Greek Modernism and Beyond

by Tziovas, Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9780847685776
• ISBN10: 0847685772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-26
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this volume, scholars from three continents provide a framework in which developments in prose, poetry, and drama can be studied together. The contributors seek to redefine the contours of Greek modernism, to reassess its impact on Greek culture, and to explore the fringes of the movement. Special attention is paid to the role of the avant-garde in Greece and the emergence of postmodern trends in Greek culture. Greek Modernism and Beyond is valuable reading for students and scholars of Greek and European literature.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Modernism and Hellenism: Aspects of a Melancholy Sensibility	p. 11
Mapping out Greek Literary Modernism	p. 25
Hellenocentrism and the Literary Generation of the Thirties	p. 43
The Monocotyledons of Greek Modernism: Popular Tradition in Twentieth-Century Greek Literature	p. 49
Anticipating Modernism: Constructing a Genre, a Past, and a Place	p. 61
On the Verges of Modernism: The Dramas of Kazantzakis and Sikelianos	p. 77
Modernism and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of "Greek Surrealism"	p. 95
Textual Orientations: Writing the Landscape in Elytis's The Axion Esti	p. 111
Odysseus Elytis: Metalingual Poetry and Obscure Verbs	p. 121
Interior Monologue: Recontextualizing a Modernist Practice in Greece	p. 135
Fragmentation of Consciousness in Pentzikis's Pragmatognosia	p. 151
Seferis's Six Nights on the Acropolis: A Modernist Tale?	p. 163
George Seferis and Theodore Roethke: Two Versions of Modernism	p. 179
Subverting Eliot's Modernism: The First Postwar Generation of Greek Poets	p. 193
Social, Sexual and Textual Transgression: Kostas Tahtsis and Michel Tremblay, a Comparison	p. 205
The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Garde: The Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism	p. 217
Playing with Genre(s): The "Prose Poems" of Nanos Valaoritis	p. 229
Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanaki's Pasha and Pamuk's White Castle in the Global Market	p. 243
Afterword	p. 261
Index	p. 267
About the Contributors	p. 275
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