Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays (Garland Reference by Gregory Nagy, Anna Stavrakopoulou

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By Gregory Nagy, Anna Stavrakopoulou

The essays accrued in sleek Greek Literature characterize the paintings of younger students as they extend the variety of methods to fashionable Greek literature. The members differ of their concentration from comparative reviews to the examine of faith or the literature of diaspora. The theoretical questions that the essays increase deal with either vintage and modern debates, from style explorations to the connection among literature and nationwide id. each one contribution to this quantity represents a clean examine Greek literature and opens a different pathway for additional learn and attention. From this assortment will come up innumerable possibilities to achieve a more moderen and deeper figuring out of a superb literary culture.

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He wrote against Plethon’s paganism at a time of his life when he was also engaged in defending Orthodoxy against the claims of the Muslim conquerors and the Roman Catholics, who, Scholarios believed, had betrayed the Greeks. The final act of book-burning was less the result of Scholarios’s rancor than his political ineptitude. As we shall see, he tried to avoid personally taking direct political action against Plethon’s writings for as long as possible but was finally forced to by circumstances he lacked the diplomatic skill to control.

13 Martinengou’s text does, indeed, stand apart for the boldness exhibited in writing about herself at a time when women’s writing was mainly limited to translation. And it is not without import that a tradition of feminist writing in Greece should be inaugurated by a text that so PATRICIA FELISA BARBEITO AND VANGELIS CALOTYCHOS 45 clearly points to the problems of writing as a woman. Tellingly, however, criticism has so far not considered the text in terms of the narrative strategies it utilizes or its status as an autobiography.

8 The paradoxes that plague the discussion of autobiography, and the implications of the dialectic between authority and transgression that seems to motivate its writing, are most provocatively exhibited in women’s autobiographical writing. 10 Gilmore focuses on women, whose autobiographies are often not categorized as such and also often appeared under pseudonyms, anonymously, or with authenticating and authorizing prefaces by men. 44 DE MAN, THE WOMAN, AND HER WRITING Given the rather problematic, if not at times downright contradictory, endeavor of writing from the location of a self-referential I that defines women’s identities as marginal, it is ironic to note that many recent feminist scholars read women’s autobiographies as documents, as a means of direct access to an otherwise-silenced female consciousness.

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