Overview
Lecturer
Gabriela Chiciudean
Seminar tutor
Gabriela Chiciudean
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
No Erasmus+ Language
Domain
Philology - Masters
Field of study
Romanian literature and culture in European context
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Entry requirements
N/A Bachelor’s degree
Aims
Forming research and practical abilities for a pertinent aesthetic appreciation
Initiation of students in the problem of literary aesthetics. Research directions: the structure, the specificity and the efficiency of the theoretical approach; the current state of the concepts of aesthetics, theory and literary criticism; methodological tendencies
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Course contents
1. Fundamental concepts in aesthetics: object, method, instruments.
2. Aesthetic analyse. Categories of aesthetics.
3. The aesthetic of receptivity: the creator and the art work; the public and the art work; The artist and the public;
4. The author: the relationship between the author and his literary work.
5. Literary work
6. The reader: reading, types of reader, receptivity.
7. Literary institutions: the press; the best-seller; material supports of writing.
Learning outcomes
Initiating students into literary estetics, on three levels of study: structure, specificity and efficiency into theoretical approach; contemporary estetical concepts, literary theory and criticism; methodical tendencies
Assessment
A two-hour written examination (50% of the final grade) Combined oral and paper, portfolio, project (25% + 25% of the final grade)
Recommended reading
Probleme de literatură şi estetică (Questions of Literature and Aestetics)
M. Bahtin
Ed. Univers, București, 1982 · x
Experienţă estetică şi hermeneutică literară (Aesthetic experience and literary hermeneutics)
Hans Robert Jauss
Ed. Univers, Bucuresti, 1983 · x
Teoria literaturii (Literary Theory)
Stephan Santerres-Sarkany
Ed. Cartea Românească, Bucuresti, 2000 · x
Introducere în estetică (An Introduction to Aesthetics)
Dabney Townsend
Ed. All, București, 2000