Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will have:
- Acquired a comprehensive knowledge of modern Greek poetic production.
- A critical understanding of the peculiar relationships that link poetry to general social reality.
-Acquired a body of knowledge and tools that will help them to teach poetry (and literature in general) more effectively in schools.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Panagiotis Kondylis, in the Greek introduction to his book "Die Niedergang der bürgerlichen Denk- und Lebensform" (1991), argues that in the modern Greek cultural sphere, poetry is "the only product that has so far been produced in high quality, precisely thanks to the unique dynamics of a palimpsestic and ancient language". The essential and deeper reading /knowledge/understanding of this "product" is the subject of the course. With the help of literary theory and other related and allied disciplines, the study of Modern Greek poetry from its beginnings to the present day will be pursued. The ultimate aim, beyond the search for its entelechy, is to highlight its explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious connections and associations with what constitutes the true face of Modern Hellenism.
Keywords
Modern Greek Poetry, Theory of literature, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism