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Ancient Greece
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Anima Archetype
Architectural Poetics
architectural symbolism
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Baudelairean Correspondences
Capitale De La Douleur
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Collected Poems
Destitute Times
dionysios
elytis
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European intellectual history
Fragrant Herbs
Gaston Bachelard
George Seferis
Grave Stele
greek
Greek Landscape
Greek literary theory
Gregory Jusdanis
idea
landscape
Le Corbusier
Mediterranean poetic metaphysics research
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Megali Idea
Modern Greek Poetry
national identity studies
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Odysseus Elytis
Parthenon Pediment
Perfect Syntax
Poem II
poems
psychoanalytic criticism
solomos
Sotadic Zone
surrealist poetry analysis
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409410003
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts forward a redefinition of European Modernism that makes the Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact zone and incorporates neglected elements such as national identity and geography. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism, Pourgouris's study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus; analyzes the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and Sigmund Freud on Elytis's theory of analogies; traces the symbol of the sun in Elytis's poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus and Plotinus; examines the influence of Le Corbusier on Elytis's theory of architectural poetics; and takes up the subject of Elytis's application of his theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic form in the context of works by Freud, C. G. Jung, and Michel Foucault. Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris's study makes a compelling contribution to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of Odysseus Elytis.
Marinos Pourgouris is Assistant Professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
