Course : Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΓΓΛΟΦΩΝΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ (Χ 2024-25)Ζ ΕΞ Greece in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Course code : ENL658
63ΛΕ177 - Αθανάσιος Δημάκης
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Units
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Course Syllabus
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Week 1_Introduction: 20th Century Hellenism(s): Knowing and Unknowing Greece, Questionable Modernity and Disillusionment_
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Week 2_The Queer Eternity of Greece_
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Week 3_(Forgotten) Oddities and Aberrations_
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Week 4_Paraphilias: Agalmatophilia and the Statuesque (Three Scenes from a Novel, a Short Story, and a Travel Narrative)_
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Week 5_The Return to Myth: Durrell's Islomania/Cretomania_Part I_
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Week 6_The Return to Myth: Durrell’s Islomania/Cretomania _Part II_
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Week 7_The Return to Myth: Durrell’s Islomania/Cretomania_Part III_
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Week 8_Midterm Exam and “Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece_Part I_
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Week 9_“Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece_Part II_
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Week 10_“Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece_Part III_
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Week 11_Postmodern Hellenism: Crypto-Colonials, Tourists, Terrorists, and Murder Cults_Part I_
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Sofka Zinovieff "In Conversation"_Programme and Invitation_
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Week 12_Postmodern Hellenism: Crypto-Colonials, Tourists, Terrorists, and Murder Cults_Part II_
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Week 13_Student Presentations-Exam Preparation_
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Course Syllabus
Week 2_The Queer Eternity of Greece_
The Queer Eternity of Greece
Forster, E. M. (1903) “Albergo Empedocle,” The Life to Come and Other Short Stories, edited by Oliver Stallybrass, New York and London: W.W. Norton. 1987, 10-35.
Secondary Readings:
Aldrich, Robert. The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
“Introduction: The Mediterranean Obsession” (1-12)
“Contemporary Echoes” (186-216)
Fordoński, Krzysztof. “E. M. Forster’s Geography of Homosexual Desire.” In New Aspects of E. M.Forster, edited by Krzysztof Fordoński, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2010, 90-110.
Scourfield, J. H. D. “Classical Land/scapes: Transformative Geography in E. M. Forster’s Early Short Fiction.” Caliban 58: 2017, 185-202. https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.4797.
Video: Clips from the Film Adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel Maurice (published posthumously, 1971). The sequence in Athens (dir. James Ivory, 1987)