European Masterpieces
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
Major European literary texts will be examined in a historical and cultural context and in their transhistorical, universal aspects that make them masterpieces. Students will understand how literary masterpieces help us develop critical consciousness of our experience.
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
European Studies
Global Studies
This course explores ideas, events as well as cultural and political trends presented in Polish literature in the contexts of Romanticism, Positivism, Realism, Modernism, Interwar Independence, WWII and German occupation, Soviet communist control, and the post-Cold War sovereignty, as part of the modern European experience.
This course explores the shifting dialogue regarding Polish identity that took place in Polish literature from the latter half of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Through the analysis of novels, plays, and poetry, this course follows the shifting pattern of Polish identity beginning with the failure of the January Uprising of 1863, through WWI, the dynamic activity of the Interwar period, and the devastation of WWII.
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