Theory of Literature

Course: Ukrainian Language and Literature (for Foreigners; Ukrainian as the Language of Instruction)

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Theory of Literature
Code
ННД.04.01
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 8. To assess the historical legacy and new achievements of Literary Studies. PLO 11. To perform a scholarly analysis of linguistic, speech and literary material, interpret and structure it considering efficient methodological principles, formulate summarizations based on the individually processed data. PLO 13. To explain the essence of specific linguistic issues and one’s own point of view and its justification to the experts and laypeople in an accessible and argumentative manner, in particular to individuals who are studying. PLO 15. To choose the optimal research approaches and methods of analysis for the specific linguistic and literary material.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know: the principles of literary analysis in the unity of content and form; features of artistic trends; the main epic, lyrical, dramatic, lyric-epic genres; specifics of the literary process. To be able to: orally and in writing formulate thoughts and judgments about literary works and the literary process; characterize artistic images; classify artistic means and determine their functions in a literary text. To have basic skills of analyzing a literary text; apply the acquired knowledge in practice (when writing essays, tests).
Course content
The aim of the discipline is to find out the sources, nature and aesthetic essence of literature, its role and place among other art forms, as well as to study theories of literary works, problems of theoretical and historical poetics, topical issues of modern literature. The program of the discipline provides for the study of the specifics of fiction as an art of words, theories of a literary work (the principles of its integrity, ideological and thematic, plot and composition, linguistic, stylistic, genre features) and the literary process (artistic trends/currents, genus-species division, dynamics and stability in the change of literary epochs) in their diachrony and synchrony.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Forms of teaching: lectures, independent work. Teaching methods: explanation of new material, conversation, independent work with scientific and educational literature, active listening, preparation of an abstract, analysis of language material.
Assessment methods and criteria
Report-analysis of primary sources, essay, test, exam. See the work programs of academic disciplines for the assessment criteria for each type of assignment.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nina Ivanivna Bernadska
Department of History of Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature and Literary Creativity
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology