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Topographies of Hellenism :

0801430577

9780801430572

Topographies of Hellenism :

[Book]

mapping the homeland /

Artemis Leontis.

Ithaca :

Cornell University Press,

1995.

xi, 257 pages ;

24 cm.

Myth and poetics

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.

Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- Introduction: Mapping the Territory -- 1. The Topological Approach -- 2. Heterotopia: Visitors to the Culture of Ruins -- 3. Topos: From Revenant Nation to Transcendental Territory -- 4. Entopia: Modernist Transpositions of the Native -- 5. Nostos: Hellenism's Suspended Homecoming -- 6. Cosmos: Modernist Poetics in a National Universe -- Afterword: Changing Topographies.

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How do people map a homeland? How does the homeland define them? Focusing on the interrelations between culture and geography, Artemis Leontis illuminates the making of modern Greece. As she fashions a new approach to contemporary Greek literature, Leontis explores the transformation of Hellenism from a cultural ideal to a nation-state.

In Leontis's view, a homeland exists not when it has been inhabited, but after it has been mapped. The mapping of Hellenism, she maintains, has required that modern Greek writers reconstruct a topos, or place for Hellenism through their own national literature. Leontis compares literary topographies of Hellenism created by Greek poets, novelists, and intellectuals from the 1880s to the 1960s with those constructed by European travelers, diplomats, and scholars. In her discussion of both modern and ancient Greek texts, she reconsiders mainstream poetics in the light of a marginal national literature. Leontis examines in particular how the Nobel laureates George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis both incorporate ancient texts and use experimental techniques in their poetry. Charting the constellation of factors that influence our sense of place, collective identity, and tradition, Leontis confronts questions central to current national struggles throughout the world.

Civilization, Modern-- Greek influences.

Geography, Ancient, in literature.

Greek literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Hellenism.

Literature, Modern-- Greek influences.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Civilisation moderne et contemporaine-- Influence grecque.

Géographie ancienne dans la littérature.

Grèce dans la littérature.

Hellénisme.

Littérature grecque-- Histoire et critique-- Théorie, etc.

Littérature-- Influence grecque.

Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.

Civilisation moderne-- Influence antique.

Civilization, Modern-- Greek influences.

Geography, Ancient, in literature.

Griekse oudheid.

Hellenism.

Hellénisme.

Historiography.

Letterkunde.

Literature, Modern-- Greek influences.

Literature.

Littérature grecque-- Histoire et critique.

Littérature moderne-- Influence grecque.

Mythologie grecque-- Dans la littérature.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Nieuwgrieks.

Receptie.

Greece, Historiography.

Greece, In literature.

Greece, Historiography.

Greece, In literature.

Grèce, Historiographie.

Grèce, Dans la littérature.

Grèce, Historiographie.

Greece.

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