Course RE211 · Year II · Autumn 2026-2027

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Compulsory course in Romanian Language and Literature - English Language and Literature, taught by Gabriela Chiciudean.

Overview

Lecturer
Gabriela Chiciudean
Seminar tutor
Gabriela Chiciudean
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
No Erasmus+ Language
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
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1

Aims

A good knowledge and understanding of the notion from the comparative literature field

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Course contents

1. The genesis of symbolic thought; myth and magical thinking; the genesis of the self; abstraction and intropatie. 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. Greek poetry in the 7th century B.C. and 6th century B.C. (Crisis of the divine, metamorphose of the time, discovering quotidian). 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. Orpheus and orphism 11. Latin liric (overtime of Hellenism, Horatius, Ovidius) 12. Latin liric (overtime of Hellenism, Catulus, Propertius 13. The Hellenistic poetry (poetics, the concept of Hellenism, Callimah, Teocrit) 14. The Christian mystic (patristic esthetics); The sources of the Christian mystical poetry, St. Simeon, St. Francisc, St. John)

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 europeanã şi Evul mediu latin (European literature and the latin middle ages)
Ernst Robert Curtius
Ed. Univers,, Bucureşti, 1975 · -
Iubirea şi Occidentul (Love in the Western World)
Denis de Rougemont
Ed. Univers,, Bucureşti, 1988 · -
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