COLT 50.01 Literature and Ideology in Eastern Europe
The course will focus on the politics and contexts of language functioning in literary works as an instrument of ideological influences as well as the tool of counterinfluence, or resilience, to various kinds of ideological pressure. We will analyze a selection of literary works representing new and updated genres and styles, with a special look at literary works as war testimony "after Bucha" in Ukraine. Among the considered authors are winners of prestigious literary prizes.