Elabuga: EGPI Publishing House, 2007. 25 s. Intended for the 3rd year of the Faculty of Russian Philology and Journalism (FRSF), and the Russian-Tatar Department (RTO) of the Faculty of Tatar and Comparative Philology (FTSF) . Aims and purposes of the discipline . Purpose: to form students a system of orienting knowledge about foreign literature of this period . Objectives: to consider the literary process in the historical and cultural context of the era ; identify national specifics of literatures and interethnic literary connections; highlight the range of conflicts and artistic characters that make up the arsenal of “eternal” or “worldly” themes and images Create a basic understanding of the concept.