Reading Games in the Greek Novel
Eleni Papargyriou
Click cover to enlarge | Legenda 25 March 2011 • 194pp ISBN: 978-1-906540-83-8 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-351193-47-4 (Taylor & Francis ebook) How is play constituent in the formation of the Greek modernist novel? Reflecting competition with European and North American models as well as internal antagonism with more established literary genres and conservative literary cliques in Greece, some novelists during and after the 1930s employed playfulness as a means to demonstrate — or even perform — the genre’s novelty. These innovators unexpectedly came from the Greek periphery rather than Athens, and their work swiftly exchanged a passively understood realism for complex communicative patterns that actively involve the reader and educate him into bringing scraps of plot into a meaningful synthesis. Covering the formative years between 1930 and 1975 and featuring key Greek authors such as Yannis Skarimbas, Stratis Tsirkas and Nikos Kachtitsis, this is a comprehensive and innovative study of Greek modernist prose fiction and the first of its kind to appear in English. Eleni Papargyriou is Lecturer in Modern Greek Literature at King’s College London. Bibliography entry: Papargyriou, Eleni, Reading Games in the Greek Novel (Legenda, 2011) First footnote reference: 35 Eleni Papargyriou, Reading Games in the Greek Novel (Legenda, 2011), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Papargyriou, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Papargyriou, Eleni. 2011. Reading Games in the Greek Novel (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Papargyriou 2011: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Papargyriou 2011: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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