MODERN GREEK POETRY
Teaching Staff: Letsios Vassilios
Course Code: ΝΕΦ203
Course Type: Compulsory Elective
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 6th
ECTS: 5
This course examines the relation of Modern Greek poetry to history with emphasis on C. P. Cavafy’s poetry, more specifically his poems that have a direct or indirect relation to history, also his pseudo-historical poems.
This course focuses on poetic texts and by reading Cavafy’s poetry that relate to history we aim to examine Cavafy’s poetics and his reading of crucial and often unknown aspects of history.
Week #1: Cavafy: introduction to his life and work
Week #2: History and literature. Cavafy’s archive.
Week #3: Cavafy’s poetry that directly relates to history
Week #4: Cavafy’s poetry that directly relates to history II
Week #5: Cavafy’s poetry that directly relates to history III
Week #6: Cavafy’s poetry that directly relates to history IV
Week #7: Cavafy’s poetry that indirectly relates to history
Week #8: Cavafy’s poetry that indirectly relates to history II
Week #9: Cavafy’s poetry that directly relates to history III
Week #10: Cavafy’s pseudo-historical poems
Week #11:. Cavafy’s pseudo-historical poems II
Week #12:. Cavafy’s pseudo-historical poems III
Week #13: Conclusions
1) Ελισάβετ Αρσενίου, Η αξία της ποίησης, Μεταίχμιο, 2016 [59371196],
2) Κ. Π. Καβάφης, Τα Ποιήματα, επ. Δ. Δημηρούλης, Γ. & Κ. Δαρδανός, 2015 [41959158].
Lecture with optional projects and presentations.
Written exam.
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