Literary theory and methodology of literary research 3300-TLiMBL-SFK-3-Z
1) Hermeneutics and phenomenology
• Ingarden "O dziele literackim"
• Heidegger "Hölderlin i istota poezji"
2) Psychoanalysis
• Freud "Pisarz i fantazjowanie"
• Freud "Niesamowite"
• E.T.A. Hoffmann "Piaskun"
3) Russian formalism and early structuralism
• Eichenbaum "Jak jest zrobiony „Płaszcz” Gogola"
• Jakobson "Poetyka w świetle językoznawstwa"
• Barthes "Wstęp do analizy strukturalnej opowiadań"
4) Poststructuralism
• Barthes "Przyjemność tekstu" (excerpts)
• Derrida "Struktura, znak i gra w dyskursie nauk humanistycznych"
• Kafka "Wyrok"
5) Feminism/gender/queer/research on masculinity
• Halberstam "Przedziwna sztuka porażki" (excerpts)
• Sobolczyk "Przedziwna sztuka queerowania"
• Connell "Margines staje się centrum"
• Kafka "Wyrok"
6) Postcolonialism and affective turn
• Kołodziejczyk "Postkolonialny transfer na Europę Środkowowschodnią"
• Massumi "Autonomia afektu"
• "Kultura afektu – afekty w kulturze", Dauksza, Łebkowska, Nycz (red.) (excerpts)
• Massumi "Przyszłe narodziny afektywnego faktu"
• Kleist "Zaręczyny w St. Domingo"
7) Posthumanism
• Wolfe "Co to jest posthumanizm?"
• Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" (excerpts)
• Olga Tokarczuk "Wizyta"
• Michel Houllebecq "Cząstki elementarne" (excerpts)
• James Lovelock "Novacene lub Novozän" (no Polish translation)
8) Animal Studies and Holocaust
• Baratay "Inny punkt widzenia" (excerpts)
• Piotr Krupiński „Dlaczego gęsi krzyczały?”. Zwierzęta i Zagłada w literaturze polskiej XX i XXI wieku
• John Maxwell Coetzee "Żywoty zwierząt" (excerpts)
• Olga Tokarczuk "Zielone dzieci", "Transfugium"
9) Anthropocene, anthropogenic climate changes and their narrations
• Pobłocki "Niewidzialny imperializm: kapitalizm a geneza antropocenu"
• Ubertowska "Natura u kresu (ekocyd). Podmiotowość po katastrofie"
• Amitav Ghosh "The Great Derangement, Die grosse Verblendung" (no Polish translation) (excerpts)
• Köck "Trylogia klimatyczna" (excerpts)
• Jonathan Safran Foer "Jesteśmy klimatem" (excerpts)
• Richard Powers "Zadziwienie" (excerpts)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
K_W01 The student has the knowledge and understanding of the place and the meaning of literary studies, and their multifaceted connections with other sciences.
K_W06 The student has the knowledge and understanding of the methods of analysis and the diversity of interpretation techniques of various texts of literature and culture from the perspective of various approaches within literary studies.
K_W08 The student has the knowledge and understanding of the multifaceted relations of literature to historic and cultural processes.
K_U02 The student can apply basic research skills in accordance with the scientific code of ethics and copyright law; these skills include identifying and analysing the problem, choosing adequate methodology and research tools, analysing and presenting results, all of which pertain to literary studies.
K_U08 The student can communicate with the help of various channels and communicative strategies with specialists of selected branches of science.
K_U11 The student can plan and organise their work and take their own initiative.
K_U13 The student can access and gather information independently, and can develop skills with the help of adequate sources.
K_K01 The student is ready to self-evalute the knowledge and skills critically.
Assessment criteria
1) class participation (20% of the final mark), within which there is preparation for the classes and the discussion.
2) essay: an interpretation of a selected literary work with the help of at least one of the theries presented in class. The topic of the essay needs to be consulted with the course instructor (40% of the final mark)
3) final test (40% of the final mark): it checks the basic knowledge about particular methods discussed in class.
All requirements listed above need to be completed if one wishes to pass the course.
Bibliography
The literature is provided in the subject list.
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