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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 understanding, the formative role of reading expectations, the enabling presence of relevant literacy, the conditioning horizon of expectations, and the economic character of axiology. The main argument advanced is that criticism, by constructing literature as an ethnic heritage and communal treasure, participated in the invention of a national identity necessary for the legitimization of the modern state.Case studies have been selected from the highly relevant area of contemporary Greek criticism. Microscopic investigations of its dominant sites, mechanisms, and discourses reveal that the field emerged in response to concrete political needs and provided the state with a literary tradition as proof of its national composition, purity, continuity, and autonomy. The construction and canonization of texts as art works invariably employed, as a measure of aesthetic (and ultimately moral) merit, the Greekness of the literary sign. The book, as a genealogical approach to the neglected national role of literature, should be of interest to specialists in literary theory, comparative literature, Greek studies, and cultural studies.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Criticism --- Greek literature, Modern --- Political aspects. --- History and criticism.

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Greek literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- Criticism --- History and criticism

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The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals in various areas such as 'man's place in nature', the nature-nurture controversy, religion, and class, race and gender. In addition, it reveals that many of these individuals were not just dealing with important issues from social, political or philosophical perspectives, as has been the general thought till now, but they were also considering alternative approaches to these issues based on Darwinian and associated biological post-Darwinian ideas. These issues included the Greek race/nation, culture, language and identity; politics and gender equality. There is a focus on the work of Grigorios Xenopoulos as a case study, who wrote prolifically through this period.

Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Greek literature, Modern --- Natural selection --- Literature and science. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- Xenopoulos, Grēgorios, --- Ξενοπουλος, Γρηγοριος, --- Xenopoulo, Grégoire, --- Xenopoulos, Grigorios, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Early 20th century, Gender, Identity, Intellectual life, Literature, Racism. --- Xenopoulos, Grēgorios,-1867-1951-Criticism and interpretation. --- Greek literature, Modern-19th century-History and criticism. --- Greek literature, Modern-20th century-History and criticism. --- Natural selection-Philosophy.

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In this monograph, Dr. Comatsos analyzes the utilization of female narrators in Greek fiction from 1924-1962 and connects the appearance of women in the public sphere in Greece. The author examines female narrators in nine novels written by both male and female authors using narratology, feminism, and Bakhtin's polyphony in her inquiry. She follows the emergence of the female "I" from private forms of writing (diary, journals) to more public ones. She shows how male authors (here, Grigorios Xenopoulos and Nikos Katiforis) use a female voice to justify male patriarchal ideologies. Additionally,

Greek fiction, Modern --- Women in literature --- Self in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Marginality, Social, in literature --- Women and literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Greek literature, Modern --- History and criticism

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In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of censorship-in cartoons, the dictator's speeches, the poetry of the Nobel Laureate George Seferis, and the younger generation of poets-she shows how women poets use strategies which, although initiated in response to the regime's press law, prove useful in articulating a feminist critique. In poetry collections by Rhea Galanaki, Jenny Mastoraki and Maria Laina, among others, she analyzes how the censors'tactics for stabilizing signification are redeployed to disrupt fixed meanings and gender roles.As much a literary analysis of culture as a cultural analysis of literature, her book explores how censorship, consumerism, and feminism influence contemporary Greek women's poetry as well as how the resistance to clarity in this poetry trains readers to rethink these cultural practices. Only with greater attention to the cultural and formal specificity of writing, Van Dyck argues, is it possible to theorize the lessons of censorship and women's writing.

Women --- Politics and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women and literature --- Greek poetry, Modern --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literature and politics --- Modern Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Modern --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Politics and government. --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Greece --- Politics and government