- •1.Theory of literature as a science.
- •2. The main subject of discipline "Theory of literature".
- •3. The objectives of discipline "Theory of literature".
- •4. Theory of literature and other literary disciplines: the history of literature, literary criticism.
- •6. The main categories of methodology of Literary Study.
- •7. Methodology of the analysis of a literary work
- •8. The main characteristics of the methods of literary study
- •9. The formation of various methods of literary study. The general characteristics of these methods.
- •10. Literature as a type of artistic creativity
- •11. Classification of the modern arts.
- •12. The art nature.
- •13. The art functions.
- •14. The kinds of art.
- •15. Concept about an artistic image.
- •16. The classification of artistic images
- •17. The place of literature among arts. The particularities of literature as an art.
- •18. Criteria of artistry of the works of literature
- •19. The writer's worldview and the creative process.
- •20. Hermeneutics as the methodological basis of Literary study, its genesis and evolution.
- •21. The main stages of the history of development of Hermeneutics.
- •22. The main objectives of Hermeneutics.
- •23. The author and the reader.
- •24. Elite and anti-elite concepts of art and literature.
- •25. Literary hierarchies.
- •26. The world of a literary work, the definition of term, the main components.
- •27. The system of personages in a literary work
- •28. Functions of things and scenery (landscape) in a literary work
- •29. The conception of chronotope in the modern Literary Study.
- •31. The meaning and function of the categories of time and space in a literary work.
- •32. M. Bakhtin on the importance of chronotope in a literary work, its types.
- •33. Artistic speech in its relation with other forms of speech.
- •34. Language of artistic literature and literary language, their differences.
- •35. Prose and poetry. The main differences
- •36. The layers of artistic speech.
- •37. The conception of a literary process.
- •38. The main periods of the world literary process.
- •39. The conception of a Literary method.
- •40. What is World literature?
- •41. What does historical poetics study?
- •42. What are literary interactions?
- •43. Traditions and innovations in the literary process.
- •44. Mythological - authorian stages of literary development. Name them.
- •45. The particularities of XIX-XX realism
- •46. What are literary trends, name them.
- •47. Division of literature on literary types.
- •48. The problem of literary types, its genesis in classical traditional literary study and in modern
- •49. Genesis of literary types.
- •50. The main theories of literary types.
- •51. The concept of literary genre.
- •52. The problem of typology of literary genres in the Literary Study.
- •54. Epos, its specificity and significance in XIX-XX centuries
- •55. Genesis, typological essence and evolution of epic genres.
- •56. Lyrics, its specificity and significance in XIX-XX centuries.
- •57. Genesis, typological essence and evolution of lyrical genres.
- •1. The types of author’s emotionality: heroic in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •2. The types of author’s emotionality: idyllic in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •3. The types of author’s emotionality: sentimental in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •4. The types of author’s emotionality: romantic in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •5. The types of author’s emotionality: tragic in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •6. The types of author’s emotionality: comic in a literary work. Give your examples.
- •7. Time and space organization of text. Give your example.
- •8. What is the horizon of reader’s expectation? Give your examples.
- •9. Presence of the reader in a literary work: the image of a reader, a reader-addressee, an implicit reader, a real reader. Give your examples.
- •10. How does literature reflect the relationship between the author and the reader? Give your examples.
- •11. Literary criticism as the mediator between the author and the reader. Give your examples on the role of literary critic in interpretation of a literary work.
- •12. Make up the chart of literary hierarchies. Give your examples to every category of literature
- •13. The conception of Mass Reader. Give some examples of literary works that are popular among mass readers.
- •14. The high literature. Give your examples of high literature.
- •15. Mass literature, its position in literary hierarchies. Give your examples.
- •16. Belles-lettres, its position in literary hierarchies. Give your examples of Russian or Kazakh belles-lettres.
- •17. Interpretation in Hermeneutics. Why do we, readers, need the interpretation of a literary text?
- •18. The novel: genre essence.
- •19. Dwell upon the conceptions of ‘author’, ‘idea’ and ‘meaning’ in literary study.Give your examples.
- •20. What is pathos? Give your examples of pathos in literary works.
- •21. What is conception of ‘idea’ at literary work?Give your examples.
- •22. What is the source of author’s creativity? Give your examples.
- •23. Elite and non-elite conceptions of literature. Give your examples.
- •24. Interpretation as the component of understanding for the purpose of finding the meaning. What is the role of literary critic in this process?
- •25. The theory of dialogue of m.Bakhtin. Consent as the form of dialogical relation. What is the purpose of dialogical relation between a reader and an author?
- •26. Drama as a type of literature. Outline the main particularities of drama on the example of your favorite drama.
- •27. Epos as a type of literature. Outline main particularities of epos on the example of your favorite epic kind of literature.
- •28. Compositional methods or devices: repetitions and variations. Give your examples of these methods in a literary text.
- •29. What is the role of motif in a literary work? Give your examples.
- •30. Give examples of montage in a literary work.
- •31. Give your examples of description of nature and landscape in a literary work.
- •32. Give some examples of various types of conflicts in literary works.
- •33. Give your examples of psychologism in a literary work. What are the main ways to express the inner state of personages?
- •34. How does the speech of a personage reflect the character in a literary work? Give your examples.
- •35. "Dialogueness" as the concept of Hermeneutics. Give your examples in literature.
- •36. Why does an author try to express consciousness and self-consciousness of a character? Why does
- •37. The examples of portraits in literature.
- •38. Why does an author depict things, material world of surroundings in a literary work. Give your
- •39. Give your examples of stylization in a literary text.
- •40. Give your examples of parody in a literary text.
- •41. Give your examples of reminiscence in a literary text.
- •42. Give your examples of intertextuality in a literary text.
- •47. What are the samples of international literary connections?
- •48. What is the artistic method of your favorite writer? Give examples.
- •49. What is artistic style of your favorite writer? Give your examples
- •50. The aspects of a literary work: time and space.
- •51. The aspects of a literary work: sujet (plot) and its functions.
- •52. The aspects of a literary work: the character and his/her axiological values. Give your examples.
- •53. The aspects of a literary work: the character and the writer ( the hero and the author.) Give your examples
- •54. The aspects of a literary work: consciousness and self- consciousness of character. Give your examples.
- •55. The aspect of a literary work: psychologism.Give your examples.
- •56. The aspect of a literary work: the portrait. Give your examples.
- •57. The aspects of a literary work: forms of character's behavior. Give your examples.
- •58. The aspects of a literary work: speaking person, dialogue and monologue. Give your examples.
- •59. The aspect of a literary work: thing.Give your examples.
- •60. The aspects of a literary work: nature and landscape. Give your examples.
- •1.What are the differences between the Theory of literature and Literary Criticism?
- •2. With what sciences Theory of literature interacts?
- •3. What is the significance of the Theory of literature as a scientific discipline?
- •4. What does the Literary Study methodology include?
- •5. What forms of literary work analysis are allocated in modern Literary Study?
- •6. Specify the main objectives of the literary work analysis.
- •7. What is the purpose of interpretation of a literary work?
- •8. What does the evaluation of the literary work include?
- •9. What approaches to study the literary work are applied in modern Literary Study?
- •10. The main concepts of essence of art.
- •11. Literature in the system of verbal arts.
- •12. Pathos of artistic creativity.
- •13. What is meant by the term art?
- •14. What is the essence of the concept of art as an imitation of life?
- •15. What concepts of art gain popularity in the classicism era?
- •17. Which theories of art became widespread in modern Literary Study?
- •18. Name the distinctive features of literature as a kind of verbal art.
- •19. Specify the main types of pathos
- •21. Name the specific functions of art.
- •31. The spiritual world of the writer and its reflection in art.
- •32. The creative process and its features.
- •33. Who founded Hermeneutics? Expand the concept of "Hermeneutics."
- •34. Expand the main points of Schleiermacher’s views on literary Hermeneutics.
- •35. What is the specificity of literary Hermeneutics?
- •38. Who are the imaginary and the implied readers?
- •39. Expand the concept of "understanding", "interpretation".
- •40. What is meant by Dialogism of perception?
- •41. Who are the representatives of literary hermeneutics?
- •42. What studies Receptive Aesthetics?
- •43. What is the difference between the mass reader and the elite reader?
- •44. What is the essence of elite conception of literature?
- •45. Why and when anti-elite and elite conceptions of literature were born?
- •46. What is the essence of anti- elite conception of literature?
- •47. What are the characteristics of classic literature?
- •48. What is meant by the term "belle-letters"?
- •49. Name the main features of the mass literature.
- •50. What factors influence the literary reputation of literary works and the fate of the writers?
- •51. Expand the meaning of "the world of literary work" conception.
- •52. Expand the meaning of "character" conception in a literary work.
- •53. What is the role of description of personage behavior in a literary work?
- •55. What is meant by the system of personages?
- •56. The role of nature in a literary work.
- •57. The role of thing in a literary work.
- •58. What is the specificity of prose?
- •59. What is the specificity of poetry?
- •60. The national and World literature. The main characteristics and their interactions.
38. Who are the imaginary and the implied readers?
Along with the potential, imaginary reader (addressee), indirectly, and sometimes directly present in the product, for interesting and important literary reading experience itself. Actually existing readers and their inherent variety of groups often do not resemble one another installation perception of literature, the requirements for it. These settings and requirements, orientation and strategy can either correspond to the nature of literature and its state in a given epoch or disagree with them, and sometimes very strongly.
39. Expand the concept of "understanding", "interpretation".
The central notion of hermeneutics advocates understanding, which is the unity of two principles - the intuitive comprehension of the subject and the interpretation , explanation pledged any sense in it . Accordingly, an essential component of understanding is interpretation. Interpretation involves translating statements from one area to another semiotic , because the phenomenon is subjected to interpretation varies . Invest in it new meanings , which sees them perceived and interpreted subject . Hence, creative and selective interpretation. Interpretation as a secondary (and making out, usually rational) component of understanding - it is perhaps the most important concept of hermeneutics, very vital for art criticism and literary criticism. Interpretation - this selective and at the same time creative (creative) mastery statement (text, product). Understanding (German Verstehen) - is a central concept of hermeneutics. GG Gadamer: "Wherever eliminated ignorance and ignorance is committed hermeneutical process of gathering the world in word and common consciousness. The task of hermeneutics since time immemorial - to seek consent to restore it. "Understanding, aspiring to an agreement on Gadamer done primarily through speech. It is nonrational nonmehanically, holistically.
40. What is meant by Dialogism of perception?
A large role in modern hermeneutics is the notion of the dialogic , under which researchers mean by " openness human consciousness and behavior of the surrounding reality , his willingness to communicate " equal " , the gift of responsiveness to the position judgments, opinions of others, ... the ability to elicit feedback own statements and actions . " At the level of art, says Bakhtin , dialogue occurs author and the reader , their most important form of dialogic relations serves consent. In recent decades, a widespread concept, according to MDM hermeneutics is a doctrine of any interpretation of the facts , phenomena , objects. This approach develops in the writings of Michel Foucault, P.Rikera , Derrida . In particular Now French scientist, philosopher P.Riker argues that there are two hermeneutics. First - the teleological - aimed at understanding the meaning of phenomena , statements , texts. Second - archaeologically - involves identifying the root causes of speech, text. Dialogism - is openness human consciousness and behavior of the surrounding reality, his willingness to communicate "on equal terms", the gift of responsiveness to the position judgments, opinions of others, as well as the ability to elicit a response to their own statements and actions.