Theory of Verse and Theory of Prose
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Course code
SKS6214.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Proosa- ja luuleteooria
Course title in English
Theory of Verse and Theory of Prose
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Grigori Utgof (language of instruction: Russian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Support the acquisition of subject terminology.
Encourage the development of independent professional subject analysis skills.
To support learning about professional methods.
Brief description of the course
Problems and methods of poetics. Bases of the theory of a narration. Fabula and plot. A problem of the author and the narrator in the text. The “text in the text” as a problem of poetics. Bases of the structural analysis of the literary text. Immanent and subtextual analysis. Bases of prosody. Syllabo-tonic system of the versification. Tonic system of the versification. Vers libre. Rhythm and semantics. Phonic structure of verse (anagram, alliteration, paronomasia, assonance etc). Strophe structure of verse. Classification of rhymes.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the specific terminology, gaining skills in textual analysis;
- has gained skills in analysing and commenting on literary text.
Teacher
Grigori Utgof
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