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 9_“Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece_Part II_
“Lolita” Meets Contemporary Greece
Zinovieff, Sofka. Putney (2018) London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2018.
Part II: Chapters 11-20
Secondary Readings:
Zinovieff, Sofka. “Inside Out and Outside In: Gossip, Hospitality and the Greek Character,” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 1:1, 1991, 120-134.
Tripney, Natasha. Review: “Putney by Sofka Zinovieff Review – a Lolita for the Age of #MeToo.” The Guardian (2018): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/16/putney-sofka-zinovieff-review
Link: “Sofka Zinovieff: ‘Three Anglo-Greek Families: Three Books’” (The Hellenic Centre, London, 2019): https://helleniccentre.org/event/sofka-zinovieff-three-anglo-greek-familiesthree-books/