Overview
Lecturer
Marcela Claudia Ciortea
Seminar tutor
Lucian Vasile Bâgiu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Language and literature
Field of study
Romanian Language and Literature - English Language and Literature
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Entry requirements
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Aims
A good knowledge and understanding of the notion from the comparative literature field.
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Course contents
The genesis of symbolic thought; myth and magical thinking; the genesis of the self; abstraction and intropathy. Language, symbol, myth (Durand, Ricoeur, Jung, Cassirer).
2. The metaphor (Ricoeur, Blaga, Frye).
3. Poetry, the experience of death and the journey of the soul
4. The major themes of the original lirics. Asiro-Babylonian poetry
5. The Egyptian book of Death, The dead book of Tibetan
6. The major themes of the original liric. The poetry of love (Sumer, Asiro-Babylonia, The Hebraic poetry)
7. The Psalms of David (the perfidy of language and the ruin of the divine project)
8. The Psalms of David (the perfidy of language and the ruin of the divine project)
9. Greek poetry in the 7th century B.C. and 6th century B.C. (Crisis of the divine, metamorphose of the time, discovering quotidian).
10. Greek poetry in the 7th century B.C. and 6th century B.C. (Crisis of the divine, metamorphose of the time, discovering quotidian).
11. Orpheus and orphism
12. Orpheus and orphism
13. Latin liric (overtime of Hellenism, Horatius, Ovidius)
14. Latin liric (overtime of Hellenism, Catulus, Propertius)
Learning outcomes
1. Teaching students the concept of comparative
2. Teaching students the origin of symbolic thinking.
3. Approaches on the evolution of lyrics and its metamorphose
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.
Recommended reading
Literatura generalã şi comparatã (General and comparative lierature)
Daniel Henri Pageaux
Ed. Polirom, Iași, 1998 · -
Comparatism şi teoria literaturii (Theory of literature and comparative studies)
Adrian Marino
Ed. Polirom, Iași, 2000 · -
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