Study Materials-Winter Semester 2024-2025
Images of the Balkans (REBc43)
-Course’s PowerPoints and Notes.
-Articles uploaded on course’s page in IS.
-Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2009, and especially the chapters:
1. The Balkans: Nomen, 2. Balkans as Self-designation 3. The
discovery of the Balkans ‘4.Patterns of Perceptions until 1900, 5.
From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification, 6.
Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of
Central Europe.
-Beller, Manfred (ed.), Imagology : the cultural construction and literary
representation of national characters. A critical survey, Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2007.
-Cuddon, J. A., The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary
theory, London : Penguin Books, 1998.
-Andrew Hammond, “The danger zone of Europe. Balkanism between
the Cold War and 9/11’”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 8
(135-154) 2005.
-Auxiliary Bibliography (found in course’s page).