HISTORY OF MODERN GREEK CULTURE

The course is part of the integrative activities of Philology, literature and history of antiquity.
Modern Greek Language is included in the courses of the Master's Degree course in European, American and Post-Colonial Languages and Literatures and the Master's Degree in Language Sciences.
The course consists of a module held by the teacher in the first semester (we also recommend the frequency of annual language tutorials held by the expert mother tongue, Dr. E. Liosatou).

The course aims to develop knowledge and understanding of Greek literature, delving into the theoretical aspects covered during the three-year period, the methods of textual analysis, the history of literature; the links with the history of culture; the linguistic and cultural interrelations with Byzantine and classical literary production. Attending the course will allow you to develop specific skills in the terminology of textual analysis and literary criticism; space will be given to the understanding of literatures and cultures in a historical-comparative context to increase the ability to interpret, analyze and translate Greek literary texts into Katharevusa and Dimotikì.
The course aims to develop translation skills from Italian to Greek and advanced translation skills from Greek to Italian; consolidate metalinguistic competence in a Greek - Italian comparative key of the main phenomena of the Greek language and literature in the vernacular; increase communicative competence in the Greek language and knowledge of the Greek historical-literary profile.
The study of linguistic testimonies, through the historical profile from the first manifestations of the vernacular to modern and contemporary literary production (through the analysis carried out by M. Vitti in his History of Neo-Greek literature, Venice 2016), will be expanded in a comparative key.
1. Knowledge and understanding
Know, understand and actively use the grammatical, morphological and syntactic structures of modern Greek in oral and written form; know and understand the historical dynamics that characterize modern Greek literature.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Ability to recognize the phenomena of continuity and interference that affect the language, in a historical-cultural perspective. Ability to express oneself correctly in oral and written form by providing adequate information both from the point of view of content and form of expression; ability to understand oral and written discourse (both contemporary and in Katharevusa).
3. Independent judgment
Be able to develop the ability to evaluate the modern Greek language in evolutionary context. Be able to perceive continuities and discontinuities. Be able to understand the different expressive registers.
Develop a critical capacity with respect to the historical and linguistic phenomena affecting modern Greek literature.
4. Communication skills
Be able to communicate in the language used today in modern Greece, using appropriate terminology.
5. Learning ability
Be able to develop specific methodological tools in the study of various linguistic and historical-literary phenomena; be able to take notes and share them collaboratively; be able to critically consult reference texts and the bibliography contained therein; be able to use multimedia systems for active language learning.
The student will acquire the ability to apply knowledge and understanding; will be able to independently carry out bibliographic research in the language studied; to produce critical comments, term papers, short essays and a final thesis in the neo-Greek language in the literary-cultural, historical and linguistic fields, elaborating the concepts learned and formulating a personal argument; to participate in a specialist debate on the contents studied in a pertinent way and to speak in public supporting one's own positions; to translate literary texts, essays on literary-cultural topics, scientific articles on the discipline, works of contemporary culture into Italian.

Linguistic competence B2.
Students of Humanistic courses and Erasmus students from Greece will agree on an integrative program according to their study plan.

Specific insights will focus on:

1. Venice and Crete between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century: the age of Vincentsos Kornaros and Gavriil Seviros.
2. Koraìs, Solomòs and Psicharis: reflections on language (between the end of the 18th and the end of the 19th century)
3. Italian philhellenism and nineteenth-century Greek poetry
4. Athens and Thessaloniki: the question of language in the twentieth century
5. Retellings of ancient Greek myths and texts

Reading, analysis and translation of some chapters of the Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα 1999, http://www.elia.org.gr/research-tools/history-of-the-greek-language/

The lesson materials (power point and bibliography) will be shared on the moodle platform.

- M. Vitti, Storia della letteratura neogreca, Cafoscarina, Venezia 2016; Th.M. Veremis - I.S. Koliopulos, La Grecia moderna. Una storia che inizia nel 1821, Lecce, Argo 2014; R. Clogg, Grecia. Dall'indipendenza a oggi, BIET-STORIA, Trieste 2015;
- Κ. Τζαμαλή, Ι. Σκουνάκη, Στοιχεία Ελληνικής Ιστορίας και Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού, 2011, ISBN 978-960-7335-48-7, http://www.openbook.gr/stoixeia-ellinikis-istorias-kai-ellinikou-politismou/
- Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας, ΜΙΕΤ, Αθήνα 1999, http://www.elia.org.gr/research-tools/history-of-the-greek-language/
-Ταξίδι στην Ελλάδα, 2, Grigori, Atene 2018

Vivendo Vincere Saecula. Ricezione e tradizione dell'antico, a cura di M. Fernandelli, E. Panizzon, T. Travaglia, EUT, Trieste 2022, pp. 9-20; 277-290;
R. Galanaki, Εγώ η Αριάδνη, in Δυο γυναίκες δυο θεές, Kastaniotis, Atene 2017

Dizionario: Greco moderno-italiano, italiano-greco moderno, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013

M. Peri, Gli scambi linguistici fra Italia e Grecia. Compendio di una storia dimenticata, in Greco antico, neogreco e italiano. Dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi, Zanichelli, Bologna 2008, pp. 7-154.

F. Pappas, A. Katsigiannis, L. Diamantopoulou, Εισαγωγή στην νεοελληνική φιλολογία, Ελληνικά Ακαδημαικά Ηλεκτρονικά Συγγράμματα και Βοηθήματα, ΣΕΑΒ 2015

The verification of the level of learning achieved is obtained through a written test and an oral test. In particular, the student will present the acquired theoretical knowledge in oral form. The level of language learning acquired through practical and oral tests will be evaluated.

Read: the student will show that he is able to read a short text correctly.
Writing: the student will demonstrate to be able to write orthographically correct, under dictation, a text containing vocabulary already acquired thanks to the linguistic exercises. He will compile simple grammatical exercises in the modern Greek and formulate a short written text (a letter, a summary, a description ...).
Understanding oral discourse: the student will summarize in Italian a short text pronounced in the Greek language containing lexicon, grammatical and syntactic forms of medium-high level.
Formulate an oral discourse: the student will answer in Italian to simple questions asked by the commission on topics treated in class, using the acquired linguistic knowledge.
Evaluation: grammar, morphology and syntax = evaluation of assimilation and precision in use; lexicon: consideration of the appropriate use of words; ability to manage speech (oral and written); ability to interact with the written text, in a conversation; fluent use of written and oral speech (correctly written and pronounced). Ability to organize a critical speech in Italian using theoretical and cultural knowledge (ie the theoretical and historical contents of the discipline.
Evaluation scheme: insufficient; sufficient (18-22); mediocre (23-25); good (26-27); very good (28-29); excellent (30, 30 cum laude).

The course takes place in the first semester of the academic year and is organized as follows: lecturer's lectures in the first semester, linguistic exercises (Dr. Liosatou and Carpinato) during the entire academic year.
The lectures of the teacher are divided into two sections: during the first hour, elements of the history of the Greek literature are presented, focusing on the narrative and the Greek poetry; the second hour is dedicated to reading, analyzing, translating and listening to Greek literary texts.
The student will also use online learning material for self-learning. Will make active use of the moodle platform and the LIM.
In itinere tests will be assigned, which will be corrected and discussed in class and will form part of the final evaluation. In addition to lectures, attendance at seminars with guests from other universities and with writers, and attendance of MOOC courses set up for self-learning will be required.
Individual study and the ability to organize in-depth material will be assessed as evidence of acquired maturity.

Each teaching unit follows the same didactic criteria:

1. preparatory phase (problem solving): the topic is presented through a reference grid (what, where, when, who and how; proposed theme, history, environment, linguistic specificity).

2. operational phase (learning by doing) provides educational activities (reading and analysis, translations, use of the LIM board) to develop skills starting from hidden, inherent and previous knowledge: starting from the guided discovery of the basic vocabulary to identify words within the proposed texts.

3. reconstructive phase: (reflective learning), in order to activate the dynamic collaboration of those who are learning the method, the language and the contents.

4. evaluation phase (evaluation): before passing to the final phase of the exams (written and oral) students are invited during the course to take simple tests for the evaluation and self-assessment of what they have learned.

Italian

The course consists of two sections: one with lectures held by prof. Carpianto and one with linguistic exercises by E. Liosatou.
ERASMUS exchanges are active (Athens, Corfu, Komotini).

A visit to the monuments of the Greek diaspora in Venice and meetings with specialists to delve deeper into the topics covered in class are planned.
Eirini Papadaki, visiting scholar, University of Cyprus will be hosted by our University.
Two in-depth seminars are planned with the prof. Liosatou (on the edition of Manthos Ioannou's poem on the fall of the Peloponnese) and with prof. E. Giazzi on the retelling of the myth of Ariadne by the writer Rea Galanaki (2017).

The Modern Greek literature course aims to enable master's degree students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the specific characteristics of Greek literature within the historical-linguistic evolutionary paths (in a diachronic perspective). Previous knowledge will be deepened and useful tools will be provided for the development and application of original ideas, which can also be developed through specific individual research. The course is integrated by the Modern Greek language module.
5. It intends to provide critical tools necessary to address, through the knowledge acquired, new and unfamiliar problems and themes inserted in interdisciplinary contexts (essentially of a historical, anthropological and literary nature);
6. It proposes to offer the ability to analyze the complexity of information of a historical-linguistic nature and to formulate judgments aware of the social, ethical and cultural implications that they entail;
7. Provides useful elements to allow students the ability to communicate clearly and without ambiguity, and in the Modern Greek language, the historical-linguistic skills relating to literary and non-literary production (early modern and modern Greek), addressing both specialist interlocutors and to non-specialists;
8. It allows you to develop critical learning skills so that you can continue to study in a self-directed or autonomous way, delving into themes, authors, aspects of the cultural and linguistic history of modern Greece, thanks to the bibliographic and methodological tools acquired.

written and oral

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