Anthropology of literature

general courses

Classroom

Classes are devoted to a review of research in the field of literary anthropology. The discussed issues show literature as one of the cultural practices inherently related to the context of social life.

During the classes we will deepen the knowledge in the field that is most often treated as a sub-discipline of literary studies and is related to the theory of literature. We will try to read selected texts from contemporary Ukrainian literature as manifestations of the record of human experience, as a source of cognition of man, his cultural entanglement, in line with the thesis of one of the main theorists of literary anthropology - Ryszard Nycz, that literature is "an institutionalized art of expressing the human experience of reality - in the whole its diversity and specificity ”(Nycz 2006, p. 32). By analyzing specific works (in the context of the indicated theoretical texts), we will pay attention to the mechanisms governing human behavior and the ways of creating the presented world, including the language of the characters, with the help of which they create their truth about reality, about the time in which they live.

Student workload

30 hours in the classroom - 1 ECTS

30 hours of preparation for classes - 1 ECTS

Total 2 ECTS

Ryszard Nycz, Antropologia literatury- kulturowa teoria literatury – poetyka doświadczenia, 2007. http://rcin.org.pl/Content/51309/WA248_67628_P-I-2524_nycz-antropologia.pdf

Paweł Rodak, Czym jest antropologia literatury? Pytanie o początek literatury, 2009, "Teksty Drugie", r 4 (118), 245-258.

Antropologia kultury – antropologia literatury, red. E. Kosowska, E. Jaworski, Katowice 2007.

Kulturowa teoria literatury. Główne pojęcia i problemy, red. M. P. Markowski, R. Nycz, Kraków 2006.

Anna Łebkowska, Między antropologią literatury i antropologią literacką, „Teksty Drugie”, nr 6/2007 https://rcin.org.pl/Content/51307/WA248_67626_P-I-2524_lebkow-miedzy.pdf

Michał Paweł Markowski, Antropologia i literatura, „Teksty Drugie”, nr 6/2007

Narracja i tożsamość (I). Narracje w kulturze, red. W. Bolecki, R. Nycz, Warszawa 2004

Examples from contemporary Ukrainian literature.

The student knows and understands

K1_W02 advanced terminology and methodology of literary studies

The student can

K1_U03 search, critically analyze and evaluate, select

and use information on Ukrainian literature,

K1_U04 use theoretical approaches appropriate for literature

Ukrainian,

K1_U06 formulate and solve a research task in the field of Ukrainian

literary studies

The student is ready to

K1_K01 critical evaluation of the knowledge possessed and received

K1_K03 compliance with ethical principles, including use of someone else's academic achievements

The condition for admission to pass the course is attendance (in accordance with the Study Regulations at the University of Warsaw)

The student has the right to 2 unexcused absences, each subsequent one requires a justification. The lecturer decides whether to acknowledge the absence.

The form of crediting the classes in which the student was absent is determined by the lecturer.

Exceeding justified and unjustified absences for 50% of classes may be the basis for failing the course.

Written credit in the form of a term paper.

Semester work requirements:

1. The author should formulate a research problem, that is, make a thesis which he will try to verify (prove or disprove) in the work.

2. Before starting to write a thesis, its plan and the list of literature should be consulted with the teacher.

3. The paper should be 6-8 pages of standard text, ie the length should not be less than 10,800 characters with spaces and greater than 18,000 characters with spaces (including footnotes). The work should contain a list of the used bibliography (the volume of the list of the used bibliography does not, however, be included in the volume of the work specified above).

4. The structure of the work should include: introduction, development, ending, bibliography. The introduction should include: thesis (formulation of the research problem), objectives of the work, justification for the choice of topic, description of the subject and subject literature. Development: proper analysis of the texts. The conclusion should include the conclusions resulting from the research.

5. Each page of the work must be provided with bibliographic, source or reference annotations.

6. The text of the work should be edited in accordance with the following rules: - font: Times New Roman Normal, size 12, - foreign language phrases in italics, - line spacing: 1.5 lines, - standard margins (top, bottom, left and right: 2.5 cm), the title of the work: Times New Roman Normal font, size 14, bold.

7. Footnotes should be placed in the text as footnotes, font Times New Roman Normal, size 10, line spacing: 1 line. A footnote is treated like a sentence, so it should start with a capital letter and end with a period. In the text, the number of the footnote should be placed without spaces after the word, before the comma. At the end of the sentence, the footnote number is placed before the full stop. Notation of footnotes and bibliography according to SUV standard.

The conditions for a retake pass are the same as for passing in the first term (information above).

The following criteria are used to evaluate the work:

- achievement of the assumed learning outcomes covering all important aspects - 5.0 (very good)

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

- achievement of the assumed learning outcomes, omitting some (less important) aspects - 4.0 (good)

- achievement of the assumed learning outcomes with the omission of some important aspects and with significant inaccuracies - 3.5 (satisfactory plus)

- achievement of the assumed educational results without significant aspects or with serious inaccuracies - 3.0 (satisfactory plus)

- failure to achieve the assumed learning outcomes - 2.0 (unsatisfactory)