Psycholinguistics
Christina Manouilidou - Undergraduate -
(A+)
Philology, University of Patras
The course examines the linguistic phenomenon in the light of psychological factors that allow speakers to use and understand the language. Individual issues are examining experimental data from the regions of lexical recognition of the mental lexicon, understanding and processing of sentences as well as the relationship between language and memory. The course students will be able to describe how we process the language and store language information in relation to the human intellect.
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The course seeks to examine over time the genre of Byzantine historiography. Several periods, evolution, individual items and the main characteristics of Byzantine historiographical works will be represented and we are going to study several representative excerpts of historical and historians from the early, middle and late Byzantine period.
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Course description
This course offers students a systematic introduction to Cavafy’s poetry. It gives them the opportunity to acquaint themselves with key aspects of Cavafy’s poetics. Another aim of the course is to equip students with the analytical skills to approach Cavafy’s masterpieces. In addition, the course will explore Cavafy’s beliefs about poetry and life, as they are expressed in his poems and they are formulated in his essays and critical texts.
More specifically the course focuses on the ways Cavafy creates his narrative and dramatic personas in his “canon” poems. The way the persona’s identity is constructed is connected with the development of his poetics which, gradually, becomes more complex.
In order to be able to follow the course students have to undertake some preparatory reading. A preliminary bibliography relating to identity, persona and irony, will be available on e-class from the beginning of the term.
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Archaic epic: Homer
Efimia Karakantza - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Department of Philology, University of Patras
The aim of this course is to acquaint the students with the homeric epic and its distinctive features. We present the structure and content of the two homeric poems and study selected passages of the original texts.
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Literature for Children I
Dimitris Politis - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras
The aim of the course “Literature for Children I” is to introduce students: a) in the field of literary production for children, b) in the comprehension of particular defining elements of literary texts that is addressed to the children, and c) in the exploitation of modern practical/ways of approach of literary texts for children.
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Course description
The course aims to furnish students with a comprehensive knowledge of the literary comic and its subversive potentials, as well as to develop skills relevant to postgraduate studies. The course therefore concentrates on four core concepts: satire, irony, parody, humor, which constitute basic writing tools and, at the same time, theoretical issues with philosophical implications.
In addition to the knowledge and skills specific to the field of the Comic and the Poetics of Subversion, the course will investigate relevant terms, such as burlesque, pastiche, grotesque, caricature, allegory, quotation, related to the four main terms in many different ways.
The course is so designed to give students an overview of developments within the theoretical field, from the Early Modern Period to today. Within such a chronological framework, the course introduces students to the ways satire, irony, humor and parody have been transformed and to the social and historical conditions under which specific works of literature were created.
Students are introduced to critical and theoretical texts and debates which surround primary texts of the course, thereby being allowed to place their own interpretations within a proper academic context and to understand the developments in critical thinking surrounding a text and within critical theory in general. Different theoretical models are applied to a wide range of European and mainly Greek literary texts
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Through this course we present the works of Euripides, their place in the history of ancient Greek literature, the historical and social context in which they developed. We study in particular Medea (431 B.C.) with an emphasis to the ancient Greek text, grammar and syntax. Verses 1-662 are studied in the tutorial course and verses 663-1419 are studied in the main course.
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This course intends to introduce students to ancient Greek drama (e. g. its origin). We discuss the available information on Aeschylus' life, as well as his work (dating and plot of the extant dramas). Regarding Sophocles, except for his biography and work, we study the new ideological circumstances, in which drama was composed. The main text used in the course is Sophocles' Ajax (myth, divergences from the iliadic Aias), with emphasis on translation, grammatical, syntactical and ideological comments. Finally, we study Sophocles' Antigone, in order to confute the circulated fallacies regarding its interpretation and present modern interpretative approaches.
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The course examines the process by which infants develop the ability to perceive, produce and use linguistic elements of their native language for their communication. Specifically, it is considered the acquisition of phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics and vocabulary. The examination of the phenomenon of language acquisition is not limited to spoken language but also includes the study of the sign language.
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The aim of this course is to introduce students to the subject, methods, objectives of science and to the literary and secretarial production of Byzantine Literature. Also, it presents the periods, the evolution, the species and the important figures and works of the Byzantine literary production from the foundation of Constantinople till the fall of 1453.
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