Literary Theory: Module 2 - Poetry and Poetics Field of study: English Philology
Programme code: 02-S1FA12.2017

The aim of Poetry and Poetics is to message to the student the ways of a systematic creation of intellectual abilities by studying selected reference materials concerning poetic art and literary theory especially in semiotics, narratology, and selected linguistic theories. It will also include the study of figures of speech and their application in literature, culture and everyday life (advertisement, cultural studies, arranging of newspaper texts, etc.). Poetics teaches some fundamental methods of interpretation of literary/cultural texts and aesthetic thinking. The major objective of “poetry and poetics” is to prove that the text is not only a set of structures and meanings but an incentive for further creative thinking and “projecting the whole gamut of interlinked constructions, both complementary and argumentative to be able to penetrate the heart of the text” (Harshav). The major search that poetics encourages and teaches is studying fictionality, presentation, re-presentation, metaphoricity, the meaning of sound patterns in literary, cultural and aesthetic texts as well as the analysis of literalness and nonliteralness. “Poetry” comes from the Greek “poiesis” which stands for “creation”; it is, accordingly, from the times of Aristotle until today, a form of dialogue between the text and its reader who, as a result of the “systematic study of literature” (Aristotle), will be able to deploy poetics to good effects.

Succesful completion of Literary Theory: Module 1.

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