World Literature and Literary Awards
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 2500-OG-EN-WLLA |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
(brak danych)
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(0231) Języki obce
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | World Literature and Literary Awards |
Jednostka: | Wydział Humanistyczny |
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Punkty ECTS i inne: |
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Całkowity nakład pracy studenta: | Contact hours with teacher: - participation in discussion seminar - 20 hrs - consultations - 10 hrs Self-study hours: - preparation for discussion seminar - 40 hrs - preparation for test - 30 hrs Altogether: 100 hrs (4 ECTS) |
Efekty uczenia się - wiedza: | K_W03: Student has deep, structured and detailed knowledge of considerable authors, texts and phenomena in the newest European literature K_W04: Student has broad and systematized knowledge literary and extra-literary (i.e. historical, philosophical, social, ideological, cultural, regional) contexts of literature, which have contributed to its creation and reception. |
Efekty uczenia się - umiejętności: | K_U01: Student searches for, analyzes, evaluates, selects and consolidates information coming from written and electronic sources. K_U02: Student is capable of observing and interpreting literary phenomena thouroughly; as well as is able to analyze their relationships with various areas of culture and with the literatures of various regions of Europe. K_U05: Student possesses advance skills of literary analysis and interpretation; is capable of referring to appropriate literary and extra-literary contexts in their analyses and interpretations. K_U14: Student can acquire knowledge on their own and develop their professional skills making use of diverse sources (in mother tongue as well as in foreign languages) and new technologies (ICT). |
Efekty uczenia się - kompetencje społeczne: | K_K01: Student is deeply aware of the importance of novel as a literary genre. K_K03: Student understands cultural pluralism. K_K12: Student is aware of their responsibility for protecting the cultural heritage of the region, of Poland, Europe and the world; he takes action in this respect. |
Metody dydaktyczne: | Teaching methods: -lecture -description -discussion |
Skrócony opis: |
The course recognizes and examines the ways in which prestigious book awards for fiction interplay with world literature and global cultural landscape. This issue is approached by reading and analysing selected works by winners of Nobel Prize, The Man Booker Prize and The Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award and Miguel de Cervantes Prize, for instance Mario Vargas Llosa, John Maxwell Coetzee, Czesław Miłosz, Bob Dylan. Reading literature that transcends national boundaries helps to explore not only the varied artistic modes in which emitent writers situate themselves in intertwined global cultures, but also the problems of intercultural communication. Finally, such reflection provides a great opportunity to re-examine the concept of world literature itself. |
Pełny opis: |
The course offers an examination of the rules and the politics of literary prize-giving from around the world in the light of the world literature theory as well as interpretations of the most important books by laureates of the most prestigious prizes. Conversational lectures are first of all dedicated to discussions how literary awards shape our practices of reading across national boundaries. Course outline: 1. The concept of world literature against literary prizes: problems of intercultural communication. 2. The Nobel Prize in Literature – history, criteria and rules for granting, the activity of the Swedish Academy. 3. The analysis of verdicts from recent years in the light of changes in literary consciousness (e.g. Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan and Svetlana Alexievitch). 4. Other awards towards an international literary career: The Man Booker Prize and The Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award and Miguel de Cervantes Prize, etc. – history, criteria and rules for granting; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages. 5. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak as a tale about the Russian Hamlet of the day of the revolution (Literary Nobel, 1958); controversy about the refusal to accept the prize. 6. "Uncompromising clear-sightedness" of poetry by Czesław Miłosz (Literary Nobel, 1980). "Captive Mind" as an analysis of "enslavement through consciousness". 7. An apology for philology and praise for literary art in Antonia Susan Byatt’s "Possession"; unlimited intertextuality, multidimensional and multi-genre structure of the novel (Booker Prize, 1990). 8. "Disgrace" by John Maxwell Coetzee as an academic postcolonial novel (Booker Prize, 1999; Literary Nobel, 2003). 9. "Conversation in the Cathedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa as a polyphonic novel and a multiperspectivie picture of Peru (Cervantes Prize, 1994; Literary Nobel, 2010). 10. Literary awards in Poland. Do Polish literary prizes announce the international success of their laureates? |
Literatura: |
1. Selected Bibliography. Criticism: Espmark Kjell, "The Nobel Prize in Literature. A Study of the Criteria behind the Choices", Boston 1991. Gupta Suman, "Globalization and Literature", Cambridge 2009. Damrosch David, "What is World Literature", Princeton and Oxford 2003. Damrosch David, "How to Read World Literature", Malden 2009. Henitiuk Valerie, "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature, "World Literature Today" 2012, (86)1. Davie Donald, "Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric", Cambridge 1986. "Debating World Literature", ed. by Christopher Prendergast, London and New York 2004. "Doubling the Point: J.M. Coetzee, Essays and Interviews", ed. by David Atwell, New York 2016. "The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa", ed. by Efraín Kristal and John King, Cambridge 2012. "The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan", ed. by Kevin J. Dettmar, Cambridge 2008. Burgass Catherine, "A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide", New York 2002. 2. Selected Bibliography. Literature: Alexievich Svetlana, "Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II", translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky, New York 2017. Byatt Antonia Susan, "Possession. A Romance", London 1990. Coetzee John Maxwell, "Disgrace", London 1999. Dylan Bob, "The Lyrics: Since 1962", New York 2014. Llosa Mario Vargas, "Conversation in the Cathedral", translated by Gregory Rabassa, New York 1974. Miłosz Czesław, "Selected Poems 1931-2004", foreword by Seamus Heaney, New York 2006. Miłosz Czesław, "The Captive Mind", translated by Jane Zielonko, New York 1953. Pasternak Boris, "Doctor Zhivago", translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, "The Poems of Yurii Zhivago" translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, New York 1958. |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
Assesment methods: -depending on the student’s decision: written test or conversation -activity during the lectures Assesment criteria: -knowledge gained during the meetings -ability to use the knowledge / invention -credit with a grade (on the basis of the written test or conversation) required threshold for the E (satisfactory) grade – 50 % D (better than satisfactory) – 60% C (good) – 70% B (better than good) – 80% A (very good) – 90% |
Praktyki zawodowe: |
not applicable |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu.