COLT 26.01 Romanticism and Romance in Eastern Europe

This course explores the 19th-century romanticism, which introduced to Eastern Europe the Western values of freedom, liberty, and nation. This became a key nation-building movement in the East, with a newly created literary language that fueled the romantic arts, poetry and drama. This was interwoven with music, architecture and history writing in the struggle for nationhood. It is understood that the national movement of Central and Eastern Europe was initiated by a small group of intellectuals who romanticized folklore. The course includes examples of popular (folk) romantic lyrics and songs (romances) from Eastern European countries: primarily Ukraine, Poland, and Russia, but also Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. It is important to acknowledge the paradoxes of Romanticism and the challenges faced by Eastern Europe, which have included internal and international conflicts.

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Comparative Literature