The latvian academy of culture

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:

1. To obtain a positive assessment at seminars.

2. To pass an oral examination.

Literature:

1.Campbell, D. The Golden Lyre: the Themes of the Greak lyric poets. -London, 1983

2.Грейбс, Р. Мифы древнеи Греции.- Москва, 1992

3.Loyd –Jones, H. Greek Ephic, Lyric and Tragedy.-Oxf, 1990

4.Norden, E. Die Romanische Literatur.- Gottingen, 1994

5.Senās Grieķijas literatūras antoloģija.- Rīga, 1990

6.Senās Romas literatūras antoloģija.- Rīga, 1994

7.Тронский, И. История античной литературы.- Москва, 1983

8.Williams, G. Tradition and originality in Roman poetry. -Oxf, 1985

The Name of the Course: Aesthetics

The Scope of the Course: 32 academic hours (24 hours of lectures, 8 hours of seminars)

2 credit points

The type of assessment – an oral examination

The Author of the Course: Ass.Prof. Jeļena Celma, PhD

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: A successfully passed examination in the

History of Philosophy

The Contents of the Course: The course introduces students to the development of aesthetic

consciousness in Europe. The objective of the course is to advance analytical skills for the work with texts.

The Thematic Planning:

Theme	Week	Type of classes and hours
Aesthetics and aesthetic essence.	1, 2	L2;L2
The main periods of Ancient aesthetics.	3, 4	L2;L2
Views of Plato and Aristotle on beauty.	5, 6	S2;S2
Aesthetic ideas in the Middle Ages. The significance of the principle of asceticism.	7	L2
Dialogue of the Renaissance aesthetics with Ancient culture.	8	L2
Basic trends of the Classicism and Enlightenment aesthetics.	9, 10	L2;S2
The Romanticism aesthetics. The understanding of art and creation.	11	L2
Aesthetics of the German Classical Idealism. I. Kant. The understanding of the aesthetic. G.W.F. Hegel. Art and reality. Idea of art development.	12, 13, 14, 15, 16	L2;L2;L2;L2;S2

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:

1. To receive a positive assessment at seminars.

2. To write 3 progress tests.

3. To pass an oral examination.

Literature:

1. Platons. Lielais Hipijs, Sofists, Dzīres

2. Aristotelis.Poētika

3. Augustīns. Grēksūdze (I - V gr.)

4. N. Bualo. Dzejas māksla

5. D. Didro. Soloni vai G. Lesings Laookonts

6. F. Šlēgelis. Fragmenti vai F. Šellings Mākslas filozofija

7. I. Kants. Spriestspējas kritika .I daļa.

9. 
   Hēgelis. Lekcijas estētikā .I sēj.
   

BA STUDY PROGRAMME Part B

Description of the Study Course

The Name of the Course: Theory of Literature

The Scope of the Course: 32 academic hours (24 hours of lectures, 8 hours of

seminars)

2 credit points. The type of assessment – an examination.

The Author of the Course: Ass. Prof. Raimonds Briedis, Dr. philol.

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: In accordance with the programmes in literature at secondary school, the students should have an understanding of the basic elements of the structure of a literary work.

The Contents of the Course: The course provides an insight into the principles of the classification of the types of art and literature, as well as reveals the interrelation of works of art within the course of historical development. The objective of the course is to show the functional correlation of structural elements of a work of art by analysing literary works, as well as to inform about literary research methods and schools; to identify the productivity of various approaches by analysing specific works of art.

The Thematic Planning:

XXXI.Theme	XXXII.Week	Type of classes and hours
The subject of the theory of literature. The relation of the theory of literature to the theory of art, linguistics, psychology and ethics.	1	L2
The classification principles of the types of art. Literature as one of the types of art. The relation of literature to fine arts and music.	2	L2
Types, subtypes and genres of literature. The basic classification principles. Epic: its subtypes and genres. Poetry: its subtypes and genres. Drama: its subtypes and genres.	3	L2
Elements of a work of art, their functional coherence. The artistic value of literature. The interrelations of contents and form. Personage, character and type. The typological character. The emotional tonality of a work of art. Types of pathos. The tragic, the comic and the noble. The composition of a work of art. The general principles of composition. Plot with a story and without a story. The basic principles of montage in plots without stories. The basic elements of composition. The language of a work of art. The figurativeness of language. The syntax and the phonetic instruments of language in a work of art. The systems of stanzas and versification.	4, 5, 6, 7	L2;L2;L2;S2
The style of a work of art. The multiple meanings of this notion. The factors of the formation of style in a work of art.	8	S2
Methods and trends of a work of art. The realistic and unrealistic creative reasoning type; their main differences. The notion of a trend of writing. Trends in the world literature. The problem of trends in Ancient literature and the literature of the Middle Ages. Realism of the Renaissance period. Classicism. Baroque. Realism of the Enlightenment period. Romanticism. A comparison of critical realism in the 19^th and the 20^th centuries. Modernism. Impressionism. Expressionism. Symbolism. Surrealism and other trends. Postmodernism. The formation of trends and their peculiarities in Latvian literature.	9, 10, 11, 12	L2;L2;L2; S2
Literary research methods and schools of literature. Research principles in the Ancient period and Classicism. Aristotle Poetics. N. Boileau The Art of Poetry. The mythological school. The biographical method. The school of the history of culture. Comparative studies. The sociological interpretation of literature. The principle of historicism. Structuralism. The new critics. Phenomenology. Hermeneutics.	13, 14, 15	L2;L2;L2
Types of literary connections. Vertical and horizontal types of literary connections. Influences, borrowings, imitations, stylisation and reminiscence. Problems of the assessment of a work of art.	16	S2