Learning Outcomes
After successful attendance of this course, students will be able to:
-Connect literary history with the history of ideas
-Develop critical and creative scholarly thinking by reading texts in a foreign language.
-Collect the appropriate research data and handle it by evaluating its importance when planning their work.
-Develop their close reading ability and their ability to discern intertextual relations on the level of thematics and rhetorics.
-Become familiar with different cultural patterns.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course examines the various representations of death in Modern Greek, both in prose fiction and poetry. The death theme is approached through a wide spectrum, from epitaphs to suicide texts. The main axis of the examination is the development of the theme in connection with literary currents from classicism to modernism, with the emphasis placed on transformation of imagery and rhetorics.