Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course students will be able
-To consider poetry in its entanglement with its contemporary as well as today’s social and political context conceptualizing the Politics of Poetics.
-To explore poetic innovations in aesthetics and modes and investigate their impact on world literature.
-To examine the role of an outstanding poet in shaping access to cultural texts in combining the close reading of texts with an historical overview.
-To combine theory with its application on texts as the students design their own approaches.
-To implement aesthetic and contextual approaches investigating recurring themes and motifs.
-To develop a method and construct a system in organizing intensive close up readings of texts.
-To collect and arrange appropriate research data in evaluating their significance for assignment planning.
-To develop skills in the close examination of texts and in making thematic and formal connections between them.
-To appreciate the use of technology and operate it effectively in the delivery of instruction, assessment and professional development.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course deals with the entire poetical production of C. P. Cavafy (late 1870s to 1932). It consists of (1) a detailed presentation of the thematic «domains» of his poetry, (2) its relations with literary movements of his time, (3) his language and versification, (4) his lyrical, narrative and dramatic techniques, and (5) the interpretations formulated by some critics and scholars about the author's ideology and poetics. It also includes an introduction to basic bibliography, which is to be presented and discussed during the first lesson.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
η έκδοση των ποιημάτων του Καβάφη της Σόνιας Ιλίνσκαγια, «Νάρκισσος, 2003
ή έκδοση των ποιημάτων του Καβάφη, του Δημήτρη Δημηρούλη, «Μεταίχμιο», 2015