Classical and World literature: comparative aspects

Pre-requisites: Prerequisites given (students must attend lectures and exercises and also finish their seminar paperwork).

Course objectives: The course aims to enable students to acquire knowledge and necessary skills for deeper understanding of issues concerning reception of Classical texts in World literature.

Course description: The course gives an overview of works of Classical and World literature, in prose and verse, authors' biographies and literary terms.

Learning Outcomes: Ability for scientific researches and teaching both Classical philology and comparative literature.

Literature/Reading:

• M. Đurić, Helenska književnost i komparatistika, Beograd, 1997.
• S. Peković – S. Slapšak (ur.), Naučna kritika komparativističkog smera: izabrani kritički radovi... (zbornik radova), N. Sad – Beograd, 1983. Z. Konstantinović, Uvod u uporedno ..., Beograd, 1984.
• V. Riedel, Literarische Antikerezeption zwischen Kritik und Idealisierung, Jena, 2009. S. Brittan, Poetry, simbol, allegory: interpreting metaphorical language…, Charlottesville, 2003.
• D. Popović, "Paideia i nasleđe helenske kulture u inauguracionoj besedi Dimitrija Halkondila", ZRVI 45(2008), 301-312.