin=0801491460).
• Luis Sepúlveda "Change of route" ("Cambio de ruta") in L.Sepúlveda Przegapienia, Noir sur Blanc, Warsaw 2005.
• J. Cortázar "At night, facing the sky" ("La noche boca arriba").
3.4. Narrative irony
Theory: Piotr Łaguna, Irony as an attitude and as an expression, Kraków-Wrocław 1984.
Theory: Herbert H. Clark and Richard J. Gerrig "On the Pretense Theory of Irony":
https://web.stanford.edu/~clark/1980s/Clark,%20H.H.%20_%20Gerrig,%20R.J.%20_On%20the%20pretense%20theory%20of%20irony_%201984.pdf
Theory: Wayne C. Booth A Rhetoric of Irony: https://archive.org/details/rhetoricofirony00boot
• Gabriel García Márquez "A very old man with huge wings" ("Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes")
3.5. The concept of fiction: Contract of truth and contract of fiction in Latin American literature: analysis from the preface perspective.
Theory: Adam Elbanowski, chapter "Between document and fiction" in: A. Elbanowski, Testimonies, metaphors, fiction, CESLA, Warsaw 2013.
Theory: Gerard Genette Fiction and diction: https://archive.org/details/GerardGenetteFictionDictionCornellUniversityPress1993
• M. Vargas Llosa 'The truth of lies' ('La verdad de las mentiras') in: Prawda lie, Rebis, Poznań 1999.
3.6. Poetry: elements of versification
• J. L. Borges "Poem about gifts" ("Poema de los dones")
• J.L. Borges 'Ars poetica' ('Arte poética').
3.7. Historical discourse
Theory: Hayden White, Historiographic Text as a Literary Artifact, Znak, Kraków 2006 (The Historical Text as Literary Artifact: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~jason.ward/ied485britnovel4/HaydWhitHistTextArtifact.pdf
• Alejo Carpentier Kingdom of this world; PIW, Warsaw 2018 (El reino de este mundo): fragments
• Álvaro Mutis "The Last Face" ("El último rostro")
• G. García Márquez General in the maze; Muza, Warsaw 1998 (El general en su laberinto): fragments.
3.8. Language and style
• Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo; Znak, Cracow 2010; Chap. AND.
NOTE: short stories by J. Cortazar in the Muses; J.L.Borges stories - Ed. Proszynski. Scans of stories will be sent to students.
Student workload:
1. Reading of theoretical texts and analyzed literary texts.
2. Participation in the discussion of the selected text.
Term 2023L:
1. Theory. The structure of the narrative text 2. Analysis 2.1. Levels of narrative text Student workload: |
Term 2024L:
1. Theory. The structure of the narrative text 2. Analysis 2.1. Levels of narrative text Student workload: |
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Prerequisites
Mode
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
After completing the course the student:
• Knows the most important theoretical and literary concepts.
• Knows contemporary methodologies of literary research, with particular emphasis on narratology.
• Can recognize the basic categories in literary discourse.
• Knows the theories of novel and other prose genres formulated by literary researchers and writers and critics from the Latin American literature.
Skills
After completing the course the student:
• Reads, understands and interprets literary works both in their formal and linguistic as well as formal and genre and content layers, and especially pays attention to details, linguistic, formal and semantic nuances, finds irony, ambiguities, metaphors and language games.
• Interprets the text and discourse from many perspectives, performs its in-depth analysis.
• Uses acquired theoretical and literary knowledge to analyze specific works.
• Recognizes literary techniques known from theoretical works in read literary texts.
• Presents his own position and results of his own analyzes in a manner appropriate for the text and academic discourse.
Social competence
After the course:
• Can formulate and present his own views
• Can discuss other people's positions in a manner appropriate for academic discussion
• I respect someone else's mind and other people's intellectual property
Assessment criteria
Assessment credit: oral credit, covering material from classes (basic theoretical and literary categories and the ability to apply the above-mentioned categories to specific texts).
Bibliography
• Adam Elbanowski, Świadectwa, metafory, fabulacje: współczesna literatura Ameryki Łacińskiej, Wyd. CESLA UW, Warszawa 2013 cap. I, s. 7-37).
• Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse, Ithaca and London 1978 (s. 15-33) (http://books.google.com/books?id=ewrOp9uPjYUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false); całość: https://archive.org/details/storydiscoursena00chat?q=Story+and+discourse
• Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse, Cornell University Press, 1980 (https://archive.org/details/NarrativeDiscourseAnEssayInMethod)
• Michał Głowiński ed.), Narratologia, Gdańsk 2004.
Term 2023L:
Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse, Ithaca and London 1978 (s. 15-33) (http://books.google.com/books?id=ewrOp9uPjYUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false); całość: https://archive.org/details/storydiscoursena00chat?q=Story+and+discourse |
Term 2024L:
Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse, Ithaca and London 1978 (s. 15-33) (http://books.google.com/books?id=ewrOp9uPjYUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false); całość: https://archive.org/details/storydiscoursena00chat?q=Story+and+discourse |
Notes
Term 2023L:
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: |
Term 2024L:
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: |
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