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
Travel and emotions
The class will deal with the experience of the traveler and the formation of subjective gaze towards the new territories. In addition, it will reflect on the nature of Bulgarian travelogues from the 19th c. and on the way Bulgarians are regarded from the Western travelers to these Ottoman lands.
- Пътуване придвижване, емоции (Travel, transport and emotions) Love for the nation and anxiety of traveling to the unknown);
- Пътеписите за Балканите и отношението към Цариград (Travelogues and Constantinople as a focal point);
- Жените и пътеписите в зората на туризма сред българите Tourism (women and travel on the outset of Bulgarian tourism – the first printed travelogue by Evgenia Mars in 1907).
Mandatory readings excerpts from:
- Гюрова, Светла. Антология възрожденски пътеписи. София: Български писател, 1969.
Recommended readings:
- Clarke, Jennifer. “The culture of tourism”. Urry and Rojek. Touring cultures. Transformation Routledge, 2003;
- Knudsen, B., Waade, Ann-Marie. Re-investing authenticity – Tourism, Place and Emotions. Toronto and Buffalo: Channel view publications, 2010.