Lndsps Mod Gk Lit:Ntn,Exl,Cosm

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Taught in English Located in the "third space" between East and West, Greece is an ideal starting point for exploring cross-cultural interactions with Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, and beyond. The landscapes of Modem Greek literature, themselves poised on the tension between sea and land, are fertile soils for the themes of travel, exile, marginality, and homecoming. The course will revolve around two themes that are recurrent in Modem Greek literature as a result of its cultural and geographical particularity. The first is a reflection on the survival of antiquity through its remnants above and below ground. The second is a record of the overlapping and shifting geographies of empire, nation-state, and diaspora. Readings will include a variety of genres from folk song and poetry to the historical novel and contemporary fiction. Through them, we will also investigate the significance of the "spatial turn" in the humanities, or the growing attention to the geographical imagination and its shaping of cultural forms. No knowledge of Greek is required. All materials will be available in English