FF:REBc43 Europe and the Balkans - Informace o předmětu

REBc43 Europe and the Balkans: Literary and Cinematic Approaches on the Balkan Peninsula (19th-20th century)

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Petros Marazopoulos, PhD (přednášející)

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Petros Marazopoulos, PhD
Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jitka Erlebachová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta

Rozvrh

Čt 8:00–9:40 A21, kromě Po 17. 11. až Ne 23. 11.

Předpoklady

(TYP_STUDIA(B) && (!SEMESTR(1))) || TYP_STUDIA(MNDCR)
There are no special requirements for taking the course. The students will work with English translations of texts, therefore knowledge of Greek is not necessary.

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Cíle předmětu

The course examines representations of the Balkan Other and the Balkans. Using the theoretical tools of Imagology, the aim is to highlight the stereotypical constructions and the main connotations of the term "Balkans" in 19th and 20th century Modern European literature and cinema.
Focusing mainly on literary and cinematic texts, but also referring to other types of sources, the course aims to reconstruct the way in which the Balkans were perceived in the Μodern European imaginary. Moreover, the process by which the individual stereotypical constructions concerning the Balkan nations led to the identification of the Balkans with the notions of backwardness, anti-Westernism, exoticism and inferiority are discussed. At the same time, the course examines aspects of Greece's self-perception as a European, Western space, imaginatively distanced from the Balkans.

Výstupy z učení

After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- identify images of the Balkan Other in 19th and 20th century European texts
- understand the formation of ethnic stereotypes in literature in relation to historical discourses, memory, politics and ideology
- use the theoretical tools of Imagology and distinguish the differences between 'national stereotypes', 'literary images' and 'literary motifs'.
- summarize the main historical and political events in the Balkan Peninsula of the 19th and 20th century, such as, among others, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the building of the contemporary Balkan states, the period of Balkan socialism, the post-communist era, as well as the historic relations of the Balkan states with European Union
- describe the main aspects of Orientalism and Balkanism, as well as the role of the aforementioned phenomena to the representations of Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Osnova

• 1. Imagology - Historical Development of the field - The Other in National Literatures - Literary Images and Literary Stereotypes
• 2. Western Images of the Balkans in the 17th and 18th century; From Dracula to travel literature
• 3. Orientalism and Balkanism; A short Introduction
• 4-5. The Balkan wars and the European thought
• 6.-7. Balkan socialism; Images of the communist regimes in the texts of leftist and right writers. Ideology and national images in literature
• 8.-9. The post-communist Balkans in the European thought. Literary and cinema depictions of the contemporary Balkan Other
• 10. Images of the Balkan Other as an economic migrant in the decade of 1990- Social integration- Social exclusion- Literary representations of the Other with national, ideological and political background
• 11-13. Cinematic approaches on the Balkan Peninsula. Emir Kusturica, Danis Tanovic, Zdravko Sotra, Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 14. The 'Greek superiority complex' over the Balkan Peninsula and its shaping factors. The national portraits of the Balkan nations in Modern Greek literature

Literatura

• GOLDSWORTHY, Vesna. Inventing Ruritania : the imperialism of the imagination. revised and updated edition. London: Hurst & Company, 2013, xxxi, 302. ISBN 9781849042529. info
• TODOROVA, Marija Nikolaeva. Imagining the Balkans. Updated edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, xi, 273. ISBN 9780195387865. info
• Greece and the Balkans : identities, perceptions and cultural encounters since the Enlightenment. Edited by Dīmītrīs Tziovas. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, viii, 280. ISBN 0754609987. info
• NORRIS, David A. In the wake of the Balkan myth : questions of identity and modernity. First published. Houndmills: Macmillan Press LTD, 1999, xii, 182. ISBN 9780333751688. info
• The Balkans and the West : constructing the European other, 1945-2003. Edited by Andrew Hammond. Farnham: Ashgate, 2004, xxiii, 236. ISBN 9780754632344. info
• Beyond Balkanism : the scholarly politics of region making. Edited by Diana Mishkova. First edition. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018, 1 online. ISBN 9781351236386. URL info
• SAID, Edward W. Orientalism. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995, xi, 396. ISBN 0140238670. info
• Orientalism, postmodernism & globalism (Variant.) : Orientalism, postmodernism and globalism. info
• Orientalism : a reader. Edited by A. L. Macfie. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000, x, 382. ISBN 0748614419. info

Výukové metody

Lectures, seminars, class discussions, group projects

Metody hodnocení

Students are required to submit a final written assignment at the end of the semester, from which their grade will be derived. The topic of the assignment will be on depictions of the Balkan states in European/ World literature or European/World cinema. Students will decide together with the instructor on the topic of their assignments. The projects are presented in class at the last lesson of the semester.

Vyučovací jazyk

Angličtina

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