Analysis of Literary Texts

obligatory courses

Completion of the course of Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory (60 hours of classes). In well grounded cases (for example: parallel studies) only the Head of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Theory of Literature is entitled to agree to one’s parallel participation in classes in Analysis of a Literary Work and Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory.

Basic knowledge and skills that were gained in the classes in Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory. These skills along with relevant knowledge will be verified and problematized in the analytical classes, which means that Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory makes one complementary course and educational cycle with Analysis of a Literary Work.

Classroom

Course consists of theoretico-analytical classes that encompass training in literary analysis. According to educational methods in Humanities, students gain skills in literary analysis which:

- considers basic poetological problems that are being discussed during analysis of utterances and literary works dating from various epochs, ages, of various literary movements, trends, styles and conventions typical for various artistic forms;

- not only comprises of practical applications of poetological tools, but also enables student to verify and update them (according to the rules of historical poetics);

- extends one’s knowledge of the tools and methods of literary analysis and interpretation;

- teaches how to apply gained poetological and theoretical knowledge and skills in one’s historical studies in literature or culture;

- teaches how to use literary text as an example of theoretical issue.

Course consists of theoretico-analytical classes that encompass training in literary analysis. According to educational methods in Humanities, students gain skills in literary analysis which:

- considers basic poetological problems that are being discussed during analysis of utterances and literary works dating from various epochs, ages, of various literary movements, trends, styles and conventions typical for various artistic forms;

- not only comprises of practical applications of poetological tools, but also enables student to verify and update them (according to the rules of historical poetics);

- extends one’s knowledge of the tools and methods of literary analysis and interpretation;

- teaches how to apply gained poetological and theoretical knowledge and skills in one’s historical studies in literature or culture;

- teaches how to use literary text as an example of theoretical issue.

Analysis of a Literary Work is a course lectured by the members of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Literary Theory

Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies, and Literary Theory, which takes full responsibility for the classes in Analysis of a Literary Work, recognizes the course (just as it treats Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory in the first year) as one of the basic courses of literary studies. The main aim of this course is to develop a habit of multilevel analysis of a literary work, that will enable student to possibly full reconstruction of adequate horizon of interpretation. This determines study the forms of analysis that won’t be reduced only to one philosophy, methodology, matter, subject etc., but will enable one’s skills to efficient application in latter studies in history and theory of literature as well as in one’s historical, cultural, sociological and transdisciplinary researches

The literary works that are being analysed in the classes:

- date from different epochs, periods;

- were formed in various historical, cultural and social conditions,

- vary in structures of composition, genre, stylistics and subject, matter;

- belong to various literary conventions and they refer in different ways to literary trends, conventions.

During the course of analysis following issues will be applied:

- deep knowledge of theoretical and historical poetics (according to exam requirements for this course);

- knowledge of linguistics, cultural studies, history of philosophy, history of polish literature, that was gained during the studies;

- familiarity with theoretical articles in the field of poetics, literary theory and analysis of a literary work.

On the one hand Analysis of a Literary Work refers to the course of Poetics, on the other hand Analysis is itself the object of theoretical studies. This means that the course of Analysis of a Literary Work (in the second years of studies) is a logical link between the course of Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory in the first years of studies and the lecture on Elements of Literary Theory in the third year of studies.

Respectively of a logical continuity, correlation and interdependence of subjects (courses), student is obliged to complete the course of Analysis of a Literary Work with the same lecturer who taught Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory. In well grounded cases only the Head of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Theory of Literature is entitled to renounce this rule.

Semester paper is an element of educational cycle of high importance. The aim of this paper is to verify and confirm student’s practical qualifications in the scope of description and analysis of the literary text as well as in single-handed gathering of the theoretical articles considering adequate problems, finding well established in the tradition of the discipline analyses of a specific literary text and in the scope of application them (articles and analyses) in one’s own analysis.

The course ends with exam that verifies knowledge gained in the classes in Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory and practical skills in the scope of analysis of a literary work.

© 2009 The Curriculum of Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory in The Faculty of Polish Studies is an intellectual property of the employees of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Literary Theory, and is protected by copyright law.

Supplementary textbooks, anthologies and monographs for classes in analysis of a literary work

1. Analizy i interpretacje [w:] Poetyka (Genologia. Interpretacje), t. 3, pod red. D. Ulickiej, Warszawa 1997.

2. Eugeniusz Czaplejewicz, Poezja jako dialog, Warszawa 1981.

3. Dramat polski. Interpretacje, pod red. J. Ciechowicza i Z. Majchrowskiego, cz. 1 i 2, Gdańsk 2001.

4. Umberto Eco, Sześć przechadzek po lesie fikcji, przeł. J. Jarniewicz, Kraków 1995.

5. Wincenty Grajewski, Jak czytać utwory fabularne?, Warszawa 1980.

6. Zdzisława Kopczyńska, O wersyfikacji „Walca” Czesława Miłosza, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1981, z. 4.

7. Liryka polska. Interpretacje, pod red. J. Prokopa i J. Sławińskiego, Kraków 1971 (i wyd. nast.)

8. Maria Renata Mayenowa, O sztuce czytania wierszy, Warszawa 1964.

9. Zofia Mitosek, Poznanie (w) powieści – od Balzaka do Masłowskiej, Kraków 2003.

10. Nowela, opowiadanie, gawęda. Interpretacje małych form narracyjnych, pod red. K. Bartoszyńskiego, M. Jasińskiej-Wojtkowskiej, S. Sawickiego, Warszawa 1979.

11. Lucylla Pszczołowska, Dlaczego wierszem?, Warszawa 1964 (i wyd. nast.)

12. Zdzisława Kopczyńska, Lucylla Pszczołowska, Znaczenie i wartość form wersyfikacyjnych w kontekście literackim epoki (na materiale poezji polskiego baroku), „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1969, z. 3.

13. Teresa Dobrzyńska, Bohomaz i bachór. Z zagadnirń stylistyki wypowiedzi w kontaktach różnojęzykowych, w: Literatura – dziedzictwo – historia, Warszawa 2006.

14. Dawid Hopensztand, Mowa pozornie zależnaw kontekście „Czarny h skrzydeł”, w; Stylkistyka teoretyczna w Polsce, pod red. K. Budzyka, warszawa 1946.

15. Roman Jakobson, Claude Levi-Strauss, „Koty” Baudelaire’a, w; Sztuka interpretcji, t. 1, Wrocław 1971.

16. Jan Kordys, Don Juan I Pan Niedziela, „Przestrzenie rorii” 2008, t. 8.

17. Jean Rousset, „Pani Bovary” albo powieść o niczym,w: szkola genewska w krytyce, Warszawa1998.

18. Leo Spitzer, Perspektywizm czasowy w „Don Kichocie”, w: K.arl Vossler, Leo Spitzer, Studia stylistyczne, Warszawa1972.

19. Siergiej Awierincew, W poszukiwaniu symboliki mitu o Edypie, w: tegoż, Na skrzyżowaniu tradycji, Warszawa 1988.

20. Olga Freudenberg, Ślepiec nad urwiskiem, w; tejże, Semantyka kultury, Kraków 2009.

Textbooks and monographs

Arystoteles, Poetyka, przeł. H. Podbielski, Wrocław 1983, 1989 (BN II 209) lub: [w tegoż:] Retoryka. Poetyka, Warszawa 1988.

I Recommended Textbooks

- Michał Głowiński, Aleksandra Okopień-Sławińska, Janusz Sławiński, Zarys teorii literatury, Warszawa1972 (i wyd. nast.)

- Ewa Miodońska-Brookes, Adam Kulawik, Marian Tatara, Zarys poetyki, Warszawa1980 (i wyd. nast.)

II Complementary

- Bożena Chrząstowska, Seweryna Wysłouch, Poetyka stosowana, Warszawa 2000.

- Adam Kulawik, Poetyka. Wstęp do teorii dzieła literackiego, Warszawa 1990 (i wyd. nast.)

- Heinrich Lausberg, Retoryka, Bydgoszcz 2002.

- Henryk Markiewicz, Wymiary dzieła literackiego, Kraków 1984 (i wyd. nast.)

- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Poetyka teoretyczna: zagadnienia języka, Wrocław 1979 i nast.

- Lucylla Pszczołowska, Wiersz polski. Zarys historyczny, Wrocław 1997 (i wyd. nast.)

- Jerzy Ziomek, Retoryka opisowa, Wrocław 1990 (i wyd. nast.)

III Dictionaries and Encyclopedies

- Michał Głowiński, Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, Aleksandra Okopień-Sławińska, Janusz Sławiński, Słownik terminów literackich, Wrocław 2000 (i wyd. nast.).

- Literatura polska. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny, Warszawa 1985 (i wyd. nast.).

- Poetyka. Zarys encyklopedyczny (tomy: Sylabizm, Sylabotonizm, Tonizm, Strofika, Rytmika, Instrumentacja dźwiękowa, Rym), pod red. M. R. Mayenowej (następnie L. Pszczołowskiej), Wrocław 1957–1979.

- Słownik literatury polskiego Oświecenia, red. T. Kostkiewiczowa, Wrocław 2002 (i wyd. nast.)

- Słownik literatury polskiej XIX wieku, red. J. Bachórz i A. Kowalczykowa, Wrocław 2002 (i wyd. nast.)

- Słownik literatury polskiej XX wieku, red. A. Brodzka, et al., Wrocław 1993 (i wyd. nast.)

- Słownik literatury staropolskiej, red. T. Michałowska et al., Wrocław 2002 (i wyd. nast.)

- Słownik rodzajów i gatunków literackich, red. G. Gazda, S. Tynecka-Makowska, Kraków 2006.

IV Anthologies

- Poetyka, t. 1, pod red. D. Ulickiej, Warszawa 1999.

- Poetyka, t. 2, pod red. D. Ulickiej, Warszawa 2000.

- Poetyka (Genologia. Interpretacje), t. 3, pod red. D. Ulickiej, Warszawa 1997.

- Polska genologia literacka, red. D. Ostaszewska, R. Cudak, Warszawa 2007.

V. Required Reading

1. Verse

Obligatory

- Lucylla Pszczołowska, Druga połowa XX wieku [w:] tejże, Wiersz polski. op. cit.

Complementary

- Maria Dłuska, Wiersz [w tejże:] Studia i rozprawy, t. 1, Kraków 1970; przedruk [w:] Problemy teorii literatury, pod red. H. Markiewicza, Wrocław 1967.

- Maria Dłuska, Klauzula [w:] tejże, Próba teorii wiersza polskiego, Kraków 1980.

- Zdzisława Kopczyńska, Lucylla Pszczołowska, Znaczenie i wartość form wierszowych w kontekście literatur epoki, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1969 z. 3.

- Lucylla Pszczołowska, Forma wierszowa a utwór liryczny [w:] Problemy teorii literatury, w wyb. H. Markiewicza, Wrocław 1987, s. 2.

- Stefan Sawicki, Wokół opozycji: wiersz – proza [w:] Problemy teorii literatury, w wyb. H. Markiewicza, Wrocław 1987, s. 2; przedruk [w:] tegoż, Poetyka. Interpretacja. Sacrum, Warszawa 1981.

2. Style and Composition

Obligatory

- Michał Bachtin, Słowo w dziele Dostojewskiego [w:] tegoż, Problemy poetyki Dostojewskiego, przeł. N. Modzelewska, Warszawa 1970.

- Stanisław Balbus, Historycznoliteracka aktywność stylizacji [w:] tegoż, Między stylami, Kraków 1993.

- Teresa Dobrzyńska, Granice metafory [w:] Metafora, pod red. M. R. Mayenowej, Wrocław 1984.

- Aleksandra Okopień-Sławińska, Relacje osobowe w komunikacji literackiej [w:] tejże, Semantyka wypowiedzi poetyckiej (Preliminaria), Kraków 1998 (i wyd. nast.)

- Jerzy Ziomek, Tropy [w:] tegoż, Retoryka opisowa, op. cit.

Complementary

- Bernard McElroy, Groteska i jej współczesna odmiana [w:] Groteska, pod red. M. Głowińskiego, Gdańsk 2003.

- D. S. Muecke, Ironia: podstawowe klasyfikacje, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1986, z. 1; przedruk [w:] Ironia, pod red. M. Głowińskiego, Gdańsk 2002.

- Ryszard Nycz, Parodia [w:] Słownik literatury polskiej XX wieku, op. cit.

- Paul Ricoeur, Symbol daje do myślenia [w:] tegoż, Egzystencja i hermeneutyka, wyb. i oprac. S. Cichowicza, Warszawa 1985.

- Gayatri Spivak, Alegoria i dzieje poezji [w:] Alegoria, pod red. J. Abramowskiej, Gdańsk 2003.

- Heinrich Lausberg, Tropy, przeł. S. Stabryła, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1971, z. 3.

3. Plot and Narration

Obligatory

- Włodzimierz Propp, Morfologia bajki, przeł. S. Balbus, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1968, z. 4.

- Franz Stanzel, Typowe formy powieści, przeł. R. Handke [w:] Teoria form narracyjnych w niemieckim kręgu językowym, pod red. R. Handke, Kraków 1980.

Complementary

- Michał Bachtin, Formy czasu i czasoprzestrzeni w powieści [w:] tegoż, Problemy literatury i estetyki, przeł. W. Grajewski, Warszawa 1982, s. 278-310 (wstęp i I rozdział).

- Stanisław Eile, Strategia narracyjna z perspektywy postaci powieściowych [w:] tegoż, Światopogląd powieści, Wrocław 1973.

- R. H. Humphrey, Strumień świadomości – techniki, przeł. T. Amsterdamski, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1970, z. 4. Przedruk w: Studia z teorii literatury, pod red. H. Markiewicza, seria 1, Wrocław 1977.

- Henryk Markiewicz, Czas i przestrzeń w utworach narracyjnych; Postać literacka [w:] tegoż, Wymiary dzieła literackiego, op. cit.

- Aleksandra Okopień-Sławińska, Semantyka „ja” literackiego („Ja” tekstowe wobec „ja” twórcy) [w:] tejże, Semantyka wypowiedzi poetyckiej (Preliminaria), Kraków 1998 (i wyd. nast.)

- Lew Wygotski, Tragedia o Hamlecie, księciu duńskim [w:] tegoż, Psychologia sztuki, przeł. M. Zagórska, Kraków 1980.

- Jerzy Ziomek, Powinowactwa przez fabułę [w:] Powinowactwa literatury, Warszawa 1980.

4. Drama

Obligatory

- Roman Ingarden, O funkcjach mowy w widowisku teatralnym [w;] tegoż, O dziele literackim, przeł. M. Turowicz, Warszawa 1988; przedruk [w:] Problemy teorii dramatu i teatru, pod red. J. Deglera, Wrocław 1988.

- Krystyna Ruta-Rutkowska, Dramatyczne gry w podmiot, „Teksty Drugie” 1999, nr 1-2.

- Irena Sławińska, Główne problemy struktury dramatu [w:] Problemy teorii dramatu i teatru, Wrocław 1988.

Complementary

- Henryk Markiewicz, Dramat a teatr w polskich dyskusjach teoretycznych [w:] tegoż, Prace wybrane. Z dziejów polskiej wiedzy o literaturze, t. 6., Kraków 1998; przedruk [w:] Problemy teorii dramatu i teatru, pod red. Janusza Deglera, t. 1, Wrocław 2003.

- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Organizacja wypowiedzi w tekście dramatycznym [w:] Problemy teorii dramatu i teatru, pod red. Janusza Deglera, t. 1, Wrocław 2003.

- Stefania Skwarczyńska, O rozwoju tworzywa słownego i jego form podawczych w dramacie [w:] tejże, Studia i szkice literackie, Warszawa 1953.

5. Literary Genetics

Obligatory

- Stanisław Balbus, Zagłada gatunków [w:] Genologia dzisiaj, pod red. W. Boleckiego i I. Opackiego, Warszawa 2000.

- Michał Głowiński, Gatunek literacki i problemy poetyki historycznej [w:] Genologia polska. Wybór tekstów, pod red. E. Miodońskiej-Brookes, A. Kulawika, M. Tatary, Warszawa 1983.

Complementary

- Teresa Michałowska, Rodzaje czy rodzaj? Problemy taksonomii literackiej, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1986, z. 1.

- Bożena Witosz, Gatunek – sporny (?) problem współczesnej refleksji tekstologicznej, „Teksty Drugie” 2001, nr 5; przedruk [w:] Sporne i bezsporne problemy współczesnej wiedzy o literaturze, pod red. W. Boleckiego i R. Nycza, Warszawa 2002.

Student:

- reads a given literary text with understanding and is able to point various ways of its interpretation;

- is able to apply different, but relevant to the given literary work, techniques of analysis of the works and utterances of various genres, stylistics and texts dating from various epochs, ages, periods;

- is able to draw an adequate historical, socio-cultural and situational context, that is necessary for understanding the given text;

- knows how to correctly apply the knowledge of versology, literary genetics, textual criticism, narratology, dramatology, stylistics and composition of a literary work in his analytical practise.

Acquaintance with techniques of analysis pertaining to only one methodology, or applicable to works that represent only one genre, or epoch, disqualifies the students and does not suffice to pass the exam.

Completion of the classes:

- completion of the classes in Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory;

- receiving a positive grade on an analytical paper written under the supervision of a lecturer who is a member of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Literary Theory.

Exam

Entitled examiners are only the members of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Literary Theory, who have PhD’s, Dr.Litt’s, or Proffesors’ title.

In full-time and evening studies, the precondition of taking the exam is completion of 60 hours of Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory and completion of 30 hours of Analysis of a Literary Work (together 90 hours), lectured by the members of the Department of Poetics, Methodology of Literary Studies and Literary Theory.

The subjects of the exam are:

- theoretical knowledge determined by the curriculum in Poetics with Elements of Literary Theory;

- practical skills, determined by the curriculum in Analysis of a Literary Work.

The oral exam consists of two parts: the theoretical part and the analytical part. The point of the theoretical part is that the student draws one of sixty-nine sets of questions. The sets are made known and published in this syllabus. The sets are made up of:

A. questions concerning definition, features, typology of a given phenomenon;

B. instructions to determine the type of verse and the measure of a given poem;

C. questions at issue that allow student to present different conceptions, discuss theoretical problems, and offer an opinion of his or her own.

In any given set, the first question belongs either to group A or to group B, whereas the second one at all times belongs to the group C. When the question requires that student elucidates a definition, examiner is entitled to ask the student to find the phenomenon at question in a work presented by the examiner.

The sets of questions are made known, and to be downloaded or found on the WWW Site of the Institute of Polish Literature: http://www.ilp.uw.edu.pl/akt.php.

In the analytical part student analyses two texts (or parts of two texts) of his or her own choice and of any kind (versed, narrational, dramatic). Student may be asked to analyze a text chosen by an examiner.

The criteria for judging the analysis presented during an exam:

- correctness of understanding the text;

- stating the position of an utterance towards norms and conventions, as they have been imposed upon it in the course of literary evolution;

- determining the genre of a work, pointing to the discrepancies with norms and conventions that were deemed obligatory in a given period, along with explaining the ways the work uses components of different literary types;

- characterizing the composition of an utterance;

- determining the type of verse, and the syntactic-versifying structure of a versed utterance;

- recognizing orchestration figures, tropes and intertextual or/and metatextual devices, as well as identifying the way they function in an utterance;

- recognizing the style of an utterance and the speech genre it belongs to, as well as the degree to which, and direction in which they were transformed;

- specifying the strata of the emitting instance in an utterance and describing the relations between the strata; reconstruction of the features of the implied reader (receiver);

- analysis of presented world, determining narrative techniques, direct, indirect and free indirect speech, implied speech acts;

- stating the difference between functions of various forms of utterance in drama (main text, didascalia, dialogue, monologue, apart, chorus, etc.);

- description of semantization of different infratextual features (sound, graphical pattern, time, space etc.)

- ability to shape one’s analysis in accordance with various methodological paradigms and modes of interpretation;

- presentation of various ways of interpretation of a given text.