The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)Routledge, 2016 M03 3 - 284 pages Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century. |
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Page viii
... poet' of Greece Vassiliki Dimoula 16. The novel and the crown: o Leandros and the politics of Romanticism Dimitris tziovas 17. Literature as national cause: poetry and prose fiction in the national and commercial capitals of the Greek ...
... poet' of Greece Vassiliki Dimoula 16. The novel and the crown: o Leandros and the politics of Romanticism Dimitris tziovas 17. Literature as national cause: poetry and prose fiction in the national and commercial capitals of the Greek ...
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... poetry: Pindar, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, and Solomos. She teaches at Athens College. Effi Gazi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. Her most recent ...
... poetry: Pindar, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, and Solomos. She teaches at Athens College. Effi Gazi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. Her most recent ...
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... poetry by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (2008). She is currently co-editing the Norton Anthology of Greek Poetry and working on a book-length project on multilingualism, translation, and the literature of Greek America. Introduction Roderick ...
... poetry by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (2008). She is currently co-editing the Norton Anthology of Greek Poetry and working on a book-length project on multilingualism, translation, and the literature of Greek America. Introduction Roderick ...
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... poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the preface to his verse drama Hellas, written in immediate response to the outbreak of the revolution in Greece: The apathy of the rulers of the civilised world to the astonishing circumstance of the ...
... poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the preface to his verse drama Hellas, written in immediate response to the outbreak of the revolution in Greece: The apathy of the rulers of the civilised world to the astonishing circumstance of the ...
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... poet Solomos, drawing on twentieth-century literary theory and comparative material from German poetry of the early nineteenth century. Romanticism again figures prominently in the study by Dimitris Tziovas of the first novel to be ...
... poet Solomos, drawing on twentieth-century literary theory and comparative material from German poetry of the early nineteenth century. Romanticism again figures prominently in the study by Dimitris Tziovas of the first novel to be ...
Contents
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The View From The Early twentyfirstCentury | 19 |
Greek Western Perspectives | 51 |
religion the nation state | 79 |
insiders vs outsiders | 107 |
politics society in the ionian islands | 149 |
Part VI Language national identity | 175 |
Part VII The nation in the literary imagination | 199 |
Afterword | 259 |
Index | 263 |
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