Winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 1995
An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Roderick Beaton
Price: £39.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815974-2
Publication date: 11 March 1999
440 pages, 2 maps, 216x138 mm
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| Description | | - Winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 1995
- A readable introduction to a subject that has attracted growing interest in recent years
- The first full-length study of Greek literature in the period from national independence in 1821 to the present day
- No knowledge of Greek is assumed and all quotations are given in both Greek and English
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REVIEWS OF THE HARDBACK:
`pays equal attention to prose and poetry as well as to writers of Marxist and "bourgeois idealist" persuasion ... scrupulously records the extensive secondary literature. ... The approach is designed to appeal to both specialists and non-specialists ... for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and especially for post-war prose, An Introduction to Modern Greek
Literature
will assuredly become a standard resource.' Times Literary Supplement
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'This is a particularly welcome volume, as there are few scholars who have done more to further the cause of Modern Greek Literature than Professor Beaton ... All of the great names of modern Greek literature are discussed in this wide-ranging and most praiseworthy book. ... The bibliography is something of a treasure-trove for those who wish to delve further into the subject, and there are
many references to specialist articles in periodicals which will prove fruitful for those seeking advanced insight into some of the many important questions raised by the enthralling study.' Greek Gazette
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'Beaton's book aims precisely at elucidating Greek literature in its social and cultural context. ... The resulting work is a lively, informative and intellectually stimulating account of the issues which it addresses. ... This is a clear, well-presented, entirely readable, admirably illustrated account of many facets of Modern Greek literature in its social and cultural context. It is quite
the best introduction to its subject that anyone, English or
Greek, could wish to find.' Anglo Hellenic Review
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This is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton's 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period, seen as a whole, and including developments up until 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 nineteenth century, culminating in the work of Palamas and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the Modernist influenced work of the years from the 1920s 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.
An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
is an important source for both specialists and general readers, bringing to light a rich but neglected
part of modern European literature.
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Readership: Scholars, postgraduate, and undergraduate students of modern Greek literature; comparative literature; general readers of modern Greek and European literature.
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How to Use this Book
Introduction
1.
Literature for a New Nation: 1821-1881
2.
National Expansion and its Limits: From `Great Idea' to Aftermath of Disaster: 1881-1928
3.
In Search of a New National Identity: 1929-1949
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The Aftermath of War and Civil War: 1949-1967
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From Military Dictatorship towards International Integration: 1967-1992
6.
Literature and Language: The `Language Question'
Guide to Bibliography in English
Guide to Translations
References
Index of Greek Titles
General Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Roderick Beaton, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature, King's College, London
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