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
The course aims to develop research abilities and operating abilities for the literary criticism
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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
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
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%
Recommended reading
Teoria criticii. Tradiţie şi sistem (The Theory of Criticism. A Tradition and Its System)
Murray Krieger
Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1982 · x
Principii ale criticii literare (Principles of Literary Criticism)
I.A. Richards
Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1974 · x
Fenomenologia experienţei estetice (The Phenomenology of Aestetic Experience)
Mikel Dufrenne
Editura Meridiane, Bucureşti,, 1976 · x
Teorie şi metodă (Theory and Method)
Mircea Braga
Editura Imago, Sibiu, 2000 · x