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480106 KO Bulgaria in Literary Images (G. Gospodinov, D. Dinev, Il. Troyanov, S. Levitcharov) (2017W)

Colloquium on Regional and Cultural Studies

4.00 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 03.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 10.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 17.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 24.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 31.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 07.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 14.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 21.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 28.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 05.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 12.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 09.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 16.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 23.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26
  • Tuesday 30.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 Slawistik UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-26

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Could Bulgaria, respectively each country, be exhaustively depicted in literary figures? How can these images be considered as "real“, believable, despite the explicit tendency to "illusion of reality" in the prose of the last decades? Why are the literary images of Bulgaria emerging extremely negative in recent years – anchored in the image of the dark Balkan and the dark socialist past?
What serves the nostalgia of returning back in "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurkis Around the Corner" (1996) by Il. Troyanov, what are the D. Dinev‘s grotesque-comical figures, put in miserable atmosphere inspiring in his famous novel „Angelic voices" (2003), how is used the sarcasm in
"Apostolov" by S. Levicharov (2009) to produce an extremely gray, depressing picture of the Motherland? How the purely political is combined with the sterile novel in "Power and Resistance" (2015) of Il. Troyanov? Would it be possible for the favorite piece "The Physics of Sorrow" (released in German in 2014) by G. Gospodinov to be read as a mature synthesis of compassion and alienation? What role do the distance and empathy in the literary images of Bulgaria actually play?

Intensive exercise with the circle of problems "literature – reality", as well as with the specifics of the listed novel works; Knowledge of Bulgaria and a cultural image of the country.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation in the discussions; Essay in the area of ​​the subject under discussion

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Knowledge of the listed works and the second literature about them

Examination topics

The novel works of the authors

Reading list

Il. Troyanov "Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall" )1996; D. Dinev "Engelszungen" (2003); S. Lewitcharov "Apostolov" (2009); G. Gospodinov "Physik der Schwermut" (2014); Il. Troyanov "Macht und Widerstand" (2015)

Association in the course directory

B-51-B

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