Specific instructions, detailed grading standards (such as rubrics) and indicative examples of assessment tasks are provided in the iLearn unit. 

Please note that all assessment due dates and times are based on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).

Assessing Active Participation

There are no on-campus sessions. Active participation is assessed by a student’s engagement in activities such as discussions facilitated by the lecturer/tutor, contributions to online discussion forums, or general questions asked during lectures or tutorials and involvement in set activities.

Active tutorial preparation and participation is compulsory, and is a prerequisite for earning the tutorial preparation and participation mark. Active participation in the tutorial Zoom sessions, showing significant preparation beforehand, is necessary to earn a good mark. Specific instructions and the marking criteria are available on iLearn. Students unable to participate in Zoom tutorials must contribute to the online General Discussion Forum.

Students who experience difficulties or have any questions concerning the course should contact the unit convenor for guidance either by email or in person during the unit consultation hour or by appointment.           

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.

Late Assessment Penalty

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.

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’, '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

A Brief List of References 

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 Mickiewicz’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: Wydawn.                  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, 2^nd ed. (1969: repr. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).

Schwiebert, John E. Reading and Writing from Literature. 3^rd ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Stabro, Stanisław. Chwila bez imienia. O poezji Krzysztofa Kamila Baczyńskiego (Kraków: Universitas, 2003).

Szmydtowa, Zofia. Jan Kochanowski (Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn. 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: Wydawn. Literackie, 2002).

Gombrowicz, Witold. Autobiografia pośmiertna. Ed. Włodzimierz Bolecki (Kraków: Wydawn. Literackie, 2002).

Gombrowicz, Witold. Polemiki i dyskusje, Varia 2 (Kraków: Wydawn. Literackie, 2004).

Jarzębski, Jerzy. Gombrowicz (Wrocław: Wydawn. 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: Wydawn. 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.

On-line materials include:

Study Plan Schedule, the primary sources (excluding the novels), and recorded lectures.

TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED

Online Unit

Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/

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Technology

Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.

For students attending classes on campus we strongly encourage that you bring along your own laptop computer, ready to work with activities in your online unit. The preferred operating system is Windows 10.

Students are required to access the online unit in iLearn by the end of Week 1 and follow any relevant instructions and links for downloads that may be required. If applicable, students are required to download the relevant language package prior to Week 2.

Please contact your course convenor before the end of Week 1 if you do not have a suitable laptop (or tablet) for in-class use.

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• For student quick guides on the use of iLearn go to:  https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/tools-and-resources/ilearn/ilearn-quick-guides-for-students

It is assumed that all students enrolling for this course have already completed all the Polish Studies units and have a sufficient command of Polish to read the literary texts in the original language.

In this course students will be working on the set texts doing research on the authors and their writings. It is important that students work systematically through the set texts in the order outlined below.

Please note that there will be weekly Zoom tutorials every Thursday at 6pm for a maximum 60 minutes starting in Week 1 and running through to Week 13 excluding the mid-semester break. 

Questions to consider in preparation for tutorials are available under each week on iLearn.

Change of assessment tasks: replacement of Essay Plans with Participation task.