Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of seminar courses students will have acquired the required skills and abilities for:
~ comprehension of the concept "archive" in its various dimensions
~ approach of the literary archive to its specificity and importance
~ familiarity with the physical and digital version of examples of literary archives
~ critical evaluation of ths digital versions of the literary archive
critical evaluation of digital versions of the literary archive
~ composing short critical presentations of archival research and exploitation of the literary archive today.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course explores the concept of archive, with an emphasis on literary archives. The historical dimension, their existence, and their research value are examined. What is an archive? What are the principles governing its classification? What questions can his study answer? How is the role of the archive redifined in the digital age?
What is the importance, function, types and characteristics of the archives? What is the relationship between writer-reader and writer-publisher through the file? Examples are drawn from archives of Greek and foreign writers (eg Solomos, Cavafy, Beckett, Dickinson, Whitman).
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Ζακ Ντεριντά, Η έννοια του αρχείου, μετάφραση Κωστής Παπαγιώργης, Εκδόσεις Εκκρεμές, Αθήνα 1996. / Διαθέτης (Εκδότης): ΚΟΛΕΤΣΟΣ ΟΡΕΣΤΗΣ-ΕΡΡΙΚΟΣ / Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 77109288
2. Το χειρόγραφο, το βιβλίο, τα ιστορικά αρχεία, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα 2006 Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 134735
3. Διονυσίου Σολωμού Αυτόγραφα Έργα, Ενότητα 3: Εις τον θάνατον του Λορδ Μπάιρον, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα 2002. / Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 32997732