Constructig a Bridge Between Popular Literature and High Literature at School on the Example of ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘Utopia’ by Wisława Szymborska Cover Image

Szkolne budowanie mostu między literaturą popularną i literaturą wysoką na przykładzie „Igrzysk Śmierci” Suzanne Collins i „Utopii” Wisławy Szymborskiej
Constructig a Bridge Between Popular Literature and High Literature at School on the Example of ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘Utopia’ by Wisława Szymborska

Author(s): Karolina Fijołek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Education, Polish Literature, School education, Philology, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: popular literature; Suzanne Collins; Wisława Szymborska; power and authorities; dystopia; didactic of literature

Summary/Abstract: Popular literature is close to students and can be used as a starting point to high literature; by using similarities in motives, which exist in simplified, and schematic way in the popular literature, and which are deepened, and ambiguously understood in the high literature. The starting point are ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and the motives of utopia and dystopia occurring in it. This writing is collated with the poem ‘Utopia’ written by Wisława Szymborska in order to make a deeper analysis of the utopian motive.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 91-102
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish