英米文学に描かれた近代ギリシア In Byron's Shadow : Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

Roessel, David

Oxford University Press Inc（2001/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 408 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195143867
• DDC分類 820.93238

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. "Provides an astute, convincing and unsentimental survey of the ways in which anglo-phone writers' reactions to Greece have changed over the years..." - TLS.

Full Description

Modern Greece constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been 'haunted, holy ground' in English and American literature for almost two centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyses how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of Greece to suit changing eras. Complementing and complicating Edward Said's view of relations between East and West, Roessel discusses the way perceptions of modern Greece have been shaped by historical events, arguing that the Greek struggle for independence became a touchstone in the English and American imagination of the nineteenth century, and that twentieth-century Greece became a symbol of the attitudes and ideals that many believed caused the Great War.