hISTORY OF POLISH CULTURE

The course is a part of the BA degree programme “Languages, Civilization and the Science of Language”.

Acquisition of knowledge of Polish literature of the interwar period: authors and works, themes, history.


Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding of the literary history of the interwar period.
Knowledge and understanding of the studied works.
Knowledge of the literary phenomena and contextualization within the framework of the society that produced them.

Applying knowledge and understanding
Understanding the issues, the evolutionary lines of the period examined.
Understanding a literary text and be able to use critical and methodological tools to analyze it.

Making judgments
Be able to evaluate and reflect on author, themes and texts treated.

Communication skills
Be able to describe with terminological precision literary phenomena treated and know how to present them with adequate communication skills.

Learning ability
Be able to develop specific methodological tools in the study of the various materials.
Be able to critically consult books and references contained in them.

None, no pre-requirements.

SURVEY OF POLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE: 1918 - 1939
Cultural traditions, historical processes, works and authors that have shaped Polish literature and national identity.

I) Students of Polish Literature 2, mod 2:
Storia della letteratura polacca, a cura di Luigi Marinelli, Einaudi, Torino 2004, cap. da X a XII, pp. 361 - 486.
Students of History of Polish Culture:
Storia della letteratura polacca, a cura di Luigi Marinelli, Einaudi, Torino 2004, cap. X (Il Ventennio tra le due guerre), and other three chapters (at the option of the student).
II)
a) Students of Polish Literature 2, mod. 2:
- translation polish/italian of 3 poems and 3 three texts of the authors of the period.
b) Students of History of Polish Culture:
- "Polonia. Il paese che rinasce", Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki, Trieste, Beit, 2008.
III)
a) Bruno Schulz, Le botteghe color cannella, Einaudi, Torino 2001, pp. 317-321, 324-341.
b) Carlo Verdiani, Poeti polacchi contemporanei, Silva Editore .
c) at the option of the student, one book:
- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Teatro, Bulzoni, Roma 1980.
- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Insaziabilità, Garzanti, Milano 1973.
- Witold Gombrowicz, Iwona principessa di Borgogna, Lerici Editori, Milano 1962.
- Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke, Feltrinelli, Milano 1993.
- Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay, Feltrinelli, Milano 2005.
- Aleksander Wat, Lucifero disoccupato, Salerno Editrice, Roma 1994.
- Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Le signorine di Wilko, Ponte Sisto, Roma 2017.
- Bruno Schulz, Le botteghe color cannella o Il sanatorio all'insegna della clessidra, in: Le botteghe color cannella, Einaudi, Torino 2001

Oral. The exam will consist in a discussion on the issues of the course and on the bibliography.

Lessons, lectures, seminars.

Italian

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