Conducted in terms: 2024, 2026

Erasmus code: 09.0

ECTS credits: 2

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Philology

(in Polish) Literatura powszechna 340-RA1-1LPO

Study profile: general academic

Form of studies: full-time

Subject type: compulsory,

Field and discipline of study: humanities, literary studies

Year of study/semester: 1st year, 1st semester, 2nd cycle studies, seminar

Entrance requirements (introductory subjects, Introduction to literary studies)

Teaching methods (consultations, group workshops)

ECTS points - 2

Participation in classes – 25 h

Participation in consultations – 7h

preparation for classes and final exams - 25 h
Student workload related to classes requiring direct teacher participation 1.2 ECTS.

Program content:

1. General literature as a subject of classes.

2. Myths of the world and their meaning. Greek mythology.

3. Ancient Greek epic - genesis, constitutive features.

4. The world of the late Middle Ages in Dante's Divine Comedy.

5. Renaissance humanism and its literary "materializations"

6. Baroque in literature on the example of Shakespeare's work.

7. Articulation of Enlightenment ideas in Voltaire's work.

8. Romantic individualist - faces and realizations.

9. Realism in 19th century literature.

10. Modernism in lyric poetry. Baudelaire and Apollinaire

11. Existential prose by Franz Kafka.

13. Stream of Consciousness Prose.

Term 2024:

Study profile: general academic

Form of studies: full-time

Subject type: compulsory,

Field and discipline of study: humanities, literary studies

Year of study/semester: 1st year, 1st semester, 2nd cycle studies, seminar

Entrance requirements (introductory subjects, Introduction to literary studies)

Teaching methods (consultations, group workshops)

ECTS points - 2

Participation in classes – 25 h

Participation in consultations – 7h

Student workload related to classes requiring direct teacher participation 1.2 ECTS.

Program content:

1. General literature as a subject of classes.

2. Myths of the world and their meaning. Greek mythology.

3. Ancient Greek epic - genesis, constitutive features.

4. The world of the late Middle Ages in Dante's Divine Comedy.

5. Renaissance humanism and its literary "materializations"

6. Baroque in literature on the example of Shakespeare's work.

7. Articulation of Enlightenment ideas in Voltaire's work.

8. Romantic individualist - faces and realizations.

9. Realism in 19th century literature.

10. Modernism in lyric poetry. Baudelaire and Apollinaire

11. Existential prose by Franz Kafka.

13. Stream of Consciousness Prose.

Term 2026:

Study profile: general academic

Form of studies: full-time

Subject type: compulsory,

Field and discipline of study: humanities, literary studies

Year of study/semester: 1st year, 1st semester, 2nd cycle studies, seminar

Entrance requirements (introductory subjects, Introduction to literary studies)

Teaching methods (consultations, group workshops)

ECTS points - 2

Participation in classes – 25 h

Participation in consultations – 7h

Student workload related to classes requiring direct teacher participation 1.2 ECTS.

Program content:

1. General literature as a subject of classes.

2. Myths of the world and their meaning. Greek mythology.

3. Ancient Greek epic - genesis, constitutive features.

4. The world of the late Middle Ages in Dante's Divine Comedy.

5. Renaissance humanism and its literary "materializations"

6. Baroque in literature on the example of Shakespeare's work.

7. Articulation of Enlightenment ideas in Voltaire's work.

8. Romantic individualist - faces and realizations.

9. Realism in 19th century literature.

10. Modernism in lyric poetry. Baudelaire and Apollinaire

11. Existential prose by Franz Kafka.

13. Stream of Consciousness Prose.

Prerequisites (description)

Basic goals of the classes: - developing the ability to independently analyze literary texts, interpretation in the historical and cultural context based on appropriate theoretical and literary terminology, - understanding the social, cultural and political background of the era in which individual works were created, - introduction to working with critical scientific literature, - shaping students' aesthetic and ethical sensitivity.

Course coordinators

Weronika Biegluk-Leś

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

(in Polish) w sali

Bibliography

J. Adamski, Historia literatury francuskiej, Wrocław 1989.
B. Bałutowa, Powieść angielska XX wieku, Warszawa 2004.
W. Florian, Dzieje literatur europejskich, Warszawa 1977.
J. Heinstein, Dzieje literatury włoskiej, Wrocław 1987.
J. Heinstein, Literatura francuska XX wieku, Warszawa 1991.
R. D. Kluge, M. Świderska, Zarys literatury niemieckiej, Łódź 2010.
P. Mroczkowski, Dzieje literatury angielskiej, Wrocław 1986.
Leksykon pisarzy świata XX wieku, Warszawa 1997.
Słownik encyklopedyczny: pisarze świata, Warszawa 1999.
S. Stabryła, Historia literatury starożytnej Grecji i Rzymu, Wrocław 2002.
T. Thorne, Słownik pojęć kultury postmodernistycznej. Mody, kulty, fascynacje, Warszawa 1995.
J. Tomkowski, Dzieje literatury powszechnej, Warszawa 2008.
J. Tomkowski, Dwadzieścia lat z literaturą (1977-1996), Warszawa 1998.
W. Kopaliński, Słownik wydarzeń, pojęć i legend XX wieku, Warszawa 1999.

Term 2024:

The teacher in a given group individually selects literary works from the canon of world literature as part of the program content and determines the obligatory subject literature.

Term 2026:

The teacher in a given group individually selects literary works from the canon of world literature as part of the program content and determines the obligatory subject literature.

Notes

Term 2024:

None

Term 2026:

None

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 340-RA1-1LPO in USOSweb