World Literature and Literary Awards 2500-OG-EN-WLLA

The course offers an examination of the rules and the politics of literary prize-giving from around the world in the light of the world literature theory as well as interpretations of the most important books by laureates of the most prestigious prizes. Conversational lectures are first of all dedicated to discussions how literary awards shape our practices of reading across national boundaries.
Course outline:
1. The concept of world literature against literary prizes: problems of intercultural communication.
2. The Nobel Prize in Literature – history, criteria and rules for granting, the activity of the Swedish Academy.
3. The analysis of verdicts from recent years in the light of changes in literary consciousness (e.g. Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan and Svetlana Alexievitch).
4. Other awards towards an international literary career: The Man Booker Prize and The Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award and Miguel de Cervantes Prize, etc. – history, criteria and rules for granting; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages.
5. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak as a tale about the Russian Hamlet of the day of the revolution (Literary Nobel, 1958); controversy about the refusal to accept the prize.
6. "Uncompromising clear-sightedness" of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz (Literary Nobel, 1980). "Captive Mind" as an analysis of "enslavement through consciousness".
7. An apology for philology and praise for literary art in Antonia Susan Byatt’s "Possession"; unlimited intertextuality, multidimensional and multi-genre structure of the novel (Booker Prize, 1990).
8. "Disgrace" by John Maxwell Coetzee as an academic postcolonial novel (Booker Prize, 1999; Literary Nobel, 2003).
9. "Conversation in the Cathedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa as a polyphonic novel and a multiperspectivie picture of Peru (Cervantes Prize, 1994; Literary Nobel, 2010).
10. Literary awards in Poland. Do Polish literary prizes announce the international success of their laureates? The reception of Olga Tokarczuk’s "Flights".

The course offers an examination of the rules and the politics of literary prize-giving from around the world in the light of the world literature theory as well as interpretations of the most important books by laureates of the most prestigious prizes. Conversational lectures are first of all dedicated to discussions how literary awards shape our practices of reading across national boundaries.
Course outline:
1. The concept of world literature against literary prizes: problems of intercultural communication.
2. The Nobel Prize in Literature – history, criteria and rules for granting, the activity of the Swedish Academy.
3. The analysis of verdicts from recent years in the light of changes in literary consciousness (e.g. Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan and Svetlana Alexievitch).
4. Other awards towards an international literary career: The Man Booker Prize and The Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award and Miguel de Cervantes Prize, etc. – history, criteria and rules for granting; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages.
5. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak as a tale about the Russian Hamlet of the day of the revolution (Literary Nobel, 1958); controversy about the refusal to accept the prize.
6. "Uncompromising clear-sightedness" of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz (Literary Nobel, 1980). "Captive Mind" as an analysis of "enslavement through consciousness".
7. An apology for philology and praise for literary art in Antonia Susan Byatt’s "Possession"; unlimited intertextuality, multidimensional and multi-genre structure of the novel (Booker Prize, 1990).
8. "Disgrace" by John Maxwell Coetzee as an academic postcolonial novel (Booker Prize, 1999; Literary Nobel, 2003).
9. "Conversation in the Cathedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa as a polyphonic novel and a multiperspectivie picture of Peru (Cervantes Prize, 1994; Literary Nobel, 2010).
10. Literary awards in Poland. Do Polish literary prizes announce the international success of their laureates? The reception of Olga Tokarczuk’s "Flights".

1. Selected Bibliography. Criticism:
Espmark Kjell, "The Nobel Prize in Literature. A Study of the Criteria behind the Choices", Boston 1991.
Gupta Suman, "Globalization and Literature", Cambridge 2009.
Damrosch David, "What is World Literature", Princeton and Oxford 2003.
Damrosch David, "How to Read World Literature", Malden 2009.
Henitiuk Valerie, "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature, "World Literature Today" 2012, (86)1.
Apter Emily, "Against World Literature. On the Politics of Untranslatability”, London–New York 2013.
Davie Donald, "Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric", Cambridge 1986.
"Debating World Literature", ed. by Christopher Prendergast, London and New York 2004.
"Doubling the Point: J.M. Coetzee, Essays and Interviews", ed. by David Atwell, New York 2016.
"The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa", ed. by Efraín Kristal and John King, Cambridge 2012.
"The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan", ed. by Kevin J. Dettmar, Cambridge 2008.
Burgass Catherine, "A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide", New York 2002.
2. Selected Bibliography. Literature:
Alexievich Svetlana, “Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II", translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky, New York 2017.
Byatt Antonia Susan, "Possession. A Romance", London 1990.
Coetzee John Maxwell, "Disgrace", London 1999.

Dylan Bob, "The Lyrics: Since 1962", New York 2014.
Llosa Mario Vargas, "Conversation in the Cathedral", translated by Gregory Rabassa, New York 1974.
Milosz Czeslaw, "Selected Poems 1931-2004", foreword by Seamus Heaney, New York 2006.
Milosz Czeslaw, "The Captive Mind", translated by Jane Zielonko, New York 1953.
Pasternak Boris, "Doctor Zhivago",
Tokarczuk Olga, "Flights"Max Hayward and Manya Harari, "The Poems of Yurii Zhivago" translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, New York 1958.
Tokarczuk Olga, "Flights", translated by Jennifer Croft, Melbourne,2017.

1. Selected Bibliography. Criticism:
Espmark Kjell, "The Nobel Prize in Literature. A Study of the Criteria behind the Choices", Boston 1991.
Gupta Suman, "Globalization and Literature", Cambridge 2009.
Damrosch David, "What is World Literature", Princeton and Oxford 2003.
Damrosch David, "How to Read World Literature", Malden 2009.
Henitiuk Valerie, "The Single, Shared Text? Translation and World Literature, "World Literature Today" 2012, (86)1.
Apter Emily, "Against World Literature. On the Politics of Untranslatability”, London–New York 2013.
Davie Donald, "Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric", Cambridge 1986.
"Debating World Literature", ed. by Christopher Prendergast, London and New York 2004.
"Doubling the Point: J.M. Coetzee, Essays and Interviews", ed. by David Atwell, New York 2016.
"The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa", ed. by Efraín Kristal and John King, Cambridge 2012.
"The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan", ed. by Kevin J. Dettmar, Cambridge 2008.
Burgass Catherine, "A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Reader's Guide", New York 2002.
2. Selected Bibliography. Literature:
Alexievich Svetlana, “Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II", translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky, New York 2017.
Byatt Antonia Susan, "Possession. A Romance", London 1990.
Coetzee John Maxwell, "Disgrace", London 1999.

Dylan Bob, "The Lyrics: Since 1962", New York 2014.
Llosa Mario Vargas, "Conversation in the Cathedral", translated by Gregory Rabassa, New York 1974.
Milosz Czeslaw, "Selected Poems 1931-2004", foreword by Seamus Heaney, New York 2006.
Milosz Czeslaw, "The Captive Mind", translated by Jane Zielonko, New York 1953.
Pasternak Boris, "Doctor Zhivago",
Tokarczuk Olga, "Flights"Max Hayward and Manya Harari, "The Poems of Yurii Zhivago" translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, New York 1958.
Tokarczuk Olga, "Flights", translated by Jennifer Croft, Melbourne,2017.

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