General literature

obligatory courses

Winter term:

Greek and Roman literature - German literature - Italian literature.

Summer term:

English literature - French literature - Spanish literature - Scandinavian literatures.

Classroom

The purpose of the course is to present the general regularities of the development of the European literatures from antiquity until the modern times: of the individual epochs and literary trends, and of the most outstanding poetic, prose and dramaturgical compositions which represent them. A further purpose is to introduce the students into the fundamental comparative literature issues.

Winter term:

I. General issues. Regularities of the European literary history process. Diagram of the literary trends by J. Krzyżanowski. "Classical" and "romantic" trends – comparison by R. Przybylski.

II. Comparative literature. Terminology. Extent and division. Circle of researchers. Examples of the research.

III. Ancient literature.

1. Periodization of Greek and Roman literature by various researchers.

2. Greek literature: Homer’s epic, archaic lyric, Attic tragedy, old and new comedy, novel, Alexandrian lyric.

3. Roman literature: Vergil, Horace, Ovid, lyric, satire, novel.

4. Contexts, references, interpretations. Russian translations of Homer in the XVIII-XIX centuries. Russian “exegi monumentum” in the XVIII-XIX centuries (M. Lomonosov, G. Derzhavin, W. Kapnist, A. Pushkin, A. Fet).

IV. German literature.

1. Periodization of German literature. General characteristic of the individual periods.

2. Heroic epic of the Middle Ages. "The Song of the Nibelungs".

3. Literature at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries: Sturm und Drang, classicism, romanticism. Works of J. W. Goethe. Works of F. Schiller. Ballads of G. A. Bürger. Other representatives of the individual periods.

4. Novels by T. Mann on the background of the period.

5. Works of G. Grass.

6. Contexts, references, interpretations. Russian Werthers at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries. Ballads of W. Zhukovsky and "Lenora" by G. A. Bürger.

V. Italian literature.

1. Outline of history of Italian literature.

2. Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy.

Summer term:

I. General issues. Regularities of the European literary history process.

II. English literature.

1. Periodization of the English literature using various criteria. General characteristic of the individual periods.

2. Shakespeare – life and works.

3. Donne and the English metaphysical poetry.

4. English novel of the 18th century. Towards experimentation.

5. Byron – life and works.

6. Ulisses by Joyce.

7. Utopia and anti-utopia in the European literature. Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell.

8. Contexts, references, interpretations. Reception of Sterne and the Sternism in Russia at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries. Russian prose of 19th century and the English literature. Ulisses by Joyce in the Nabokov’s interpretation. Nineteen Eighty-Four and We by Zamyatin – comparison.

III. French literature.

1. Periodization of the French literature. General characteristic of the individual periods.

2. The 18th-19th centuries. Enlightenment. Racine’s and Moliere’s theatre. Encyclopaedia and the Encyclopaedists. Great Four of the Enlightenment – Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau.

3. Great novel of the 19th century – romanticism, realism, naturalism. Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola.

4. Contexts, references, interpretations. Marmontel and the Russian sentimental prose. Exemplars of love in the West culture (Tristan and Iseult, Julie and Saint-Preux) and the reflection on them in the Russian literature.

IV. Spanish literature.

1. Outline of history of the Spanish literature.

2. Cervantes and his Don Kichot. V. Skhlovski about Cervantes’s work.

V. Scandinavian literatures.

1. Outline of history of the Scandinavian literatures.

2. Dramaturgy of Ibsen.

V. Nobel Prize in Literature – review of the laureates and their works.

1. Dzieje literatur europejskich, pod red. W. Floryana, t. 1-3, Warszawa 1982.

2. Literatura Europy. Historia literatury europejskiej, pod red. A. Benoit-Dusausoy i G. Fontaine’a, Gdańsk 2009.

3. M. Cytowska, H. Szelest, Literatura grecka i rzymska w zarysie, Warszawa 1983.

4. M. Szyrocki, Historia literatury niemieckiej. Zarys, Wrocław 1963.

5. P. Mroczkowski, Historia literatury angielskiej. Zarys, Wrocław 1986.

6. J. Adamski, Historia literatury francuskiej. Zarys, Wrocław 1989.

7. J. de Romilly, Tragedia grecka, tłum. I. Sławińska, Warszawa 1994.

8. A. Wójcik, Talent i sztuka. Rzecz o poezji Horacego, Wrocław 1986.

9. S. Stabryła, Owidiusz. Świat poetycki, Wrocław 1989.

10. S. Stabryła, Wergiliusz. Świat poetycki, Wrocław 1987.

11. E.R. Curtius, Literatura europejska i łacińskie średniowiecze, tłum. A. Borowski, Kraków 2005.

12. M. Szyrocki, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Warszawa 1981.

13. M. Wydmuch, Tomasz Mann, Warszawa 1979.

14. K. Morawski, Dante Alighieri, Warszawa 1961.

15. S. Helsztyński, Shakespeare. Opowieść biograficzna, Warszawa 1974.

16. G. Bystydzieńska, W labiryncie prawdy. Studia o twórczości Laurence'a Sterne'a, Lublin 1993.

17. G. Bidwell, U kolebki angielskiego realizmu , tłum. A. Bidwell, Warszawa 1960.

18. E. Naganowski, Telemach w labiryncie świata. O twórczości Jamesa Joyce'a, Poznań 1997.

19. J. Łojek, Wiek markiza de Sade. Szkice z historii obyczajów i literatury we Francji XVIII wieku, Warszawa 1996.

20. P. Van Tieghem, Główne doktryny literackie we Francji. Od Plejady do surrealizmu, tłum. M. Wodzyńska i E. Maszewska, Warszawa 1971.

21. H. Suwała, Emil Zola, Warszawa 1968.

22. Z. Szmydtowa, Cervantes, Warszawa 1975.

Winter term:

Knowledge:

− The student has well-organized knowledge of the European literary history process.

− The student knows the most important issues of the history of the European literature (Greek and Roman, German, Italian).

− The student knows comparative literature terminology, and also extent and division of it.

− The student presents selected phenomena of the Russian literature in connection with the Greek and Roman literature and the German literature (references, interpretations, translations, reception).

Skills:

− The student makes a periodization of the Greek and Roman literature, the German literature and Italian literature, and also mentions the features of the individual periods and literary trends.

− The student mentions the representatives of the Greek and Roman literature, the German literature and the Italian literature, and also the individual periods and literary trends.

−The student presents the individual literary works due to the contents and forms and presents them on the background of a development of literature.

− The student compares selected literary works due to the contents and forms.

Social competences:

− The student is aware of his responsibility for the preservation of the European cultural heritage.

− The student is aware of his responsibility for the reading culture and feels obligated to develop his own reading interests.

Summer term:

Knowledge:

− The student has well-organized knowledge of literary history process in the European literatures.

− The student knows the most important issues of history of the European literatures (English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian).

− The student has general knowledge of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the selected its laureates.

− The student presents the selected phenomena in the Russian literature in the connection with the English, French and Spanish literatures (references, interpretations, translations, reception).

Skills:

− The student makes the periodization of the English literature, French literature, Spanish literature and Scandinavian literature, and also mentions the features of the individual periods and literary trends.

− The student mentions the representatives of the English literature, French literature, Spanish literature and Scandinavian literature, and also the individual periods and literary trends.

− The student presents the individual literary works due to the contents and forms.

Social competences:

− The student is aware of his responsibility for the preservation of the European cultural heritage.

− The student is aware of his responsibility for the reading culture and feels obligated to develop his own reading interests.

Written test. Attendance check.

-not applicable