- •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.
21. Name the specific functions of art.
The specific functions of art are:
First, the aesthetic function . Art forms the aesthetic ideals and values , artistic taste , creativity awakens in man. It provides socialization.Second, hedonic function . Art brings people pleasure. Thanks to him, a person gets the pleasure of seeing colors, shapes , from hearing sounds.Third, the compensatory function , which is revealed at three aspects : a) distraction ( hedonistic - game , hedonistic and entertainment ): b) comforting c) proper compensatory ( promoting the attainment of human spiritual harmony ) .
22. What is the communicative function of art? Art transforms reality affects consciousness and sensitive world of men. It performs several functions that can be divided into two groups. The first are those that directly reflect the social significance of art. The second comprises the specific functions of art.Communicative function of one of the functions , which belongs to the first group. Art is a means of communication between the artist and the viewer , reader, listener , between nations. It brings people together , allowing them to communicate regardless of the spatial and temporal boundaries , lying between them .
23. What is the cognitive - heuristic function of art? Art transforms reality affects consciousness and sensitive world of men. It performs several functions that can be divided into two groups. The first are those that directly reflect the social significance of art. The second comprises the specific functions of art.One of the functions of art which refers to the first group is - Cognitive- heuristic function . Art is a means of conveying information , social experience and means of knowledge of the world of self- identity .
24. What is the object of art? Manifold functions of art is because the object of artistic development is the whole world. The subject of art is "reality, taken in the light of humanistic ideas of art, or life in its broadest social significance; reality in its aesthetic richness of the world in its meaning for humanity." Многообразием функций искусства обуславливается тем, что объектом художественного освоения является весь мир. Предмет искусства составляет «реальность, взятая в свете гуманистических идей искусства, или жизнь в ее самом широком общественном значении; действительность в ее эстетическом богатстве, мир в его значении для человечества».
25. What kinds of arts are allocated in the modern world? In today's world , there are several kinds of art . Their classification is determined , according to Yu.Boreva aesthetic richness and diversity of reality, the richness of the spiritual world and the system of aesthetic ideals and values of the artist , a variety of cultural traditions , artistic media and technical possibilities of art. In particular, scholars have identified : theater, literature , painting, drawing , architecture, sculpture , dance, music , circus, art photography , film, television , crafts and decorative arts .
26. Name the specific features of an artistic image. Artistic image is the category of aesthetics, which is a result of understanding and comprehension of the writer of a phenomenon , a process inherent in reality the literature.Artistic image is characterized by a number of properties , allowing him to talk about specifics . The main ones are :
1) Specifically, assuming the objectification of artistic representations of phenomena, processes and facts of reality ;
2) metaphorical , allegorical image consisting in , the ability of disclosure of one phenomenon by another ;
3) The associativity caused by the fact that the writers created images evoke in the minds of readers of various associations of phenomena ;
4) The ambiguity and innuendo resulting richness of the semantic content of the artistic image ;
5) Self-propulsion , revealing the ability to develop the artistic image of its own logic, its own internal laws ;
6) typing , suggesting the presence of an artistic image of generalization, revealing " a particularly sensuous form significant for a number of phenomena."
7) The unity of rational and emotional due to the fact that the artistic representation of the writer's image reflects on the phenomena of reality, carried through the prism of his consciousness and the sense world ;
8) Self-sufficiency due to the fact that the artistic image is a form of expression and content in art , particularly in the literature ;
9) The originality of originality , individuality, related that every writer understands and comprehends the phenomena and processes of reality through the prism of their own ideas , ideals and values invested in it creates images of your feelings and impressions .
27. The definition of term 'literature'. Literature in general is the element of a super system, in the context of which a literary phenomenon is interrelated with reality, writer and receptor (reader).Literature reflects the reality, expresses a writer and through receptor transforms reality.
28. The content of conception "artistry". The concept of "artistry" rather complicated. In modern literary criticism under him understand, on the one hand, the field of art works belonging, in particular, the literature on the other-value content of the work that becomes the object of study of a scholar.
Понятие «художественность» достаточно сложное. В современном литературоведении под ним понимают, с одной стороны, принадлежность произведений сфере искусства, в частности, литературе; с другой- ценностное содержание произведения, которое становится объектом изучения ученого.
29. The main criteria of artistry of the works of literature. Currently , there are several criteria for artistry. They are determined by historical conditions , national traditions , within which is the formation of the writer's personality , created artwork.
The main criteria for artistry are:
1) Humanism ;
2 ) Develop and satisfying aesthetic sense ;
3) Loyalty to the truth of life ;
4) The breadth and depth of vision of reality;
5) Latitude author of fiction and creative imagination of the writer ;
6) Expertise generalizations and typing ;
7) Accuracy in the image created by the author of parts of the world:
8) Expertise writer in constructing the story works , the creation of images, customize characters ;
9) The depth of the disclosure of the inner world of heroes ;
10) The richness and variety of the language of art
30. The important way of artistic generalization. The basis of the work of art is always a generalization . In modern science, literature there are three main stages of artistic communication . The first is connected with such forms of generalization, which are mainly used in the figurative literary language ( trails , figures ) . The second stage of artistic generalization associated with the loss of artistic way objective concreteness . The third stage involves the generalization relationship to a certain field of subject characteristics and properties , in which writers created their own special language (the system of means of artistic expression ) and the objective world , free from direct communication with the real object relationships .The most important way of artistic generalization actually performs typing , suggesting individualization , originality and uniqueness of the artist created aesthetic values.