- •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.
13) What are the elements of composition of a literary work?
The initial element of the form of a literary work - is a word. A form is an artistic imagery. A form is an expression of different levels of artistic structure.
An art form is hardened artistic content. The problem of content-ness of literary form is in transition of content into a form and a form into content.
14) What is pathos of a literary work?
Paphos (from fech. Pathos - «passion", "feeling", "suffering", "excitement", "inspiration") - in an antique aesthetic passion, emotional experience associated with suffering, is usually contrasted with the epic. The most controversial category of modern literary criticism, indicating the emotional focus of the work, passion, reviving it, constitutes the soul of the work, combining thought and feeling of the artist in a single unit. The following types of pathos (at Pospelov) sublime, dramatic, heroic, tragic, sentimental, romantic, humorous and satirical.
15) What is a literary personage? Give the general characteristics to psychologism, portrait, landscape, things, time and space.
The author can express his/her attitude to the personage, to his position, his values. Between the author and his personage there is some distance. Literary personages can overcome the boundaries of the literary work and live their independent life. The character possesses the certain structure that originated from his/her inner world and external image (appearance). The appearance of the character depicted by the author, is called a portrait. The special image of the inner world of the character, depth and subtlety of writer's penetration into the soul of the hero, system of means and techniques representing style unity aimed on full and detailed disclosing of inner world of the character, is called psychologism. Description of any non-closed space of the outside world of the characters in a literary work is called landscape. It may indicate time and place of action, be as the plot motif, be a form of psychologism, indicate the presence of the author. The subjects of material culture depicted in literary work make material world in an artistic description. The forms of existence of the world in a literary work are the artistic space and time (chronotope according to M.Bakhtin). Time and space in a literary work are conventional, discrete, abstract and concrete. Chronotope depends on a literature type of literary work. Time can be cyclic, space can be fragmentary, time can be eventive or non-eventive, finished or incomplete, closed or opened. In modern literary criticism time and space are united in concept chronotope, representing culturological reflection of physical concept of «space-time continuum».
16) What is image? The main components of image. The types of images.
Image is the unity of content and form, a specific sensuous picture, image, shape, form, model that reflects life and expresses idea, feelings, experiences of the artist, his worldview and social aesthetic ideals. It is a universal category in art; the depiction, interpretation, and perception of life through the creation of objects that produce an aesthetic effect. The main components of image: picturesqueness, specificity, generalization, the image of human life or the human relation to represented, esthetic value, fiction. Reality, in the traditional understanding, is a set of all material things around us, it is the world around perceived by our senses and consciousness. The types of images: images of people (personages, types, heroes), images of nature (landscapes), images of animals (animalism), images of things, images of scenery.