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Journal of Modern Hellenism releases special issue on Greek literature

May 23, 2019
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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Queens College, CUNY, and the Hellenic Studies Program at Sacramento State, is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Hellenism.

This special issue was co-edited by Nektaria Klapaki from the University of Washington and Eirini Kotsovili from 間眅埶AV and entitled On the Intersections of Modern Greek Literature with Greek History and the Past. The issue features contributions from a range of emerging and established scholars writing on a Modern Greek literary corpus that stretches from the 1820s to the 2000s, while engaging with the ongoing dialogue between Greeces literature and history.

Table of contents

Articles

  • "Modern Greek Literatures Intersections with Greek History and the Past: A Concise Outline" by Nektaria Klapaki
  • "Staging Transcultural Relations: Early Nineteenth-Century British Drama and the Greek War of Independence" by Alexander Grammatikos
  • "Cavafys Historical Poetics in Context: Caesarion as Palimpsest" by Takis Kayalis
  • "Reading Andreas Kordopatis, Understanding History and Fiction in Thanasis Valtinos" by Anthony Dracopoulos
  • "Of Pretense and Preservation of the Self: Theater, Trauma, and (Post)memory in The Mother of the Dog by Pavlos Matesis" by Gonda Van Steen
  • "History, Fidelity and Time in Rhea Galanakis Novels" by Angie Voela

Creative Pedagogy and Work of Emerging Scholars

  • A Letter from John Tzetzes, with Notes for the Uncomprehending by Michael Howitt

Book Reviews

  • RENA MOLHO, The Holocaust of the Greek Jews: Studies of History and Memory reviewed by Kerasia Malagiorgi

 

To learn more about the Journal of Modern Hellenism and to view its backlist, please visit the journal's webpage.

For more information about the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, please visit our Media page.