Seminar in Modern Ukrainian Literature

obligatory courses

Students possess basic skills in analysis and interpretation of literary texts.

Classroom

The classes discuss selected works and the specificity of literary life of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the latest literature, including the phenomenon of postmodernism, the issues of women's prose and the specificity of contemporary Ukrainian theater.

This course will introduce you to contemporary Ukrainian literature as a collection of individual voices that, through practices of collective reading and interpretation, are transformed into a common experience. Beginning with a discussion of the modern, modernist, and contemporary, we will explore contemporary literature as post-totalitarian, post-colonial and post-modern. Aesthetic exploration and linguistic inventions will be considered in the context of social challenges, historical traumas, and the inheritance of a multicultural and multilingual tradition; students will come to understand contemporary Ukrainian literature as both an "unexpected phenomenon” and as participating in a rich, thousand-year tradition that serves as a key to understanding Ukrainian identity today.

If it is not possible to conduct classes in a stationary form, classes will be held using distance communication tools, most likely Google Meet and others recommended by the University of Warsaw.

Thematic issues:

- Introduction: Literature in the perspective of literary anthropology

- Contemporary Ukrainian literature: roots and roads

- Transit from modernism to postmodernism. Literature as a language game

- Postcolonialism and feminism. Literature as cultural criticism

- Memory and trauma: our future heritage

- Poetry of the end of the 20th century as a means of rapid reaction: from the work of the imagination to a social gesture

- Between metaphors and things: opening the 21st century

- Literature without limits: transcultural writing, bilingual authors

- On the stage: the performativity of literature

- Ukrainian non-fiction: personal experiences, common identities

- Children's literature: from entertainment to overcoming trauma

- On the front line: human stories in inhuman circumstances

Student workload:

45 hours in the room - 1,5 ECTS

45 hours preparation for classes - 1,5 ECTS

30 hours preparation for passing - 1 ECTS

Total 120 hours - 4 ECTS

„Rybo - wino - kur. Antologia literatury ukraińskiej ostatnich dwudziestu lat”, wyb. i oprac. O. Hnatiuk, Warszawa 1994.

„Wiersze zawsze są wolne”, przekł. B. Zadura, Wrocław 2005.

„Odkrywanie modernizmu. Przekłady i komentarze”, pod red. R. Nycza, Kraków 1998.

30 wierszy zza granicy: młoda poezja ukraińska, wybór i przekł. Aneta Kamińska. Rzeszów, 2012.

Cząstki pomarańczy: nowa poezja ukraińska, wybór i oprac. Aneta Kamińska. Warszwa-Kraków, 2011.

Portret kobiecy w odwróconej perspektywie: 12 poetek z Czech, Słowenii i Ukrainy, wybór i przekład Zofia Bałdyga, Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk, Aneta Kamińska. Katowice, 2013.

Wschód – Zachód: wiersze z Ukrainy i dla Ukrainy, wybór i przekł. Aneta Kamińska. Bydgoszcz, 2014.

Selected works (translated to polish language): J. Andruchowycza, S. Żadana, T. Prochaśki, O. Zabużko, N. Śniadanko, S. Andruchowycz, M. Matios, P. Arje, N. Worożbyt.

After completing the course student:

knows and understands at an advanced level the history and contexts of Ukrainian literature of the 80s and 90s, and the most modern (K1_W07)

is able to search, critically analyze and evaluate, select and use information on Ukrainian literature (K1_U03)

is able to use theoretical approaches specific to Ukrainian literature (K1_U04)

is ready to critically assess knowledge and received content

(K1_K01)

Conditions for admission to pass the course:

- systematic preparation of given material for classes (control of current preparation) - 50%

- continuous assessment, i.e. active participation in classes (checking current preparation) - 50%

The condition of admission to pass the subject / admission to the exam is attendance (in accordance with the Rules of Study at the University of Warsaw)

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

The form of getting credit for classes during which the student was absent is determined by the lecturer.

Exceeding the absence of justified and unexcused absences for 50% of classes may be the basis for failing the subject.

Completion of the course - the exam is in the form of a written test (5 closed questions and 5 open questions). The evaluation criteria are presented as percentage thresholds:

60% - 68% - 3 (satisfactory)

69% - 77% - 3+ (satisfactory plus)

78% - 86% - 4 (good)

87% - 95% - 4+ (good plus)

96% - 98% - 5 (very good)

99% -100% - 5! (Very good with an exclamation mark)

The following criteria apply to the credits:

- achieving the intended learning outcomes covering all relevant aspects - 5.0 (very good)

- achieving the intended learning outcomes covering all significant aspects with a small number of errors or inaccuracies - 4.5 (good plus)

- achieving the assumed learning outcomes without some (less important) aspects - 4.0 (good)

- achieving the intended learning outcomes without taking into account some important aspects and with material inaccuracies - 3.5 (satisfactory grade plus)

- achieving the assumed learning outcomes without significant aspects or with serious inaccuracies - 3.0 (satisfactory grade plus)

- no achievement of the intended learning outcomes - 2.0 (unsatisfactory)

The conditions for passing the correction are identical to those for passing the main deadline.