Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Kamila Walker
Contact via 02 9850 7014
AHH L2 North Wing
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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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Detailed grading standards (such as rubrics) and indicative examples of tasks are provided in the iLearn unit.
Electronic submission
Unless otherwise approved, all text-based assessment tasks will be submitted electronically using the University’s electronic learning management system.
Use of plagiarism detection software
Text-based work submitted by students for assessment will be subject to plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin or similar approved software, unless otherwise approved.
Plagiarism detection methods are to be used on a routine basis to check student work or when plagiarism is suspected.
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Special Consideration Policy
All assessment tasks are compulsory and must be submitted on time. Students unable to meet due dates must apply for 'Special Consideration' via ask.mq.edu.
If a Special Consideration Application is either not submitted or not approved, the student will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Essay 1 | 40% | No | Week 6 |
Essay 2 | 40% | No | Week 12 |
Participation | 20% | No | Week 13 |
Due: Week 6
Weighting: 40%
Essay 1 - Students will choose an essay question (list provided) and discuss at least two texts studied
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, including novels
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
Preparation and participation: active involvement in the unit content and associated activities
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’, 'Pod jedną gwiazdką', 'Widok z ziarnkiem piasku'
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’
Stefan Grabiński, 'Szary pokój'
The Novels
Bolesław Prus, Lalka (excerpt)
Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
Stanisław Lem, Solaris
All the poems and short stories are available on the online unit.
The novels are available at the Macquarie Library. You may also purchase these titles at the University Co-op Bookshop: https://www.coop.com.au/s/macquarie-university
Poetry and short stories
Bojanowska, Edyta M. ‘Wisława Szymborska: Naturalist and Humanist’, The Slavic and East European Jornal 41.2 (1997): 199-223.
Carpenter, Bogdana. ‘Wisława Szymborska and the Importance of the Unimportant’, World Literature Today 71.1 (1997): 8-12.
Czerwiński, Edward J. Ed. Dictionary of Polish Literature (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).
Dixon, Megan. ‘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.
Dopart, Bogusław. Polski romantyzm i wiek XIX: Zarysy, rekonesanse (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2013).
Fiut, Aleksander. The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, trans. Theodosia S. Robertson (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990).
Hidalgo Downing, Laura. ‘Creating Things that Are Not: The Role of Negation in the poetry of Wisława Szymborska’, Journal of Literary Semantics 31 (2002): 113-132.
Jarzyńska, Karina. ‘Miłosz biblijny oczami teologa’, Teksty Drugie 3 (2010): 93-103.
Kalaidjian, Walter. Understanding Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005).
Kalinowska-Blackwood, Izabela. ‘The Dialogue between East and the West in the “Crimean Sonnets”’, The Polish Review 43.4 (1998) 229-239.
Koropeckyj, Roman. ‘Orientalism in Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets’, The Slavic and Eastern European Journal 45.4 (2001) 660-678.
Lisowski, Zbigniew. Tragizm wojny i okupacji w poezji Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego, Tadeusza Różewicza i Zbigniewa Herberta (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2008).
Markiewicz, Henryk. Pozytywizm (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2015).
Mikoś, Michael J. Polish Romanic Literature: An Anthology (Bloomington: Slavica, 2002).
Miłosz, Czesław. The History of Polish Literature, 2nd ed. (1969: repr. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).
Schwiebert, John E. Reading and Writing from Literature. 3rd ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005).
Stabro, Stanisław. Chwila bez imienia: O poezji Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego (Kraków: Universitas, 2003).
Szmydtowa, Zofia. Jan Kochanowski (Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1985).
Welsh, David. ‘Kochanowski’s “Songs of the City of God” (1579)’, The Polish Review 18.3 (1973): 44-51.
Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke
Ciesielski, Mieszko. ‘Human on the Periphery of Community: Witold Gombrowicz on Provincialism’, Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciencies and the Humanities 100.1 (2012): 103-119.
De Bruyn, Dieter. ‘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.
De Bruyn, Dieter. ‘Literary Polemics in/on Polish Modernism: The Case of Gombrowicz and Schulz’, Slavica Gandesia 35 (2008): 9-22.
Głowiński, Michał. Gombrowicz i nadliteratura (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002).
Gombrowicz, Witold. Autobiografia pośmiertna. Ed. Włodzimierz Bolecki (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2002).
Gombrowicz, Witold. Polemiki i dyskusje, Varia 2 (Kraków: Wydawnicto Literackie, 2004).
Jarzębski, Jerzy. Gombrowicz (Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2004).
Liszka, Jakób. ‘The Face: I and Other in Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke’, Philosophy and Literature 5.1 (1981) 62-72.
Lucey, C. ‘Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form by Michael Goddard’, Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (2011): 685-686.
Łapiński, Zdzisław. Ed. Gombrowicz i krytycy (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1984).
Millati, Piotr. Gombrowicz wobec sztuki: Wybrane zagadnienia (Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2002).
Płonowska-Ziarek, Ewa. Ed. Gombrowicz’s Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).
Lem, Solaris
Angenot, Marc. ‘The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Science Fiction’, Science Fiction Studies 6.1 (1979): 9-19.
Balcerzan, Edward. Trans. Konrad Brodziński. ‘Seeking only Man: Language and Ethics in Solaris’, Science Fiction Studies 2.2 (1975): 152-156.
Bell, Michael. Literature, Modernism, and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Cheyne, Ria. ‘Created Languages in Science Fiction’, Science Fiction Studies 35.3 (2008): 386-403.
Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan. ‘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.
Easterbrook, Neil. ‘The Sublime Simulacra: Repetition, Reversal, and Re-covery in Lem’s Solaris’, Critique 36.3 (1995): 177-194.
Enns, Anthony. ‘Mediality and Mourning in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris and His Master’s Voice’, Science Fiction Studies 29.1 (2002): 34-52.
Fitting, Peter. ‘“Ubik”: The Deconstruction of Bourgeois SF’, Science Fiction Studies 2.1 (1975): 47-54.
Kowalewski, Hubert. ‘In Space No One Can Hear You Speak: Embodied Language in Stanisław Lem’s Solaris and Peter Watts’s Blindsight’, Extrapolation 56.3 (2015): 353-376.
Lem, Stanisław, et al. ‘An Interview with Stanisław Lem’, The Missouri Review 7.2 (1984): 218-237.
Tighe, Carl. ‘Stanisław Lem: Socio-Political Sci-Fi’, The Modern Language Review 94.3 (1999): 758-774.
Weinstone, Ann. ‘Resisting Monsters: Notes on Solaris’, Science Fiction Studies 21.2 (1994): 173-190.
Weissert, Thomas P. ‘Stanisław Lem and a Topology of Mind’, Science Fiction Studies 19.2 (1992): 161-166.
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Change of assessment tasks: replacement of Essay Plans with Participation task.