After more than two decades as a full member of the European Union, Greece has produced a literature with radically different orientations from previous periods. The former obsession of fiction with national history and local identity has been superseded by a focus on individual characters in search of themselves, often beyond the boundaries of their own country. At the same time, exciting new prose fiction has toppled poetry -- for three thousand years the most significant literary medium in Greece -- from its pre-eminent position. This volume, a collaboration of academics, literary critics and fiction writers, investigates the dramatically new trends that have emerged in contemporary Greek fiction and places them within an international context.
Peter Mackridge is Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College. Eleni Yannakakis is a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Reviews:
‘The essays collected here add up to a great deal more than a shop window for recent Greek fiction. Both the editor's introduction, and the long keynote chapter by Dimitris Tziovas which follows, thoughtfully situate the new developments in the context of what has gone before. ... All the contributions, in complementary ways, explore one or more of these developing fields of interest on the part of Greek writers.’ — Roderick Beaton, The Anglo-Hellenic Review Autumn 2004, 23-4
Contents:
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Introduction - Greek Fiction in the Age of Globalization Peter Mackridge, Eleni Yannakakis
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'The Ultimate Art of our Greek Corruption': The Global as an Experimental Expansion of the Local in Yorgis Yatromanolakis's Fiction Vangelis Athanassopoulos
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Mackridge, Peter, and Eleni Yannakakis (eds), Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual (Cambridge: Legenda, 2004)
First footnote reference:35Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual, ed. by Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis (Cambridge: Legenda, 2004), p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Mackridge and Yannakakis, p. 47.
Mackridge, Peter, and Eleni Yannakakis (eds). 2004. Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual (Cambridge: Legenda)
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