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TEXT INTERPRETATION

Type: For the student's choice

Department: english philology

Curriculum

SemesterCreditsReporting
113Setoff

Lectures

SemesterAmount of hoursLecturerGroup(s)
1118Associate Professor Svitlana VoitiukIna-61m, Ina-62m, Ina-63m

Practical

SemesterAmount of hoursGroupTeacher(s)
1118Ina-61mAssociate Professor Svitlana Voitiuk
Ina-62mAssociate Professor Svitlana Voitiuk
Ina-63mAssociate Professor Svitlana Voitiuk

Course description

The course aims at giving the learners the opportunities to enlarge their knowledge of the items connected with the literary text interpretation on dsfferent language levels.

The tasks of the course pertain а comprehensive development of  listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in the learners so that they become able to select the necessary information, make presentations and participate in the classroom discussions.

The topicality of the course contains 15 texts of the contemporary British prose writers. The course is correlated for 36 academic hours and covers the material concerning  linguostylistic approaches to the decoding of belles-lettres styleof writing.

Recommended Literature

TEXTS 

  1. Brian Aldiss. SITTING WITH THE SICK WASPS (New Writing 4).
  2. Elizabeth Berridge. POOR MARY AND THE BOOK OF LIFE (New Writing 4).
  3. John Burnside. KATE’S GARDEN (New Writing 4).
  4. A. S. Byatt. A NEW BODY OF WRITING: DARWIN AND RECENT BRITISH FICTION (New Writing 4).
  5. Penelope Fitzgerald. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE (New Writing 4).
  6. Alasdair Gray. MONEY (New Writing 4).
  7. Philip Hensher. DEAD LANGUAGES (New Writing 4).
  8. Glyn Hughes. BRONTE / Extract from a novel in progress to be published by Bantam in autumn 1995 (New Writing 4).
  9. Robert Irwin. UNREADABLE BOOKS: FICTIONAL LANDMARKS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH WRITING (New Writing 6).
  10. A.L. Kennedy. TRUE (New Writing).
  11. Pauline Melville. THE PRESIDENT’S EXILE (New Writing 4).
  12. Glenn Patterson. HOMELANDS / Paper presented at the 3rd Dublin International Writers’ Festival, 22 September 1993 (New Writing 4).
  13. Tim Pears. BLUE (New Writing 4).
  14. Matt Thorne. THE HONEYMOON DISEASE (New Writing 6).
  15. Adam Thorpe. THE FIRST DAY (New Writing 6).

Basic Sources

  1. Byatt A.S., A.Hollinghurst (eds). New Writing 4. – Vintage; the British Council, 1995.
  2. Byatt A.S., Porter P (eds). New Writing 6. – Vintage; the British Council, 1997.
  3. Leech Geoffrey N., Short Michael H. Style in Fiction / Geoffrey N.Leech, Michael H.Short. – London; New York: Longman, 1981.
  4. McCarthy M. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers / M.McCarthy. – Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1991.
  5. Turner G.W. Stylistics / G.W.Turner. – L.: Penguin Books, 1975.
  6. Underhill, James W. Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language / James W.Underhill. – Ediburgh Univ.Press, 2011.
  7. Verdonk, Peter. Stylistics / Peter Verdonk. – Oxford: Oxford Univ.Press, 2003.
  8. Voitiuk S. Text Decoding Comprehension  / S. Voitiuk // IATEFL-Ukraine Newsletter – Issue No21. –   – С .46-47.
  9. Voitiuk S. Text, Context and Discourse in Terms of Contemporary Linguostylistics / S. Voitiuk // Proceedings of the VIIth International CADSM Conference. – Lviv-Slavske: Publishing House of  Lviv National Polytechnic University, 2003. – P. 548-549.
  10. Voitiuk Svitlana. Stylistics in a Concise Format / Svitlana Voitiuk. – Вид-во ЛНУ ім. І. Франка., Львів, 2014. – 212 с.

Basic Sources

  1. Abrams M.H. (ed.) The Norton Anthology of English Literature. – Fifth Ed. – 2. – NY; London, 1986.
  2. Войтюк С.М. Асоціативне значення слова як чинник комунікативної прагматики художнього тексту / С.М.Войтюк // Наукові записки Міжнародного гуманітарного ун-ту. – Одеса: Наукове видання, 2010. – С.50-53.
  3. Войтюк С.М. Стилістика у стислому викладі. Навчальний посібник англійською мовою С.М.Войтюк – Львів: Вид-во ЛНУ ім. І. Франка, 2014.
  4. Галич О., Назарець В., Васильєв Є.Теорія літератури: Підручник / За наук. ред. Олександра Галича. − К. : Либідь, 2006.
  5. Домбровський Володимир / Володимир Домбровський. Українська стилістика і ритміка. Українська поетика. – Дрогобич, 2008.
  6. McCarthy M. Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers / M.McCarthy. – Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1991.
  7. Turner G.W. Stylistics / G.W.Turner. – L.: Penguin Books, 1975.
  8. Underhill, James W. Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language / James W.Underhill. – Ediburgh Univ.Press, 2011.
  9. Verdonk, Peter. Stylistics / Peter Verdonk. – Oxford: Oxford Univ.Press, 2003.