Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840

Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840

Guthenke, Constanze

Hardcover

Series: Classical Presences

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0199231850
ISBN13: 9780199231850
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 15 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All