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Multidiscipline Foreign Literature. Part 1. Introduction to Literature Studies

ОК.06.01

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

1 Semester

2

PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 5. Collaborate with colleagues, representatives of other cultures and religions, supporters of different political views, etc. PLO 8. Know and understand the system of language, the general properties of literature as the art of word, the history of English and the two studied Western European languages, and literature, be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities. PLO 13. Analyze and interpret works of Ukrainian and English fiction and oral folk art, to determine their peculiarities and place in the literary process. PLO 15. Perform linguistic, literary and specific philological analysis of texts of different styles and genres.

Full-time form

The aim of the course is to give the students the basic knowledge and skills in contemporary literary analysis. Recent practice of shortening of literary courses at a secondary school results in lowering of the students’ competence in the theoretical component of literary studies. The tasks of the course are to enlarge the competence of freshmen and to better their skills in contemporary literary analysis, to help them acquire the new knowledge for the further courses in literary history at the university level. The successful work of an applicant to the educational program “Bachelor in Philology” fully depends on the level of the philological education received at school as well as at the introductory stage of the literary studies in this program.

As a result of studying the course a student should know – general stages in the development of the literary studies as a part of philology; criteria of the main critical approaches of the 19th-21st cc.; meaning and functions of general categories in the analysis of the literary process (i.e. kinds of literary texts and the main genres in epic, lyrics and drama) and forms and functions of the elements in the structure of a literary text (i.e. story, plot, composition, chronotope; types of characters and kinds of narrators in the structure of a text). A student should be able to use these notions in the practical analysis of a literary text and to be able to classify their meaning in the academic discourse.

Галич О.А. Вступ до літературознавства. Луганськ, 2010. Галич О., Назарець В., Васильєв Є. Теорія літератури. К., 2001. Ткаченко А. Мистецтво слова. Вступ до літературознавства. К., 2003. Вступ до літературознавства. Хрестоматія /Упоряд. Н.І. Бернадська. К., 1995. Лексикон загального та порівняльного літературознавства. Чернівці, 2001 Літературознавчий словник-довідник / Упоряд. Р.Гром’як та Ю.Ковалів. К., 2006. Літературознавство. Словник основних понять. / Пер. з нім. вид. Тернопіль, 2008. Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2000. Literary Theory: an Anthology. / Ed. by Julie Rivkin and M.Ryan. Blackwell Publ., 1998. Twentieth Century Literary Theory. A Reader. Ed.by K.M. Newton. N.Y., 1997. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature / Wilfred L. Gueren a.o. Harper & Row Publ., 1999. Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. L, 2005.

Меthods of teaching : lecture, seminar, control test, self-study on the course. Both at the lecture part of the course and at the seminars the elements of an individual research are introduced to give the students a chance to classify different kinds of literary criticism in samples of the texts that represent the critical approaches of the 19th-20th cc. Seminars are held according to the plans distributed a week before the date of the class. Tests and test papers with variants of the individual assignments may be held at google.classroom of the seminar group. Whether the self-study goes on constantly is under teacher’s control in the form of quick oral questioning during the class.

Final score for the course is formed as a sum of points for all forms of control and does not need any additional forms of evaluation. Forms of the current control include the sum of marks for answers at the seminars (max 18/min 12 points); tests (max 14/min 8 points); Module test paper (max 15/min 8 points); presenting fragments of individual analysis of literary works (max 18/min 12 points) and final test paper (max 35/min 20 points). The students that did not manage to collect min 60 points during the term have to prepare feedback for the tasks they missed by writing individual self-study papers.

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