UHON 390TTh 2:00-3:15
East Hall 220
Mr Lehmann
East Hall 210; office hours TTh 11-12; 5573; clehmann@usd.edu
UHON 390
TTh 2:00-3:15
East Hall 220
Mr Lehmann
East Hall 210; office hours TTh 11-12; 5573;
clehmann@usd.edu
This honors seminar investigates how travelers to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have perceived modern Greece, and how expectations determined partly by supposed familiarity with ancient Greece, partly by assumptions about the modern Orient, and (since the middle of the twentieth century) partly by propaganda disseminated in the context of the travel industry, affected their perceptions. In addition to texts and artwork by western travelers to Greece, students will treat theories of transculturalism. Finally, due to the powerful influence western ideas about Greece have had on Greek self-perception, the seminar will treat the self-conscious aspect of nation-building in the modern Greek state.
The instructor will provide background information, but for the most part the seminar will proceed by discussion of common texts and student reports. Although much of the content reflects the disappointment of travelers who fail to find what they expect, students should come away from the seminar with a sense of what modern Greece has to offer to those who encounter it on its own terms. To the common traveler’s question on first arriving in Greece, "Is this it?" the students should be able to respond not "What did you expect?" but "Yes, it is!"
Each student will give three in-class presentations, one for each part of the course, on items chosen from the bibliography. These presentations and participation will constitute one-half of the grade for the course. The other half depends on the term paper, in which the student selects one critical/theoretical approach and applies it to at least two works of travel literature or art.
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away
–Dickinson
Bibliography: Theory and Background
Alcock, Susan E. Graecia Capta: The Landscapes of Roman Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1993.
Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, Helen. The Eve of the Greek Revival: British Travellers' Perceptions of Early Nineteenth-Century Greece. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.
Basch, Sophie. Le Voyage imaginaire: Les écrivains français en Grèce au XXe siècle. Athens: Hatier, 1991.
Campbell, Mary Baine. "The Idea of Greece in Western Letters." Arion 4.2 (1996): 214-224.
Chambers, Erve. Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1999.
Eisner, Robert. Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Faubion, James D. Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Gourgouris, Stathis. Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Green, Peter. "Myth, Tradition, and Ideology in the Greek Literary Revival: The Paradoxical Case of Yannis Ritsos." Arion 4.2 (1996):88-111.
Herzfeld, Michael. Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
Keeley, Edmund. Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47. Chicago: Northwestern Univ Press, 2002.
Lambropoulos, Vassilis. The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Leontis, Artemis. Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Panourgia, K, and.E Neni. Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Said, Edward, Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.
________. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Bibliography: Texts
Aurelia.
A Lone Red Apple. Pittsburgh: Greek America Press, 1998.Babin, Jacques Paul (d 1699). Relation de l'état présent de la ville d'Athènes, ancienne capitale de la Grèce, bâtie depuis 3400 ans. Lyon: L. Pascal, 1674.
Barrett, Matt. Greece Travel Guide. Internet site <http://www.greecetravel.com/> accessed 17 Oct 2006.
Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques. Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece during the Middle of the Fourth Century, before the Christian ra. Trans William Beaumont. 4 vols. Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson & Co, 1804.
Bent, J Theodore (1852-97). The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks. 1885. Ed Gerald Brisch. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002.
Carroll, Michael. Gates of the Wind. London: J Murray, 1965.
Chateaubriand, François-René (1768-1848). Correspondance générale de Chateaubriand. Paris: Champion, 1912.
De Bernières, Louis. Corelli’s Mandolin. New York: Pantheon, 1994. Reissued by Penguin as Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
Durrell, Lawrence. The Greek Islands. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978.
Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. London: John Murray, 1958.
________. Rumeli: Travels in Northern Greece. Introduction by Patricia Storace. NYRB Classics. New York: Random House, 2006 (orig publ 1966).
Pouqueville, François Charles Hugues Laurent (1770-1838). Voyage de la Gr ce. 6 vols. Paris: Didot, 1826-27.
Fowles, John. The Magus. Rev ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Freeman, Edward A (1823-92). Studies in Travel: Greece. New York and London: Putman, 1891.
Gage, Nicholas. Eleni. New York: Ballantine, 1996.
Galt, John (1779-1839). Letters from the Levant. . London: Cadell and Davies, 1813.
Garrett, Martin. Greece: A Literary Companion. London: John Murray, 1994.
Gray, Peter. People of Poros: A Portrait of a Greek Island Village. New York and London: Whittlesey House, 1942.
Guys, Pierre Augustin (1721–1799). Voyage littéraire de la Gr ce. 3rd edition. Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1783.
Innes, Hammond. Levkas Man. London: Collins, 1971.
Jebb, R C (1841-1905). Modern Greece. Two Lectures Delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh. London: Macmillan, 1880.
Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek. Trans Carl Wildman. Various editions.
Leake, William Martin (1777-1860). The Topography of Athens with Some Remarks on Its Antiquities. London, Murray, 1821.
Leontis, Artemis, editor. Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion. San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1997.
Manus, Willard. This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables. Athens: Lycabettus Press, 1998.
Merrill, James Ingram. The (Diblos) Notebook. New York: Athenaeum, 1965.
Miller, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. New York: New Directions, 1958.
Pettifer, James. The Greeks: The Land and People since the War. London: Penguin, 1994.
Raeburn, Nancy. Mykonos. Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1992.
Stoneman, Richard, editor. A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
Storace, Patricia. Dinner with Persephone. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
Stuart, James (1713-1788), and Nicolas Revett (1720-1804). The Antiquities of Athens. 3 vols. London. John Haberkorn and John Nichols, 1762.
Theroux, Paul. The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean. (New York: Ballatine, 1996). 0449910857
Vassilikos, Vassilis. Z. Trans Vassilikos and Marilyn Calmann. New York: Ballantine, 1969.
Bibliography: Art
Paris Rome Athens: Le voyage en Gr ce des architectes français aux XIXe et XXe si cles. Paris: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1982
Tsigakou, Fani-Maria. Rediscovery of Greece: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era. New Rochelle NY: Caratzas Brothers, 1981.
________. Through Romantic Eyes: European Images of Nineteenth-Century Greece. Alexandria: Arts Services International, 1991.
22, 24 January: Outline of Greek History
29, 31 Jan; 5, 7 Feb: Greeks in Greece (Homer, Apuleius, Pausanias)
12, 14 Feb: The Romans in Greece (Alcock, chs 1, 6)
19, 21 Feb: Renaissance views (Babin, Cyriacus)
26, 28 Feb: Travelers as Scholars (Stuartt and Revett, Leake, Bent, Jebb)
4, 6 Mar: Travelers as Writers (Chateaubriand, Galt, Twain, Pouqueville, Galt)
11, 13 Mar: Travelers as Artists (Leer, Dodwell, Dupré, Scherer); PowerPoint: Seeing Greece
25, 27 Mar: Tavelers as Revolutionaries (Byron)
1, 3, 8, 10 Apr: Travelers between the Wars (Miller, Durrell, Gray)
15, 17, 22 Apr: Travelers as Tourists (Barrett, Theroux, Raeburn, Manus)
29 Apr, 1 May: Travelers as Ethnographers (Fermor, Storace)