ECTS:
1
Syllabus
Week 1: Popular image of Greece . Greece as a cradle of Western Culture
Week 2: Image of Greece created by tourism organizations. Scientifi c and cultural tourism: fi ction
or true?
Week 3: Popularity of Greek music: reality or creation of media? Image of Greece in cinema.
Week 4: On the contrary: Greeks and Greece in Zbigniew Herbert’s poetry and essays.
Week 5: Greek artists on exile, how they were portrayed. Final remarks.
Module aim
An outline of popular stereotypes of Greeks, existing in postwar culture, esp. in advertisement,
fi lms. On the contrary the creation of Greek in Polish contemporary poetry.
Student should understand and critically evaluate role of mass culture and advertisement in
creating of image of modern Greeks.
Information
Year: 2020/2021
Semester: Summer
Hours: 10
Language: English
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Topic: The Image of the Greeks in Modern Literature and Popular Culture
Module: 03-EPI-GML
Prerequisites
Term: 01/03/21-29/03/21 (5 weeks)
Pre-requisities: Communicative English, a basic knowledge of European history.
Assesment: written essay.
Pre-requisites:
Basic knowledge of European History after 1945
Lecturer
Prof. Piotr Bering
Academic title: Professor
Email: pber@amu.edu.pl
Reading list
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic theory (many editions, some e.g. are listed): London-Boston 1984,
London 1997, London 2013, London 2014
Zbigniew Herbert, The collected poems, London: Atlantic 2008 or Zbigniew Herbert, Selected
poems, Oxford: University Press 1977
Zbigniew Herbert, Barbarian in the garden, Manchester 1985, Carcanet
Peter Rietbergen, Europe. A Cultural History, London-New York: Routledge 1998 and later
impressionshttp://www.visitgreece.gr/#&slider1=1 (Homepage of GREEK NATIONAL TOURISM
ORGANISATION)
