- •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.
22) Literary analysis of artistic image.
The characters in the literary work are different and are dependent on the literary type. The characters are evaluated and analyzed, first of all, from an aesthetic point of view, that is, depending on how they express the nature of character, how accurately reflect reality, how wide, panoramic are described by author, how much typed, individualized, how perfect their language. The literary analysis depends on composition of a literary work, genre, rhythmic forms (if poetry).
23) What is theme of a literary work?
The word “theme" (“themes or subjects") is derived from the ancient Greek. “Theme is something put in the base”. In art and Literary study the term is used in different ways which could be reduced to two basic meanings. theme is the most essential component of artistic structure, aspects of the form, basic device. In the literature (especially in lyrics) it is the meanings of keywords, some meaning that is fixed by them. In poetry each word is a poetic theme, the original device of artistic influence on a reader. A theme is an objective basis of a literary work, a category specifying deep attention of the writer to the certain aspect of reality, that is the answer to the question «what is depicted?». Theme as the basis of artistic creation is all that became a subject of author's interest, speculation (размышление) and evaluation.
24) What is motif of a literary work? Types of motifs.
Motif is the active, selected component of artistic material, theme of small part of a literary work, which cannot be divided any more. The motifis simple, indivisible unit of the narrative. It extracts from a variety of repetitions and variations. Motif is embodied in a simple verbal formula. In this sense motive identical to concept. The motif can be regarded as a category of comparative historical literature. By motive we have in mind the archetypes that are in different cultural and historical periods, operate in a variety of mythological motifs. Motifs can be thematic, ideological, problem, word, pretentious. Under the motif we can understand some repetitive keywords that represent different aspects of the literary work, that is, motives can be narrative, descriptive, lyrical, intertextual, inline. The leading motive of the work is called a leitmotif. In modern literary criticism there is a tendency to analyze the literary work in terms of leitmotif structure. In this case, the motif appears as the basic unit of analysis. It may appeared many times and always in a new version, new contours and even in the new combinations with other motifs.
25) The variety of themes. Types of themes.
In the literary works there are invariably embodied (by the will of the author or without it) life constants, their fundamental properties. These are eternal themes, first of all, such as the universal and natural beginnings (универсалии), as chaos and space, movement and an immovability, life and death, light and darkness, fire and water. All of them make a complex of ontologic themes in literature.