Media, film, literature: Ecological explorations in literature, film and art 2510-f2ENG1W-MFL-EE
Laboratorium (LAB) Semestr zimowy 2025/26

Selected bibliography:

Eve, Martin Paul. The digital humanities and literary studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Makaryk, Irena (ed.). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018.

Middeke, Martin, Christina Wald and Hubert Zapf (eds.). English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Stuttgart: Springer-Verlag, 2012.

Ryan, Michael (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Volume: 2. Malden, MA.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

Wolfreys, Julian. Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory. London: Macmillan, 2004.

Assessment methods:

- presentation W1, U1, U2, K1

- active participation in discussion W1, U1, U2, K1

- essay W1, U1, K1

Assessment criteria:

The final mark consists of the assessment of:

- presentation (30% of the final grade)

- participation (in-class discussion and Moodle assignments) (35% of the final grade)

fail – 0-59 %

satisfactory – 60-69 %

satisfactory plus – 70-75 %

good – 76-85 %

good plus – 86-90 %

very good – 91-100 %

Topics:

- Ecocriticism: definitions and issues

- Anthropocene and/or Capitalocene

- Literature and the environment: science fiction

- Climate fiction, the environmental text, and the Anthropocene

- Science studies

- Eco-apocalypse (post-apocalyptic fiction)

- Cyberpunk, hopepunk and solarpunk

- The posthuman and the transhuman

-Transcorporeality

Expository teaching methods:

- discussion

- participatory lecture

Exploratory teaching methods:

- brainstorming

- classic problem-solving

- seminar