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090104 VO Modern Greek Poetry: Comparative and Political Contexts (2023W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 10.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 24.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 2.Stock

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Aims:
This course aims to:
Offer students an overview of modern Greek poetry from Romanticism to the present
Shed light on modern Greek history through literary texts
Introduce students to the theoretical questions pertaining to the relationship between literature and history
Make students familiar with the methods of comparative reading

Content:
Since the institution of the Greek nation state, Greek literary production has been embedded in evolving historical, political and ideological contexts, and has been marked by the shifting formations of Greek identity. In this perspective we will explore a series of questions (representation of nature and space, evolving notions of Hellenicity, East and West, the relation of past and present, classical reception, issues of heritage, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, colonizing and self-colonizing discourses, canon formation, travel writing) across poetic texts that range from Romanticism to the present. Our main concern will be to shed light on the texts’ relation to a complicated network of cultural and historical pressures, as well as to place each literary movement in Greece in a comparative perspective with relevant literary and intellectual developments in Europe.

Assessment and permitted materials

Final examination (100%).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Εnglish. Students familiar with modern Greek language are encouraged to read primary texts in the original.

Examination topics

Reading list

Adorno, T. Aesthetic Theory, ed. G. Adorno and R. Tiedemann, trans. R.
Hullot-Kentor, London, 2004
Beaton, Roderick. An introduction to modern Greek literature, Oxford, 1999
Calotychos, Vangelis. Modern Greece: a cultural poetics, Oxford, 2003
Gourgouris, Stathis. Dream nation : Enlightenment, colonization, and the institution of modern Greece, Stanford, 1996
Güthenke, Constanze. Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840, Oxford 2008
Halim, Hala. Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An archive, Fordham University Press, 2013
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki. Women writing Greece : Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel, Amsterdam, 2008
Leontis, Artemis. Topographies of Hellenism : Mapping the Homeland, Ithaca, 1995

Additional readings and materials will be uploaded each week on the eclass.

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