An introduction to modern Greek literature
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An introduction to modern Greek literature
Clarendon Press, c1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-401) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821 is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period seen as a whole, and includes developments up to the present day. The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with another and with its historical context. It moves from the varying responses to European Romanticism which defined Greek literature in the 19th century, culminating in the work of Palamas, Kazantzakis and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the modernist-influenced work of the years from the 1920 to 1945. A post-war reaction against modernism was followed by growing experimentation, and the book deals in detail with this most productive of periods in modern Greek literature. No knowledge of Greek is assumed and all quotations are given in both Greek and English. Roderick Beaton is the author of "The Medieval Greek Romance", and editor of "The Greek Novel AD 1-1985".
Table of Contents
- Literature for a new nation - 1821-1881
- national expansion and its limits from "great idea" to aftermath of disaster - 1881-1928
- in search of a new national identity - 1929-1949
- the aftermath of war and civil war - 1949-1967
- from military dictatorship towards international integration - 1967-1992
- literature and language - the "language question".
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