Course aims:

Formulation and motivation, within some professional projects, of a personal point of view in relation to the Romanian literary and cultural phenomena and texts; elaboration of a research project on the work of a writer / a literary epoch / a literary school / a group of thematically or ideologically related texts, using appropriately the concepts and methods of the science of literature and comparativism
Operating with advanced textual analysis techniques; the approach from a different interpretative perspective of a literary text
Identifying the main conditionality that define the Romanian literary and cultural phenomenon

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

I. THE HOMERIC EPOCH: The Iliad and the Odyssey
II. COSMOGONIC POEM AND HESIODIC MYTHICAL POETRY: Theogonia and the Shield of Heracles
III. THE ORPHIC POEM: Argonautics, Sacred Legends and Rare Stones
IV. GREEK TRAGEDY: Aeschylus, Eumenides. Sophocles, Antigone. Euripides, Ion
V. THE PLATONICIAN DIALOGUE: The Banquet, the Republic, Timaios
VI. ANCIENT BUCOLIC POETRY: Theocritus, Idylls. P. Vergilius Maro, Bucolice. 
VII. THE LATIN EPOSULUS: P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphosis

VIII. MEDIEVAL SATIRICAL ALLEGORY: Renart Vulpoiul. Richard de Fournival, The Bestiary of Love. François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
IX. GERMAN MEDIEVAL ERA: Beowolf. The Song of the Nibelungs
X. THE NORTHERN MEDIEVAL EPOS: Edda. Snorri's Edda. The Icelandic saga. Njala, Saga about Njal
XI. BETWEEN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Pierre Corneille, Cidul. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust
XII. MYTHS IN ROMANIAN CULTURED LITERATURE: Dimitrie Cantemir, Hieroglyphic History. Lucian Blaga, Master Manole. Marin Sorescu, Iona

Teaching methods:

Lecture, debate, presentation.

Learning outcomes:

In-depth knowledge of the area of ​​specialization and, within it, of the theoretical, methodological and practical developments specific to the program; appropriate use of specific language in communication with different professional backgrounds

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Oral exam 25%, written exam 75%

Recommended reading:

KERNBACH, VICTOR, Dicționar de mitologie generală, Editura Albatros, Bucuresti, 1983,
BACON, Francis, Despre înțelepciunea anticilor, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucuresti, 1976,
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