The Department
of
English Literature
and
Literary Linguistics
By way of introduction...
Presentation of
the Members of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics
Professor Liliana Sikorska
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Medieval
English literature
- contemporary
Irish literature
- contemporary
literature in English
- literary
theory.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
1998. with Jacek Fabiszak (eds.). An
Anthology of English Literature. From Beowulf to John Milton. Poznań: Rebis. 427 pp.
2000.
with Elżbieta Pakszys (eds.). Duchowość i religijność kobiet dawniej i dziś [Women’s
spirituality and religiosity – past and present]. Poznań:
Wydawnictwo Fundacji Humaniora. 150 pp.
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. 365 pp.
2002. ‘In a manner of morall playe’.
Social Ideologies in English Moralities and Interludes 1350 - 1517 . Frankfurt/Main, New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 312 pp.
2002. An
Outline History of English Literature. (revised and enlarged
edition.) Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie. 598 pp.
2004. (ed.) Aspects
of Suffering: Classical Themes in Literature in English . Frankfurt/Main - New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 234 pp.
2004. with Marcin
Krygier (eds.) For the Loue of Inglis Lede. (Medieval English Mirror
1), Frankfurt/Main –New York: Peter Lang Verlag. pp 172.
2005. with Marcin Krygier Naked
Wordes in Englissh. (Medieval English Mirror 2). Frankfurt/Main –New York: Peter Lang Verlag. pp 197.
2005. (ed.) Ironies of Art/Tragedies
of Life. Essays on Irish Literature
Frankfurt,/Main, Nowy Jork: Peter Lang Verlag, 300 pp.
2006. (ed.) A universe of (hi)stories.
Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankfurt,/Main, Nowy Jork: Peter Lang
Verlag. 150 pp.
2006. (ed.) A universe of (Hi)Stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag. Pp. 152.
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: Edelson, M., Sumera, P. and Uchman, J. (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: Świdziński, J. and Fabiszak, J.
(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 i 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 i Elżbieta
Pakszys "Woman's Spirituality and Religiosity - Past and Present",
in: Elżbieta Pakszys i 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 i 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: Taavitsainen, I., Nevalainen, T. Pahta, P. and
Rissanen, M. (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:
Lambert, Alexandra and Schenkel, Elmar (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: Lukas, P. (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:
Pakszys, Elżbieta and 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 Lindsey 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: Sikorska, Liliana (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’ Scenesof the
Cycle Plays,” in: Sikorska, Liliana (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”. W: For the loue of Inglis Lede Medieval
English Mirror I. 97-132.
2005. “Tempters and Transgressors: Sins
of the Tongue in Medieval and Early Modern Dramatic Discourse”. In: Fisiak, J.
and Hye-Kyuong Kang (ed.). 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: Sikorska, Liliana (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: Fisiak Jacek –Akio Oizumi—John Scaghill (ed). Text and
language in medieval English prose. A Festschrift for Tadao Kubouchi. Frankfurt,/Main,
Nowy Jork: 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. W: Sikorska, Liliana
(ed.). A Universe of (Hi)stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee. Frankfurt,/Main,
Nowy Jork: Peter Lang Verlag. 87-109.
2006. “The Chastising of a Bad King: the
Interplay of the Didactic and the Adventurous in Robert of Cisyle.”
In: Dziubalska-Kołaczyk,
K. (ed.). Ifatuation: A Festschrift for Professor Jacek Fisiak on the
occasion of his 70th birthday. 625-642.
Professor Jacek Fabiszak
RESEARCH:
- English
Renaissance theatre and drama
- televisual
and filmic transpositions of Renaissance drama
- theory
of drama
- semiotics
of theatre
- drama
and literary pragmatics
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
1998.
Sikorska, Liliana and
Jacek Fabiszak (eds.) An
anthology of English literature. Volume One: From Beowulf
to John Milton. Poznań:
Rebis. Pp. 427.
2001. Shakespeare’s
drama of social roles. Character grouping in the Last Plays. Piła: na zlecenie Wyższej Szkoły Biznesu. Pp.
215.
2003. Gibińska, Marta, Marta Kapera and Jacek
Fabiszak. Szekspir. Leksykon. Kraków: Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy
Znak. Pp. 264.
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. Pp. 318.
ARTICLES:
1995. “The
(inter-)theatricality of Marlovian prologues.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia XXIX. 189-197.
1997.
“Hamlet’s and Hamlet’s audiences.” In: Raymond Hickey and Stanisław
Puppel (eds.) Language history and linguistic modelling: A festschrift for
Jacek Fisiak on his 60th birthday. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter. 1961-72.
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. Pp. 279.
2000.
“Elizabethan Staging and Greenawayan Filming in Prospero’s Books.” In:
Stalpaert, Christel (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: Burzyńska, Joanna and 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: Sikorska,
Liliana (ed.) Aspects of Suffering: Classical Themes in English Literature.
Frankfurt am Main: 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:
Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. (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: Kazik, Joanna (ed.) Studies in English Drama and
Poetry. Vol. 1: Reading English Drama and Poetry Łódź: Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 113-124.
Dr Ryszard Bartnik
Research interests:
·
contemporary literature in English
- Postcolonial
studies (the South-African context in particular)
- Northern
Irish literature
- literary
theory.
Publications:
2002. "Angela
Carter's use of the Lacanian 'Mirror Image' as a depiction of an illusory
identity". (In:) Witalisz, W. -- 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:) Sikorska, L. (ed) Aspects of suffering: Classical
themes in English literature, Frankfurt am Main-New York: 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:) Sikorska, L. (ed.)
Ironies of art/tragedies of life. Essays on Irish literature, Peter Lang
Verlag: Frankfurt/am 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:)
Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. (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:) Sikorska, L. (ed.) A Universe
of (Hi)stories. Essays on J.M. Coetzee, Frankurt Am Main: Lang
Verlag, 45-59.
2007. “Human decency questioned. Conradian
legacy mirrored in twentieth-century English literature.” In:
Wąsik, Z.; Ciuk, A. (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
Publications:
2000. “Przemoc słowna
w The Birthday Party Harolda Pintera”. (In:) Borkowska, G. – Sikorska, L. (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:) Sikorska, L. (ed) Aspects
of Suffering: Classical Themes in English Literature, Frankfurt Am Main:
Lang Verlag, 199-214.
2003.
“Sociolinguistics and the Reading of Contemporary Plays”. (In:) Burzyńska, J. –
Stanulewicz, D. (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.
2005. “From heresy to
sainthood. Joan of Arc’s quest for identity in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan”,
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 41, 289-295.
2005. ”A disrupted
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:) Sikorska, L. (ed.) Ironies of
art/tragedies of life, Frankfurt Am Main: Lang Verlag,
195-213.
Dr Joanna Maciulewicz
Research interests:
·
the history and theory of the novel
·
eighteenth-century literature (high and popular)
·
theory of genres.
Publications:
2000.
“In the Space Between History And
Fiction -the role of Walter Scott’s Fictional Prefaces”, Studia Anglica
Posnaniensia 37, 387-395.
2001. “The Historical Novel and the Transformation of
Historiography - An Attempt at the Redefinition of the Genre”. (In:)
Burzyńska, J. – Stanulewicz, D.(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: Aspects of Suffering:
Classical Themes in Literature in English” (edited by Liliana Sikorska). Frankfurt am 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 Sikorska L. (ed.) Ironies of art / tragedies of life. Essays on
Irish literature. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang.
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: Dziubalska-Kołaczyk,
K. (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:
2003.
“Reconstructing the past: Sherlock Holmes and his postmodern successors” (In:)
Bela, T. – Mazur, Z (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:)
Burzyńska, J – Stanulewicz, D (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: Sikorska L. (ed) Aspects of suffering. Classical themes in
literature in English. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York,
Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 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’” (in:) 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/M.: Peter Lang Verlag.
2005.
“Victorian quest in a medieval romance: Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Enid.’” (In:) 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.
2006. “Caught in someone else’s plot: The Driver's Seat by
Muriel Spark.” In: Fisiak, Jacek (ed.) English
language, literature and culture. Selected papers from the 13th PASE conference
Poznań 2004 Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 155-162.
Phd Students
Katarzyna Bronk, M.A.
Marcin Cieniuch, M.A.
Paulina Henska, M.A.
Łukasz Hudomięt, M.A.
Urszula Kizelbach, M.A.
Małgorzata Milczarek, M.A.
Jacek Olesiejko, M.A.
Reading Lists for English Literature
Classes
ENJOY YOUR BOOKS
Reading List
for English Literature Year I
Old English
Literature
Beowulf
Elegies: "The Wonderer", "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 Knights Tale and the Miller’s tale)
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 Magnificence
Renaissance
Literature
Thomas Kyd: The
Spanish Tragedy
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 Mid Summer's Night
Dream.
Supplementary
List
Augustan
Classicism
Alexander Pope: Essay
on Criticism (fragments), The Rape of
the Lock
The beginnings of the novel:
Daniel Dafoe: Robinson
Crusoe
Jonathan Swift: Guliver'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 Udolfo, Matthew Gregory
Lewis The Monk: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Supplementary List
John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year
Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey
Tobias Smollett: The Expedition 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)
Ann Radcliffe Mysteries
of Udolpho (fragments)
Romanticism:
Jane Austen: Sense
and Sensibility or Pride and
Prejudice
John Keats: "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode
to a Grecian Urn"
Supplementary
List
Marie Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent
Fanny Burney: Evelina
Matthew Lewis: The
Monk
William Beckford: Vathek
Walter Scott: Waverley
James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
Justified Sinner
Victorian Literature:
Charles Dickens: Hard
Times or Great Expectations
George Eliot: Mill
on the Floss
Emily Bronte: Wuthering
Heights
Supplementary
List:
Reading list
for English Literature II
Late Victorian Literature
Lecture and Classes Topics for Years I and
II
Lecture topics Year I
1. Old English
Literature
·
Features of Anglo-Saxon culture and poetry
·
Secular literature: war poems, love poetry, elegies,
charms and riddles
·
Old English Epic: Beowulf
2. Old
English Religious literature
·
Saints’ lives
·
The dream of the Rood
·
The Work of Caedmon (c. 650-800)
·
The work of Cynewulf (late 8th c.)
·
Bede Venerabilis
·
Anglo-Saxon prose
3. Middle
English Secular Literature
·
historical background – the Norman Conquest,
influences of Norman language, culture and literature
·
the medieval romance (sources of medieval romance,
subject matter, the Arthurian cycle, legends; characteristic features of
romance; most frequent motifs, style); chanson
de gestes, lays
·
Social origins of courtly love (social position of
women in the feudal aristocracy; marriage as a political act; courtly love)
·
chivalric tradition; a romance hero and his code of
behaviour (moral vs. physical strength, chivalric code)
·
Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight as an example of courtly literature
·
The work of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
·
Bestiary, The owl and the nightingale
·
The work of William Langland (c. 1330-1400)
·
The work of John Gower (1325-1408)
4. Middle
English Religious Literature
·
Confession manuals
·
Poema
morale, Cursor mundi
·
Religious prose: Ancrene
Wisse
·
Mystical literature
·
15th century poetry
5. Medieval
Drama
·
Biblical cycles
·
Morality plays
·
Moral interludes
6. Renaissance
Poetry
·
Phillip Sidney: Apology
for Poetry.
·
Renaissance views on poetry, poetry as ‘speaking pictures’,
poetry’s aims, a poet vs. philosopher vs. historian.
·
The history of the sonnet: Thomas Wyatt: selected sonnets; Henry Howard, earl of Surrey
selected sonnets; Edmund Spenser selected sonnets, Phillip Sidney selected
sonnets, William Shakespeare: selected sonnets
·
Pastoral poetry
·
Edmund Spenser Fairy
Queene
7. Renaissance
drama
·
The idea of the theatre in the Renaissance culture
·
The works of Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe
·
Revenge tragedy and politics
8. Renaissance
comedy
·
the concept of comedy (the definition, romantic
comedy, idyll, pastoral, comedy vs. tragedy)
·
Sources of Elizabethan comedy (folklore, pagan
traditions, medieval interludes, antique comedy etc.)
·
Sources of comic effects in Shakespeare’s comedies
(tragic elements in Shakespearean comedy)
·
Satire, farce, social comedy, comedy of humors,
citizen comedy, burlesque
9. Renaissance
tragedy, history play and tragicomedy
·
tragedy (definition of a tragedy, influence of Seneca,
revenge tragedies; dramatic irony, hamartia, catharsis, comic relief)
·
history play vs tragedy
·
tragicomedy (the definition of a tragicomedy, tragic
and comic elements, the ending of the play)
10.
Religious aspects of metaphysical poetry
11.
The Puritan Literature
·
Robert Burton
·
John Bunyan
·
Diarists: Samuel Pepys
·
The poetry of John Milton
12.
The Restoration
·
The poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester
·
The poetry and criticism of John Dryden
·
Restoration theater and drama
13.
The Age of Reason [The Enlightenment, Neoclassicism]
·
The work of Samuel Johnson
·
The poetry of Alexander Pope
·
Early novels
14.
The beginning of the novel (I)
- Daniel
Defoe
- Samuel
Richardson
- Henry
Fielding
15.
The beginning of the novel (II)
·
John Cleland
·
Jonathan Swift
·
Laurence Sterne
·
Tobias Smollett
·
Charlotte Lennox
16.
Pre-Romanticism
·
The poetry of William Blake
·
Antiquaries: Thomas Percy
·
Poets-forgers: James Macpherson, Thomas Chatterton
·
National(istic poetry) Robert Burns
17.
The Gothic Novel
·
Definition of the Gothic, Edmund Burke’s definition of
the sublime
·
Horace Walpole’s Castle
of Otranto
·
William Beckford’s Vathek
·
The novels of Ann Radcliffe
·
Matthew Lewis The
Monk
·
Robert Maturin Melmoth
the Wanderer
·
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
18.
Introduction to Romanticsm. Romantic novel
a) novel of
manners: Jane Austen, Fanny Burney
b) novel with
necessitarian plot: William Godwin
c) sentimentalism:
Oliver Goldsmith
d) historical
novel: Walter Scott
19.
Social and philosophical background of Victorianism
·
utilitarianism
·
realism
·
Victorian morality
·
the changing world of Victorian literature
20.
Victorian Novel: Charles Dickens and William Makepeace
Thackerey
·
imperialism in Victorian novel
·
economic conditions of different social classes as
reflected in Victorian novel
·
The Brontë’s Sisters, George Eliot, the sensation
novel.
·
gothic elements in Victorian novel
·
the Romantic heritage
21.
Victorian Poetry
a) the image
of the poet
b) medievalism
of Victorian poetry
c) dramatic
monologue
d) attitudes
to nature
e) Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood: painting and poetry
Classes Topics
Year I
Winter semester
1.
Old English poetry: “The Wanderer”, “The Seafarer”,
“Deor’s Lament”, selected riddles, selected charms, The Dream of the Rood
2.
Beowulf
(fragments)
3.
Middle English literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales: “The General
Prologue”, “The Knight’s Tale”, “Miller’s Tale”
5.
English medieval drama: York Mystery play (fragment) Mundus et Infans.
6.
Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus
7.
Phillip Sidney: Apology
for Poetry. Thomas Wyatt: selected sonnets; Henry Howard, earl of Surrey:
selected sonnets; Edmund Spenser selected sonnets, Phillip Sidney selected
sonnets, William Shakespeare: selected sonnets
8.
William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing and As
you Like It or Mid Summer Night’s
Dream, Ben Jonson Volpone
(fragmenty)
9.
William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Thomas Kyd: The
Spanish Tragedy (fragments), John
Webster Duches of Malfi (final death
scene)
10.
William Shakespeare: King Lear, Henry V (fragments),
Julius Caesar (fragments)
11.
William Shakespeare The Tempest
12.
Final test
13. 17th
century poetry: metaphysical poetry: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew
Marvell,
John
Milton Paradise Lost (fragments)
Summer semester
1. Alexander Pope: Essay on
Criticism (fragments), The Rape of the
Lock
(fragments)
2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (fragments)
3.
Henry Fielding Tom
Jones (fragments)
4. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy (fragments), Samuel Richardson Pamela (fragments)
5. Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (fragments), Ann
Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Lewis The Monk (fragments)
6. Pre-Romantic poetry: Robert
Burns: “To a Mouse”, “Auld Lang Syne”,
“Tam O’Shanter”; Thomas Gray: Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”; William
Blake: “The Lamb, “The Tyger”, “The Little Vogabond, “Holy Thursday”, “The
Chimney Sweeper” (both from Songs of
experience and Songs of innocence).
7. Romantic poetry: William
Wordsworth: “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, “We Are Seven”, “Tintern Abbey”,
“Lines Written in Early Spring”,
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Kubla Khan”
8. George Gordon Byron: “When We Two Parted”, Don Juan: cantos I, II,
X,XI; Percy
Byssie Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”, “The Cloud”;
John
Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
9. Historical novel: Walter Scott: Waverley
10. Victorian
Literature: Charles Dickens: Hard Times or
Great Expectations
11. William
Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair (fragments)
12. Test.
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights
13. Victorian
poetry: Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam
(selected poems), “The Lady of Shalott”, “Ulysses”; Robert Browning: “My Last
Duchess”;
Elizabeth
Barret Browning: “How do I Love Thee?”, “I thought Once How”; Gerald Manley
Hopkins: “Pied Beauty”, “The Windhoover”, God’s Grandeur”, “I Wake and Feel the
Fell of Dark Not Day”.
13. Pre-Raphaelite
Poetry: Dante Gabriel Rosetti “The Blessed Damozel” , Christina Rosetti, “Goblin Market”.
Lecture topics
Year II
1. Late Victorian and Edwardian periods. New trends
in literature:
- the
Aesthetic Movement as the challenge to didactic literature and Victorian
realism; decadence; Oscar Wilde and his works.
- Realism
and naturalism; George Gissing, George Moore, Thomas Hardy
- Socialism,
the Fabian society, G. B. Shaw and his works
- ‘romance
revival’ as the challenge to realistic fiction; decadent romance;
adventure novel; utopian romances and science fiction.
2.
Modernism: social and intellectual background
·
development of new sciences
·
modernism as a major movement in literature and art
·
the influence of war on literature
3.
The birth of Modern Poetry
·
rejection of the romantic tradition [from the
Georgians to Imagists]
·
war poetry, T.S Eliot as a neoclassical modernist;
symbolism
·
innovative elements in Yeat’s poetry.
4.
Drama of the beginning of the twentieth century and
the Irish Twilight
- G.B.
Shaw, the Fabian Society, social problems in drama, breaking taboos;
- Sean O’Casey,
J.M. Synge, W. B. Yeats
5.
The birth of the Modern Novel
·
Conrad and his pessimistic vision of humanity, moral
visions
·
Colonial themes, criticism of imperialism,
·
Narrative experiment
6.
‘Heroic’ generation of modernists
·
D. H. Lawrence and the influence of Freud, failures
and successes of relationships, Oedipal situation, human sexuality
·
presentation of working class life.
7.
(cont.)
- E.M.
Forster: the image of the British Empire, imperialism;
- the
meeting of the East and West, national and religious barriers
8.
(cont.)
·
James Joyce: universl symbolism, intertextuality
·
relations between art and life
·
epiphanies and dialectic organisation in his short
stories and novels
·
linguistic carnival: modernistic experiment pushed to
the extreme
·
representation of Ireland in Joyce’s fiction,
·
Kunstlerroman and Bildungsroman.
9.
(cont.)
·
Virginia Woolf: Bloomsbury Group
·
feminist awareness, female characters, androgyny
·
stream of consciousness, experiments with narration,
new treatment of time and space
10.
Depression and War;
·
poets of the 1930s and their political commitment:
W.H. Auden: his vision of the thirties as a “low dishonest decade”; Dylan
Thomas and defamiliarisation of language, S. Spender, Louis McNeice
·
the novel: A. Huxley, E. Waugh, G. Greene, G. Orwell
11.
Twentieth-century theatre:
·
Angry Young Men (Osborne, Wesker)
·
Theatre of the Absurd, Theatre of Menace (Samuel
Beckett and Harold Pinter)
12.
From the 1950s to the 1990s
·
poetry: P. Larkin, S. Heaney
·
fiction: Kingsley Amis, Iris Murdoch; M. Spark, A.
Burgess
13.
(cont.)
·
the postmodern novel, intertextuality, the use of
history and literature, postcolonial literature, feminism;
·
John Fowles, M. Bradbury, D. Lodge, M. Drabble, J.
Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, A. Carter, Jeanette Winterson, S. Rushdie etc).
Classes topics for Year II
Winter semester
1. William Butler Yeats:
‘’Sailing to Byzantium’’, ‘’The Second Coming’’, ‘’Easter 1916’’
-Irish themes in William Butler Yeats’ poetry
-the treatment of past and tradition
The Great War Literature: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon,
Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves
-Edwardian influences
-poetry of traumatic experiences
2. Oscar Wilde: The
Picture of Dorian Gray
-art. and life in fin
de siecle
-aestheticism
Thomas Hardy: Tess
of the D’Urbervilles or Jude the
Obscure
-the last of the Victorians
-the clash between pre-industrial and industrial
morality
3. T.S. Eliot: ‘’The Love Song of J. Alfred
Proofrock’’, The Waste Land
-symbolism in The
Waste Land
-indictment of the twentieth century civilization
-struggle for impersonality, objective correlative
-T.S. Eliot as a neoclassical modernist
Ezra Pound: chosen poems
-imagism
-modernistic use of language
4. Joseph
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
-moral
visions, Conrad as a moralist of exile
-narrative experiment
-psychological complexities of his writing
E.M. Forster: A
Passage to India or J.M. Coetzee Foe
-triangular structure and connection in E.M. Forster’s
novel
-the meeting of East and West
-colonial subjects and the image of British Empire
5. W.H.Auden: ‘’Spain 1937’’, ‘’The Shield of
Achilles’’
-love and menace in Auden’s poetry
-the vision of the thirties as a ‘’low dishonest
decade’’
Dylan Thomas: ‘’Author’s Prologue’’, ‘’Fern Hill’’
-defamiliarization of language
-the role of nature
6. D.H. Lawrence: Sons
and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (fragments)
-success and failure of human relationships
-Freudian echoes
-nature and human nature as interdependent
7. Virginia Woolf:
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse (fragments)
-the narrative experiment [interior narration]
-the use of time and space
-female characters and their significance
8. James
Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man, Ulysses [Molly’s monologue], Dubliners
[chosen stories]
-Dublin
as the epicenter of Joyce’s writing
-art and life in A
Portrait....
-the concept of epiphany
-stream of consciousness
9. William Golding:
Lord of the Flies,
-allegory and regression
-moral and psychological implications
-pessimistic vision of the evolutionary progress
10. Kingsley Amis: Lucky
Jim (fragments)
-comic presentation of the academic world
-Amis as a representative of the Angry Young Men
movement
John Osborne: Look
Back in Anger
-social contexts of his plays
-rebellion in its dramatic form
11. John Fowles: The
French Lieutenant’s Woman, Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber
-the question of post-modern novel
-forms of narration
-intertexuality; the use of history and literature
12. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Engame
-the theater of the absurd
-metaphysical despair
-insufficiency of language
-symbolism
Harold Pinter: The
Dumb Waiter
-Pinterian theater of the absurd
-the drama of menace
13. Final Test
Contemporary Poetry: Philip Larkin: ‘’Church going’’,
‘’Next Please’’, ‘’The Witsun Weddings’’
-transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary
-relationship between victor and victim, order and
disorder, or predator and prey
Craig Raine Martian Poetry
Discussion upon contemporary novels chosen and read
individually by each of the students
Contemporary fiction:
Martin
Amis: Success, Time’s Arrow
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ Days, Metroland
Anita
Brookner: Fraud, Family and Friends
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber, Love
Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing, The Summer Before the
Dark
David Lodge: Nice Work, The British Museum is Falling
Down
Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden, The Innocent
Salman Rushdie: Satanic Verses, Midnight’s Children
Graham Swift: Last Orders, The Waterland
Jeanette Winterson: The Passion, Sexing the Cherry
Essay topics for Year I
Essay topics for Year II
1. Irish
themes in W.B. Yeats’ poetry and plays.
2. Functions of
allusions and references to other poets in T.S. Eliot’s poems.
3. Narrative
experiments in the English modern novel.
4. D.H.
Lawrence’s presentation of the relationship of the individual and society.
5. Characterize
the presentation of feminine sensibility in V. Woolf’s novels.
6. Define the
role of art and myth in J. Joyce’s works.
7. Consider
the image of the British Empire and colonial subjects in the works of J. Conrad
and/or E.M. Forster.
8. The theme
of contact and connection in E .M. Forster’s novels.
9. The blend
of the bleak and the humorous in S. Beckett’s plays.
10.
The theme of the insufficiency of language in the
Theater of the Absurd.
11.
Expression of
socio-political dissatisfaction in the works of Angry Young Men.
12.
The search for
identity in the contemporary women’s writing.
13.
Intertextual
world in postmodern fiction.
14.
H. Pinter’s
plays as comedies of menace.
15.
Modern novels as form of game and play.
16.
W. B. Yeats as a love poet.
17.
Dublin as the
epicenter of J. Joyce’s literary world.
18.
The role of psychological, political and moral
implications in W. Golding’s fiction.
Sample Exams for Year I, II, BA and MA studies
Sample Exam for Year I
GROUP A
I. Choose ONE of the following topics (50
p.):
(Make
sure you write logically and to the point)
·
The struggle between body and soul from the Middle Ages to the Victorian
period. OR:
·
From a medieval hero to a Victorian average man—the construction of a
character in the genres of different epochs.
II.
Answer the following questions:
- Allegory in medieval poetry and drama (20 p.) [min. 5 texts]
- Ideas on poetry in Romantic theory and practice (20 p.) [min. four
poets]
- Genres/conventions in the 18th century drama (10 p.)
[min. two genres/conventions]
GROUP B
I. Choose ONE of the following topics (50 p.):
(Make
sure you write logically and to the point)
·
The struggle between body and soul from the Middle Ages to the Victorian
period. OR:
·
From a medieval hero to a Victorian average man—the construction of a
character in the genres of different epochs.
II.
Answer the following questions:
- The Function of comic characters in Renaissance comedies and
tragedies (20 p.) [min 5 texts]
- Victorian world as reflected in Victorian poetry (20 p.) [min. four
issues]
- Genres/conventions in the 18th century drama (10 p.)
[min. two genres/conventions]
EGZAMIN
POPRAWKOWY
I. Choose ONE of the following topics
(50 p):
(Make
sure you write logically and to the point)
·
The treatment of crime and punishment in the history of English
literature. OR:
- Evil minds
revisited. The meaning and
representation of evil in various
literary epochs.
II.
Answer the following questions:
1.Childhood
and memory in the poems of English pre-Romantic and Romantic
poets (20p.)
2. Medievalism in Victorian poetry (20 p.)
3. Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones as self-conscious novels:
similarities and differences.
Sample Exam for Year II
GROUP A
1.Write an essay on the subject given below
[40pts]:
Different approaches
to rendering reality in the novel – from realism to postmodernism.
2.Answer the following questions [40pts]:
a) The evil
of war presented in twentieth-century English poetry.
b) Characteristic
features of postcolonial fiction.
GROUP B
1. Write an essay on the subject given below [40pts]:
Discuss utopias and
dystopias of the twentieth-century English fiction.
2. Answer the following questions [40pts]:
a) The
development of the English drama of the 1950s and 1960s.
b) Literary
tradition rewritten – discuss it in relation to English female writing.
BA Exam Sample
topics (2007)
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.
Reading List for English Literature MA
Seminar Year I (1st semester)
Cities Imaginary and Real
LITERATURA ANGIELSKA
ZAGADNIENIA-MAGISTERIUM 2007
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 29th
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.”