Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities

History, Archaeology, Empire

AvTakis Kayalis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien New Antiquity

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Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Antiquity
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031349010

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Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century prose and modernist poetry and co-edited Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning (2010) and Cavafy as World Literature (forthcoming). In 2019 he co-curated the Cavafy Archive’s Digital Collection (Onassis Foundation).

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin.- 2 A golden coin?.- 3 How to read a coin portrait in the early 1900s.- 4 What is a ‘poet-historian’?.- Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions.- 5 ‘Caesarion’ as palimpsest.- 6 ‘In the month of Athyr’: Leucius and his friends.- Part III: Looking at Antiquity from Inside the Empire.- 7 Imperial desires.- 8 A Hellenistic Empire.- 9 How to read Cavafy inside the British Empire.