2024/2025

Эфиопская литература

Статус: Дисциплина общефакультетского пула

Кто читает: Институт классического Востока и античности

Когда читается: 4 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Булах Мария Степановна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “Ethiopian literature” is offered to the students of the 2nd or 3rd year. The aim of the course is to make the students acquainted with the literature of Ethiopia as an African country with a rich written tradition. The course includes the late antique and medieval literature in Old Ethiopic and the modern literature in Amharic, the most important language of Ethiopia today. Thus, the course encompasses the time period from the 4th to the 20th cent. AD. Since translated works constitute an important part of Old Ethiopic literature, the students will have the opportunity of studying several important Jewish and Christian apocrypha such as Book of Jubilees, Book of Enoch, Ascension of Isaiah, The Shepherd of Hermas. The original Old Ethiopic literature includes hagiographies, theological treatises, historiography, religious poetry, magic literature. In the second part of the course, the students learn the history of emergence and development of the Amharic literature of Ethiopia as an example of a modern literature of Africa. They get acquainted with biographies and works of the most important Amharic writers, starting from Afewerq Gebreyesus and Heruy Welde Selassie, the founders of modern Amharic literature, and tracing the history of Amharic literature to the end of the 20th century.