Class meets on Tuesdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM in Northrop Frye 006.
| Instructor: | Maxim Tarnawsky | 121 St. Joseph St. | Alumni Hall 403 |
| tarn@chass.utoronto.ca | 416-978–8972 |
| Course Schedule |
| Schedule of Class Meetings | |||
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| Week | Date | Topic | Assigned Reading |
| Week 1. Tue | Sept 12 | Introduction. History, Myth, Fiction. Visual images. History of Galicia | Norman Davies. "Galicia: Kingdom of the Naked and Starving (1773–1918)." Excerpt from Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, New York: Penguin Books, 2011, pp. 449–81. |
| Week 2. Tue | Sept 19 | Industry comes to the provinces | Ivan. Franko. Boa Constrictor |
| Week 3. Tue | Sept 26 | Sex, Women, and strange geography | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. “Don Juan of Kolomea,” and “The Man Who Re-Enlisted.” (Love. The Legacy of Cain. pp. 16–117) |
| Week 4. Tue | Oct 3 | The unusual people who live here. Hutsuls and others Assignment 1 due. | Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”; Vasyl Stefanyk, “The Stone Cross,” “The Recruit's Farewell,” and “Maple Leaves.” (The Stone Cross, pp. 19–32; 89–97) |
| Week 5. Tue | Oct 10 | How does Galicia fit into Austria? | Karl Emil Franzos, “The Shylok of Barnow”; Joseph Roth. “Strawberries,” “The Bust of the Emperor” and chapter 9 and 11 from The Radetzky March. |
| Week 6. Tue | Oct 18 | If it's strange, it must be art! | Bruno Shulz. Collected Stories. Read all the stories in Cinnamon Shops pp. 1–80 as well as the story “The Sanatorium Under the Hourglass”, pp. 185–204. |
| Week 7. Tue | Oct 24 | Were Jews in Galicia modern or old fashioned? Assignment 2 due. | S.Y Agnon. A Simple Tale Read at least chapters 1–20. |
| Week 8. Tue | Oct 31 | Western Galicia is a product of Polish history. | Stanislaw Wyspianski, "The Wedding" |
| Nov 7 | No Class! | November pause! | |
| Week 9. Tue | Nov 14 | An unusual place means a complex society. | Ivan Franko. “The Cutthroats,” “The Involuntary Hero.” |
| Week 10. Tue | Nov 21 | Complexity begins in the minds of individuals Assignment 3 due. | Yuri Vynnychuk. Tango of Death |
| Week 11. Tue | Nov 28 | How is western Galicia different today? | Andrzej Stasiuk. Tales of Galicia |
| Week 12. Tue | Dec 5 | It's all about remembering! Concluding test. | Stanislaw Lem.Highcastle. (read chaps 1–4, up to pg 71). Józef Wittlin. My Lwów. excerpts. Johann Georg Kohl. “Lemberg” You're writing your papers! |
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