- •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.
- •11. Classification of the modern arts.
- •12. The art nature.
- •10. Literature as a type of artistic creativity
- •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.
- •50. The aspects of a literary work: time and space.
- •51. The aspects of a literary work: sujet (plot) and its functions.
- •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
- •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.
39. The conception of a Literary method.
Artistic method or creative method (from Greek – methodеs – the way of knowing) means the principle of reflection of reality, REALISTIC that reflects reality objectively, according to the laws of the life and UNREALISTIC that reflects reality according to norms and rules set by the author or authors. Realism (from Latin – realis – material) 1) the creative method in literature and art, at the base of which is realistic recreation of reality in ‘definite sensitive images’; it is the common typological principle of life description that suggest the re-creation of reality in the forms of life as it is, true description of details, true description of typical characters in typical circumstances; 2) the conception that characterizes the cognitive function of art: the truth of life reflected by specific means of art, the measure of penetration into reality, the depth and fullness of itsunderstanding. Thus, realism is the main tendency of historical development of art, inherent to various its kinds, styles, epochs (realism in ancient and Middle Age folklore, in art of antique and Enlightenment, in the literary creative activity of Byron and Pushkin).
The main criteria of artistic method is the closeness to reality, longing to direct truthfulness of described thing, ‘re-creation’ of life in the form of life itself. It is acknowledged right of author to enlighten all sides of life without any limitation. There is a big variety of artistic forms. There are two artistic or creative methods - realistic and non-realistic. The first one recreates primary reality in life-like forms and the second one recreates life in its conational subjective fantastic forms, first one is productive (forming the artistic system) and second one is non-productive (forming one literary direction).
40. What is World literature?
World literature is a set of national literatures, masterpieces of national literatures, synthesis of outstanding achievements of the world literature, the sum of the interconnected or similar literary creations for all national literatures, system close genetically and typologically connected literary phenomena in artistic -aesthetic unity of the world picture. The content of the concept "world literature“ changes in dependence on a stage of world culture, on a certain stage of the world literary process that complete world picture that is reflected in each cultural - historical era in literature and art by means of a dominating way of artistic thinking and in accordance with aesthetic ideal of an era. World includes further that legitimately call components of imaging (artistic objectivity): Acts of the characters' behavior, the features of their appearance (portraits), psychic phenomena, as well as the facts surrounding human being (items supplied under interiors, paintings of nature - landscapes).
41. What does historical poetics study?
Historical poetics - section in literary criticism, which studies the genesis (origin), the development of literary genres, literary works, literary styles. Historical Poetics precedes theoretical poetics, which is responsible for the study of literary theory in synchrony. Historical Poetics studies literary theory in diachrony. Literary history as the history of evolutionary development of literary forms - that is the core essence of the "historical" poetics, the clearest and most important representative of which is considered to be A.N.Veselovsky. The starting point in the work of a scientist is the desire to "gather material for the history of literature methods for inductive poetics that would eliminate its speculations, to clarify the essence of poetry - of its history." However, in the case Veselovsky had many followers, among whom it is worth mentioning primarily Yu Tynyanov, Bakhtin, Propp, M. Freudenberg, EM Meletinsky.