Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Russian Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-ENGSEMIO-201
- Title
- Literary and Semiotic Theories Conceptualized in Text Analyses
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The goal of the course is to acquaint the students with literary, folklore and more general cultural semiotic theories and their antecedents, which were elaborated by famous theorists within the framework of text analyses, and illustrated by interpretations of literary works/cultural texts.
- Course content
- Complex thematic units and problem blocs: I. The Concepts of Literature, Interpretation/Reader, Literary Work II. Literary Components and General Peculiarities of the Literary Text – Semiotic Conceptualization III. From the History of Literary Semotics: From Formalism to Semiotics IV. Theory – Analysis
- Assessment method
- Five-level written or oral exam.
- Bibliography
- Obligatory reading includes: Barthes, Roland: S/Z. Blackwell, 2002. Lotman Jurij M.; Uspenskij B.A.; Ivanov, V.V.; Toporov, V.N. and Pjatigorskij, A.M. 1975. Theses on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts). In: Sebeok Thomas A. (ed.), The Tell-Tale Sign: A Survey of Semiotics. Lisse (Netherlands): The Peter de Ridder Press, pp. 57-84. Uspensky, Boris: A Poetics of Composition: The Structure of the Artistic Text and Typology of a Compositional Form. University of California Press, 1983. pp. 1-56. Lotman, Yury M.: The Text within the Text. PMLA, Vol. 109, No. 3 (May, 1994), pp. 377–384. Toporov, V.N.: On Dostoevsky's Poetics and Archaic Patterns of Mythological Thought. New Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 2, Soviet Semiotics and Criticism: An Anthology (Winter, 1978), pp. 333–352.