Literature for Librarians and Publishers

What is Literature? The opening lectures explain the nature of literature and its specifics in comparison to other fields of art. Introduction to Literary Theory. Disciplines of literary theory. History of World Literature. Information about the crucial achievements in the history of literature, from antique to the present, and introduction to the most important historical formations, established in the literary history. Literary typologies. Information about the established historical and transhistorical typologies. Evaluation of literature. Canon, presentation, representation. Contemporary methods of interpretation of the literary texts. Reception aesthetics.