Contemporary Latin American Literature in Light of Cultural Studies 3305-WLL-SEM-MGR

Knowledge:

Student has the well-structured knowledge of the place of Human studies within the system of sciences. He has the well-structured knowledge of the methodology of research on literature. Student gains an enhanced knowledge of Latin American literature. Student is acquainted with the main currents, conventions and subjects in Latin American literature. Student is familiar with the authors of Latin American literature and is able to locate them in the broader cultural context. He has well-structured knowledge of designing, methodology and presentation of scientific research sufficient to prepare his M.A. thesis. (S1K_W01, S1K_W02, S1K_W04, S1K_W 05, S1K_W 06).

Skills:

Student is able to:

-State the theoretical parameters essential in writng M.A. thesis

- State and adapt the proper methodology to the chosen research

- Use the research parameters proper to the chosen subject

- Use the proper technical and stylistical parameters

- Describe the chosen thesis and support it with the proper argumentation

- Analyze the basic issues connected with the chosen subject

- Draw right conclusions from the conducted research and analysis

- Edit the text in accordance with standards of academic style

- Edit the abstract to the scientific article and summary of the master's thesis

- Use advanced digital tools (including corpus analysis programs) for the purposes of research carried out as part of the M.A. thesis preparation (S1K_U01, S1K_U02, S1K_U03, S1K_U05)

Social competence:

Student understands the necessity to learn throughout life. He has social and language competences in communication with the Spanish language communities. He is able to properly define the priorities for the implementation of the task set by themselves and others. Student knows and understands the basic concepts and principles in the field of intellectual property and copyright protection and the need to manage intellectual property resources. (S1K_K01, S1K_K02, S1K_W03)

Seminar participants will be assessed on the basis of attendance, participation during the classes, presentation of their research outcome, promptness of the handing in subsequent fragments of the M.A. thesis and the M.A. thesis written within the seminar.

The basis for completing the fourth semester of the seminar will be the submission of the M.A. thesis.

Barbero, Jesús Martín y Hermann Herlinghaus, Contemporaneidad Latinoamericana y Análisis Cultural, Madrid: Iberoamericana, Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2000.

Brunner, José Joaquín, Globalización cultural y posmodernidad. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998.

Burzyńska, Anna i Michał Paweł Markowski, Teorie literatury XX wieku. Podręcznik i antologia. Kraków: Znak, 2006.

Certeau, Michel de, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Minneapolis, 2005.
Roberto Follari, Modernidad y posmodernidad: una óptica desde América Latina. Buenos Aires:Aique/Rei/IDEAS, 1990.

García Canclini, Néstor, “Demasiado determinismo o demasiada hibridación? El malestar de los estudios culturales. Imágenes excéntricas de América Latina y Estados Unidos”. En Sarah de Mojica, compiladora, Mapas culturales para América Latina. Bogotá: CEJA, 2001, 65-85.

--------, Culturas híbridas: estrategias para entrar y salir de la modernidad. México: Grijalbo, 1990.

--------, “La épica de la globalización y el melodrama de la interculturalidad”. En Mabel Moraña editora, Nuevas perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina. El desafío de los estudios culturales. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, Instituto Nacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000, 31-40.

Geertz, Clifford , Interpretacja kultur. Wybrane eseje. Kraków 2005.

Goic, Cedomil, Los mitos degradados. Ensayos de comprensión de la literatura hispanoamericana. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1992.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Tristes trópicos. Barcelona: Paidós, 2006

Markowski, Michał Paweł i Ryszard Nycz, redakcja, Kulturowa teoria literatury. Główne pojęcia i problemy. Kraków: Universitas, 2006.

Moraña, Mabel (ed.), Nuevas perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina. El desafío de los estudios culturales (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, Instituto Nacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000.

Nycz, Ryszard (red.), Odkrywanie modernizmu. Kraków: Universitas, 1998.

-------- (red.), Postmodernizm. Antologia przekładów. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Baran I Suszyński, 1996.

Ortiz, Renato, Otro Territorio. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Convenio Andres Bello, 1996.

Rama, Angel, La ciudad letrada. Hanover, N.H., U.S.A: Ediciones del Norte, 1984.

--------, La novella en América Latina. Panoramas 1920-1980. México: Universidad Veracruzana, 1986.

Rincón, Carlos, La no simultaneidad de lo simultáneo: postmodernidad, globalización y culturas en América Latina. Santafé de Bogotá: Editorial Universidad Nacional, 1995.

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