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Author: Dēmētrēs Tziovas Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019967275X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
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Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece's modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece in Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined. For the contributors, re-imagining the past is an opportunity to critically examine and engage imaginatively with various approaches. Chapters explore both the role of antiquity in texts and established cultural practices and its popular, material and everyday uses, charting the transition in the study of the reception of antiquity in modern Greek culture from an emphasis on the continuity of the past to the recognition of its diversity. Incorporating a number of chapters which adopt a comparative perspective, the volume re-imagines Greek antiquity and invites the reader to look at the different uses and articulations of the past both in and outside Greece, ranging from literature to education, and from politics to photography.
Author: Dēmētrēs Tziovas Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019967275X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece's modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece in Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined. For the contributors, re-imagining the past is an opportunity to critically examine and engage imaginatively with various approaches. Chapters explore both the role of antiquity in texts and established cultural practices and its popular, material and everyday uses, charting the transition in the study of the reception of antiquity in modern Greek culture from an emphasis on the continuity of the past to the recognition of its diversity. Incorporating a number of chapters which adopt a comparative perspective, the volume re-imagines Greek antiquity and invites the reader to look at the different uses and articulations of the past both in and outside Greece, ranging from literature to education, and from politics to photography.
Author: Giannēs Ritsos Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691019088 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 266
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The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos's volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. Two of these volumes are represented here in English versions for the first time, two others have been translated only sporadically, and the remaining three were first published in a bilingual edition now out of print (Ritsos in Parentheses). The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece's modern history.
Author: Giannēs Ritsos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Greek fiction, Modern Languages : en Pages : 380
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"This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a 'roman fleuve' in the sense of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past?' Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a 'sarcastic climate'? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the 'greatest poet of his time?' And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by 'anonymous' human beings? -- everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simply inhabitants of Monemvasin; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends. All these 'anonymities' are skillfully counterpointed with the hero -- Ion -- and Ion's alter ego -- Ariostos -- and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. Ritsos' 'Iconostatis' is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of word, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably 'poetic', erotica and miraculous flights of language.In the other two volumes, still to appear in English, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic, bringing his visionary cycle full circle"--Publisher's description, vol. 1, back cover.
Author: Yannis Ritsos Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400870887 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 204
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Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here—Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975—represent a thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: "The two signs of the parenthesis are like cupped hands facing each other across a distance, hands that are straining to come together, to achieve a meeting that would serve to reaffirm human contact between isolated presences; but though there are obvious gestures toward closing the gap between the hands, the gestures seem inevitably to fail, and the meeting never quite occurs." In terms of the development of Ritsos's poetic vision, the distance within the parenthesis is shorter in each of the two earlier volumes than in the most recent volume. There the space has become almost infinite, yet Ritsos's powerfully evocative if stark landscape reveals a stylistic purity that is the latest mark of his greatness. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Giannēs Ritsos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Greek fiction, Modern Languages : en Pages : 268
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"This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a 'roman fleuve' in the sense of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past?' Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a 'sarcastic climate'? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the 'greatest poet of his time?' And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by 'anonymous' human beings? -- everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simply inhabitants of Monemvasin; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends. All these 'anonymities' are skillfully counterpointed with the hero -- Ion -- and Ion's alter ego -- Ariostos -- and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. Ritsos' 'Iconostatis' is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of word, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably 'poetic', erotica and miraculous flights of language. In the other two volumes, still to appear in English, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic, bringing his visionary cycle full circle"--Publisher's description, vol. 1, back cover
Author: Giannēs Ritsos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Greek fiction, Modern Languages : en Pages : 340
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"This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a 'roman fleuve' in the sense of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past?' Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a 'sarcastic climate'? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the 'greatest poet of his time?' And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by 'anonymous' human beings? -- everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simply inhabitants of Monemvasin; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends. All these 'anonymities' are skillfully counterpointed with the hero -- Ion -- and Ion's alter ego -- Ariostos -- and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. Ritsos' 'Iconostatis' is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of word, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably 'poetic', erotica and miraculous flights of language. In the other two volumes, still to appear in English, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic, bringing his visionary cycle full circle"--Publisher's description, vol. 1, back cover
Author: Dimitris Tziovas Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0755617452 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 319
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Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends in the years between the fall of the junta and the economic crisis, highlighting the growing diversity and cultural ambivalence of Greek society. With its focus on issues such as identity, antiquity, religion, language, literature, media, cinema, youth, gender and sexuality, this study is one of the first to examine cultural trends in Greece over the last fifty years. Aiming for a more nuanced understanding of recent history, the study offers a fresh perspective on current problems.
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