Introduction to the history and literature of Modern Greece 4018-WYK13Z

Organizational classes: outlining the subject matter, required literature of the subject and aids (chronological tables, maps, guidebooks), terms of receiving credits, exam requirements, canon of reading.

Greece in time I: Periodization of the history of modern Greece (Turkish domination, the 1821 uprising, the emergence of the Greek state (Kapodistrias), the time up to the Balkan wars, World War I, the inter-war years (the catastrophe of the Great Idea), World War II, the civil war, the colonels' junta, Greece today).

Greece in time II: Periodization of Modern Greek literature proposed by literary scholars (Mirambel, Kohler, Dimaras, Politis, Vitti and others).
Three and a half thousand years of the Greek language.
The oldest living language of Europe: universality, resistance to foreign influences, range, continuity and discontinuity of history, the problem of diglossia and the issue of language (A. Korais and J. Psicharis) - Katharevusa and Dimotiki.
The conquest of Constantinople according to witnesses of the time. The organization of the Ottoman state; burdens on the Christian population. The role of the Patriarchate. Characteristics of the Turkocracy (1453-1831).
Greeks in duchies on the Danube, the Greek diaspora. Insurrection movements. Artistic output of commoners.
The 1821 uprising. Preparations: the activity of Rigas Fereos (the "Battle Hymn" and draft constitution), the Filiki Eteria uprising, the Orlov brothers' expedition, Ali Pasha's revolt; the outbreak of the 1821 uprising. Stages of the uprising: major events, leaders, political activity; the Philhellenes; the stance of the great powers.
The uprising in Greek literature: Kalvos' "Odes", Solomos' "Hymn to Liberty" and "The Free Besieged", the diaries of Makrigiannis and Kolokotronis, Klepht song. The Greek state under the rule of Kapodistrias and Otto I. Poets of the Ionian Islands and the Phanariot School. Charilaos Trikoupis.
Achievements of the Greek state up to the end of the 19th century. The Second Athenian School (1860-1890). Greece up to the end of World War I. Eleftherios Venizelos. The New (Second) Athenian School - the age of Palamas (1890-1920).
Greece in the inter-war years. The disaster of the "Great Idea". Greek literature in the face of national catastrophe. The 1930s generation in prose and poetry. The last Alexandrian - the work of K. Kavafis (1863-1932). The modern Odysseus - N. Kazantzakis. K. Karyotakis (1896-1928) and the catastrophist trend. Greece during World War II and the civil war. Georgios Papandreou. World War II and the civil war in the works of selected writers (Tsirkas, Chatzis, Ritsos, Anagnostakis). The Rebetika phenomenon. The last half-century of Greek history (the junta 1967-1974; present-day problems). The image of the junta in literature. Konstandinos Karamanlis and Andreas Papandreou. Literary output of recent years (debuts, recipients of state awards and competition prize-winners).