Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Greek fiction in a united Europe : from local history to the global individual / edited by Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis.

Publication

Oxford : Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mackridge, Peter
• Yannakakis, Eleni.
• University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre

Description

xi, 207 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Greek fiction, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Greek fiction, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Greek Fiction in the Age of Globalization / Peter MacKridge and Eleni Yannakakis -- Pt. 1. Overview of Tendencies and Perspectives -- 1. Centrifugal Topographies, Cultural Allegories and Metafictional Strategies in Greek Fiction since 1974 / Dimitris Tziovas -- Pt. 2. Shifting Spaces, Drifting Identities -- 2. Greeks in the Balkans, the Balkans in Greece: Greek Fiction's First Steps towards Acknowledging the Other Next Door / Vangelis Hatzivassiliou -- 3. Alpha Males and Worker Bees of the Balkan Honeycomb: Economic Migrants in Contemporary Greek Fiction / Vangelis Calotychos -- 4. Dislocated Self in a Global Situation / Mary Mike -- 5. Geographical and Ideological Wanderings: Greek Fiction of the 1990s / Eleni Yannakakis -- Pt. 3. Global as Local -- 6. From the Underworld to Other Worlds: Political Attitudes in Contemporary Greek Fiction / Venetia Apostolidou -- 7. 'The Ultimate Art of our Greek Corruption': The Global as an Experimental Expansion of the Local in Yorgis Yatromanolakis's Fiction / Vangelis Athanassopoulos -- Pt. 4. Fragmented Worlds -- 8. In and Out of the Text: Games across Genres in Modern Greek Fiction / Maria Kakavoulia -- 9. Individual within Multiple Worlds in Greek Short Stories since 1974 / Anastasia Natsina -- 10. Ideology's Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos's Data from the Decade of the Sixties / Dimitris Paivanas -- Pt. 5. New Treatments of Old Themes -- 11. Portrait of the Artist in the Late Twentieth Century / Angela Kastrinaki -- 12. Angels in the Storm: The Portrait of the Woman Writer in Three Contemporary Novels by Women / Argiro Mantoglou -- 13. Disunification of the Nation: Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction and Collective Identities / Konstantinos Kosmas.

ISBN

1900755858

OCLC

• 53458756
• SCSB-12720750

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library