Specialisation seminar: American Poetry in Polish Translation 2510-f1ENG2S-SS-APPT

List of topics
Week 1 Introduction, why read poetry? Chuang Tzu, “The Useless” and “The Butterfly Dream”
Week 2 How to read poetry? (Whitla, pp. 175-212, and Internet sources); selected poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
Week 3 How to translate poetry? selected poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in translation
Weeks 4-5 selected poems by Robert Frost; his poetry in translation
Weeks 6-7 selected poems by Langston Hughes; his poetry in translation
Week 8 Summary and midterm test
Weeks 9-10 Discussion of the test; selected poems by Elizabeth Bishop; her poetry in translation
Weeks 11-12 selected poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and their translations
Weeks 13-14 selected poems Louise Gluck and Carmine di Biase, their poetry in translation; summary
Week 15 Final test.

Total student workload

Contact hours with the teacher: - participation in seminars - 30 hrs - consultations - 10 hrs Self-study hours: - preparation for seminars and mid-term test - 20 hrs - preparation for the final test- 15 hrs Altogether: 75 hrs (3 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

The student W1: has advanced knowledge of literary studies and concepts related to poetry in English (K_W04, K_W07).

Learning outcomes - skills

The student U1: is able to gain and deepen their knowledge of poetry and develop their research skills on their own (K_U01). U2: is able to recognise various forms of poetry, and draw conclusions about literary tradition and innovation in texts studied in the seminar (K_U10, K_U13). U3: is able to search library holdings and to refer properly to literary scholars’ analyses and interpretations of the poems discussed in the seminar (K_U16)

Teaching methods

- seminar - discussion - description

Expository teaching methods

- description

Exploratory teaching methods

- biographical
- practical
- experimental

Course coordinators

Mirosława Buchholtz

Assessment criteria

Assessment methods:
- mid-term test (30%) and final test (20%)– W1, U1, U2
- graded involvement in class (50%)– U3
Assessment criteria:
fail – 0-59 %
satisfactory – 60-69 %
satisfactory plus – 70-75 %
good – 76-85 %
good plus – 86-90 %
very good – 91-100 %

Practical placement

Additional information

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