Course Content
Browse classes:
- What is emotion? History and usage of the terms
- Ashamed of being Bulgarians? Shame and guilt as strategies of creating consciousness in the Bulgarian community in the 18th and the 19th c.
- Grief: Origin and Representations of crying in Bulgarian literature from the 18th and 19th c.
- Love – typology of an emotion in the European and the Bulgarian context
- Friendship between benefit, devotion and ideological brotherhood
- Joy and Laughter – a way to disarm and to fight. Bulgarian satirical press from the Ottoman time
- Fear from the other, fear for ourselves
- Emotions and letters – epistolary communication in Bulgarian culture from the 18th and 19th c.
- Emotions and “the woman question” in Bulgaria during the 19th c. joint seminar with the topic “Love geometry and mentorship”
- Travel and emotions
Complete bibliography
Emotions and letters – epistolary communication in Bulgarian culture from the 18th and 19th c.
- История на писмовниците през 18 и 19 век на Балканите и сред българите (Letter manuals in the Balkans and Bulgaria from the 18th and 19th c.);
- Работа с писма от различни типове в антологии на Българското възраждане (working with real letters from archives and printed anthologies) www.nationallibrary.bg, www.nalis.bg;
- Пренасяне на модели за писма от Западното Просвещение – спонтанност и чувствителност (Foreign norms of letter writing in translated literary textbooks – Madame de Sevigne and the art of letter writing – the emphasis on spontaneity and sentiment.)
Mandatory readings excerpts from:
- Norbert Elias. The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners. t.1-2. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978;
- Дамянова, Румяна. Писмата в културата на Българското възраждане. Шумен: Глаукс, 1995.
Recommended readings:
- Александрова, Надежда П., „Преплетените пътища на културно взаимодействие на Балканите: „Пътеказател за България“ в писмовника на Христаки Павлович от 1835 г.“ В: Филологически форум, том:II, брой:4, 2016, стр.13-30, достъпно ТУК.