Greek modernism and beyond : essays in honor of Peter Bien /

Other Authors: Τζιόβας, Δημήτρης,, Bien, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield publishers, 1997
Series:Greek studies : Interdisciplinary approaches
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gregory Nagy
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Dimitris Tziovas
  • Modernism and Hellenism: Aspects of a Melancholy Sensibility / Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Olga Taxidou
  • Mapping out Greek Literary Modernism / Dimitris Tziovas Hellenocentrism and the Literary Generation of the Thirties / Nasos Vayenas
  • The Monocotyledons of Greek Modernism: Popular Tradition in Twentieth-Century Greek Literature / Stathis Gauntlett
  • Anticipating Modernism: Constructing a Genre, a Past, and a Place / Michalis Chryssanthopoulos
  • On the Verges of Modernism: The Dramas of Kazantzakis and Sikelianos / Elizabeth Sakellaridou
  • Modernism and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of "Greek Surrealism" / Takis Kayalis
  • Textual Orientations: Writing the Landscape in Elytisʹs The Axion Esti / Peter Mackridge
  • Odysseus Elytis: Metalingual Poetry and Obscure Verbs / David Connolly
  • Interior Monologue: Recontextualizing a Modernist Practice in Greece / Maria Kakavoulia
  • Fragmentation of Consciousness in Pentzikisʹs Pragmatognosia / Eleni Yannakakis
  • Seferisʹs Six Nights on the Acropolis: A Modernist Tale? / Nadia Charalambidou
  • George Seferis and Theodore Roethke: Two Versions of Modernism / David Ricks
  • Subverting Eliotʹs Modernism: The First Postwar Generation of Greek Poets / Anastasia Anastasiadou
  • Social, Sexual and Textual Transgression: Kostas Tahtsis and Michel Tremblay, a Comparison / Christopher Robinson
  • The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Garde: The Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism / Elizabeth Arseniou
  • Playing with Genre(s): The "Prose Poems" of Nanos Valaoritis / Sophia Voulgari
  • Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanakiʹs Pasha and Pamukʹs White Castle in the Global Market / Vangelis Calotychos
  • Afterword / Peter Bien
  • Index
  • About the Contributors