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Polish Language & Culture
2008 July 5-Week - Course Description
Polish Culture: Lessons in Polish Literature
CEA Partner Institution: Jagiellonian University
Location: Krakow, PolandPrimary Subject Area: Cultural Studies
Other Subject Area(s): Polish Language & Literature
Level(s): 300
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 2
Contact Hours: 30
Description
A presentation of some of the most interesting problems in the thousand-year history of Polish culture, with special emphasis on themes related to national existence. Literary masterpieces of the past and present, including poetry of the two Nobel Prize winners - Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996); Polish Romanticism; culture in a political context; the phenomenon of exiled culture; literature and totalitarianism, and other "great questions" of Polish culture will be discussed.
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