Modernism in Greece?
Essays on the Critical and Literary Margins of a Movement
edited by Mary N. Layoun
Leading critics on the uniquely Greek manifestation of a literary movement.
Contributions:
- “Modernist Criticism: Greek and American Defenses of the Autonomous Literary Text in the 1930s,” by Artemis Leontis
- “The Simulations of the Center: Lorenzatos’s Neohellenism Against the Modernist Phantom,” by Stathis Gourgouris
- “The Art of Making Claques: Politics of Tradition in the Critical Essays of T.S. Eliot and George Seferis,” by Vangelis Calotychos
- “The Suppression of an Imminent Modernism: Y. Ritsos’s Response to K. Karyotakis’s Challenge,” by Kostas Demelis
- “Facing Fragments: C.P. Cavafy’s Poetic Experimentations with the Iliad,” by Panayiotis C. Bosnakis
- “History and the Modernist Fragment: On M. Axioti’s Duskoles Nuchtes,” by Maria Kakavoulia
- “Tellers of Truth and Tellers of Tales: Dimitris Hatzis’s To Diplo Biblio and the Implications of Storytelling,” by Rebecca Saunders