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 8_Midterm Exam and “Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece_Part I_
Midterm Exam and “Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece
A: Midterm Exam
Written Examination – One Comparative Question
(Students will have 60 minutes to complete the exam).
B: “Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece
Zinovieff, Sofka. Putney (2018) London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2018.
Part I: Chapters 1-10
Secondary Readings:
Wills, David. “British Accounts of Residency in Greece, 1945-2004,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 23:1, 2005, 177-197. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2005.0011.
Bethanne, Patrick. Review: “‘Putney’ is the Perfect Book Club Pick for the #MeToo Moment.” The Washington Post (2018):
Documents
Zinovieff_Putney_