Analysis of the literary text

general courses

Structure of literary text. Methodologies of literary research. Text Analysis.

Classroom

The aim of the course is to deepen the knowledge of the theory of literature (the above classes complement and follow-up the methodology of literary studies, where the lecturer presents the following theoretical and literary categories). Basic literary categories are discussed, illustrated by examples of outstanding works of Spanish-American literature (Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa). Students acquire the ability to analyze a literary text and become acquainted with contemporary methodologies of literary research, as well as with various currents of Latin American literature.

1. Theory. The structure of the narrative text

2. Analysis

2.1. Levels of narrative text

2.2. Narrator and narrative perspective

2.3. Time.

2.4. Setting.

3.Categories and literary concepts.

3.1. Intertextuality.

3.2. Realism

3.3. Fantastic.

3.4. Narrative Irony.

3.5. The Concept of Fiction.

3.6. Poetry: versification.

3.7. The Historical Discourse.

3.8. Language and Style.

Student workload:

1. Reading theoretical texts and analyzed literary texts.

2. Participation in the discussion on the selected text.

Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse, Ithaca and London 1978 (s. 15-33) (http://books.google.com/books?id=ewrOp9uPjYUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false); całość: https://archive.org/details/storydiscoursena00chat?q=Story+and+discourse

• Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse, Cornell University Press, 1980 (https://archive.org/details/NarrativeDiscourseAnEssayInMethod)

• Michał Głowiński (wyd.), Narratologia, Gdańsk 2004.

• Adam Elbanowski, Świadectwa, metafory, fabulacje: współczesna literatura Ameryki Łacińskiej, Wyd. CESLA UW, Warszawa 2013.

Knowledge:

After completing the course the student:

• Knows the most important theoretical and literary concepts.

• Knows contemporary methodologies of literary research, with particular emphasis on narratology.

• Can recognize the basic categories in literary discourse.

• Knows the theories of novel and other prose genres formulated by literary researchers and writers and critics from the Latin American literature.

Skills

After completing the course the student:

• Reads, understands and interprets literary works both in their formal and linguistic as well as formal and genre and content layers, and especially pays attention to details, linguistic, formal and semantic nuances, finds irony, ambiguities, metaphors and language games.

• Interprets the text and discourse from many perspectives, performs its in-depth analysis.

• Uses acquired theoretical and literary knowledge to analyze specific works.

• Recognizes literary techniques known from theoretical works in read literary texts.

• Presents his own position and results of his own analyzes in a manner appropriate for the text and academic discourse.

Social competence

After the course:

• Can formulate and present his own views

• Can discuss other people's positions in a manner appropriate for academic discussion

• I respect someone else's mind and other people's intellectual property

Assessment credit: oral credit, covering material from classes (basic theoretical and literary categories and the ability to apply the above-mentioned categories to specific texts).