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PLSH3025 – Polish Literary Genres

2021 – Session 2, Fully online/virtual

Session 2 Learning and Teaching Update

The decision has been made to conduct study online for the remainder of Session 2 for all units WITHOUT mandatory on-campus learning activities. Exams for Session 2 will also be online where possible to do so.

This is due to the extension of the lockdown orders and to provide certainty around arrangements for the remainder of Session 2. We hope to return to campus beyond Session 2 as soon as it is safe and appropriate to do so.

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General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Convenor
Kamila Walker
kamila.walker@mq.edu.au
Contact via kamila.walker@mq.edu.au
External
Appointment via email
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
PLSH3010 or PLH324
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

Immerse yourself in Polish literature to nuance your knowledge of the language and the cultural mindset of the people who use it. This online unit introduces students to different types and forms of Polish poetry and prose. It investigates how literature can be used as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and historical issues. It will explore the various genres, formal features, key themes, diversity of writing styles to encourage an informed reading of different text types, and to consider the relationship between the content and form; texts and readers; and language and communication. A range of texts will be studied to help students develop a sense of how texts are socially and culturally constructed, and, in turn, how cultural context influences the way texts are written and read. More broadly, students will increase their awareness of Polish literary texts and gain an appreciation of their cultural specificity and richness.

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:

  • ULO1: Construct meaning in various Polish literary forms.
  • ULO2: Demonstrate skills in critical analysis, research, and effective communication.
  • ULO3: Translate narrative prose, taking into consideration the text’s generic conventions and mode of representation.
  • ULO4: Critically reflect on one’s own translation processes.
  • ULO5: Demonstrate library and information retrieval skills.
  • ULO6: Demonstrate self-organization and effective time management.

General Assessment Information

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

A detailed study plan schedule, which includes weekly primary texts, together with critical references, is available on iLearn. 

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

Assessing Critical Engagement with the Unit Content

Please note that there will be weekly Zoom tutorials every Thursday at 5pm to 7pm starting in Week 1 and running through to Week 13, excluding the mid-semester break.

There are no on-campus sessions. Critical engagement with the unit content is assessed weekly through student engagement in activities such as discussions facilitated by the lecturer/tutor, contributions to online discussion forums, and involvement in set activities. All contributions must be made in the week when each text is studied, and not provided in following weeks.

Active tutorial preparation and participation is compulsory, and is a prerequisite for earning the marks for critical engagement. Active participation in the tutorial Zoom sessions and showing significant preparation beforehand is necessary to earn a good mark. Specific instructions and the marking criteria are available on iLearn. For students unable to participate in Zoom tutorials, alternative activities will be required to be undertaken.

Students who experience difficulties or have any questions concerning the course should contact the unit convenor for guidance by email.           

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 – ten (10) 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. 

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Text translation 15% No 17:00 20/08/2021
Translation evaluation 25% No 17:00 01/10/2021
Research essay 40% No 17:00 29/10/2021
Critical engagement with the unit content 20% No 17:00, Thursday, weekly

Text translation

Assessment Type 1: Translation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 12 hours
Due: 17:00 20/08/2021
Weighting: 15%

Individual translation of a short literary text, submitted electronically via Turnitin.
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Construct meaning in various Polish literary forms.
  • Translate narrative prose, taking into consideration the text’s generic conventions and mode of representation.
  • Demonstrate self-organization and effective time management.

Translation evaluation

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: 17:00 01/10/2021
Weighting: 25%

Critical evaluation on translation process, submitted electronically via Turnitin.
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate skills in critical analysis, research, and effective communication.
  • Critically reflect on one’s own translation processes.
  • Demonstrate library and information retrieval skills.
  • Demonstrate self-organization and effective time management.

Research essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 18 hours
Due: 17:00 29/10/2021
Weighting: 40%

Interpretative analysis of literary texts, submitted electronically via Turnitin.
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Construct meaning in various Polish literary forms.
  • Demonstrate skills in critical analysis, research, and effective communication.
  • Demonstrate library and information retrieval skills.
  • Demonstrate self-organization and effective time management.

Critical engagement with the unit content

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: 17:00, Thursday, weekly
Weighting: 20%

Tutorial preparation and participation that includes informal critical notes in English and completion of associated tutorial exercises. This task can be completed either online via the General Discussion Forum on iLearn or during Zoom tutorials.
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Construct meaning in various Polish literary forms.
  • Demonstrate skills in critical analysis, research, and effective communication.
  • Demonstrate self-organization and effective time management.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Required Texts

J. Kochanowski, ‘Tren I, III, IV, XVIII’

J. Kochanowski, ‘Do miłości’; J. A. Morsztyn, ‘Do trupa’ 

I. Krasicki, 'Żona modna'

A. Mickiewicz, ‘Stepy akermańskie’; ‘Pielgrzym’

B. Prus, ‘Antek’

L. Siemieński (collection), ‘Cień Barbary’ 

B. Prus, Lalka (Tom 1, rozdział V, VI)

B. Prus, Lalka (Tom 1, rozdział VII, VIII) 

J. Słowacki, ‘Hymn o zachodzie słońca na morzu (Smutno mi, Boże!)’

W. Szymborska, ‘Głos w sprawie pornografii’; ‘Trochę o duszy’; ‘W parku’; ‘Wszystko’ 

C. Miłosz, ‘Œconomia divina’; ‘Piosenka o końcu świata’

S. Grabiński, ‘Szary pokój’  

T. Różewicz, Świadkowie albo nasza mała stabilizacja 

Recommended Texts: A Brief List of References

Narrative and Literary Theory

Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Britton, B. K., and A. D. Pellegrini. Eds. Narrative Thought and Narrative Language. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Assoc., 1990.

Cobley, Paul. Narrative: The New Critical Idiom. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Czerwiński, Edward J. Ed. Dictionary of Polish Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Dopart, Bogusław. Polski romantyzm i wiek XIX: Zarysy, rekonesanse. Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2013.

Gillon, Adam, and Ludwik Krzyżanowski. Eds. Introduction to Modern Polish Literature: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964.

Hanczakowski, Michał, et al. Historia literatury. Od antyku do współczesności. Bielsko-Biała: PPU Park, 2002.

__________. Epoki literackie. Od antyku do współczesności. Bielsko-Biała: ParkEdukacja, 2007.

Herman, David, et al. Eds. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 2005.

Herman, David. Basic Elements of Narrative. Chichester and Malden: Wiley, 2009.

Hernas, Czesław. Barok. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 2008.

Klimowicz, Mieczysław. Oświecenie. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 2011.

Krzyżanowski, Julian. Neoromantyzm polski, 1890-1918. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1963.

__________. Polish Romantic Literature. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.

__________. Dzieje literatury polskiej. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk., 1979.

__________. Szkice folklorystyczne. Kraków: Wydawn. Literackie, 1980.

__________. Tradycje literackie polszczyzny: Od Galla do Staffa. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 1992.

__________. A History of Polish Literature. Trans. Doris Ronowicz. Warszawa: PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, 1978.

Markiewicz, Henryk. Pozytywizm. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. 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.

Witkowska, Anna, i Ryszard Przybylski. Romantyzm. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 2009.

Ziomek, Jerzy. Renesans. Warszawa: Wydawn. Nauk. PWN, 2012.

Poetry

Kalaidjian, Walter. Understanding Poetry. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.

Spurr, Barry. Studying Poetry. 2nd ed. Houdmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.

The Short Story

Lohafer, Susan, and Jo Ellyn Clarey. Eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

March-Russell, Paul. The Short Story: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Longman, 1983.

The Novel

Keen, Suzanne. Empathy and the Novel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Smiley, Jane. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.

Special Topics

Balbus, Stanisław. Świat ze wszystkich stron świata. O Wisławie Szymborskiej. Kraków: Wydawn. Literackie, 1996.

Blake, Elizabeth. “Stanisław Wokulski’s Semi-Voluntary Exile: Exploring the Hero’s Journey to Emigration in Bolesław Prus’ ‘Lalka’”, The Polish Review 48.2 (2003): 165-184.

Bojanowska, Edyta M. “Wisława Szymborska: Naturalist and Humanist”, The Slavic and East European Journal 41.2 (1997): 199-223.

Carpenter, Bogdana. “Wisława Szymborska and the Importance of the Unimportant”, World Literature Today 71.1 (1997): 8-12.

Czerwinski, Edward J. “‘Dialog’ and the Socialist World: The Spectrum of Influence”, Comparative Drama 2.1 (1968): 55-68.

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.

Filipowicz, Halina. “Theatrical Reality in the Plays of Tadeusz Rożewicz”, The Slavic and East European Journal 26.4 (1982): 447-459.

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.

Kalinowska-Blackwood, Izabela. “The Dialogue between East and the West in the ‘Crimean Sonnets”’, The Polish Review 43.4 (1998): 229-239.

Karwowska, Bożena. “The Female Persona in Wisława Szymborska’s Poems”, Canadian Slavonic Papers 48.3-4 (2006): 315-333.

Koropeckyj, Roman. “Orientalism in Adam Mickiewicz’s Crimean Sonnets”, The Slavic and Eastern European Journal 45.4 (2001): 660-678.

Kostkowska, J. “‘To Persistently Not Know Something Important:’ Feminist Science and the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska”, Feminist Theory 5.2 (2004): 185-203.

Legeżyńska, Anna. Wisława Szymborska. Poznań: Dom Wydawn. Rebis, 1996.

Ligęza, Wojciech. O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej. Świat w stanie korekty. Kraków: Wydawn. Literackie, 2001.

Mikoś, Michael J. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1996.

Możejko, Edward. Ed. Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czesław Miłosz. Edmonton, Alta., Canada: The University of Alberta Press, 1988.

Piątkowska Monika, Prus: Śledztwo biograficzne. Kraków: Wydawn. Znak, 2017.

Pietrkiewicz, Jerzy. “Justified Failure in the Novels of Belesław Prus”, The Slavonic and East European Review 39.92 (1960): 95-107.

Stone, Rochelle. “The Use of Happenings in Tadeusz Różewicz’s Drama”, Pacific Coast Philology 11 (1976): 62-69.

Szmydtowa, Zofia. Jan Kochanowski. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk., 1985.

Szturc, Włodzimierz. Piękno Juliusza Słowackiego. Tom 3, Metamorphosis. Białystok: Wydawn. Prymat, 2015.

Welsh. David. “Krasicki’s Satires and the ‘Art of Fiction’”, The Polish Review 6.4 (1961): 23-29.

Węgrzyniakowa, Anna. Nie ma rozpusty większej niż myślenie. O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej. Katowice: Towarzystwo Zachęty Kultury, 1996.

TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED

Online Unit

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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.

Unit Schedule

The following is the general study plan which includes the assessment tasks due dates.

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

It is assumed that all students enrolling for this course have already completed all the Polish Studies units and/or have a sufficient command of Polish to read the literary texts in the original production. English translations for most texts studied are available on iLearn. In this course, students will be working on the set texts doing critical research. It is important that students work systematically through the set texts in the order outlined below.

Week  Activity Dates Title of Text Assessment Tasks Due Dates
1 26/07 - 01/08 J. Kochanowski, ‘Tren I, III, IV, XVIII’     
2 02/08 - 08/08 J. Kochanowski, ‘Do miłości’; J. A. Morsztyn, ‘Do trupa’     
3 9/08 - 15/08 I. Krasicki, 'Żona modna'    
4 16/08 - 22/08 A. Mickiewicz, ‘Stepy akermańskie’; ‘Pielgrzym’ Text translation  20/08
5 23/08 - 29/08 B. Prus, ‘Antek’    
6 30/08 - 05/09 L. Siemieński, ‘Cień Barbary’       
7 06/09 - 12/09 B. Prus, Lalka (Tom 1, rozdział V, VI)    
Mid-Semester Break 13/09 - 19/09  No Zoom tutuorials    
20/09 - 26/09    
8 27/09 - 03/10 B. Prus, Lalka (Tom 1, rozdział VII, VIII)  Reflection upon translation process  01/10
9 04/10 - 10/10 J. Słowacki, ‘Hymn o zachodzie słońca na morzu (Smutno mi, Boże!)’    
10 11/10 - 17/10 W. Szymborska, ‘Głos w sprawie pornografii’; ‘Trochę o duszy’; ‘W parku’; ‘Wszystko’     
11 18/10 - 24/10 C. Miłosz, ‘Œconomia divina’; ‘Piosenka o końcu świata’    
12 25/10 - 30/10 S. Grabiński, ‘Szary pokój’   Research essay 29/10
13 01/11 - 07/11 T. Różewicz, Świadkowie albo nasza mała stabilizacja     

 

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Unit information based on version 2021.01R of the Handbook