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Recent Trends in Literary Studies

OK 8

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

4 Semester

5

PLO 8. To analyze, compare and classify different directions and schools in linguistics and literary criticism. PLO 9. To assess historical and recent achievements in philology. PLO 11. To demonstrate in-depth knowledge within the chosen philological specialization. PLO 19. To formulate and substantiate new ideas, concepts, and theories in a specific philological area. PLO 20. To demonstrate knowledge of the methodological apparatus of literary studies, knowledge of theories of literary criticism and modern strategies for exploring English literature, and ability to analyze literary phenomena and processes.

Distance form

To succeed, the course requires knowledge of English at the level not lower than B2 of CEFR. In addition, students are supposed: to know theoretical foundations of basic historical and literary disciplines, basic practices of literary analysis, focused on contextual and textual analysis of a literary work; to be able to use basic terms and notions of literary studies, and to possess the skills of literary analysis of the literary work and literary process in the countries of Asia, Africa, and America, in which Anglophone literature has an important place in the multicultural space of the late 20th and early 21st centuries (India, South Africa, the USA).

The discipline studies the main theoretical and methodological parameters of the formation and functioning of feminist, post-colonial and post-modern trends in Anglophone literary discourse, mastering the skills of interpreting their various forms.

Connor, S. (1997). Postmodernist culture: An introduction to theories of the contemporary (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. Dibekulu, D. (2022). Postcolonial literary criticism. Grin Verlag Donovan, J. (2012). Feminist theory: The intellectual traditions (4th ed.). Bloomsburry. Nealon, J. (2012). Post-postmodernism: Or, the cultural logic of just-in-time capitalism. Stanford University Press. Newton, K. N. (1997). Twentieth-century literary theory: A reader (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. Seller, S. (1991). Feminist criticism: Theory and practice. University of Toronto Press. Simon, R. (2011). The modern, the postmodern, and the fact of transition: The paradigm shift through peninsular literatures. University Press of America.

The modes of the course delivery encompass lectures, seminars and self-study, which presuppose such activities as oral answers to the questions/discussions and written tests. The teaching methods include explanations, illustrations, heuristics and research, as well as active methods, which help engage students in the educational process and unlock their scientific and creative potential.

The form of summative assessment is an exam. The number of points for the exam is 24–40 (pass), the minimum that is added to the points for summative assessment. Students are admitted to the exam if they earn 36–60 points during formative assessment throughout the entire semester. The exam includes two tasks (see § 7 of the Syllabus).

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