BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FINAL EXAMINATION SUBJECTS

              BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Mandatory: Surdulescu, R. and B. Stefanescu, Contemporary Critical Theories. A Reader, antologie de uz intern, 1999. 

(N.B. To be found in the Reading Room/librarian's desk; you have to prepare only those fragments that are directly relevant to the examination subjects. Seminar groups may be provided with an electronic version by their seminar instructor.)

Further Reading/Optional: Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Pearson Education, 2008.

Surdulescu, Radu, Form, Structure and Structurality in Critical Theory, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2000.

               EXAMINATION SUBJECTS:

1. The nature of literature for the Russian Formalists
2. The function of criticism in Russian Formalism
3. Defamiliarization as a formalist critical notion
4. Types of defamiliarization
5. M. Bakhtin’s understanding of a theory of the novel
6. Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and dialogism
7. Bakhtin’s carnivaluesque
8. The nature of literature for New Criticism
9. The function of criticism in New Criticism
10. The Intentional Fallacy and New Criticism
11. The Affective Fallacy and New Criticism
12. The nature of literature for Structuralism
13. The function of criticism in Structuralism
14. The constitutive factors of a speech event for R. Jakobson
15. The Poetic Function of language (Jakobson)
16. The nature of literature for archetypal criticism
17. The function of criticism in archetypal criticism
18. N. Frye’s understanding of literature and criticism.
19. The archetypes of romance and tragedy
20. The archetypes of comedy and satire
21. The nature of literature for psychoanalytical criticism
22. The function of criticism in psychoanalytical criticism
23. The relevance of dreamwork for the study of literature
24. The strata of the psyche in Freud
25. The pleasure and reality principles
26. The Oedipus complex and the study of literature
27. The mirror stage and the study of cultural representations
28. The nature of literature for reader-oriented criticism
29. The function of criticism in reader-oriented criticism
30. The importance of the horizon of expectation in literary studies
31. Fish’s refutation of the affective fallacy
32. Interpretive communities
33. The nature of literature for Feminist criticism
34. The function of criticism in Feminist criticism
35. Simone de Beauvoir’s critique of sexual representations of gender
36. Representations of Ophelia in cultural history
37. The nature of literature for Ethno-criticism
38. The function of criticism in Ethno-criticism
39. Traditional representations of the Orient
40. Edward Said and the revision of the Canon