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Not offered in 2007
Language: Advanced study through literary and official texts of the nowomowa ('new speech') which characterises postwar Polish usage. Analysis of the stylistics of contemporary Polish political, economic and cultural discourses. Advanced translation. (2) Literature and society: Polish Modernism through dramatic, poetic, novelistic and artistic tests, studies against the backdrop of fin-de-siecle cultural movements in Poland and Eastern Europe. Contemporary Polish drama, fiction and film in the context of East European Postmodernism.
On completion of the course, students
Language Test (1 hour): 30%
Written work (1000 words): 20%
Literature and society essay (2500 words): 50%
2 hours (2 x 1 hour lectures) per week