Course code

HIK6084.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Maailmakirjandus

Course title in English

World Literature

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To create opportunities to study some central themes, forms and plots in world literature; to enable to acquire knowledge about different literary cultures and the contacts between them.

Brief description of the course

The subject explores world literature through studying 7-10 significant literary works in depth. The exact content of the subject varies, e.g. it can concentrate on the formation and variations of an influential genre, or in the pursuit of some repetitive plot devices themes or motifs in world literature. The subject involves Western literature (including Estonian literature), Middle Eastern, Asian literature and Postcolonial literatures. The subject combines lectures and seminars thematically linked to them. At the lectures the tutors discuss the topic chosen for the course, based on the appointed literary works. At the seminars the works discussed at the lectures are analysed in greater detail. Every student chooses two seminars to participate in.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge about some some central themes, forms and plots in world literature, and about several literary cultures and the contacts between them;
- has skills to understand and analyse texts of different poetics and to express his/her observations and inferences in discussion.

Teacher

Daniele Monticelli

Study programmes containing that course

Russian Philology (SKVB/24.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/24.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/24.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/24.HT)
History (AIAJB/24.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/24.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/24.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/24.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/23.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/23-t.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/23.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/23.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/23-o.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/23.HT)
History (AIAJB/23.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/23.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/23.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/22.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/22.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/22.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/22-o.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/22.HT)
History (AIAJB/22.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/22.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/22-t.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/22.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/21.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/21.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/21.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/21.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/21.HT)
History (AIAJB/21.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/21.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/21.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/20.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/20.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/20.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/20.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/20.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/20.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/20.HT)
History (AIAJB/20.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/19.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/19.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/19.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/19.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/19.HT)
History (AIAJB/19.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/19.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/19.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/18.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/18.HT)
History (AIAJB/18.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/18.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/18.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/18.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/18.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/18.HT)
History (AIAJB/17.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/17.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/17.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/17.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/17.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/17.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/17.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/17.HT)
Theory of Culture (HIKTB/16.HT)
History (AIAJB/16.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/16.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/16.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/16.HT)
Anthropology (HIANB/16.HT)
Philosophy (HIFIB/16.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/16.HT)
Estonian Philology (EKEB/12.HT)
Asian Studies (HILAB/00.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/00.HT)