Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL590) -  Γιώργος Γιαννακόπουλος

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The aim of the course is to introduce students to concepts and themes pertaining to comparative North American studies. In recent years, critics have focused on the permeable nature of cultural boundaries, bringing into attention marginal, ambiguous or hybrid identities, communities and localities. Set against this theoretical backdrop, the study of the literature of the Americas has concentrated on its heterogeneous nature, stressing aspects and themes relating to issues of diversity and mobility (whether geographical, social, cultural or other). The border, in its various manifestations, metaphors and metonymies, becomes a dominant literary topos where the above issues are being played out. The literary texts that make up the primary material for the course are chosen so as to exemplify the idea of the “crossing,” implicit in the prefix “trans-“ in the field of transnational studies. The comparative examination of literary texts by US and Canadian authors, based on close readings, the employment of established theoretical concepts of literary criticism and reference to historical facts, will aim at foregrounding stylistic, thematic and cultural correspondences and differences as well as the provisional nature of hierarchies and categories, both challenged by the porous nature of borders and dividing lines of all kinds. 

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Δευτέρα 28 Φεβρουαρίου 2022