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Literature as National Institution : Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism.

This book examines how the practices of criticism establish a particular domain of knowledge, the truth of literature. As a discussion of the ideology and politics of literary knowledge, it concentrates on constitutive elements of its production: the intertextuality of writing, the mediatedness of u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambropoulos, Vassilis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Toward a Genealogy of "Literature": The Institutionalization of Tradition in C. Th. Dimaras's A History of Modern Greek Literature
  • 2. Who has been Reading Masterpieces on Our Behalf? George Seferis, Makriyannis, and the Literary Canon
  • 3. The Fictions of Criticism: The "Prolegomena" of Iakovos Polylas as Künstlerroman
  • 4. Incompleteness as Damnation: The Poetics of the Romantic Fragment in Dionysios Solomos's The Free Besieged
  • 5. The Hermeneutics of Openness in the Novel: The Unsettling Modernism of Yannis Beratis's Whirlwind
  • 6. Writing Greek as the Only Language: The Impossible Postmodernism of Renos Apostolidis's "The John of my Life"
  • 7. What Makes Good Literature Good and Literature: The Politics of Evaluation Surrounding the Work of Yannis Ritsos
  • 8. The Violent Power of Knowledge: The Struggle of Critical Discourses for Domination over Constantine P. Cavafy's "Young Men of Sidon, A.D. 400"
  • 9. Encountering the Poststructuralist Challenge, or Beyond Humanism: The Paradigms of Contemporary Greek Criticism and the Languages of Theory
  • Postscript: Peri Hermeneias
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter