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
Joy and Laughter – a way to disarm and to fight. Bulgarian satirical press from the Ottoman time
The class will discuss the expression of joy and its nuances. Taking a literary and anthropological approach it will discuss the history of laugh and satire according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s vision of the types of “Renaissance laughter” and “Enlightenment laughter”. It will base its case studies on the genres of feuiletton and caricature in writing and painting in Bulgarian printed culture from the 19th c.
- Радост и смях (Aristotle, Bakhtin, Bergson, Skinner on Joy and laughter interpretations);
- Случаите със „Звънчатий Глумчо“ и Шутош“ и техния гръцки османски издател Теодор Касап (Deal with the concept of entangled histories – the mutual publications of satirical journals in Constantinople in 1870s, edited in Bulgarian Greek, Armenian and Ottoman Turkish by Theodor Kasap);
- Смехът от фолклора в литературата – (Folklore and literary genres in Bulgarian satirical newspapers;
- Първите български комедии (the first Bulgarian comedies from the 19th c. );
- Карикатурите в българските сатирични вестници (Discuss caricatures in the first satirical newspapers).
Mandatory readings:
- Дамянова, Румяна. „Тъга и радост в емоционалното преживяване през Българското възраждане.(Някои наблюдения).“ От С възрожденски дух и модерен поглед. Сборник в чест на чл.-кор. Проф. Милена Цанева, 39-56. София: Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2012.
- Бориславов, Ясен. Естествена история на българския смях. София: Труд, 2014.
Recommended readings:
- Goff, Jaques le. «Rire au Moyen Age.» Centre de recherches historiques – EHESS. 15 avril 1989;
- Бахтин, Михаил. Творчеството на Франсоа Рабле и народната култура на Средновековието и Ренесанса. София: Наука и изкуство, 1978.