Cultural and Literary Traditions of Balkans

compulsory

Central European and Balkan Studies

1st cycle

Course aims:

- interpersonal: creating ability of critical evaluation of cultural phenomena and processes; skill at evaluating cultural and multi-cultural diversity; skill at combining interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of theory of culture, cultural anthropology and religious studies; forming skill at debating in a group,

- instrumental: basic knowledge in the field of literatures and cultures of countries on the Balkan Peninsula; skill at analyzing and synthesizing,

- systemic: ability to work independently; research skills; ability to construct longer oral statement; skill at writing term paper.

Year 3

Lecture with a multimedia presentation, interactive lecture, problem-based lecture, discussions, text-based work, project work, demonstration and observation, sound and/or video demonstration.

3

Course learning content:

- presentation of connections of cultural/literary traditions between countries on the Balkan Peninsula and Europe on the basic level,

- presentation of discussed traditions in context of national and transnational ideas,

- using properly basic notions and terms in the field of theory of literature and theory of culture.

Reading list:

M. Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, New York 1997.

The Macedonian issue: the power of culture, the culture of power, ed. B. Zieliński, Poznań 2003.

A. Barac, History of Yugoslav Literature, Ann Arbor 1976.

Ch. Moser, History of Bulgarian Literature: 865-1944, the Hague 1972.

P. Bogatyriew, Semiotyka kultury ludowej, Warszawa 1979.

H. Czajka, Bohaterska epika Słowian południowych, Wrocław 1968.

M. Dąbrowska – Partyka, Świadectwa i mistyfikacje. Przed i po Jugosławii, Kraków 2003.

W. Gusiew, Estetyka folkloru, Wrocław 1979.

J. Rapacka, Dawna literatura serbska i dawna literatura chorwacka, Warszawa 1993.

J. Rapacka, Godzina Herdera, Warszawa 1995.

K. Simiczijew, Pieśń hajducka Słowian południowych, Wrocław 1985.

On successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:

- define and describe basic phenomena, traditions and contexts of cultures/literatures of countries on the Balkan Peninsula,

- connect, describe and qualify these phenomena, traditions and contexts,

- get skill at creating cultural and historical-literary synthesis and at finding phenomena and references in cultural texts,

- get skill at categorizing and contextualizing specific cultural and literary phenomena of countries on the Balkan Peninsula connecting them with analogous phenomena in other European cultures/literatures,

- compile knowledge, acquired during the classes; develop, explain and reconstruct cultural/literary phenomena in relation to other civilization circles,

- get skill at comparing cultural/literary phenomena and at formulating conclusions, explaining and interpreting these phenomena in wider historical-literary, political, historical, ideological context,

- analyze independently, interpret and evaluate creatively cultural/literary texts.

Assessment criteria:

very good (bdb; 5,0): excellent familiarity with problems discussed during the classes; very good skills at analyzing and interpreting literary texts; very good ability to express verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.

good plus (+db; 4,5): as above, except for minor deficiencies and inaccuracies.

good (db; 4,0): possible larger scale of deficiencies: weaker skills at analyzing, interpreting and at expressing verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.

satisfactory plus (+dst; 3,5): satisfactory familiarity with problems discussed during the classes; average skills at analyzing and interpreting literary texts; satisfactory ability to express verbally and in writing opinion on South Slavonic literature.

satisfactory (dst; 3,0): as above, except for minor deficiencies and inaccuracies.

unsatisfactory (ndst; 2,0): unsatisfactory familiarity with problems discussed during the classess.