Comparative Aspects of the Study of Literature and Art

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент филологии

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 4 модуль

Преподаватель

Горошкова Рената Ришатовна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Comparative Aspects of the Study of Literature and Art brings together a series of reflections on the relationship and cross-fertilization of literature, visual arts, and music. The course introduces students to the basics of intermedial analysis and shows the heterogeneity, comparability, and interconnectedness of the arts at different levels: from forms and techniques to ideas and themes, from common ancient roots to adaptability of the arts to social and geopolitical discourses.

Learning Objectives

• The course enables students to explore the rich variety of interrelationships between literature and the arts, learn about contemporary approaches to ‘reading’ and interpreting of the arts across media, and enhance their intermedial literacy.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students analyzes individual works of art from an intermedial and/or comparative perspectives, applies the accumulated knowledge of the English short story in individual research and college classroom contexts.
• Students identify the transmedial features of film, opera, and other arts originating from and prototypal in literature.
• Students reveal and explain the (audio)visual (e.g. cinematic, pictorial, musical) dimensions of literary texts.
• Students engage in fluent written and oral professional interaction in English and build oral arguments in response to the intellectually challenging problems.
• Students participate in guided discussions of fiction, art, literary/art/music criticism, and theory of intermediality.
• Students embark on, complete, and present individual research mini-projects
• Students write articulate and clear short texts in comparative and intermedial study of literature and arts.

Course Contents

• Forms, devices, and techniques of literature and the arts
• The world of words and music
• Concepts that permeate literature and the arts

Assessment Elements

• Presentation
• Quiz
  In one or several lectures or seminars, students are given a test based on topics discussed with the course instructor. The test is conducted at no advance notice. The test(s) cannot be retaken; if a student has missed a test, the result is marked 0 (zero). The mark for this course requirement is the mean of the marks for all the tests offered throughout the course duration.
• Participation
• essay (exam)
  On the scheduled examination date and at the appointed time, students write an exam paper. The exam is a short 1.5 – 2-page essay (800-1500 words) on 1 of the 3-5 topics/questions given for the student’s choice. The exam is limited to 1.5 hour only from the moment the student opens the exam electronic form.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.25 * Presentation + 0.25 * Quiz + 0.25 * Participation + 0.25 * essay (exam)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Damrosch, D. (2017). How to Read World Literature (Vol. Second edition). Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1553409
• Pizer, J. (2000). Goethe’s “World Literature” Paradigm and Contemporary Cultural Globalization. Comparative Literature, 52(3), 213. https://doi.org/10.1215/-52-3-213

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Wood, M., & Bermann, S. (2005). Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=305805

Authors

• GOROSHKOVA RENATA RISHATOVNA
• ZHILYAEVA VIKTORIYA ARTUROVNA
• VITTE Georg Vilgelm Khainrikh
• SHKOLNIKOV VADIM