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 7_The Return to Myth: Durrell’s Islomania/Cretomania_Part III_
The Return to Myth: Durrell’s Islomania/Cretomania
Part III - Revision
Durrell, Lawrence. The Dark Labyrinth (1961; First Published as Cefalû in 1947) London: Faber and Faber, 2001.
Secondary Readings:
Durrell, Lawrence. “Crete,” The Greek Islands. London: Book Club Associates, 1978, 58-101.
[The Introductory part on Hellenism/Orientalism] Gifford, James. “Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism, & the Cultural Politics of Pulp,” Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013, edited by Semele Assinder, David Holton, and Eleni Papargyriou, London: Peter Lang, 2017, 99-118.
Documents
Durrell_The Dark Labyrinth_ Documents
Durrell_Crete_The Greek Islands_ Documents
Gifford_Hellenism/Orientalism_