Readings in Polish Language and Literature -- PLSH 675 Reading list: PRIMARY TEXTS (in Polish) -- all required readings : 1. Bogurodzica (13/14th century) (in Carpenter) 2. ale Matki Boskiej pod krzyωem (c. 1450) (in Carpenter) 3. Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584), Pie ni (1586): II, XXIV, XXV; Fraszki (1584): Na Lipeˆ, Na dom w Czarnolesie, Do dziewki ; Treny (1580): I, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XIII (in Carpenter; selected poems) 4. Miko aj Seˆp Szarzyºski (ca. 1550-1581), Sonet I, Sonet II, Sonet IV, Sonet V from his Rytmy abo wiersze polskie (before 1601) (in Carpenter). 5. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621-1693), Sonnets: Do trupa, Na krzyωyk na piersiach jednej panny, Do motyla -- from his collections of poems, Kaniku a albo psia gwiazda (1647) and Lutnia (1638-1661) (in Carpenter). 6. Jan Chryzostom Pasek (ca. 1636-1701), Pamieˆtniki (1690s) (selections). 7. Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801), Satyry (1779): Pijaºstwo ; Bajki i przypowie ci (1779): Wsteˆp do bajek, Filozof, Lew I zwierzeˆta, Wilk i owce, Jagnieˆ i wilcy (in Carpenter). 8. Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Pan Tadeusz (1834),selected poems: Romantyczno (1822), Lilije (1822), Do M*** (1822), Niepewno (1825), Stepy Akermaºskie (1826), Bajdary (1826), Ajudah (1826), Do***. Na Alpach w Splügen (1829), Pola y sieˆ zy me czyste... (1839-1840). 9. Juliusz S owacki (1809-1849), selected poems: Roz aĉzenie (1835), Sumnienie (1836), Hymn ( Smutno mi, BoΩe...) (1836), W pamieˆtniku Zofii Bobrówny (1844), W Szwajcarii (poemat) (1830s). 10. Boles aw Prus (1845-1912), selected short stories from The Sins of Childhood and Other Stories (1883): From the Legends of Ancient Egypt, Waistcoat, Antek, On Vacation, Organ-Grinder ; novel The Doll (1890). 11. Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910), selected prose -- a short story, A... B... C... 12. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), novels With Fire and Sword (1884), Quo Vadis (1896).selected prose -- short stories: Janko Muzykant, Latarnik.
15. Stanis aw Wyspiaºski (1869-1907), drama The Wedding (1901). 16. Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921), selected short stories: Virtue (1888), Little Frog (1896) (in Goscilo). 17. Stefan eromski (1864-1925), selected short stories: Rozdziobiaˆ nas kruki, wrony... (1895), Forest Echoes (1905) (in Gillon). 18. Stanis aw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939), drama The Shoemakers (1931-1934). 19. Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), collection of short stories Street of Crocodiles (1937). 20. Maria Kuncewiczowa (1897-1980s), novel The Stranger (1936). 21. Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novels Cosmos and Pornografia (Grove 1985), short story Tancerz mecenasa Kraykowskiego (1933), novel Ferdydurke (Yale 2000). 22. Julian Tuwim (1894-1953), selected poems: The Dancing Socrates, and Other Poems (1920). 23. Zofia Na kowska (1884-1954), Medallions (Northwestern 2000). 24. Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951), selected short stories: This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1948). 25. Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909-1983), short story Intermezzo (1942) (in Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories), novel Ashes and Diamonds (1948). 26. Maria Daˆbrowska (1892-1965), short story On a Beautiful Summer Morning (1948) (in Gillon). 27. Kazimierz Brandys (1916-2000), short story Pies (1959-60) (from Listy do Pani Z.; in Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories). 28. Tadeusz Konwicki (b. 1926), novel Dreambook for Our Time (1963). 29. S awomir MroΩek (b. 1930), short story W podróωy (1957) (in Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories), drama Tango (1965). 30. Jaros aw Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980), The Birch Wood and Other Stories (CEU 2002). 31. Marek H asko (1934-1969), short story Kancik, czyli wszystko sieˆ zmieni o (1956) (in Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories).
32. Tadeusz RóΩewicz (b. 1921), selected poems: RóΩa, Jak dobrze, Ocalony (1947). 33. Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), selected poems: Kamyk, Apollo i Marsjasz, Elegia Fortynbrasa (1950s). 34. Czes aw Mi osz (b. 1911), selected poems: W mojej ojczyªnie (1937), Biedny chrze cijanin patrzy na Ghetto (1943), Piosenka o koºcu wiata (1945), Tak ma o (1969). 35. Wis awa Szymborska (b. 1923), selected poems: Pokój samobójcy, Psalm, Wielka liczba, Wietnam (1960-70s). Anthologies of Polish Literature in English: 1. B. Carpenter, ed., Monumenta Polonica; The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology (Michigan 1989). 2. M. Miko, ed., Medieval Literature of Poland; An Anthology (Garland 1992). 3. M. Miko, ed., Polish Renaissance Literature; An Anthology (Slavica 1995). 4. M. Miko, ed., Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature; An anthology (Slavica 1996 ). 5. M. Miko, ed., Polish Romantic Literature (Slavica 2002). 6. A. Schenker, ed., Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories (Yale 1970). SECONDARY TEXTS (SELECTED BACKGROUND BIBLIOGRAPHY) (in Polish and English): C. Mi osz, The History of Polish Literature (1983). 1. T. Micha owska, redniowiecze (Warsaw: PWN, 1994). 2. Ziomek, Renesans (Warsaw: PWN, 1976). 3. Cz. Hernas, Barok (Warsaw: PWN, 1976). 4. The Polish Renaissance in it s European Context. Ed. S. Fiszman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).
5. D. Welsh, Jan Kochanowski (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974). 6. J. Pelc, Jan Kochanowski. Poeta renesansu (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1988). 7. Jan Kochanowski i kultura odrodzenia. Materia y z sesji naukowej. Ed. Z. Libera (Warsaw: PWN, 1985). 8. R.A. Sokoloski, The poetry of Miko aj Seˆp Szarzyºski (Wiesbaden: O. Harrasowitz, 1990). 9. J. B oºski, Miko aj Seˆp Szarzyºski a poczaˆtki polskiego baroku (Krakow, 1967). 10. J. Soko owska, K. ukowska, Introduction to Poeci polskiego baroku (Warsaw, 1965). 11. Problemy literatury polskiej okresu O wiecenia. Ed. Z. Goliºski (Wroc aw, 1973-77). 12. Pisarze polskiego O wiecenia vol. 1-3 (Warsaw, 1992). 13. M. Klimowicz, O wiecenie (Warsaw: PWN, 1980). 14. A. Witkowska, Literatura romantyzmu (Warsaw: PWN, 1986). 15. A. Witkowska, R. Przybylski, Romantyzm (Warsaw: PWN, 1997). 16. M. Kridl, ed. Adam Mickiewicz, Poet of Poland; A Symposium (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1951). 17. W. Weintraub, The Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz (The Hague: Mouton, 1959). 18. A. Witkowska, Adam Mickiewicz; S owo i czyn (Warsaw). 19. M. Kridl, The Lyric Poems of Julius S owacki (The Hague: Mouton, 1958). 20. W. Lednicki, Henryk Sienkiewicz: A Retrospective Synthesis (The Hague: Mouton, 1960). 21. H. Markiewicz, Pozytywizm (Warsaw: PWN, 1978). 22. A. Hutnikiewicz, M oda Polska (Warsaw: PWN, 1997). 23. D. Gerould, Witkacy. Stanis aw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1981). 24. C. Mi osz, Stanis aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, a Polish Writer for Today Tri-Quarterly, IX (Spring 1967), pp. 143-154.
25. J. wieĉh, Literatura polska w latach II wojny wiatowej (Warsaw: PWN, 1997).