- •1) What are the main purposes and objectives of the course “Introduction to Literary Study”?
- •2) What studies discipline "Literary Study"?
- •3) What are the components of literary phenomenon?
- •4) What are the supportive disciplines to Literary Study?
- •5) The main disciplines of Literary Study, their fields of study.
- •6) What is the specificity of literary creative process as a particular kind of spiritual activity of a man?
- •7) Specificity of literature as an art form.
- •8) Artistic literature as a form of social consciousness.
- •9) What is the subject of art? The main purpose of art, kinds of arts.
- •10) The basic functions of artistic literature.
- •11) Beautiful is the central category of aesthetics, its connection with literature.
- •12) What is literary artistic work? Form and content of a literary work.
- •13) What are the elements of composition of a literary work?
- •14) What is pathos of a literary work?
- •15) What is a literary personage? Give the general characteristics to psychologism, portrait, landscape, things, time and space.
- •16) What is image? The main components of image. The types of images.
- •17) Prototype. Methods of imagination.
- •18) The figurative and expressive methods of imagination: accentuation and combining.
- •19) The artistic image /character/type. Give characteristics.
- •20) What is an artistic detail? Types of details.
- •21) Character and personage in a literary work. The differences.
- •22) Literary analysis of artistic image.
- •23) What is theme of a literary work?
- •24) What is motif of a literary work? Types of motifs.
- •25) The variety of themes. Types of themes.
- •26) What is the main idea in a literary work?
- •27) What is the problem in a literary work?
- •28) Conceptions about sujet and fabula.
- •29) What is linear plot? (Freytag's pyramid, its main components.)
- •30) What is climax in a literary work?
- •31) Optional elements of plot.
- •32) The types of plot.
- •33) Frame and frame elements of a literary work
- •34) What is the definition of language in Literary Study?
- •35) What is Poetic language?
- •36) What are the resources of poetic language?
- •37) Morphological variations of words in the language of a literary work.
- •38) Tropes or figures of speech in the language of a literary work.
- •39) Aristic speech, its characteristics. Composition of aritstic speech.
- •40) The speech of author and the speech of personage (speaking man).
- •41) The definitions of poetry and prose. The similarities and differences.
- •42) What is the system of versification? General definition. The main types of versification.
- •43) Literature and folklore. The differences.
- •44) What is the literary process? Definition of term.
- •45) What studies comparative literary study?
- •47) What is World literature? Give the definition.
- •48) What are the literary interactions? Give your examples.
- •49) The definition of Literary tradition. Give your example.
- •50) Literary innovations. Give your examples.
- •51) The main stages of literary development.
- •52) Give characteristics of ancient stage in the literary process.
- •53) What are the main characteristics of Renaissance literature?
- •54) What are the main characteristics of Baroque stage in the development of literature?
- •55) What are the main characteristics of Enlightenment stage in the development of literature?
- •56) What are the main characteristics of the XIX-xXcc. Realism stage in the development of literature?
- •57) The conception of artistic method.
1) What are the main purposes and objectives of the course “Introduction to Literary Study”?
The main purpose of discipline is: the development of theoretical knowledge that includes the system of concepts and terms necessary for the further study of the history of literature and folklore; study the scientific principles of analysis of a literary work . The objectives of discipline are: to reveal the specificity of literature as a form of social consciousness and as an art form, to reveal the peculiarities of form and content of a literary work, to study the basic laws of historical development of literature, to learn the basic information about the nature, peculiarities and social - aesthetic significance of artistic literature.
2) What studies discipline "Literary Study"?
Literary Study is the science that studies the specificity, genesis and development of verbal - artistic creativity, explores the ideological and aesthetic values and the structure of literary works, as well as social and historical laws of the literary process of the past and present. The subject of Literary Study is a set of literary phenomena; their diversity can be understood and ordered by the concept of classification. Literature in general is the element of a super system, in the context of which a literary phenomenon is interrelated with reality, writer and receptor (reader).
3) What are the components of literary phenomenon?
Any literary phenomenon is an element of the system, associated with all other elements and loses its specificity in isolated form without system. There are 3 basic types of literary phenomena: 1. Literary creativity as a special kind of spiritual activity of a man; 2. A literary work as a dialectical unity of form and content, an art model of reality in the terms of verbal and imaginative expression; 3. Literary process as sequence of the literary phenomena submitting to the laws of literary development.
4) What are the supportive disciplines to Literary Study?
Literary studies combines the features of science and art; Auxiliary literary disciplines: historiography, bibliography, textual, library, museum. Literary studies must have a certain philosophical base (philosophy), without which the methodology of the discipline, the subject of literary studies is literature, which is a form of art, the specificity and patterns of development which studies in aesthetics, literature reflects the life of human society, so it is closely related to history, showing the development of his, Literature - an integral part of the culture, so it is closely related to cultural studies.
5) The main disciplines of Literary Study, their fields of study.
The main literary disciplines are: Theory of Literature, Literary History, Literary Criticism. Each has its own specificity and interacts with the other two. Theory of Literature studies the social nature, specificity, laws of development and social role of artistic literature, also establishes the principles for analysis and evaluation of literary material, its subject is the most common categories of literary creativity, the structural elements of a literary work and the laws of the literary process, that is the very essence of a literary phenomenon. Literary History and Literary Criticism provides an analysis and evaluation of specific literary phenomena, referring mainly to their qualitative aspect. Literary Criticism evaluates literary phenomenon, gives recommendation to the writer, educates the reader and in appropriate way forms public opinion.