Introduction to Literary Studies 3600-OR-WBL
The objective of lectures is to provide students with up-to-date knowledge of the main XXth and XXIst century literary studies’ trends and currents. Particular lectures will be dedicated to introduce literary theoretical paradigms, doctrines, schools, currents and methodologies. At the same time the basic problems and issues of literary theory (i.a. author, intent, interpretation, language, reference, text, meaning, sign) will be discussed cross-sectionally. Historical and methodological transformations of literary theory, literary studies will be presented with regard to other scientific disciplines (philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, historiography, cultural studies).
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Term 2023Z:
The objective of lectures is to provide students with up-to-date knowledge of the main XXth and XXIst century literary studies’ trends and currents. Particular lectures will be dedicated to introduce literary theoretical paradigms, doctrines, schools, currents and methodologies. At the same time the basic problems and issues of literary theory (i.a. author, intent, interpretation, language, reference, text, meaning, sign) will be discussed cross-sectionally. Historical and methodological transformations of literary theory, literary studies will be presented with regard to other scientific disciplines (philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, historiography, cultural studies). |
Term 2024Z:
The objective of lectures is to provide students with up-to-date knowledge of the main XXth and XXIst century literary studies’ trends and currents. Particular lectures will be dedicated to introduce literary theoretical paradigms, doctrines, schools, currents and methodologies. At the same time the basic problems and issues of literary theory (i.a. author, intent, interpretation, language, reference, text, meaning, sign) will be discussed cross-sectionally. Historical and methodological transformations of literary theory, literary studies will be presented with regard to other scientific disciplines (philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, historiography, cultural studies). |
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
Student:
- acquires the knowledge of the most important methodological issues of the XXth and XXIst century literary studies;
- is able to place them in the context of historically and methodologically concurrent linguistics and philosophy;
- becomes acquainted with the assumptions and methodological strategies of particular schools, formation, paradigms, orientations, currents;
- is able to recognise their rhetorics (genres and styles of utterances, significant names, terminological metaphors and notions);
- attains a dictionary of fundamental notions of modern and postmodern literary studies;
- is able to compare them with each other and with other scientific and artistic practices;
- is able to compare particular conceptions and translate their dictionaries (student is capable of intermethodological and interdiscoursive translation);
- becomes acquainted with the most important individual theoretical proposals and their realisations;
- attains the ability to put the aforementioned theoretical proposals in biographical, political and worldview context – to identify scientific utterance as the cultural one.
Assessment criteria
Two absences are acceptable (apart from the cases immediately documented).
The lecture ends with an exam.
Bibliography
Handbooks and anthologies:
• A. Burzyńska, M.P. Markowski, "Teorie literatury XX wieku. Podręcznik", Kraków 2006 [and next editions].
• "Literatura – teoria – metodologia", red. D. Ulicka, Warszawa 2006 [and next editions].
• Z. Mitosek, "Teorie badań literackich", Warszawa 1998 [and next editions].
• A. Burzyńska, M.P. Markowski, "Teorie literatury XX wieku. Antologia", Kraków 2006 [and next editions].
• "Teoretycznoliterackie tematy i problemy", red. D. Ulicka, Warszawa 2003 [and next editions].
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Term 2024Z:
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