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 3_(Forgotten) Oddities and Aberrations_
(Forgotten) Oddities and Aberrations
Matthews, Kenneth. Aleko (1934). London: Peter Davis.
Secondary Readings:
Foucault, Michel, and Jay Miskowiec (1986). “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 16:1, 1986, 22‐27.
Roessel, David. “A Hard Place to Write About,” In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 231-51.
Link: Aleko (in Spanish, Editorial Amistades Particulares, 2024):
“An unjustly forgotten jewel that, inexplicably, was never reissued. Now, 90 years after its publication, we rescued it for the Spanish-speaking public, something that, sadly, has not happened in the language in which it was written” (my translation)