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
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Emotions and “the woman question” in Bulgaria during the 19th c. joint seminar with the topic “Love geometry and mentorship”
This class will pay attention to tha margins of literature where usually women’s literature is situated. It will discuss critically the labels of hyperemotionaltiy of women’s writing and the choice of genres that attribute to Bulgarian women writers usually the role of muses and students of the main male writers of the same period.
- История на жените и женските дружества на Балканите и сред българите (History of women’s movement in the 19th c. in the Balkan and Bulgarian context);
- Парадоксът на емоционалното женско писане и литературния канон (The paradox of hyperemotionality and the literary canon).
Mandatory readings excerpts from:
- Александрова, Надежда. Робини, кукли и человеци. Представи за жените в периодиката на Възраждането и в прозата на Любен Каравелов. София, СОНМ, 2012.
Recommended readings:
- Даскалова, Красимира. Жени, пол и модернизация в България 1878-1944. София: Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2012;
- Кирова, Милена. Жените и канонът. Мярката, която не е една. В: Неслученият канон. Български писателки от Освобождението до Втората световна война, 9-45, съст. М. Кирова. София: Алтера, 2009.