Филология (Английский язык и литература)

  1. •  The Idea of Concept. Types of Concepts
  2. •  Theory of the Text. Text as an Object of Linguistic Studies. The Structure of Texts.
  3. •  Generative Grammar by Noam Chomsky
  4. •  Theories of Language Origin. Language Functions
  5. •  Cognitive Function of the Language. Conceptual Picture of the World
  6. •  Linguistic Ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure
  7. •  Language Development and Change
  8. •  Language and Thought: The Neo-Whorfian Hypothesis
  9. •  Language Policy. Bilingualism/Multilingualism
  10. •  Pragmatics as the theory of speech communication
  11. •  Components of communicative act connected with the Language code.
  12. •  Discourse and discourse analysis
  13. •  Components of communication connected with communicative situation
  14. •  Speech act theory as one of the disciplines studying speech communication
  15. •  Studying Linguistic Structure as a Part of Semiotic System.
  16. •  The Models of Modern Language.
  17. •  Influence of Social Context on the Current Language State.
  18. •  Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Directions in Modern Philology.
  19. •  The Nature of Language Change.
  20. •  Lingua-Cultural Studies. Language and Culture Interaction.
  21. •  Early Modern Literary Theory and Criticism/Humanism
  22. •  Formalism/Structuralism. Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”; Propp, “Morphology of the Folk-tale”
  23. •  Formalism/Structuralism. Riffaterre, "Describing Poetic Structure”
  24. •  Deconstruction. Derrida, “Semiology and Grammatology”; Differance”
  25. •  Deconstruction. Dissemination
  26. •  Post-structuralism. Barthes, “From Work to Text”; de Man, "Semiology and Rhetoric" ; Foucault, “What is an Author?”.
  27. •  New Criticism. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase"
  28. •  "The Formalist Critics"; Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy"; "The Affective Fallacy"
  29. •  Marxist Criticism. Lukacs, "Realism in the Balance; Williams, "Marxism and Literature"; Jameson, "The Political Unconscious"; "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
  30. •  Psychoanalytic Criticism. Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”; Bloom, Anxiety of Influence; Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language; Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
  31. •  Said, Orientalism; Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason; Bhaba, "The Commitment to Theory"
  32. •  Postcolonial Studies. Fanon, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness"; "On National Culture"
  33. •  Frankfurt School/Cultural Theory and Criticism. Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
  34. •  Postmodernism. Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"; Lyotard, "Defining the Postmodern"; The Postmodern Condition
  35. •  Modernism and Aestheticism: The Lost Generation - Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931).
  36. •  The Emergence of Voice and the Legacy of Slavery: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) The Avant Garde Novel.
  37. •  Modernism and Consciousness: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
  38. •  Writing about War: Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms (1929), J.D. Salinger, “For Esmé – With Love and Squalor” (1950)
  39. •  Postwar Literature and Postmodernism: The Small Town and the South - Flannery O'Connor, stories
  40. •  Gendered modernism. William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene