MED11 Greek Literature of the Middle Ages and Modern Period

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Nicole Votavová Sumelidisová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Nicole Votavová Sumelidisová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 G13, except Mon 21. 4. to Sun 27. 4.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
A series of seminars devoted to imporatant authors, literary works, eventually genres. The attention is devoted to the most influential authors, imporatnt from the viewpoint of world literature. Students will gain an overview of the basic turning points of the literary development in this period.
Learning outcomes
Students will become familiar with the basic turning points in the development of Greek literature from the Byzantine period until today. Students will get to know certain works of Byzantine and Modern Greek literature through reading of chosen literary extracts (translation into Czech or a world language). Students will be capable of independent work with basic scholarly handbooks of Byzantology and Modern Greek studies and of searching for other information concerning these fields.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hagiography; Hymnography.
  • 3. Historiography
  • 4. Digenis Akritis.
  • 5. Byzantine novel
  • 6. Cretan renaissance.
  • 7. Greek romantism (Dionysios Solomos, Emmanuil Roidis).
  • 8. Konstantinos Kavafis; Nikos Kazantzakis.
  • 9. Generace of 1930: prose; Giannis Ritsos. 10. Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis. 11. Post-war fiction; Czech translations. 12. Contemporary literature
Literature
  • Byzantium (Variant.) : The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 1 : The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 2 : The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 3. info
  • HRADEČNÝ, Pavel, Růžena DOSTÁLOVÁ, Věra HROCHOVÁ, Pavel OLIVA, Konstantinos TSIVOS and Vladimír VAVŘÍNEK. Dějiny Řecka. Vydání třetí. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2015, 785 stran. ISBN 9788074224560. info
  • The making of modern Greece, nationalism, Romanticism, & the uses of the past (1797-1896). Edited by Roderick Beaton - David Ricks. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, xiv, 270. ISBN 9780754664987. info
  • BEATON, Roderick. From Byzantium to modern Greece : medieval texts and their modern reception. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 1 sv. ISBN 9780754659693. info
  • BORECKÝ, Bořivoj and Růžena DOSTÁLOVÁ. Slovník řeckých spisovatelů. Druhé, přepracované a dop. Praha: LEDA, 2006, 663 stran. ISBN 8073350661. info
  • BEATON, Roderick. Folk poetry of modern Greece. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xii, 229. ISBN 0521604206. info
  • DOSTÁLOVÁ, Růžena. Byzantská vzdělanost. Vyd. 2. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2003, 413 s. ISBN 8070214090. info
  • BEATON, Roderick. An introduction to modern Greek literature. 2. ed., rev. and expanded. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999, xiv, 420. ISBN 0198159749. info
  • BEATON, Roderick. The medieval Greek romance. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. London: Routledge, 1996, xx, 301. ISBN 0415120330. info
  • Digenes Akrites : new approaches to Byzantine heroic poetry. Edited by Roderick Beaton - David Ricks. Aldershot: Variorum, 1993, xi, 196. ISBN 0860783952. info
  • AVENARIUS, Alexander, Růžena DOSTÁLOVÁ, Vladimír FIALA, Věra HROCHOVÁ, Milan LOOS, Oldřich TŮMA and Vladimír VAVŘÍNEK. Dějiny Byzance. Edited by Bohumila Zástěrová. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1992, 529 stran. ISBN 8020004548. info
  • MANGO, C. Byzantium. The Empire of the New Rome. London, 1980. info
  • BROWNING, R. The Byzantine Empire. London, 1980. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, reading.
Assessment methods
1. Written test (only students of the Mediterranean Studies and Modern Greek Studies). 2. Submission of a paper (at least 6000 characters). 3. Active participation in classes (75%)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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