SLA2040

Polish studies II/1A

S M Vladiv-Glover and L Zarnowski

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: SLA1040, SLA1050

Objectives On completion of this subject and SLA2050 students should have become acquainted with the major artistic texts of Polish Modernism and with artistic trends in contemporary Polish drama, fiction and film in the context of East European Postmodernism; will be able to demonstrate, in independent essays and assignments, (a) an ability to read and understand major prescribed cultural texts; (b) a knowledge of contemporary manifestations of Modernism and Postmodernism in contemporary Polish culture.

Synopsis (1) 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.

Assessment Language Test (1 hour): 30%
* Written work (1000 words): 20%
* Literature and society Essay (2500 words): 30%
* Tutorial paper (1500 words): 20%

Prescribed texts

Wyspianski S Wesele Ossolineum
Rydel L Zaczarowane Kolo Ossolineum
Przybyszewski S Snieg Czytelnik
Witkiewicz S Szewcy Ossolineum
Sienkiewicz H Quo vadis? Czytelnik