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480096 SE Seminar on Literature and Culture (2022S)

Symbolism and Post-Symbolism in Bulgarian Literature: Points of Contact and Radical Restrictions

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 48 - Slawistik
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 01.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 08.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 15.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 22.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 29.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 05.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 26.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 03.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 10.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 17.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 24.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 31.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 14.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 21.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35
  • Tuesday 28.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-Z1-35

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The second decade of the 20th century is a period of the most powerful transformations not only in Bulgarian literature: World War I and its shocks, the crisis of humanity in the pan-European plan, domestically the Bulgarian national catastrophe and the rebellious events between the years 1923-1925, all this extremely accelerated the development of literature.
Symbolism was declared a dead and exhausted art by the younger literary generations. At the same time, however, it was precisely in this period that the most representative books of poetry by the Bulgarian Symbolists appeared, as well as the anthology "Mlada Bălgarija" (1922), which confirms the unshakeable status of this artistic formation. Elements of Symbolist poetics were, after all, to be discovered as vivid in texts by the "anti-Symbolists". Was it an inertia or, on the contrary, a tenacious poetics that fertilised the new currents?
How does symbolism continue to exist in the art movements that negate it - in expressionism, in diabolism, in factual poetics? How have Futurism, Dadaism, Imaginism completely disassociated themselves from it?
In the course of the semester, these questions will be discussed, not only on the basis of the emblematic poetic works, but also on the basis of the peculiar prose of the time (Čavdar Mutafov, Anton Strašimirov), as well as specific dramatic texts will be used (Bojan Danovski) to illustrate the extremely complicated literary process, to highlight its immense contradictions.

Assessment and permitted materials

At the end of the semester, students must write and submit a PS thesis according to the specified scientific criteria.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Knowledge of the Bulgarian language is desirable, as well as a certain literary competence.
Participation in the discussions at the course is of important importance.

Examination topics

The texts discussed during the course.

Reading list

https://bgmodernism.com/
The literature page of the Institute of Literature – BAW offers digitised literature periodicals, as well as a library consisting of literary treatises, anthologies and, last but not least, authors' monographs.

Association in the course directory

M.4.2, M.5.1

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