Literary Text Analysis

The course of literary text analysis teaches students to understand, evaluate, analyze and

respond critically to works of fiction. There is a particular focus on what the author tries to

accomplish within a text and on elements that work together in a text for a certain purpose.

Literary texts are explored in terms of genre peculiarities, themes, ideas and messages variety,

points of view and character diversity, plot structure, setting significance, imagery subtleties,

diction and style idiosyncrasy. A crucial aspect of the course is evaluating the quality of the text

language on different levels (phono-graphical, morphological, lexical and syntactic). The course

is a valuable elective as it will enable the students to enjoy works of fiction by modern authors,

develop their critical analysis skills necessary for successful research papers and contribute to

students’ preparation to a state examination by synthesizing and reinforcing the knowledge

gained in courses of lexicology, grammar and stylistics.