By way of introduction...

The Department of English Literature and  Literary Linguistics carries out its "mission impossible" of teaching the students how to read and analyze literary texts.

 

Studying literature should not only equip the students with critical tools which facilitate the  interpretation of texts but also with the knowledge of the world, and thus we can safely assert "mission accomplished".

Liliana Sikorska

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT  US

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Liliana Sikorska – Professor of English

Head

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

 

BOOKS:

1998.      with Jacek Fabiszak (eds.). An anthology of English literature. From Beowulf to John Milton.  Poznań: Rebis.

2000.      with Elżbieta Pakszys (eds.). Duchowość i religijność kobiet dawniej i dziś [Women’s spirituality and religiosity – past and present].  Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora. 

2000.      with Grażyna Borkowska (eds.). Krytyka feministyczna: siostra teorii i historii literatury [Feminist criticism: A sister of the theory and history of literature].  Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL.

2002.      ‘In a manner of morall playe’.  Social ideologies in English moralities and interludes 1350 - 1517 . Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2002.      An outline history of English literature.  (Revised and enlarged edition.) Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

2004.      (ed.). Aspects of suffering: classical themes in literature in English.  Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2004.      with Marcin Krygier (eds.). For the loue of Inglis lede. (Medieval English Mirror 1).  Frankfurt/Main – New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2005.      with Marcin Krygier (eds.). Naked wordes in Englissh. (Medieval English Mirror 2). Frankfurt/Main – New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2005.      (ed.). Ironies of art/tragedies of life. Essays on Irish literature Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2006.      (ed.). A universe of (hi)stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2006.      (ed.). A universe of (Hi)Stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankfurt/Main – New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

2007.      (ed.). A short history of English literature. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

2007.      (ed.). An outline history of English literature in texts: The Middle Ages; The Renaissance; The Puritan Period. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

2007.      (ed.). An outline history of English literature in texts: The Restoration; The Age of Reason;  Romanticism; The Victorian Period. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

 2007.     (ed.). An outline history of English literature in texts: Edwardian Period; Literature 1910-1945; Post-War Literature; Contemporary Literature. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

2008.      (ed.). Medievalisms. The poetics of literary re-reading. Frankfurt am Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag.

 

ARTICLES:

1996.      "Mankind and the question of power dynamics: some aspects of the validity of sociolinguistic reading." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (Helsinki) 97/2, 201-16.

1996.      "Mapping the problems of Sexual Desire in The Book of Margery Kempe". Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 30, 141-8.

1996.      “Talking like a lady: some issues concerning women’s language”. FIPLV World News 38, 11-15.

1996.      "Universal vs. individual: The tensions of 'Women's Language' in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Love". Folia Linguistica Historica  17/1-2, 177-86.

1997.      "The seduction of Mankind: Some Remarks on the Validity of Linguistic Analysis". In: Hickey, R. and S. Puppel (eds.).  Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter,235-44 .

1997.      "The rhetoric of a medieval morality play: An exercise in literary linguistics". Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 44, 48-60.

1999.      "Writing the body: medieval medical discourse and the language of desire in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love". In: M. Edelson, P. Sumera,  and j. Uchman (eds.) Proceedings of the 1996 PASE Conference. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego,  115-123.

1999.      "S/Textual Desire in Lanval". Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny  46, 319-340.

1999.      "The Circle and the Cycle in Samuel Beckett's Morality Plays". In: J. Świdziński, and Jacek Fabiszak (eds.). Studia nad literaturami Europejskimi. Księga poświęcona pamięci Profesorowi Henrykowi Zbierskiemu. Poznań: Motivex, 179-202 .

2000.      "W poszukiwaniu własnego głosu.  Margery Kempe i autorytet słowa pisanego" [In search of a voice of one’s own: Margery Kempe and the authority of the written word]. In: Elżbieta Pakszys and Liliana Sikorska (eds.). Duchowość i religijność dawniej i dziś [Women’s spirituality and religiosity – past and present]. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, 97-111.

2000.      Liliana Sikorska - Elżbieta Pakszys "Woman's spirituality and religiosity - past and present". In: Elżbieta Pakszys and Liliana Sikorska (eds.). Duchowość i religijność dawniej i dziś.  Poznań: Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora, 137-148.

2000.      "Between post-feminism and feminism: constructing textual femininity in social network analysis". In: Spanberg, Sven-Johan, Henryk Kardela and Gerald Porter (eds.).  The Evidence of Literature.  Interrogating Texts in English Studies.  Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 205-221.

2000.      "Księga Margery Kempe: użycia i nadużycia krytyki feministycznej a badania nad literaturą średniowiecza” [ The Book of Margery Kempe: The use and abuse of feminist criticism and the research on medieval literature]. In:  Borkowska, Grażyna - Sikorska Liliana (eds.). Krytyka feministyczna: Siostra teorii i historii literatury [Feminist criticism. A sister of the theory and history of literature].  Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 85-93.

2000.      "Constructing the Middle Ages in contemporary literature and culture.  The reading of Iris Murdoch's The Green Knight". Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 35,  258-271.

2000.      “Hir not lettyrd: The use of interjections, pragmatic markers and Whan-clauses in The Book of Margery Kempe”. In:  I. Taavitsainen – T. Nevalainen – P. Pahta – m. Rissanen (eds.).  Placing Middle English in Context.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,  391-410.

2001.      “The construction of power and pride in the framework of political allegory in  the Middle English  Pride of Life.”  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 36, 265-274.

2002.      “Alchemy as writing - Alchemy and writing: A study of Lindsay Clarke’s Chymical Wedding”.  In: Alexandra Lambert – Elmar Schenkel (eds.). The Golden Egg. Alchemy in Art and Literature.  Glienicke/Berlin: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 81-100. 

2002.      "Authority, femininity and motherhood in Julian of Norwich's Showings". In:  P. Lukas (ed.).  Middle English  from Tongue to Text: Proceedings from the Third International Conference on Middle English, Dublin 1999.  Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 281-292.

2002.      ”Internal exile: Dorothea of Montau’s inward journey”. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 38, 433-444.

2002.            “Performing the love of God and the struggle with the Devil: The “theatricality” of medieval mystical culture” .  Medieval English Studies  [Seoul, Korea] 10(1),  55-72. 

2003.            “The construction of the sins of the flesh as social transgressions in late medieval drama”.  In: Jadwiga Uchman and Andrzej Wicher (eds). British Drama through the Ages and Medieval Literature.  Łódź: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, 153-162.

2003.      “Anorektyczki, anachoretki i prostytutki: Kobieta, jej ciało i pozycja społeczna w średniowieczu” [Anorexics, anchoresses and prostitutes: The woman, her body and social position in Middle Ages]. In: Elżbieta Pakszys - Monika Baer (eds.). Obszary kultur kobiecych w badaniach płci/rodzaju [Areas of women’s cultures in gender studies]. Poznań: Humaniora, 23-52.

2003.      “Pouring one’s heart out: textual selves and their confessions”. International Journal of Arabic – English Studies  4, 23-52.

2003.            “Mapping the Green Knight/Man’s Territory in Lindsay Clarke’s Chymical Wedding”.  The Years Work in Medievalism XII (Eugene, Ore., USA),  97-106.

 

2004.      “Allusion, influence, intertextuality - classical themes in the literature in English: By way of introduction”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed). Aspects of suffering: classical themes in literature in English. Frankfurt/Main - New   York: Peter Lang Verlag, 9-22.

 

2004.      “The journey into the Underworld in the medieval ‘Harrowing of Hell’ scenes of the Cycle Plays”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of Suffering: Classical Themes in Literature in English. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag,  23-43.

2004.      “Imagining Heaven: Visions of bliss in medieval mystical discourse”. In: Marcin Krygier - Liliana Sikorska (eds.).  For the loue of Inglis lede. Frankfurt/Main – New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 97-132.

 2005.     “Tempters and transgressors: sins of the tongue in medieval and early modern dramatic discourse”. In: Jacek Fisiak - Hye-Kyuong Kang (eds.). Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature. Vol I. Seoul: Thaehaksa, 93-117.

2005.      “Medievalism and its discontents.  religious communities in Mervyn Wall’s Fursey novels”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life. Essays on Irish Literature. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 71-102.

2005.      “Medieval confession manuals and their literary (re-)readings.  The case of John Capgrave’s Life of St. Augustine and John Lydgate The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man”.  In: Jacek Fisiak – Akio Oizumi—John Scaghill (eds.).  Text and language in medieval English prose. A Festschrift for Tadao Kubouchi. Frankfurt/Main - New york: Peter Lang Verlag, 237-254.

2005.      “In the labyrinth of life: St. Augustine’s quests and Margery Kempe’s pilgrimages” Naked Wordes in Englissh.  Medieval English Mirror II, 137-157.

2006.      “Michael K’s odyssey:  displacement and wandering in the context of medieval concept of homo viator in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and times of Michael K. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). A Universe of (Hi)stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee.  Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag. 87-109.

2006.      “The chastising of a bad king: the interplay of the didactic and the adventurous in Robert of Cisyl..”  In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.). Ifatuation: A Festschrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the occasion of his 70th birthday, 625-642.

2006.      "Co Dalej Młody Doktorze? Czyli o karierze naukowej po doktoracie" [What 's next, Young Assistant Professor? Or, About the Post-doctoral Scholarly Career]. In: F. Ziejka (ed.). Model Awansu Naukowego w Polsce. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo SGGW, 87-94.

2007.      "Between penance and purgatory: Margery Kempe's Pelerinage de la vie Humanie and the idea of salvaging journeys". In: Hans Sauer - Renate Bauer (eds.). Beowulf  and Beyond. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 233-257.

2007.      "Dealing with anger: Robert of Cisyle and the medieval didactic tradition". Poetica 66, 115-125.

2007.            "Writing a New Morality Play: The court as the world in John Skelton's Magnyfycence and John Redford's Wit and Science". In: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr - Richard Scott Nokes. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 21-40.

2008.      “The alchemy of love: Representing desire in a medievalist (con)text. Lindsay Clarke’s The Chymical wedding”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.).  Medievalisms. The Poetics of Literary Re-Reading. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 173-188.

 

 

 

 

Dr Jacek Fabiszak – Professor of English

 

RESEARCH:

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

1998.      Sikorska, Liliana and Jacek Fabiszak (eds.) An anthology of English literature. Volume One: From 'Beowulf' to John Milton. Poznań: Rebis.

1999.      Świdziński, Jerzy and Jacek Fabiszak (eds.) Studia nad literaturami europejskimi. Księga poświęcona pamięci Profesora dr. hab. Henryka Zbierskiego (Studies in European literatures. Essays in memory of Professor Henryk Zbierski). Poznań: Motivex.

2001.      Shakespeare’s drama of social roles. Character grouping in the Last Plays. Piła: na zlecenie Wyższej Szkoły Biznesu.

2003.      Gibińska, Marta, Marta Kapera and Jacek Fabiszak. Szekspir. Leksykon. Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak.

2004.      Fabiszak, Jacek, Marta Gibińska and Ewa Nawrocka (eds.). Czytanie Szekspira. Gdańsk: Słowo/Obraz Terytoria.

2005.     Polish televised Shakespeares. A study of Shakespeare productions within the television theatre format. Poznań: Motivex.

 

 

ARTICLES:

 

1995. “The (inter-)theatricality of Marlovian prologues.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia XXIX, 189-197.

1997.      “Hamlet’s and Hamlet’s audiences”. In: Raymond Hickey - Stanisław Puppel (eds.). Language history and linguistic modelling: A festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1961-1972.

2000.      “Elizabethan staging and Greenawayan filming in Prospero’s Books”. In: Christel Stalpaert (ed.). Peter Greenaway’s ‘Prospero’s Books’: Critical Essays. Ghent: Academia Press, 121-39.

2003.      “ ‘Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men’: Persuasion in Shakespeare’s plays”. In: Joanna Burzyńska - Danuta Stanulewicz (eds.) PASE Papers in Literature and Culture. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Gdańsk, 26-28 April 2000. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 109-114.

2004.   “The uses of classical imagery in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II”. In: Lilana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of Suffering: Classical Themes in English Literature. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 63-86.

2004.            “Almereyda’s Hamlet, or the art of visual silence.” Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny LI (4), 353-360.

2005.            "Are we being politically correct yet? The fortunes of Michael Radford's 2004 The Merchant of Venice and Shakespearean text". Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny LII (4), 288-300.

2006.            “Images of conflict in Shakespeare's Henry VI: A cognitive approach”. In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.).  IFAtuation: A Life in IFA. A Festschrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 261-80.

2007.            “The homoerotic in two screen versions of Marlowe's Edward II”. In: Joanna Kazik (ed.).  Studies in English Drama and Poetry. Vol. 1: Reading English Drama and Poetry. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 113-124.

2007.   "Shakespeare's histories and Polish history: television productions of Henry IV (1975), Richard III (1989) and Othello (1981/1984)". Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 4 (19),  59-65.

2008.      "Posłowie [Afterword]. In: Virginia M. Fellows. Kod Szekspira [The Shakespeare Code]. Poznań: Oficyna Wydawnicza Atena, 317-326.

2008.      "The gender of the Vice: from the medieval she-Vice to the Renaissance she-villain in Shakespeare's Macbeth". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.).  Medievalisms. The Poetics of Literary Re-readings.  Frankfurt/ Main:  Peter Lang Verlag,55-77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Ryszard Bartnik

 

 

Research interests:

 

·         contemporary literature in English

 

Select Publications:

2002.      "Angela Carter's use of the Lacanian 'Mirror Image' as a depiction of an illusory identity". In: W. Witalisz -- Leese, P. (eds). Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Kraków April 2001. Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 263-9.

2004.      "Tropes of the classical 'passage through hell' in the works of twentieth century writers". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of suffering: Classical themes in English literature, Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 215-34.

 2005.     "The comic and the tragic in the drama of Irish belonging in Frank McCourt's and Dermot Healy's autobiographies". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Ironies of art/tragedies of life. Essays on Irish literature. Peter Lang Verlag: Frankfurt/Main, 153-76.

 2005.     "Writing allegory in the twentieth century. William Golding's Rites of passage as a moral quest". Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, 143-50.

 2006.     ""Look back in anger": Postcolonial (re)reading of adventure novels: R. M. Ballantyne's The coral island and R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island". In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.). IFAtuation: A Life in IFA. A Festschrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 61-9.

2006.      "The politics of engagement in J. M. Coetzee's Foe and In the heart of the country". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). A Universe of (Hi)stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 45-59.

2007.      “Human decency questioned. Conradian legacy mirrored in twentieth-century English literature.” In: Z. Wąsik – A. Ciuk (eds.).  For the Love of the Embedded Word in Society, Culture and Education (Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia No 1. Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 111-119.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dr Dagmara Krzyżaniak

 

Research interests:

·        contemporary British theater and drama

·        Contemporary Irish Drama

·        film studies

Select Publications:

2000.      “Przemoc słowna w The Birthday Party Harolda Pintera”. In: G. Borkowska - Liliana Sikorska (eds.). Krytyka feministyczna. Siostra teorii i historii literatury. Warszawa: Instytut Badań literackich, 55-68.

2003.      “A sociolinguistic reading of Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter”, Kwartalinik Neofilologiczny XLIX, 4/2002, 375-382.

2003.      “Aspects of classical tragedy in Edward Bond’s The Woman". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of Suffering: Classical Themes in English Literature. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 199-214.

2003.      “Sociolinguistics and the reading of contemporary plays”. In: J. Burzyńska – d. Stanulewic (eds.). PASE Papers in Literature and Culture. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the Polish Society for the Study of English. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 375: 382.

2005.      “From heresy to sainthood. Joan of Arc’s quest for identity in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan”. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 41, 289-298.

2005.      ”A disturbed family in a troubled country. A sociolinguistic insight into the domestic/national crises in the works of two Irish playwrights (Sean O’Casey and Martin McDonagh)”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Ironies of art/tragedies of life, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 195-212.

2008.      “Medieval dramatic tradition revisited in Peter Barnes' Red noses.” In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.).  Medievalisms. The poetics of literary re-reading. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 103-112.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Joanna Maciulewicz

Research interests: 

·        the history and theory of the novel

·        eighteenth-century literature (high and popular)

·        theory of genres.

 

Publications:

Books:

Books:

2007.      with Agnieszka Setecka (eds.). An outline history of English literature in texts. The Restoration, the Age of Reason, Romanticism, Victorian Period. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

Articles:

2000.            “In the space between history and fiction - the role of Walter Scott’s fictional frefaces”. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 37, 387-395.

2001.       “The historical novel and the transformation of historiography - An attempt at the redefinition of the genre”. In: J. Burzyńska – D. Stanulewicz (eds.). PASE Papers in Literature and Culture. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 243-247.

2002.             “From the epic to the historical novel: the transition from the epic to the novelistic tradition in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley.  In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of Suffering: Classical Themes in Literature in English. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 87-105.

2005.            “Dialogic encounter of cultures in Castle Rackrent and The absentee by Maria Edgeworth and in The wild Irish girl by Lady Morgan”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Ironies of art / tragedies of life. Essays on Irish literature. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang,  27-40.

2005.    "Knights-errantry of the twentieth century in Graham Green's {Monsignor Quixote}". Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 41: 261-68.

2005.      "Daniel Defoe's indebtedness to romance conventions in his novels and quasi-historical narratives". Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny LI (4/2004), 345-51.

2006.      with Agnieszka Setecka “Pickwick's journeys and adventures: From the eighteenth century to the Victorian Age”. In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.).  IFAtuation: A Life in IFA. A Festschrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 589-602.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Agnieszka Setecka

Research interests: 

·        Victorian literature and culture

·        the history of women's literature

·        Australian literature

 

Publications:

Books:

2007.         with Joanna Maciulewicz (eds.). An outline history of English literature in texts. The Restoration, the Age of Reason, Romanticism, Victorian Period. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

Articles:

2003.      “Reconstructing the past: Sherlock Holmes and his postmodern successors”.  In: T. Bela – Z. Mazur (eds.). The legacy of history. English and American studies and the significance of the past. Vol. 1: Literature. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 252-270.

 2003.  “The Victorian Age revisited”. In: J. Burzyńska, – D.  Stanulewicz (eds.). Papers in literature and culture. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. Gdańsk 26-28 April 2000. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 361-367.

 2003.     “ ‘Of ants and men’: Darwin’s theories in A.S. Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia”. In: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, 4. 479-488.

 2004.     “Between the mundane and the mythical: Victorian female characters and their mythical counterparts”. In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Aspects of suffering. Classical themes in literature in English. Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 106-130.

 2004.     “Courtly love in the world ‘without a hero’: W. M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair”. In: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 40, 311-322.

 2004.     “The ghosts of the past: Alfred Tennyson's life story in A. S. Byatt’s ‘The conjugial angel’”, International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 5, 5-18.

 2005.     “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas and John Banville’s The book of evidence: two narratives of crime” In: Sikorska, L. (ed.) 2005. Ironies of art/tragedies of life. Essays on Irish literature. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 121-140.

 2005.     “Victorian quest in a medieval romance: Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Enid’”. Studia Anglica Posnaniensa 41, 251-259.

2006.             with Joanna Maciulewicz “Pickwick’s journeys and adventures: From the eighteenth century to the Victorian Age.” In: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (ed.). IFAtuation: A life in IFA. A festshrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 155-162.

2007.            “Caught in someone else’s plot: The driver's seat by Muriel Spark.” In: Jacek Fisiak (ed.).  English language, literature and culture. Selected papers from the 13th PASE conference Poznań 2004. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 155-162.

2007.      "Alfred Tennyson's 'Vivien' and Guinevere': sensation stories in medieval setting". In: Liliana Sikorska (ed.). Medievalisms. The poetics of literary re-reading. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 159-172.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PhD  Students

 

Katarzyna Bronk, M.A.

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Marcin Cieniuch, M.A.

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Paulina Henska, M.A.

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Łukasz Hudomięt, M.A.

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Urszula Kizelbach, M.A.

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Małgorzata Milczarek, M.A.

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Jacek Olesiejko, M.A.

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History of English Literature Reading Lists

 

 

 YEAR I

 

 

Old English Literature

1. Elegies: "The Seafarer", "The Wanderer", "Deor’s Lament"                                     

 

2. Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood                                                            

 

Middle English Literature

3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight                                                          

 

4. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales                                               

   The General Prologue

   The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

   The Miller’s Tale

 

5. Everyman, Mankind, The Castle of Perseverance, Hickscorner (fragments from the anthology)

 

Renaissance Literature

6. William Shakespeare: selected sonnets                                                       

    Edmund Spenser: selected sonnets

    Sir Philip Sidney: selected sonnets

 

7. Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus                                                             

 

8. William Shakespeare: Hamlet                                                                   

     Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy (fragments)

 

9.   William Shakespeare: King Lear                                                                      

10. William Shakespeare: Henry V (Prologue)                                              

      William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

                                                                                                                                            

11. William Shakespeare: The Tempest                                                                  

 

12. Metaphysical poetry:                                                                                     

     John Donne: "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning", "The Flea", "The Sun Rising",

     "The Anniversary", "To His Mistress Going to Bed"

     George Herbert: "The Collar", "The Pearl", "Affliction (I)", "The temper (I)", "Virtue"

 

13. Cavalier poetry:                                                                                               

      Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress", "The Definition of Love"

 

14. The Age of Reason                                                                                            

      Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (fragments from THE anthology),

The Rape of the Lock

 

15. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (fragments)       

      Samuel Richardson: Pamela (fragments from the anthology)

 

16. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (fragments from the anthology)                                    

      Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (fragments from the anthology)

      Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (fragments from the anthology)

 

17. The gothic novel:                                                                                              

      Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (fragments from the anthology)

      Ann Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho (fragments from the anthology)

      M. G. Lewis: The Monk (fragments from the anthology)

 

18. Pre-Romanticism                                                                                  

      Robert Burns: "To a Mouse", "Tam O’Shanter", "Holy Willie’s Prayer",

                              "Auld Lang Syne"  (from the anthology)

William Blake: "Introduction", "The Lamb", "Holy Thursday", "The Chimney Sweeper", "The Tiger",  "The Sick Rose", "London" (from the anthology)

 

19. Romanticism                                                                                                     

William Wordsworth: "We are Seven", "Tintern Abbey", "Lines Written in Early Spring" (from the anthology), "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (optional)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "Kubla Khan"

 

20. Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind", "The Cloud"                                 

John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

 

21. Lord Byron: Don Juan: cantos I, II, X, XI                                                 

 

22. The Victorian period                                                                                                    

Charles Dickens: Hard Times

George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life (fragments from the  anthology)

 

23. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair                                                       

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights 

 

24. Victorian poetry:                                                                                              

Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam (selected poems) "The Lady of Shalott", "Ulysses", "Crossing the Bar"

Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess", "Parting at Morning", "Porphyria’s Lover"

Elizabeth Barret Browning: "How Do I Love Thee", "I Thought Once How"

 

25. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood                                                                    

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel", "Astarte Syriaca", "A Last Confession"

Christina Rossetti: "Uphill","Goblin Market", "Cobwebs", "A Triad", "Cousin Kate"

Gerald Manley Hopkins: "The Windhover", "Pied Beauty"

 

 

 

Year II

 

POETRY (anthology)

(TRADITIONAL POETRY)

1.      Georgian poetry

 war poetry

 

(POETIC EXPERIMENTS)

2. IMAGISM – Ezra Pound “In A Station of Metro”

T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land

 

(CONTEMPORARY POETRY)

3.   W.H. Auden;

     Dylan Thomas

Philip Larkin

Seamus Heaney

Andrew Motion

Craig Raine

Tony Harrison

Ted Hughes

 

THE NOVEL:

(FIN DE SIECLE)

4.   Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

(MODERNIST EXPERIMENTS IN FICTION):

5.   Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

James Joyce: The Dubliners

 

6.   James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 James Joyce: Ulysses

 

(COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM)

7.   Joseph Conrad: Heart of the Darkness

 

 8.  E.M. Foster: A Passage to India

 

 9.  J.M. Coetzee:  Foe

 

(POSTMODERNISM)

10. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

      Angela Carter: “Werewolf”

      Jeanette Winterson :The Passion or The Lighthousekeeping (fragments illustrating narrative techniques)

 

(IRISH REVIVAL)

11. Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Peacock

W.B. Yeats: “Stolen Child"; “Easter 1916”; “Second Coming”

 

DRAMA

(PRE-WAR DRAMA)

12. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

T.S.  Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

 

(POST-WAR DRAMA)

13. John. Osborne: Look Back in Anger

      Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

      Harold Pinter: Dumb Waiter

 

(CONTEMPORARY DRAMA)

14. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Sarah Kane: 4.48 Psychosis

 

 

 

 

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History of English Literature

General Reading List

 

 

Old English Literature

Beowulf

Elegies: "The Wanderer", "The Seafarer", "Deor's Lament"

Charms: "Charm for Unfruitful Land", “For a Swarm of Bees”

The Dream of the Rood

        Supplementary List

“Waldere”

“The Wife’s Lament”

“The Husband’s Message”

“The Lover’s Message”

“The Battle of Maldon”

selection of riddles

 

Middle English Literature

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales  (The General Prologue and The Knight's Tale and The Miller’sTale)

English medieval drama: Everyman or Mankind

        

                                                                       Supplementary List[1]

                                                           Layamon: Brut (fragments)

Marie de France: Lais de Lanval

John Gower: Confessio Amantis (fragments)

William Langland Piers Plowman (fragments)

Thomas Malory: Morte d’Arthur (fragments)

Julian of Norwich: Showings of Divine Love (fragments)

Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe (fragments)

Chester or York Mystery cycle (selected scenes)

Mundus et Infans

John Skelton Magnyfycence

Renaissance Literature

Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus

Thomas Wyatt: selected sonnets

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: selected sonnets

Edmund Spenser Amoretti (selected sonnets)

William Shakespeare: Sonnets (2, 18, 20, 55, 73, 106, 116, 130, 136, 141, 144, 147)

William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing or As You Like It or Midsummer Night's Dream.

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, The Tempest, Julius Caesar

Ben Jonson: Volpone

Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry (fragments), selected poems

 

 

Metaphysical poetry:

 

John Donne:  "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Flea", "Elegy XIX", "The Anniversary"

George Herbert:  "The Collar", "The Pearl"

 

 

Cavalier Poetry:

 

Robert Herrick: “The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home”, “The Argument of His Book”

Richard Crashaw: “The Weeper”, “The Flaming Heart” 

Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress",  "The Definition of Love"

 

 

Supplementary List

Christopher Marlowe: Hero and Leander (fragments)

Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queen (Canto I from “The First Book”)

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I and II)

Thomas Heywood: The Four P’s

John Lyly: Endymion, Euphues (fragments)

William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Measure for Measure

Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair

Thomas Dekker: Shoemaker’s Holiday

John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi

Thomas More: Utopia (fragments)

John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (“Meditation XVII”)

 

Augustan Classicism

Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (fragments), The Rape of the Lock

                                                                                                                                                      

 

The beginnings of the novel:

 

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels

Samuel Richardson: Pamela (fragments)

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (fragments)

Lawrence Sterne: Tristram Shandy

One selected gothic novel: Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto, Anne Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk, Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

                                                                           

Supplementary List

John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year

Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey

Tobias Smollett: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

 

Pre-Romanticism:

 

Robert Burns:  "To a Mouse",  "Auld Lang Syne", "Tam O'Shanter"

William Blake: "The Lamb", "The Tyger", "The Little Vagabond", "Holy Thursday", "The Chimney Sweeper"  (both from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)

Horace Walpole:  The Castle of Otranto (fragments)

Ann Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho (fragments)

 

 

Romanticism:

 

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice

William Wordsworth: "The Preface to Lyrical Ballads", "We are Seven", "Tintern  Abbey",  "Lines Written in Early Spring" "The Prelude"- part I.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan"  BiograPHIa Literaria –chapter XIV

George Gordon Byron: Don Juan cantos I, II, X, XI  "When we Two Parted"

Percy Bysshe  Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind", "The Cloud"

John Keats:  "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

 

 

Supplementary List

Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent

Fanny Burney: Evelina

Matthew Lewis: The Monk

William Beckford: Vathek

sIR Walter Scott: Waverley

James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

 

Victorian Literature:

Charles Dickens: Hard Times or Great Expectations

William Makepeace ThackerAy: Vanity Fair

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

 

                                               Supplementary List:

Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, Little Dorritt

Anthony Trollope: The Warden

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton

Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret, Aurora Floyd

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

 

 

Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam (selected poems), "The Lady of Shalott," "Ulysses"

Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess", "Parting at morning"  

Elizabeth Barrett Browning "How do I love thee?", "I thought once how"

Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Chorus: When the Hounds of Spring"

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti:  "The Blessed Damozel" , "Sonnet"

Christina Rossetti: "Remember", "Uphill", "Echo", "Goblin Market"

Gerald Manley Hopkins: "Pied Beauty", "The Windhover", "God's Grandeur", "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark Not Day".

 

 

Late Victorian Literature

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Grey

William Butler Yeats: "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Second Coming", "Easter 1916"

T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land.

The Great War Literature (the presentation of the chosen war poets): Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke.

Imagism: Ezra Pound

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

 

 

Literature 1910-1945

                                                           

W.H. Auden: "Spain 1937", "The Shield of Achilles", “Funeral Blues”

Dylan Thomas: "Author's Prologue",  "Fern Hill"

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway

James Joyce: The Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses

E.M. Foster: A Passage to India

 

                                           Supplementary List

Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

G.B. Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion

H.G. Wells: The Time Machine, or The History of Mr Polly or Kipps

Rudyard Kipling: Kim

D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Women in Love

E.M. Forster: A Room with a View, Maurice

Flann O’Brien: At Swim Two Birds

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Point Counter Point

Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisited

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Shooting an Elephant

Anthony Powell: A Question of Upbringing

 

 

Literature after 1945

 

Philip Larkin: "Church Going", "Next Please", "The Whitsun Weddings", ”Mr Bleaney”

William Golding:  Lord of the Flies

Kinsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Iris Murdoch: The Unicorn

John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus

Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Endgame 

Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party

 

Supplementary List

Harold Pinter: The Homecoming

Caryl Churchill: Vinegar Tom, Cloud Nine

Edward Bond: Lear, Saved

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound

Sarah Kane: 4.48. Psychosis

 

 

Contemporary Fiction

Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus or The Bloody Chamber

J. M. Coetzee" Foe                                              

David Lodge: Small World or Nice Work

Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden or Atonement

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children

Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow

 

 

Supplementary List

Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man

Joyce Cary: The Horse’s Mouth

J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace

John Fowles: The Collector

William Golding: The Inheritors, Rites of Passage

Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter ,The Quiet American

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

J.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings

Peter Ackroyd: Chatterton

Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot

Anita Brookner: Fraud

A.S. Byatt: Possession

Alasdair Gray: Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia

David Lodge: The British Museum is Falling Down

Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion

 

 

 

 

 

An Outline History of English Literature: From Beowulf to Harry Potter.

 

Lecture topics

 

1.      Introduction to Literary Studies, what is Literature? Connection between literature and other arts/aspects of life

2.      OE secular literature

3.      OE religious literature

4.      ME secular literature (Chaucer,  other tales, St. Cecilia, Grizelda, the Jewish tale)

5.      ME religious literature 

6.      Renaissance, intro, poetry

7.      Renaissance drama

8.      Puritan Literature

9.      Restoration (Introduction)

10.  The Age of Reason: poetry (Johnson, Pope)

11.  The Age of Reason, novel

12.  Anti-novel

13.  Pre-Romanticism

14.  Romanticism: Poetry and novel

15.  Victorian culture: novel

16.  Victoria culture: poetry

17.  Late Victorian novel (Hardy, Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde)

18.  Drama: from Wilde to Sara Kane I

19.  Drama: from Wilde to Sarah Kane II

20.  Irish Revival

21.  Poetry: from Georgians to Andrew Motion I

22.  Poetry: from Georgians to Andrew Motion II

23.  Early twentieth century novel (realism: Forster, Lawrence)

24.  Modernism in the novel (Woolf, Joyce)

25.  The novel of the fifties and sixties (realism)

26. Postmodernism

27.  Newest trends (post colonialism, ethnic literatures, literature in English)

 

 

 

 

 

Literary Theory

 

Part I

 

1. General introduction to the course.

 

2. Aristotle’s theory of tragedy.

 

Aristotle, Poetics, in Literary Criticism and Theory: The Greeks to the Present, ed. R. Con Davis and L. Finke (New York and London: Longman, 1989), pp. 60-83 (esp. chapters 6-17, pp. 64-73).

Henryk Podbielski, Wstęp, in Arystoteles, Poetyka, trans. H. Podbielski (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1989), pp. V-ci.

[Arystoteles, Poetyka, esp. chapters VI-XVII (with footnotes), pp. 19-64.]

 

3. The concept of mimesis.

 

Aristotle, Poetics, esp. chapters 1-4, 9, 23-25, pp. 60-63, 66-67, 78-82.

[Arystoteles, Poetyka, esp. chapters I-IV, IX, XXIII-XXV (with footnotes), pp. 3-16, 30-33, 83-101.]

 

Plato, The Republic, Bk. VII, 514-517 (parable of the cave)

 

Tadeusz Komendant, “Rogata sarna”, in Mimesis w literaturze, kulturze I sztuce., ed. Z. Mitosek (Warszawa: PWN, 1992), pp. 257-272.

 

4. Representation and narrativity.

 

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller,” in Illuminations, trans. H. Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 83-109.

 

5. Historical modes of representation.

 

Erich Auerbach, “Oddsseus’ Scar” (Chapter I of Mimesis. The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. ), in: Literary Criticism and Theory: The Greeks to the Present, ed. R. Con Davis and L. Finke (New York and London: Longman, 1989), pp. 632-647.

 

6. Literary representation and narrative genres.

 

Mikhail Bakhtin, “Epic and Novel. Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel,” in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. M. Holquist, trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), pp. 3-40.

 

7. Mimesis and semiotics.

 

Roland Barthes, “The Reality Effect,” in The Rustle of Language, trans. R. Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986), pp. 141-148.

 

 

 

Part II

 

1. Tradition, convention, innovation

T.S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

 

Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence. A Theory of Poetry (New York: Oxford Univesity Press, 1973), Introduction: “A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis,” pp. 5-16.

 

2. Historical topoi

Ernst Robert Curtius European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, tran. W.R. Trask (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1973).

Chapter 5: “Topics”, pp. 79-105

Chapter 10: “The Ideal Landscape”, pp. 183-202

 

3. Intertextuality

Linda Hutcheon: “Intertextuality, Parody and the Discourses of History,”, in: A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction (New York and London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 134-140

 

Jonathan Culler, Presuppositions and Intertextuality,” in The Pursuit of Signs. Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 100-118.

 

4. Theory of interpretation

Umberto Eco, “Overinterpreting Texts,” in: Interpretation and Overinterpretation, ed. S. Collini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 45-66.

 

Jonathan Culler, “In Defence of Overinterpretation”, in: U. Eco et al., Interpretation and Overinterpretation, pp. 109-123.

 

5. Psychoanalysis and literary interpretation

Francoise Meltzer, “Unconscious,” in : Critical Terms for Literary Study. Second Edition, eds. F. Lentricchia and Th. McLaughlin (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 147-162.

 

Jean Starobinski, “Psychonalysis and Literary Understanding, “ in The Living Eye, trans. Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 129-147

 

Peter Brooks, “Freud’s Masterplot”, in: Contemporary Literary Criticism. Literary and Cultural Studies. Second Edition, pp. 287-299.

 

6. Poststructuralist criticism

Roland Barthes, “From Work to Text” (from Image-Music-Text), tran. J.V. Harari, in: Literary Criticism and Theory: The Greeks to the Present, pp. 712-718.

 

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. R. Miller (New York: Hill&Wang, 1975), pp. 3-14 (“Affirmation”, “Babel”, “Prattle”, “Edges”, “Brio”, “Split”)

pp. 19-22 (“Expression”)

pp. 38-44 (“Madarinate”, “Modern”)

pp. 47-48 (“Oedipus”)

pp. 66-67 (“Voice”)

 

7. Subjectivity and Authorship

Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author,” in The Rustle of Language, trans. R. Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986), pp. 49-55.

Michel Foucault, “What is An Author?,” trans. J.V. Hatari, in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, ed. J.D. Faubion (New York: The New Press, 1998), pp. 205-222.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. dr hab. Liliana Sikorska

 

 

STUDIA UZUPEŁNIAJĄCE MAGISTERSKIE   2007-2009

 

Cities Imaginary and Real

(2007/2008)

 

WINTER TERM

 

·        Cities in poetry

·        Cities by Night (a tour)

·        Cities in Poetry (cont.):

-         James Thomson The City of Dreadful Night

·        City as a Palimpsest

-         Peter Ackroyd The Great Fire of London and London: A Biography

·        City as a Labyrinth

-         Martin Amis Other People: A Mystery Story

-         Anosh Irani The Cripple and his Talismans

·        Divided Cities

-         Monica Ali Brick Lane

-         Bernard MacLaverty Cal

-         Deirdre Madden Hidden Symptoms and Dermot Healy A Goat's Song

·        Writing the City

-         Barry Unsworth Sugar and Rum

-         Emma Tennant Felony

·        Imaginary City

- Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers

- Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo

 

 

 

TRAVELLING IN TIME AND SPACE

 

 

·         Pilgrimages:

-          Travelers' Tales

-          Perception of Time and Space

-          Margery Kempe: pilgrimages

-          Clarissa W. Atkinson Mystic and Pilgrim

-          Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (pilgrims and travelling, critical approaches)

-          William Trevor "Death in Jerusalem"

 

SPRING TERM

 

 

·         Journeys:

-          Adam Thorpe Pieces of Light

-          Adam Thorpe Ulverton

-          Julian Barnes History of the World in 10 and ½ Chapters

-          Henry Haggard She (19th century Africa, critical approaches)

-          Margaret Drabble The Red Princess

-          Cary Phillips The Final Passage (post-colonial studies/approaches)

 

·         Wandering:

-          "The Wanderer" and  The Voyage of St. Brendan (medieval wandering, critical approaches)

-          Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveller (proto-novels, critical approaches)

-          J.M. Coetzee The Life and Times of Michael K.

-          John Banville Kepler (picaresque novel; life of Kepler)

 

 

 

 

Politics and History Politics in History

 

(2008/2009)

 

 

1.      ”The Prisoner of Zenda” (film)

2.      Anthony Hope The prisoner of Zenda as a political tale

 

Writing history

 

3.      Lytton Strachey Elizabeth and Essex

4.      Henry Fielding Jonathan Wilde

5.      Benjamin Disraeli Sybil

  

                    Writing fiction

 

6.      Elizabeth Gaskell North and South

7.      George Eliot Middlemarch

8.      G. B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island

                     Writing politics

 

9.       Brian Moore Lies of Silence

10.   Ian McEwan The Innocent

11.   Barry Unsworth Pascali’s Island

12.   Graham Greene The Quiet American

 

 

 

 

 

Spring Term

 

 

Rewritings

 

 

Rewriting genre

 

1.      Graham Greene Our Man in Havana

2.      Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist

3.      Rebecca Stott Ghostwalk

 

Rewriting People

4.      Andrew Miller Casanova

5.      Beryl Bainbridge Young Adolf

6.      Edward Bond Early Morning

7.      Andrew Miller The Optimist

 

Revisions

1.      King of Tars

2.      Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist

3.      David Caute Fatima’s Scarf

4.      Orhan Pamuk The White Castle

5.      Nadine Gordimer July’s People

6.      Rose Tremain Music and Silence

7.      Michele Roberts Impossible Saints

prof. UAM dr hab. Jacek Fabiszak

PhD seminar

 

 

Transposing Elizabethan theatre aesthetics into modern

electronic media

 

 

The aim of this seminar is to basically discuss two phenomena: Elizabethan theatre / staging and television / video / DVD. Since the majority of actual televisual productions of Elizabethan plays are in fact versions of Shakespeare's dramatic works, the discussion will necessary focus on the ways of televising / digitalising Shakespeare. The ultimate goal of the seminar is an attempt to consider in aesthetic terms the intermedial transposition of the specific type of historical theatre and its conventions into the present day electronic form of mass communication.

 

The seminar will begin with a brief discussion of the nature of television, its social and cultural impact, as well as technological advantages and constraints, which naturally affect the aesthetic dimension. We will also watch excerpts of two televisual productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: Zofia Mrozowska's and Jane Howell's. The next step will be to analyse the physical conditions of Elizabethan theatre and staging conventions, which yielded the speculated aesthetic effect. In the third meeting we will discuss critical approaches to Shakespeare on the small screen (and video and DVD). The last seminars will be devoted to case studies of select productions.

 

Seminarium magisterskie 2008/2009

Dr Dagmara Krzyżaniak

 

IRISH DRAMA OF THE TWENTIETH  CENTURY

Winter semester (2008/2009)

 

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)               The Countess Cathleen (1892)

                                                                       The Land of Heart’s Desire (1894)

                                                                       Death of Cuchulain (1939)

*Fitz-Simon, Christopher (2003) The Abbey Theatre. Ireland’s National Theatre. The first 100 years. New York: Thames and Hudson.

 

Lady Gregory (1853-1932)                          Spreading the News (1903)

                                                                       The Rising of the Moon (1907)

                                                                       The Workhouse Ward (1913)

*Lady Gregory (1911) Irish Myths and Legends. London: Running Press.

 

John Millington Synge (1871-1909)            The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

                                                                       The Well of the Saints (1905)

 

Sean O’Casey (1880-1964)                          Juno and the Paycock (1924)

                                                                       The Plough and the Stars (1926)

*Foster, R. F. (ed.) (2001) The Oxford History of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Brian Friel (1929-)                                        The Freedom of the City (1973)

                                                                       Translations (1980)

                                                                       Volunteers (1979)

                                                                       Molly Sweeney (1994)

 

Frank McGuiness (1953-)                                       Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985)

                                                                       Carthaginians (1988)

*Bloody Sunday, 1972. Lord Widgery’s report of events in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972.

*Pringle, Peter – Philip Jacobson (2000) Those are real bullets. Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972. New York: Grove Press.

 

Marina Carr (1964-)                                    Portia Coughlan (1996)

                                                                       By the Bog of Cats… (1998)

 

Martin McDonagh (1970)                            The Lonesome West (1997)

                                                                       The Pillowman (2003)

 

Sebastian Barry (1955-)                               Prayers of Sherkin (1990)

                                                                       The Steward of Christendom (1995)

                                                                       Our Lady of Sligo (1998)

*Cobett, William (1896) A history of the Prostestant Reformation in England and Ireland. Rockford: Tan Books.

 

Conor McPherson (1971)                             The Weir (1997)

                                                                       St. Nicholas (1997)

 

 

 

                   

 

CONFERENCES

 

 

 

Medieval English Studies Symposium

MESS

(November)

 

organized by

 

Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics

 

and

 

Department of the History of English

 

 

MESS 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LITERATURE  IN ENGLISH SYMPOSIUM 

 

organized by

 

Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics

 

(April)

 

 

2009 GUEST:

 

ANDREW MILLER

 

* 

 

OUR GUESTS

 

 

KEVIN LAVIN

2006

 

 

 

 

LINDSAY CLARKE

2007

 

ADAM THORPE

2008

 

 

 

BA  Exam:  Sample  topics

 

1.                  Drama and theater from the Middle Ages onwards.

2.                  Realism and the novel from the 18th century onwards: major novelistic types and their rewritings.

3.                  Medieval beast fables, Augustan poetry of nature, Romantic and Victorian concepts of nature.

4.                  Authors and Narrators in poetry and prose.

5.                  The fate of romance from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

6.                  Postmodernism in literature and culture.

7.                  Major trends in 20th century drama and theater.

8.                  Cultural background of the Renaissance, The Puritan Ages, The Restoration and Romanticism.

9.                  Social aspects in the literature of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, The 19th and 20th centuries.

10.                Literary experiments from the Renaissance until the 21st century. 

 

MA Exam: Sample Topics

 

 

1.      Courtly love, mad love, friendly love, passionate love, homosexual love, illicit passions in English literature.

2.      The pursuit of happiness in the Renaissance and 18th century literature

3.      Violence in drama (Medieval, Renaissance, contemporary)

4.      Murder One, manslaughter and crimes of passion in Medieval and Renaissance literature.

5.      The history of theater: how does a place influence dramatic conventions, how does dramatic conventions influence the place.

6.      Duality in literature: high/low, secular/religious, official/forbidden, first rate/second rate.  Define the categories and discuss on given examples.

7.      Angry Young Men of all periods (the Puritans, the Romantics, the Victorians): the eternal conflict between younger and older generations. When does the avant-garde become classical?

8.      The birth and development of English literary criticism:  Critical preoccupations of English authors (The Middle Ages to the present).

9.      Antecedents of the novel: modes of hi/story telling (The Middle Ages to the present).

10. Imperialism and the novel, colonial and post-colonial mentalities as reflected in the works of British writers.  

11. Pastoral elements in English literature, the poetic and novelistic love of the pastoral.

12. Monsters in English literature. 

13. Describing reality in English novel (18th century, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist, Contemporary).

14. Telling stories: narrative mode in English poetry (Medieval, Augustan, Romantic, Contemporary).

15. Eroticism and censorship.  How much sex is/should be permitted in a literary work?

16. The question of literary genres: orthodoxy and transgression (Renaissance, Augustan, Romantic, Victorian). 

17. Moral and social concerns in the English novel of the second half of the twentieth century.

18. Augustan and post-modern treatment of “history” .

19. The tradition of utopian and dystopian writing in English literature.

20. The journey within oneself.  British literature of self-discovery.

21. The tragic and the comic in Irish fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries.

22. Social/political aspects of literary creation across ages.

23. Continuity of tradition: contemporary English realist writers and their 19th century antecedents.

24. Where does the theater go? New developments in British drama.

25. Experimental women’s writing in contemporary England and Ireland and their literary “mothers.” 

26. Nature of adaptation: from page/stage to screen, categories and degree of adaptation.

27. Nature of performance: the concept of mise-en-scene, dual nature of the dramatic text, ‘performance text’, semiotics of performance.

28. Performance studies: is performance criticism possible?

29. Unique nature of Elizabethan theatre: cultural, social and political implications.

30. History of Shakespeare on screen: choose a director/film and discuss his/her/its place in the development of Shakespearean movies.

 

 

   

 

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

J. L. Borges

 

 

 

LITERATURE LOVERS

READING CLUB

 

 

 

Lady Oisille, one of the characters from Marguerite de Navarre's The Heptamenron (deNavarre 2004: 66) said: "when you ask me to show you a pastime that is capable of delivering you from your boredom and your sorrow, you are asking me to do something that I find very difficult. All my life I have searched for a remedy, and I have found only one - ... reading ...". The members of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics share this opinion. That is why, each month, usually on a Thursday, we hold a literary meeting for everyone interested in English literature. The Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics tries to cater for all literary tastes, particularly those of students of literature at IFA. The themes of our literary gatherings are not only beneficial and student-friendly but, most importantly, they are eclectic and up-to-date. Using various modes of presentation, from slide-shows to movie-sessions, we try to react to the latest events in the world of literature (e.g. Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize). Moreover, being aware of the multi-disciplinarity of literary studies, we also take a literary look at architecture, geography and history. Since our meetings are often bilingual, we cordially invite everyone to a democratic, supranational discussion. After all, literature knows no boundaries.

If you want to read interesting books, criticize boring Staff, make malicious remarks about the most abhorred texts from your Reading List without any negative consequences on your grade (only positive ones), if you want to meet your teachers (even the scary ones) informally, join us !! Make yourself known! Approach Joanna Jarząb (II M.A.) or Joanna Ludwikowska (I M.A.).

 

We all believe in TEXTASY and in the pursuit of TEXTATIC PLEASuRES!

 

 

 


[1] First year students are responsible for the entire basic “Reading List”.  The students interested in M.A. in English literature must be familiar with 75% of the texts from the first and second year’s “Suplementary Lists”.