Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscapeimagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether.
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Placing modern Greece.
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Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840
German literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
German literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Greek poetry, Modern-- 19th century-- History and criticism.