Author: Lambropoulos, Vassilis
Title: Literature as National Institution: Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 260 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Toward a Genealogy of "Literature": The Institutionalization of Tradition in C. Th. Dimaras's 'A History of Modern Greek Literature'; Who Has Been Reading Masterpeices on Our Behalf?: George Seferis, Makriyannis and the Literary Canon; The Fictions of Criticism: The "Prolegomena" of Iakovos Polylas as Künstlerroman; Incompleteness as Damnation: The Poetics of the Romantic Fragment in Dionysios Solomo's 'The Free Besieged'; The Hermeneutics of Openness in the Novel: The Unsettling Modernism of Yannis Beratis's 'Whirlwind'; Writing Greek as the Only Language: The Impossible Postmodernism of Renos Apostolidis's "The John of My Life"; What Makes Good Literature Good and Literature: The Politics of Evaluation Surrounding the Work of Yannis Ritsos; The Violent Power of Knowledge: The Struggle of Critical Discourses for Domination over Constantine P. Cavafy' s "Young Men of Sidon, A.D. 400"; Encountering the Poststructuralist Challenge, or Beyond Humanism: The Paradigms of Contemporary Greek Criticism & the Languages of Theory; Postscript: Peri Hermeneias.

Keywords: Modern Greek Literature, Greece, Literary History, Criticism, Critical, Politics, Political, ,