SylabUZ
| Course name | Texts and contexts in literary studies |
| Course ID | 09.2--FAD-TCLS-S23 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
| Field of study | WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | Second-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2024/2025 |
| Semester | 3 |
| ECTS credits to win | 3 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
After the completion of the course the student will be aware of the status of literary/cinematic works as products of culture, whose interpretation is dependent on a variety of contexts in which they may be placed. The student will be able to analyze and interpret cultural products (literary, cinematic), employing the contexts discussed in class: socio-historical, cultural, genre/convention, selected literary theories, other texts of culture (intertextuality, intermediality).
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Selected examples of contexts in which a literary work may be situated and their impact on its interpretation and reception: socio-historical background, literary genres, conventions, traditions, other texts of culture (examples of intertextuality and intermediality), as well as selected theories, e.g.post-colonialism, feminism.
Informative lecture, interactive lecture, group work, class discussion.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Active participation in class discussions and familiarity with the assigned texts, both literary and theoretical; positive evaluation of the final test - score of at least 60% of the total point value of the test.
Atwood, M. The Handmaid's Tale. London: Vintage, 1996.
Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Coetzee, J.M. Foe. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Hawthorne, N. “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” 1844. In Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
James, H. Daisy Miller. 1879. In Daisy Miller and Other Stories. Ed. J. Gooder. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.
James, H. Washington Square. 1881. New York: Random House, 2002.
Washington Square. Dir. A. Holland. Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures, 1997.
Macbeth. Dir. Justin Kurzel. See-Saw Films, 2015.
Alfaro, Maria J.M. “Intertextuality: Origins and Development of the Concept.” Atlantis 18.1/2 (1996): 268-286.
Bell, Millicent. “Daisy Miller.” Tales of Henry James. A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Ch. Wegelin and H.B. Wonham. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. 431-442.
Gargano, James W. “Washington Square: A Study in the Growth of an Inner Self.” Studies in Short Fiction 13.3 (1976): 355-362.
Maher, Susan N. “Confronting Authority: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and the Remaking of Robinson Crusoe,” The International Fiction Review 18.1 (1991): 34-40.
Rivkin, Julie. “ ‘Prospects of Entertainment’: Film Adaptations of Washington Square.” Henry James Goes to the Movies. Ed. Susan M. Griffin. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002. 147-69.
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