In these second blog posts, we are analyzing our country’s use of literary and visual (and potentially musical) devices in two consecutive Eurovision performances since 2009.
We’ll
each conclude by briefly evaluating what these performances suggest about our country’s attitudes to
the many facets of diversity.
So, for
example, this means we could be considering: language choices; lyrics;
metaphors; musical genres; storytelling; symbolism and imagery; visual devices
and staging; and the extent to which our country appears homo- or heterogeneous
across these three performances in a row.
We've
been asked to use the APA system for in-text citations and a full references list;
if you find that a distraction, we suggest you skip over those parenthetical
references as best you can.
We DO
value your feedback! Please leave your constructive comments at the end of our
posts. For this second blog post, we again have the option of revising
the text based on feedback (by February 28), so your thoughts are especially
welcome.
Again, for your convenience, here are the links our
individual country blog sites:
BALKAN:
BALTIC:
EST Estonia | FIN Finland | LAT Latvia | LTU Lithuania
CAUCASUS/C.I.S.:
ARM Armenia | AZE Azerbaijan | GEO Georgia | RUS Russia
EASTERN:
BUL Bulgaria | GRE Greece | MDA Moldova | ROM Romania
CENTRAL:
AUT Austria | CZE Czech Republic | HUN Hungary | SLO Slovenia
About us
We’ll be continuing our studies in all sorts of fields that have nothing to do with cultural or international studies, this course is quite a step outside the ordinary for us.
