Issues of Literature and Rhetoric

Course Main Objective

To study the most important literary, rhetorical and critical issues and scholars’ views about them in the past and at present and the factors which led to emergence of such issues and enhance students’ ability and capability to analyze and manage comparisons and weightings. 

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Explain the literary and rhetorical issues and scholars’ view about them as well as factors of their emergence.
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Analyze the literary and rhetorical issues demonstrating ability to weighting and explanation of opinions through reading the ancient and contemporary critics’ books. 
•    2.2 Use communication and information technology in presenting the assignments and manage arguments about the literary and rhetorical issues. 
• 3. Values 
•   3.1 Assume responsibility of self-learning and development on both individual and collective levels representing values of integrity and academic and professional ethics.
•   3.2 Observe values of integrity and the professional and academic ethics upon performing his critical assignments achieving traits of the responsible citizen. 

Course Content

1. an introduction to the course and its requirements.
2. From word and meaning to form and content.
3. Issue of vertical poetry.
4. From plagiarism to intertextuality
5. Reception theory
6. A study of the book (Al Kamel, “the perfect”) by Mubarrad: about the author, its approach, content, and a study of its most important issues.
7. A study of the book (Al Amali “the dictations”) by Al-Qali: about the author, its approach, content, and a study of its most important issues.
8. A study of the book (Al Omda) by Ibn Rashiq: about the author, its approach, content, and a study of its most important issues.

Textbook (s) 

- Abbas, Ihsan. History of Literary Citicism for the Arabs, Poetry Criticism from the Second Till the Eighth Hijri Centuries.Dar Al-Shorouq, Amman, 1st ed., 2018.

Course ID: ARAB 452