- •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.
56) What are the main characteristics of the XIX-xXcc. Realism stage in the development of literature?
Realism of the XIX – XXcc is historical definite form of artistic cognition of the New Time that began from the Renaissance or from Enlightenment, from the 30-s of XIX century. The leading features of Realism are objective reflection of existing sides of human life in the combination with the high author’s ideals, reproduction of typical characters, conflicts, situations with the full artistic individualization ( i.e. the definition of national, historical and social features, physical as well as intellectual and spiritual), preference in the ways of description of the real life situations, but at the same time with the usage, especially in XX century, conditional forms (myth, symbol, parable, grotesque); prevailing interest to the problem of man and society (especially to the contradiction of social regularities and moral ideals, private and mass, mythological consciousness). Among the great representatives of Realism are Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flober, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mann, Chekhov, Faulkner, Solzhenizin, Repin, Surikov, Mussorgsky and Stanislavski.
57) The conception of artistic method.
Artistic method or creative method (from Greek – methodеs – the way of knowing) means the principle of reflection of reality, REALISTIC that reflects reality objectively, according to the laws of the life and UNREALISTIC that reflects reality according to norms and rules set by the author or authors.
The main criteria of artistic method is the closeness to reality, longing to direct truthfulness of described thing, ‘re-creation’ of life in the form of life itself. It is acknowledged right of author to enlighten all sides of life without any limitation. There is a big variety of artistic forms.