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Modern Greek Literatureby Gregory Nagy; Anna Stravrakopoulou
Routledge 2003; US$ 32.95This collection examines major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, spanning from romantic to post-modern authors, poets, and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in nineteenth and twentieth century Greece. Major authors discussed included Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis, Seferis, and many others. more...
The classical commentaryby R. Gibson; C.S. Kraus
BRILL 2002; US$ 237.00Written primarily by practising commentators, these papers examine the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. more...
Byzantine authorsby J.W. Nesbitt
BRILL 2003; US$ 178.00In honouring the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides, the contributors to this work offer a group of Greek texts and translations which reflect the wide interests of Byzantine authors and the varied genres to which they devoted their talents. It includes the military speeches of Constantine VII. more...
A Companion to the Classical Traditionby Craig W. Kallendorf
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 199.95A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory more...
The Collected Poemsby C.P. Cavafy; Evangelos Sachperoglou; Anthony Hirst; Peter Mackridge
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 8.95This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of Cavafy's 154 authorized poems ever to be published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of the poet's individual tone of voice. - ;'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster. E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present... more...
Scandalizing Jesus?by Darren J. N. Middleton
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 150.002005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth centurys most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half centurys worth of criticism and reception history. Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who succumbs to the... more...
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquityby Choricius; Robert J. Penella; Eugenio Amato; Malcolm Heath; George A. Kennedy; Terry L. Papillon; William R. Reader; D. A. Russell; Simon Swain
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 88.00The first translation of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. more...
Folk Poetry of Modern Greeceby Roderick Beaton
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 40.00A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and songs from the end of the Byzantine Empire to the present. more...
Literature and Society in Renaissance Creteby David Holton
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 62.00This book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the time of the Cretan Renaissance. more...
Mediterranean Modernismsby Marinos Pourgouris
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist thinkers in Europe, including Albert Camus, Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris's study is one of the most compelling contributions to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of Odysseus Elytis. more...









