Cultural and Literary Traditions of Balkans 03-AP-CLTB-I
Course learning content:
- presentation of culture/ literature of countries on the Balkan Peninsula in chronological and typological approach on the basic level; showing crucial phenomena and directions of development,
- presentation of contexts of cultural and literary traditions of countries on the Balkan Peninsula on the basic level,
- presentation of cultural/literary connections between countries on the Balkan Peninsula with Eastern and Western civilization circles on the basic level.
Module learning aims
Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement
Student workload (ECTS credits)
Module type
(in Polish) Sylabus zajęć
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- define and describe basic phenomena, traditions and contexts of cultures/literatures of countries on the Balkan Peninsula,
- connect, describe and qualify these phenomena, traditions and contexts,
- get skill at creating cultural and historical-literary synthesis and at finding phenomena and references in cultural texts,
- get skill at categorizing and contextualizing specific cultural and literary phenomena of countries on the Balkan Peninsula connecting them with analogous phenomena in other European cultures/literatures,
- compile knowledge, acquired during the classes; develop, explain and reconstruct cultural/literary phenomena in relation to other civilization circles,
- get skill at comparing cultural/literary phenomena and at formulating conclusions, explaining and interpreting these phenomena in wider historical-literary, political, historical, ideological context,
- analyze independently, interpret and evaluate creatively cultural/literary texts.
Assessment criteria
Assessment criteria:
very good (bdb; 5,0): excellent familiarity with problems discussed during the classes; very good skills at analyzing and interpreting literary texts; very good ability to express verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.
good plus (+db; 4,5): as above, except for minor deficiencies and inaccuracies.
good (db; 4,0): possible larger scale of deficiencies: weaker skills at analyzing, interpreting and at expressing verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.
satisfactory plus (+dst; 3,5): satisfactory familiarity with problems discussed during the classes; average skills at analyzing and interpreting literary texts; satisfactory ability to express verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.
satisfactory (dst; 3,0): as above, except for minor deficiencies and inaccuracies.
unsatisfactory (ndst; 2,0): unsatisfactory familiarity with problems discussed during the classes.
Bibliography
Reading list:
M. Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, New York 1997.
The Macedonian issue: the power of culture, the culture of power, ed. B. Zieliński, Poznań 2003.
A. Barac, History of Yugoslav Literature, Ann Arbor 1976.
Ch. Moser, History of Bulgarian Literature: 865-1944, the Hague 1972.
P. Bogatyriew, Semiotyka kultury ludowej, Warszawa 1979.
H. Czajka, Bohaterska epika Słowian południowych, Wrocław 1968.
M. Dąbrowska – Partyka, Świadectwa i mistyfikacje. Przed i po Jugosławii, Kraków 2003.
W. Gusiew, Estetyka folkloru, Wrocław 1979.
J. Rapacka, Dawna literatura serbska i dawna literatura chorwacka, Warszawa 1993.
J. Rapacka, Godzina Herdera, Warszawa 1995.
K. Simiczijew, Pieśń hajducka Słowian południowych, Wrocław 1985.
Additional information
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