LITERARY CRITICISM. CRITICAL TEXT – PRINCIPLES, METHODS

Type of course:	Compulsory
Language of instruction:	Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction:	No Erasmus+ Language
Name of lecturer:	Gabriela Chiciudean
Seminar tutor:	Gabriela Chiciudean
Form of education	Full-time

Form of instruction:	Class
Number of teaching hours per semester:	56
Number of teaching hours per week:	4
Semester:	Autumn
Form of receiving a credit for a course:	Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated	8

Course aims:

The course aims to develop research abilities and operating abilities for the literary criticism
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Course Entry Requirements:

N/A Bachelor’s degree

Course contents:

1. Theory: philosophy – philosophy of art – estetics – theory of arts – art history and criticism. 2. Literary criticism as theoretical discipline 3. Literary creation. The Rider 4. Tendencies in the literary criticism: Russian formalism 5. New criticism 6. Phenomenology 7. Structuralism. 8. Post-structuralism - The Deconstructivism 9. Literary psychology 10. Psychoanalyse/ thematical interpretation/ 11. Archetipology 12. Hermeneutics 13. Sociology 14. The Science of Imaginary

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

Initiating students into the contemporary problems of the poetics and literary criticism, developing a debate in three different directions: structure, specificity and the efficiency of the theoretical approach; the contemporary meaning of the concepts in estetics, literary theory and criticism; tendencies in methodology

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%