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Texts and contexts in literary studies - course description

General information
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
Course information
Semester 3
ECTS credits to win 3
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr Urszula Gołębiowska
Classes forms
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

Aim of the course

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).  

 

Prerequisites

None

Scope

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.

Teaching methods

Informative lecture, interactive lecture, group work, class discussion.

 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

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. 

      

Recommended reading

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.

                                                                   

 

Further reading

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.

 

Notes

None


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