History of Polish Literature - Enlightenment

elementary

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Course Level: basic.

A Brief Description of the course:

exercises "History of Polish literature - Enlightenment" focus on the analysis and interpretation of outstanding works of literature of the period.

Course objectives:

a. knowledge and understanding by students the literary works of the Polish Enlightenment;

b. the student can make historical and literary analysis of the work;

c. the student is able to independently interpret works of literature of the Enlightenment.

Prerequisites:

basic knowledge of the Polish Enlightenment literature (works of art, artists, genres, literary trends). Knowledge of major historical events of the epoch.

Course contents:

1) Let's read Kitowicz. Because we mustn't lose the memory of how habits degenarate, how myopia and impunity of the privileged prevail over the law, and before the court are brought bribed witnesses (M. Dernałowicz, Cudze życie) - Jedrzej Kitowicz, Description manners in the reign of Augustus III.

J. Kitowicz, Description of manners in the reign of Augustus III.

2) journalism of the Stanislaus time - selected essays by Stanislaw Konarski, Stanislaw Staszic, Hugo Kołłątaj, Franciszek Salezy Jezierski.

3) the Enlightenment literary criticism

I. Krasicki, Pan Podstoli

M.D. Krajewski, Wojciech Zdarzyński describing his life and cases.

4) 'I sing the songs' of Konstancja Benisławska - "maybe, the strangest book in the Polish literature of the eighteenth century "(W. Borowy).

K. Benisławska, 'The songs I sing to myself'.

5) Yellow nightcap or a Christmas one on the New Year - the biggest achievement of Zabłocki as the author of librettos, maybe, even the only one of that genres in the eighteenth century of Poland (M. Klimowicz)

Franciszek Zabłocki, 'Yellow nightcap'.

6) Sentimentalism in the literature of the Polish Enlightenment - Songs and Pastorals of Franciszek Karpinski.

F. Karpinski, Idylls.

F. Karpinski, Songs.

7) Branches - one of the ash / And the second of a beautiful maple - / thrown by an adventure / water flowed (F.D. Kniaźnin, 'Two twigs') - Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin's personal lyricism.

F. D. Kniaźnin, 'Selected Poems'.

8) The true elocution does not need venomous words: tools of the weakness they are. (I Krasicki, Conversations of the dead) - The talks of the dead - testament of Ignacy Krasicki.

I. Krasicki, Conversations of the dead, Introduction and Comments Z. Liber, Warszawa 1987.

9) Away from me, cursed beasts / figures, tropes, syllogisms, brawls ... / Let the devil take you, and portfolio / Down and you, sir Seneka, / Down Demostenes and Mr. Plato, And you, mouthy Cicerone ... / And the most ye scurvy souls: / Ovids, Virgils. - Polish National Opera - 'Miracle or Krakowiaki' and Highlanders by Wojciech Bogusławski

10) This grave will not bury your family: / Troy it fell to Rome was born - Jan Paweł Woronicz, The Temple of Sibyl

11) The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki - a novel in which everyone can find material for their preferences and tastes, intelectual attitudes and tools, philosophical beliefs and choices, fantasies, expectations, desires (F. Rosset, D. Triare 'From Warsaw to Saragossa') .

Jan Potocki, The Saragossa Manuscript.

12) Sofiówka, Stanisław Trembecki - the work, which can be regarded as a masterpiece next to the most brilliant poems of this kind in any literature (A. Mickiewicz, Notes on the "Zofijówka).

S. Trembecki, Sofiówka.

13) Malwina, or heart of Mary Wirtemberska - a departure from the Stanislawowski model of understanding of the tasks of literature.

Maria Wirtemberska, Malvina, a penetration of the heart.

14) In the tragedies it is needed not only a special event to complement, not only to give the ideal of the specific nature and passion, but the ideal of the nation and the age in one person, one event collected and supplemented (K. Brodzinski, course aesthetics) - Barbara Radziwill, Luigi Neoclassical tragedy Felińskiego.

Luigi Felinski, Barbara Radziwiłłówna

15) written test

Assessment methods:

final assessment consists of partial evaluations (oral presentation, written test). Be taken into account is also active participation in classes and attendance.

1) Jędrzej Kitowicz, Opis obyczajów za panownia Augusta III, wstęp Maria Dernałowicz, red. naukowa, komentarze i wybór ilustracji Zbigniew Goliński, opracowanie tekstu Anna Skarżyńska, Warszawa 1985.

2) Abyśmy o ojczyźnie naszej radzili. Antologia publicystyki doby stanisławowskiej, oprac. Z. Goliński, Warszawa 1984.

3) Ignacy Krasicki, Pan Podstoli, [w:] Dzieła wybrane, oprac. Z. Goliński, Warszawa 1989, t. II, s. 369-469.

4) Michał Dymitr Krajewski, Wojciech Zdarzyński życie i przypadki swoje opisujący, Kraków 2002.

5) Konstancja Benisławska, Pieśni sobie śpiewane, wyd. T Chachulski, Warszawa 2000.

6) Franciszek Zabłocki, Żółta szlafmyca, [w:] Teatr Franciszka Zabłockiego, oprac. J. Pawłowiczowa, Wrocław 1996, t. 4, s. 93-151.

7) Franciszek Karpiński, Wiersze zebrane, wyd. T. Chachulski, t. 1, Warszawa 2005.

8) Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, Wiersze wybrane, oprac. A.K. Guzek, Warszawa 1981.

9) Ignacy Krasicki, Rozmowy zmarłych, wstęp i komentarze Z. Libera, Warszawa 1987.

10) Wojciech Bogusławski, Cud albo Krakowiaki i Górale, oprac. M. Klimowicz, Wrocław 2005.

11) Jan Paweł Woronicz., Świątynia Sybilli, [w:] Pisma wybrane, oprac. M. Nesteruk., Z. Rejman, Wrocław 2002.

12) Jan Potocki, Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie, przeł. E. Chojecki, tekst przygotował, wstępem i przypisami opatrzył L. Kukulski, Warszawa 1965 (lub wydanie następne).

13) Stanisław Trembecki, Sofiówka, wyd. J. Snopek, Warszawa 2000.

14) Maria Wirtemberska, Malwina, czyli domyślność serca, Kraków 2002.

15) Alojzy Feliński, Barbara Radziwiłłówna, [w:] Polska tragedia neoklasycystyczna, oprac. D. Ratajczak, Wrocław 1988.