Selected lectures. Foreign literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the XVII-XVIII centuries. Tutorial

The book is a collection of lectures that for half a century I read at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosova outstanding lecturer, one of the best representatives of Russian philological science Ninel Ivanovna Vannikova (1931–2017) Two sections correspond to two courses that she read: Western European literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and Western European literature of the XVII - XVIII centuries. The publication was based on the decoding of audio recordings, lecture notes, as well as some handwritten and typewritten records made by the lecturer himself. Passion is adjacent to lectures with conceptual clarity, the depth of thought and honing of form. They introduce students to the most important discoveries in the field of literature (theory of M.M. Bakhtin, S.S. Averintseva, E.M. Meletinsky, the work of the so -called new French criticism, etc), highlight various points of view of scientists, polemicism in interpretations complex problems and phenomena, raise the most important philosophical and ethical issues. The book is especially valuable for new generations of humanitarian students and teachers-philologists, art historians, culturalists. It will be interesting to get acquainted with her a wide range of readers.
Compiled by Mikeladze A.D., Ignatieva M.Yu