Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-0625-9 • Hardback • June 2003 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
Dimitris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 National Imaginary, Collective Identity, and Individualism in Greek Fiction
Chapter 3 Palaiologos's O Polypathis: Picaresque (Auto)biography as a National Romance
Chapter 4 Selfhood, Natural Law, and Social Resistance in The Murderess
Chapter 5 A Hero Without a Cause: Self-Identity in Vasilis Arvanitis
Chapter 6 The Poetics of Manhood: Genre and Self-Identity in Freedom and Death
Chapter 7 Tyrants and Prisoners: Narrative Fusion and the Hybrid Self in The Third Wedding
Chapter 8 Defying the Social Context: Narratives of Exile and the Lonely Self
Chapter 9 Fool's Gold and Achilles' Fiancée: Politics and Self-Representation
Chapter 10 Moscov Selim and The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Narratives of Identity and the Semiotic Chora
Chapter 11 Afterword
Scholars and students but also members of the wider public who have an interest in the literature of Modern Greece will welcome the publication of this pioneering work which casts new light on some important aspects and stages of the development of modern Greek Literature related to its immediate socio-historical context. . . . This is a very interesting book in which painstaking scholarship, lightly worn, illuminates a two-century literature and a topical cultural phenomenon. . . this is an excellent book which can be recommended to the student and general reading public alike.
— Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
This is a book that deserves to be read and taken seriously. Not only is it informative about a little-known area of modern European literature, but it also sets high standards and establishes a secure point of reference for future studies.
— The Journal of Hellenic Studies