General literature I

obligatory courses

Winter term:

Greek and Roman literature - German literature - Italian literature.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

1 ECTS (30 h) - lecture (70%) and student's own work - preparing for test (30%)

Test

Questions: 8

Max points: 24 (8x3)

Points and marks:

13-16 – 3,0 (dst)

16,5-18 – 3,5 (dst+)

18,5-20 – 4,0 (db)

20,5-22 – 4,5 (db+)

22,5-24 – 5,0 (bdb)

5! - Is able to faultlessy answer all questions (max points: 24), refers to knowledge not only from the teaching programme (points: 25).

The student has the right to 2 unexcused absences, each subsequent one requires justification. The lecturer decides on the recognition of absence.

Exceeding excused and unexcused absences by 50% of classes may be grounds to fail the course. The conditions for passing the course on the resit exam are the same as on the ordinary of exam.

If it is not possible to conduct classroom classes, classes will be conducted using distance communication tools, most likely Google Classroom and others recommended by the University of Warsaw.

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