Greek Modernism and Beyond

by Tziovas, Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9780847685769
• ISBN10: 0847685764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(2)
Gregory Nagy
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Dimitris Tziovas
Part I Modernity and Hellenism: Definition and Context	11	(32)
1 Modernism and Hellenism: Aspects of a Melancholy Sensibility	11	(14)
Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Olga Taxidou
2 Mapping out Greek Literary Modernism	25	(18)
Dimitris Tziovas
Part II Questions of Tradition: Nationalizing Modernism?	43	(18)
3 Hellenocentrism and the Literary Generation of the Thirties	43	(6)
Nasos Vayenas
4 The Monocotyledons of Greek Modernism: Popular Tradition in Twentieth-Century Greek Literature	49	(12)
Stathis Gauntlett
Part III The Precursors of Greek Modernism	61	(34)
5 Anticipating Modernism: Constructing a Genre, a Past, and a Place	61	(16)
Michalis Chryssanthopoulos
6 On the Verges of Modernism: The Dramas of Kazantzakis and Sikelianos	77	(18)
Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Part IV Surrealist Poetry and Modernist Landscapes	95	(40)
7 Modernism and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of "Greek Surrealism"	95	(16)
Takis Kayalis
8 Textual Orientations: Writing the Landscape in Elytis's The Axion Esti	111	(10)
Peter Mackridge
9 Odysseus Elytis: Metalingual Poetry and Obscure Verbs	121	(14)
David Connolly
Part V Greek Fiction and Modernist Practice	135	(44)
10 Interior Monologue: Recontextualizing a Modernist Practice in Greece	135	(16)
Maria Kakavoulia
11 Fragmentation of Consciousness in Pentzikis's Pragmatognosia	151	(12)
Eleni Yannakakis
12 Seferis's Six Nights on the Acropolis: A Modernist Tale?	163	(16)
Nadia Charalambidou
Part VI Comparative Approaches: Versions and Subversions	179	(38)
13 George Seferis and Theodore Roethke: Two Versions of Modernism	179	(14)
David Ricks
14 Subverting Eliot's Modernism: The First Postwar Generation of Greek Poets	193	(12)
Anastasia Anastasiadou
15 Social, Sexual and Textual Transgression: Kostas Tahtsis and Michel Tremblay, a Comparison	205	(12)
Christopher Robinson
Part VII In the Wake of Greek Modernism	217	(44)
16 The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Grade: The Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism	217	(12)
Elizabeth Arseniou
17 Playing with Genre(s): The "Prose Poems" of Nanos Valaoritis	229	(14)
Sophia Voulgari
18 Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanaki's Pasha and Pamuk's White Castle in the Global Market	243	(18)
Vangelis Calotychos
Afterword	261	(6)
Peter Bien
Index	267	(8)
About the Contributors	275