2017/2018

2018/2019

DM270

L-LIN/20 (MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

TENTORIO GILDA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of Ancient Greek is not a necessary prerequisite. Students are requested to be curious about contemporary problems and to have a good basic culture to operate interdisciplinary links.

The course is composed of two units.
1) Language: the aim is to provide a general foundation in the Neogreek language, in order to cope with a range of everyday communicative situations, when interacting at a basic level, orally and in writing.
2) Literature: The course introduces the Greek literature in its diachronic development through a choice of themes. At the end of the course the students will have to demonstrate critical ability and autonomy of analyzing the texts.

LANGUAGE: • Alphabet, pronunciation and phonetic rules
• Genres: masculine, feminine, neuter
• Constituents of the noun phrase: articles, nouns and adjectives (first type)
• Verbal Morphology. Present tense: "to be" and conjugations (I and II): regular, auxiliary and some irregular verbs; "deponent" verbs
• Personal, possessive, interrogative pronouns; demonstrative pronouns/adjectives
• Numerals
• Prepositions
• Constituents of the verb phrase and use of the tenses
• Main clauses and simple subordinate clauses
• Adverbs: manner,place, time, quantity
• Verbal tenses (perfective and imperfective forms): the case of the future
• Active "aorist" I conjug. and use in subordinate clauses
• Communication in everyday situations
• LITERATURE:
A) Greeks today and antiquity legacy: examples in poetry and narrative, focus on Acropolis. To read: Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.
B) Greek Islands in literature. Introduction: theory: Island Studies, heterotopy, utopy, geocritic, orientalism, intertextuality. Focus on some islands (e.g. Ithaca, Santorini, Cythera, Makronissos.) and authors who wrote about them. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.

Lectures based on powerpoint slides, texts, supplementary teacher's explainations, videos and films.

LANGUAGE
Student Book: Ellinika A'. Methodos ekmathisis tis ellinikis os xenis glossas (epipeda A1+A2), Pavlopoulou A., Simòpoulos G., Kanellopoulou R., Pathiaki I., Edizioni Pataki, Atene 2010
Dictionaries:
-Greco moderno-italiano, italiano-greco moderno, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013
-Greco antico-neogreco e italiano. Dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi, a cura di A.Kolonia e M.Peri, Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
History of Neogreek Language: selected pages from important essays (in Italian/English)
Literature and Culture:
-Mario Vitti, Storia della letteratura neogreca, Carocci, Roma 2001
- Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017
-Alexandros Papadiamantis, L’assassina (si consiglia l’edizione nella traduzione di F.Maspero, 1989) and Ioanna Karistiani, L’isola dei gelsomini, Crocetti 2000
-Giorgio Ieranò, Arcipelago: isole e miti del mar Egeo, 2018: to read only recommended pages
-Collection of essays provided by the teacher
-History : Richard Clogg, Storia della Grecia moderna : dalla caduta dell'impero bizantino a oggi Bompiani, Milano 1996 (trad. Andrea Di Gregorio); Thanos Beremes-J.Koliopoulos, La Grecia moderna: una storia che inizia nel 1821, Argo, Lecce 2014

Oral examination, after a written test (comprehension and production). The oral exam consists of two parts. Language: conversation in Neogreek to check the level. Literature: Critical Analysis of selected essays pages.
Non-attending students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher.

Non-attending students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher for an alternative program.