Literary studies

Proposed candidates for supervisors

  • German-language literature
  • Literature for children and young adults
    • applied writing from the 16th to the 20th century (diaries, journals, letters, wills, official documents),
    • women’s literature 17th-20th century,
    • physiognomy of characters in narrative works,
    • the creation of macro- and micro-spaces in works of the 17th-20th century. (e.g. state, city, village, court),
    • “evolution” of genres over the centuries: e.g. poem, memoir,
    • the function of the letter in narrative structure (e.g. in the historical novel),
    • Old Polish calendars: genological description of structure, thematic content,
    • everyday life and festivity in selected works of the 17th-20th century,
    • baptisms, weddings, divorces and funerals in the writing of the XVII-XX w,
    • selected literary motifs (synchronic and diachronic approach),
    • Old Polish literature on the Internet (site composition, criteria of material selection, virtual audience, commercialisation, etc.),
    • Rhetoric as a tool of persuasion in speeches, speeches (secular and religious) of the 17th-20th century,
    • stylistic shape of selected works of the 17th-20th century,
    • Borderland themes in the literature of the XVI-XX century,
    • ways of communication in old Poland (documents of the royal chancellery, private correspondence),
    • ration (e.g. wedding, funeral) as communication (family, customs, artistic),
    • literature and social behaviour in the 17th-20th century.

  • Comparative literature in English and Polish
  • The reception of British writers in Poland
  • Literary translation
  • Contemporary francophone literature
  • Correspondence of arts and comparatism
  • Intertextuality, postmodernism, literary games
  • 20th-century drama and theater
  • Borderland as a cultural category (borderlands)
  • Polish émigré literature after World War II (Marian Pankowski, Kalman Segal)
  • Literature for children and young people
  • Anthropology of the child and childhood
  • Literary studies of the Spanish language area
  • Strategies of the contemporary historical novel
  • Criticism and reception of literary translation
  • Polish poetry and prose of the 20th and 21st century
  • Biographical studies
  • Epistolography of the 20th century
  • Editing literary archival materials
  • theories of the creative imagination
  • mythocriticism
  • literary comparative and transdisciplinary studies
  • literature of the French language area
  • poetry of the 19th and 21st centuries
  • travel literature
  • utopias, anti-utopias, dystopias
  • myths and identity narratives
  • trends in Western culture
  • Didactics of literature (anthropological approach)
  • Education in the humanities: the interference of word and image
  • Literature and painting
  • English Literary Studies
  • Victorian literature
  • Historical literature
  • Religion in literature
  • English-language contemporary literature
  • Religious poetry
  • Theatrology
  • Dramatology
  • Performatics
  • Polish language didactics
  • Modern literature (from the antebellum period of Young Poland to the present day)
  • Poetry of the 20th century
  • Imaginarium of modernity
  • Problems of myth and transgression
  • Representations of the memory of the Shoah
  • The art of interpretation
  • Literary criticism
  • Anthropology of literature
  • Geopoetics, ecopoetics and environmental humanities in the study of Polish literature and writing of the 20th and 21st centuries
  • History of literature of Positivism and Young Poland
  • Theatre of Young Poland
  • Travel writing of the 19th and early 20th century
  • English-language literature
  • Literary theory
  • Literature and media
  • Posthumanities
  • Queer theory.
  • Didactics of Polish literature and language, including: the anthropocenric-cultural idea in school and university education;
  • issues of reading (reception, receptive attitudes, reading styles) at school;
  • personalisation and individualisation of education; literature in primary and secondary school;
  • The research workshop of the Polish language teacher;
  • Axiological issues in the didactics of literature;
  • literature for children and young people at school; problems of popular culture in school education;
  • textbooks for primary and secondary education.
  • Relations of 19th-century literature with philosophy, religion and politics
  • Emancipation and women’s movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Literary criticism of the second half of the 19th century
  • Literary and artistic life of Cracow in the era of Galician autonomy
  • Theory and anthropology of literature
  • Literary geneology
  • Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries (authors, themes, conventions)
  • Literature for children and young adults
  • contemporary literature (Szymborska, Herbert, Różewicz, Barańczak, Mrożek, Mysliwski and others);
  • environmental humanities;
  • destruction in literature

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