Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2006-2007
SLAV 411 - MOD POLISH POET IN TRANSLATION
Long Title: MODERN POLISH POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Department: German Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course presents the living poets of Poland, from Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996) to their youngest competitors, Krzysztof Koehler and Maciej Swietlicki. The course explores how resistance and collaboration, Catholicism and Communism, have shaped and continued a major literary tradition of Europe based on a selection of poetry in English translations.