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Autobiographical narratives in German language literature

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Course ID: 3302-NALM-OG
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Course title: Autobiographical narratives in German language literature
Name in Polish: Narracje autobiograficzne w literaturze niemieckojęzycznej
Organizational unit: Institute of German Studies
Course groups: General university courses
General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: Polish
Type of course:

general courses
Mode:

Remote learning
Short description:

Male and female authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland tell about themselves, their times and experiences. The selected texts belong to different periods, though predominantly to the 20th century, and represent various genres of narrative prose – starting with a chapter from the „classical” autobiography of Goethe, after which attention will be devoted to various stories (novellas) and novels based on autobiographical motives. Kafka’s „authentic” (though very literary!) „Letter to my father” will also be considered. The classes will be given in Polish, all readings will be available in (Polish) translations. Question: does reading these autobiographical texts learn us who their authors „really” („truly”) were, how their world „really” looked like?
Full description:

The autobiography and related genres in German language literature of the 19th-21st century.

Theoretical point of departure: particularly the concept of the „autobiographical pact” developed by Philippe Lejeune

Issues:

· Autobiography versus memories, essays, (short) stories and the autobiographical novel

· Truth and fiction in autobiographical texts

· The author as a literary „construct

· ”Childhood and crucial experiences in life, the „living through” history and everyday life as topics of autobiographical texts

Working methods:

Contextualizing and discussing texts prepared at home (the maximum length of a text: 100 pages, the length of most readings is 50 pages)

Short presentation related to the topics of the classes
Bibliography: (in Polish)

· Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Zmyślenie i prawda, Księga pierwsza

· Heinrich Heine, Wspomnienia

· Hermann Hesse, Dzieciństwo czarodzieja

· Franz Kafka, List do ojca, Wyrok

· Walter Benjamin, Berlińskie dzieciństwo około roku dziewięćsetnego (wybór)

· Stefan Zweig, Świat wczorajszy (rozdz. 1)

· Thomas Bernhard, Przyczyna

· Peter Handke, Esej autobiograficzny

· Hertha Müller, Król kłania się i zabija (wybór)

· Aglaja Veteranyi, Dlaczego dziecko gotuje się w mamałydze
Learning outcomes:

Becoming more conscious of the nature of a literary text and the forms of knowledge offered by it

The ability to analyze and interpret selected literary works in the context of the period
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

attending the seminars, taking active part in discussions, giving a short presentation

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28
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Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Anna Wołkowicz
Group instructors: Anna Wołkowicz
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