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POL 115
introduction to polish culture and literature
Credit: 3 hours.
A nation located at the cross-roads of eastern and western Europe, throughout its thousand-year history Poland has been strongly influenced by its neighbors while at the same time resolutely holding onto a distinct cultural identity. Some of the questions we will contemplate in this course are: given the general turbulence of its past, can Poland be said to be a “typical” European country? National crisis has long affected the sense of Polish identity; in what ways does this legacy play out today? In elaborating a “country profile” of Poland today, we will examine literary texts, biographical “mini-capsules,” and visual works from diverse genres, and we’ll investigate some of the key figures and tropes of Polish cultural life – from peasants, exiled nobles and Jewish Poles, to emigrants, mystics, and “outsiders.” Authors to be read this semester include Juliusz Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz, Bolesław Prus, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Władysław Reymont, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bruno Schulz, Marek Hłasko, Czesław Miłosz, Olga Tokarczuk, and Andrzej Stasiuk. See the course webpage.
ALL COURSE MATERIALS IN ENGLISH – NO KNOWLEDGE OF POLISH REQUIRED.
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