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
In English:
- Altman, Janet Gurkin. “The Letter Book as a Literary Institution 1539-1789: Toward a Cultural History of Published Correspondences in France”. Men/Women of Letters.” Yale French Studies, 71, 1986: 17-62.
- Aristotle. The Nikomachean Ethics. London : Penguin books, 2004.
- Badiou, Alain. Being and event. Glouchester: Continuum, 2007.
- Barthes, Rolan. Image, music, text. London: Fontana press, 1977.
- Benjamin, Walter. The origin of German tragic drama. London and New York: Verso, 1998.
- Blanchot, Maurice. Friendship. California: Stanford University Press, 1997.
- Born, Georgina and David Hesmondhalgh eds. Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation of Music. Los Angelis and London: University of California Press, 2000.
- Brey, Bernard. L’art de la lettre amoureuse. Paris: Mouton, 1967.
- Clarke, Jennifer. “The culture of tourism”. In: Rojek Christ and John Urry. Touring cultures. Transformations in Travel and Theory. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Dixon, Thomas. ““Emotion”: The History of a Keyword in Crisis.” Emotional Review, 4, 2012: 338-344.
- Ekman, Paul. Atlas of Emotions. 2018. http://atlasofemotions.org/ (accessed October 6, 2019).
- —. Emotions Revealed Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve communication and emotional life. New York: Times books, 2006.
- Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners. t.1-2. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978.
- Frierson, Elisabeth. ” Women in the Late Ottoman intellectual history“. Late Ottoman Society. The Intellectual legacy.” London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Giddens, Anthony. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies. California: Stanford University Press, 1993.
- Goff, Jaques le. «Rire au Moyen Age.» Centre de recherches historiques – EHESS. 15 avril 1989. https://journals.openedition.org/ccrh/2918 (accès le October 6, 2019).
- Goitein, Shelomo D. “Friendship in the Medieval near East.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 115, 1971: 484-489.
- Goody, Jack. Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West. Verso, 2010.
- Halsall, Guy. Humour, history and politics in late Antiquity and the early Middle ages. Cambrige: Cambrige University Press, 2004.
- Konstan, David. Friendship in the classical world. Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude. The origins of table manners. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
- Leys, Ruth. From Guilt to Shame – Auswitz and After. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Lin, Pei-Ying. Unspeakableness. 2012. http://unspeakableness.net/ (accessed October 6, 2019).
- Machin, David. Analyzing popular music, image sound text. Los Angelis: SAGE publications, 2010.
- Menin, Marco. “”Who Will Write the History of Tears?’ History of Ideas and History of Ideas and History of emotions from Eighteenth-Century to the Present.” History of European Ideas, 2014: 516-532.
- Nussbaum, Martha S. Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Pangle, Lorraine Smith. Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship. Cambrige: Cambrige University Press, 2003.
- Parrot, W.G. Emotions in Social Psychology. Philadelphia: Psychology press, 2001.
- Plutchik, Robert, Henry Kellerman. Emotion: Theory, research and experience, vol 1. Theories of emotion. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
- Reddy, William. The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
- Schmid, Chanoinе. Genèvieve de Brabant, histoire touchante du vieux temps présenté sous une nouvelle forme et traduit librement l’allemand du Chanoine Schmid. Lille: L. Lefort, Imprimier-libraire., 1836.
- Schwartz, Daniel. Aquinas on Friendship. Oxford: Calendon Press, 2007.
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofski. Touching, Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.
- Tagney, June Price and Rodna Darling. Shame and Guilt. New York and London: Guilford Press, 2004.
- Urry, John. The tourist gaze. London: SAGE, 2005.
- Vezenkov, Alexander. “Entangled Geographies of the Balkans: The Boundaries of the Region.” In Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vol.4, by Daskalov et al. eds., 115-257. Leiden and Boston: BRILL, 2017.
- Wolff, Larry. The Singing Turk: Operatic emotions. on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon. California: Stanford University Press, 2016.
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