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PLH 326 – Polish Poetry and Prose
2017 – S1 External
General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Kamila Walker
Contact via 02 9850 7014
W6A.322
Thursdays 12:00pm to 13:00pm
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| Credit points |
Credit points
3
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
6cp in units at 200 level
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This distance education course will introduce students to different types and forms of Polish poetry and prose. It will consider the relationship between the content and form, texts and readers, and language and communication. The selected texts will be studied to help students develop and refine skills in textual analysis and to equip them with a range of interpretive tools to aid their understanding of how cultural context influences the way texts are written and read, how different literary techniques deployed by writers invite meaning making, and how literature can be used as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and historical issues. More broadly, this course aims to increase students’ awareness of Polish literary texts and to cultivate an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
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Important Academic Dates
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
General Assessment Information
Detailed grading standards (such as rubrics) and indicative examples of tasks are provided in the iLearn unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Summary 1 | 10% | No | Week 3 |
| Essay 1 | 40% | No | Week 6 |
| Summary 2 | 10% | No | Week 9 |
| Essay 2 | 40% | No | Week 12 |
Summary 1
Due: Week 3
Weighting: 10%
Summary of Essay 1
On successful completion you will be able to:
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Essay 1
Due: Week 6
Weighting: 40%
Essay 1 - Students will choose an essay question (list provided) and discuss at least two texts studied
On successful completion you will be able to:
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Summary 2
Due: Week 9
Weighting: 10%
Summary of Essay 2
On successful completion you will be able to:
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Essay 2
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 40%
Essay 2 - Students will choose an essay question (different from essay 1) and discuss at least two different texts studied
On successful completion you will be able to:
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Delivery and Resources
Prescribed Texts
The Poems
Jan Kochanowski: Fraszki: ‘O żywocie ludzkim’, ‘Na lipę’, ‘O doktorze Hiszpanie’; Treny: ‘Tren V, VII, VIII’ and Peśni: Księgi wtóre, ‘Pieśń IX’
Adam Mickiewicz: Sonety krymskie (Crimean sonnets): ‘Burza’; ‘Bakczysaraj’
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer,‘Evviva l’arte!’
Leopold Staff, ‘Ars poetica’
Wisława Szymborska, ‘Radość pisania’
Czesław Miłosz, ‘Piosenka o końcu świata’
Tadeusz Różewicz, ‘Ocalony’
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, ‘Pokolenie II’
Zbigniew Herbert, ‘Przesłanie pana Cogito’
The Short Stories
Bolesław Prus, ‘Kamizelka’
Izabela Szolc, ‘Teraźniejszość rzeczy minionych’
The Novels
Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke, or
Stanisław Lem, Solaris
All the poems and short stories are included in the online unit.
The novels are available at the Macquarie Library. You may also be able to purchase some titles at the University Co-op Bookshop, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, (www.coop-bookshp.com.au). Alternatively, you may purchase on the Internet (www.amazon.com).
Recommended Texts
The recommended books below are also available at Macquarie Library or may be found in other libraries.
Czesław Miłosz, The History of Polish Literature, 2nd ed. (1969: repr. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).
Edward J. Czerwiński, ed. Dictionary of Polish Literature (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).
Ria Cheyne, ‘Created Languages in Science Fiction’, Science Fiction Studies 35.3 (2008): 386-403.
Anthony Enns, ‘Mediality and Mourning in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris and His Master’s Voice’, Science Fiction Studies 29.1 (2002): 34-52.
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., ‘Modelling the Chaosphere: Stanisław Lem’s Alien Communications’, in Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991) 244-262.
Carl Tighe, ‘Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi’, The Modern Language Review 94.3 (1999): 758-774.
Thomas P. Weissert, ‘Stanisław Lem and a Topology of Mind’, Science Fiction Studies 19.2 (1992): 161-166.
Ann Weinstone, ‘Resisting Monsters: Notes on Solaris’, Science Fiction Studies 21.2 (1994): 173-190.
Neil Easterbrook, ‘The Sublime Simulacra: Repetition, Reversal, and Re-covery in Lem’s Solaris’, Critique 36.3 (1995): 177-194.
Dieter De Bruyn, ‘Literary Polemics in/on Polish Modernism: The Case of Gombrowicz and Schulz’, Slavica Gandesia 35 (2008): 9-22.
C. Lucey, ‘Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form’, Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (2011): 685-686.
Dieter De Bruyn, ‘The Janus-Faced Author: Narrative Unreliability and Metafiction in Karol Irzykowski’s Pałuba and Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke’, Science Direct 62.4 (2007): 401-422.
Mieszko Ciesielski, ‘Human on the Periphery of Community: Witold Gombrowicz on Provincionalism’, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciencies and the Humanities 100.1 (2012) 103-119.
Michał Głowiński, Gombrowicz i nadliteratura (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002).
Piotr Millati, Gombrowicz wobec sztuki: Wybrane zagadnienia (Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2002).
Jerzy Jarzębski, Gombrowicz (Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2004).
Bogusław Dopart, Polski romantyzm i wiek XIX: Zarysy, rekonesanse (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2013).
Roman Koropeckyj, ‘Orientalism in Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets’, The Slavic and Eastern European Journal 45.4 (2001) 660-678.
Megan Dixon, ‘How the Poet Sympathizes with Exotic Lands in Adam Micwiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets and the Digression from Forefathers’ Eve, Part III’, The Slavic and Eastern European Journal, 45.4 (2001): 679-694.
Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, ‘The Dialogue between East and the West in the “Crimean Sonnets”’, The Polish Review 43.4 (1998) 229-239.
Zbigniew Lisowski, Tragizm wojny i okupacji w poezji Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego, Tadeusza Różewicza i Zbigniewa Herberta (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2008).
Stanisław Stabro, Chwila bez imienia: O poezji Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego (Kraków: Universitas, 2003).
Karina Jarzyńska, ‘Miłosz biblijny oczami teologa’, Teksty Drugie 3 (2010): 93-103.
Aleksander Fiut, The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, trans. Theodosia S. Robertson (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990).
Laura Hidalgo Downing, ‘Creating Things that Are Not: The Role of Negation in in the poetry of Wisława Szymborska’, Journal of Literary Semantics 31 (2002): 113-132.
Henryk Markiewicz, Pozytywizm (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2015).
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On-line materials include:
Student Handbook, Study Plan Schedule, Poems and Short Stories, Review On Campus, and Polish Educational Scholarship Forms.
Technology:
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Unit Schedule
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Disruption to Studies Policy (in effect until Dec 4th, 2017): http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html
Special Consideration Policy (in effect from Dec 4th, 2017): https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
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Graduate Capabilities
Creative and Innovative
Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Capable of Professional and Personal Judgement and Initiative
We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills
Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Problem Solving and Research Capability
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Effective Communication
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Engaged and Ethical Local and Global citizens
As local citizens our graduates will be aware of indigenous perspectives and of the nation's historical context. They will be engaged with the challenges of contemporary society and with knowledge and ideas. We want our graduates to have respect for diversity, to be open-minded, sensitive to others and inclusive, and to be open to other cultures and perspectives: they should have a level of cultural literacy. Our graduates should be aware of disadvantage and social justice, and be willing to participate to help create a wiser and better society.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Socially and Environmentally Active and Responsible
We want our graduates to be aware of and have respect for self and others; to be able to work with others as a leader and a team player; to have a sense of connectedness with others and country; and to have a sense of mutual obligation. Our graduates should be informed and active participants in moving society towards sustainability.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- An increased awareness of different kinds and forms of Polish literary texts and an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.
- Ability to develop critical reading skills and competence in interpretive analysis.
- Ability to identify how different types of literary texts are strategically constructed to convey ideas and values, and how they are open to a range of interpretations.
- Ability to develop and justify one’s interpretation of a text by identifying ideas, themes and values and by responding to implied points of view.
- Development of a critical consciousness informed by scholarly research and a self-reflexive awareness of the reasoned views of others.
- Ability to effectively participate in online sessions, on campus sessions and associated activities.
Assessment tasks
- Summary 1
- Essay 1
- Summary 2
- Essay 2
Changes since First Published
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| 06/06/2017 | Minor correction. |