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THEORY OF LITERATURE is a literary scientific and philological discipline whose object of study are general problems affecting literature, text and literary phenomena. In this context, “Theory of Literature I” subject offers the student the basic concepts and fundamental problems of Science of Literature (History of Literature, Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism, and methodology of Comparative Literature). The subject also offers knowledge on their relations with extra-philological disciplines connected to it; literary theoretical and literary critical concepts belonging to classical and traditional Poetics and Rhetoric, given that they are historical background of the discipline; and finally literary theoretical and literary critical concepts of modern aesthetic and poetic thought. “Theory of Literature I” subject constitutes therefore one of the basic pillars of the Degree, since it develops both a historical and an abstract, general and theoretical perspective on literary manifestations.
General Competences (CG)
Specific Competences (CE)
General Competences (CG)
General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)
Specific Competences (CE)
Specific Competences (CE)
Generic Degree Course Competences
Generic UA Competences
Generic Degree Course Competences
Generic UA Competences
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General Competences (CG)
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General objectives
- To know the epistemological and methodological fundamentals of literary studies.
- To analyse literary works by applying different theories and critical strands.
Procedural objectives
- To describe and explain the scientific features and the methodological varieties of Theory of Literature and the foundation of its object.
- To describe and explain the relations between Theory of Literature, Literary Criticism, History of Literature and Comparative literature within the framework of the Science of Literature.
- To describe and explain the relations between Theory of Literature and other intra-philological disciplines (such as Descriptive Linguistics) and extra-philological disciplines (such as Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Hermeneutics and Aesthetics).
- To describe and explain the relations between Theory of Literature, Poetics and Rhetoric.
- To describe and explain the historical development of the literary theoretical and literary critical thought from their origins to the 20th century.
- To identify classical and modern literary critical trends, as well as their categories, concepts and nomenclature.
- To critically analyse classical and modern literary theoretical and literary critical texts.
- To identify conceptual and categorical relations between literary theoretical and literary critical texts.
- To make use of relevant resources and materials: bibliographical catalogues, dictionaries, reference books, critical editions, translations and ICT as an autonomous learner able to control their own learning process and to independently make progress in it.
- To make use of ecdotics resources and materials for practising textual criticism and text editing.
Attitudinal objectives
-To be aware of the significance of literature in particular and of art in general for the cultural structure of communities producing these phenomena.
- To be aware of the significance of Theory of Literature and its place in Human Sciences for shaping literary scientific studies in particular and philological studies in general.
- To build a personal reasonable view of the literary theoretical discipline.
- To build an attitude of respect for every literature on the identification of aesthetic, formal and thematic patterns which are common to all of them.