COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: NOSTALGIA FOR CHILDHOOD AS A LITERARY TOPOS
| Title | ΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Η ΠΑΙΔΙΚΗ ΗΛΙΚΙΑ ΩΣ ΤΟΠΟΣ ΝΟΣΤΑΛΓΙΑΣ ΣΤΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: NOSTALGIA FOR CHILDHOOD AS A LITERARY TOPOS |
| Title in German | Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft: Die Kindheit als Sehnsuchtsort in der Literatur |
| Code | ΒΚ0322 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | German Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600024509 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Germanikīs Glṓssas kai Filologías (2020-sīmera)
Registered students: 26
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | EPILEGOMENA EIDIKEUSĪS | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 2 |
| Total Hours | 26 |
| Class ID | 600253000
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Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600253000
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction)
- German (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Expected learning outcomes: To have a thorough knowledge of the texts discussed in class/ familiarization of students with traits or tendencies found in the Children’s and Young Adult literature of German Romanticism/ Ability of students to recognize and analyze the characteristics of ‘Nostalgia for childhood’ in novels of different eras and of various cultural backgrounds / Ability to connect texts to their social, historical and cultural context/ improvement of the students critical thought
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The nostalgic narrative of childhood is a common and timeless topos, both in everyday culture and in literature: We need only think of works in the literary canon, such as Gottfried Keller's Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe, Vizyinos' Zwischen Piräus und Neapel or Stratis Tsiirkas' ‘o chloros paradeisos’ - texts in which nostalgia for childhood even goes so far as to be the trigger for adult love. The course starts from the argument that the roots of this kind of treatment of the early stage of life can be found in German Romanticism and can be traced in literary works such as E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Foreign Child". Through reference to the main characteristics of the period, as well as textual analysis, it is demonstrated that the 'Foreign Child' conceives of childhood as an irretrievably lost homeland, which from an adult perspective is accessible only through nostalgic reminiscence. The work is considered highly influential (research has identified intertextual traces of it in, for example, Pippi Longstockings, but also in other important works of world children's literature - and not only). In this context, apart from E.T.A. Hoffmann's Das fremde Kind, works such as Gottfried Keller: Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe/ Georgios Vizyinos: Zwischen Piräus und Neapel/ Stratis Tsirkas: o chloros paradeisos/ Antoine de Saint Exypéry: The little Prince/ Edith Nesbit, the story of the amulette / Romain Gary: the promise of dawn/ Walter Benjamin: Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert and many others will be presented and analyzed.
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
e-mail, powerpoint, e-learning
Student Assessment
Description
Regular and active participation, oral presentation and written paper.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Hugh Cunningham (2016)
Παιδιά και παιδική ηλικία στη δυτική κοινωνία
από τον 16ο αιώνα μέχρι σήμερα
Μετάφραση: Πελαγία Μαρκέτου
Επιστημονική επιμέλεια: Μαρία Παπαθανασίου
Last Update
12-09-2024
