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Cavafy's Alexandria
Expanded Edition
Häftad, 1995
578 kr
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C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, …
George Seferis
Collected Poems, Revised Edition
Av George Seferis, Edmund Keeley m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, George Seferis: Collected Poems (expanded …
Venom in Verse
Aristophanes in Modern Greece
Inbunden, 2000
1236 kr
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Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains …
Films of Theo Angelopoulos
A Cinema of Contemplation
Häftad, 1999
379 kr
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Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique cinematic vision, Andrew Horton provides an …
Yannis Ritsos
Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses
Häftad, 1991
499 kr
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A collection of poems that present what the author calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. It presents a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous.
Demons and the Devil
Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture
Häftad, 1991
780 kr
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In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate …
Firewalking and Religious Healing
The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
Häftad, 1989
491 kr
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"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in …
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Häftad, 1990
528 kr
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Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet …
Contested Identities
Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece
Av Peter Loizos, Evthymios Papataxiarchis
Häftad, 1991
881 kr
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In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors …
In a Different Place
Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine
Av Jill Dubisch
Häftad, 1995
1129 kr
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In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of Tinos is a site where different …
After the War Was Over
Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960
Häftad, 2000
517 kr
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This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with foreign occupation and intense civil …
Shared World
Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Av Molly Greene
Häftad, 2002
447 kr
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Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Mediterranean, and reveals a society with a far richer set of cultural and social dynamics. She focuses on Crete, which the Ottoman Empire wrested from …
Notes from the Balkans
Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border
Häftad, 2005
460 kr
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Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on …
Kazantzakis, Volume 2
Politics of the Spirit
Av Peter Bien
Inbunden, 2007
1863 kr
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Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard. …
Kazantzakis, Volume 1
Politics of the Spirit
Av Peter Bien
Häftad, 2007
461 kr
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"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent …
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants
A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean
Av Molly Greene
Inbunden, 2010
641 kr
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A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but …
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants
A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean
Av Molly Greene
Häftad, 2013
324 kr
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A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but …
Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Av Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien
Häftad, 2020
842 kr
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The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most …
Muslim Bonaparte
Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece
Häftad, 2014
383 kr
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Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in …
Enlightenment as Social Criticism
Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2014
409 kr
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In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. The first intellectual in Southeastern Europe to voice the ideas of …
Muslim Bonaparte
Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece
Inbunden, 2016
1522 kr
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Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in …
Enlightenment as Social Criticism
Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2016
1682 kr
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In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. The first intellectual in Southeastern Europe to voice the ideas of …
