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Georganta, Konstanti

 
9789042035638: Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952
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ISBN 10 : 9042035633 ISBN 13 : 9789042035638
Editeur : Rodopi, 2012

Synopsis

Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the insularity imposed by war and the hegemony of the national centre in the period 1922-1952. Each chapter tells a story within a specific time and space that connected the challenges and fissures experienced in two cultures with the goal to explore how the post-1922 accentuated mobility across frontiers found an appropriate expression in the work of the poets under consideration. Either influenced by their actual travel to Britain or Greece or divided in their various allegiances and reactions to national or imperial sovereignty, the poets examined explored the possibilities of a metaphorical diasporic sense of belonging within the multicultural metropolis and created personae to indicate the tension at the contact of the old and the new, the hypocritical parody of mixed breeds and the need for modern heroes to avoid national or gendered stereotypes. The main coordinates were the national voices of W.B. Yeats and Kostes Palamas, T.S. Eliots multilingual outlook as an Anglo-American métoikos, C.P. Cavafys view as a Greek of the diaspora, displaced William Plomers portrayal of 1930s Athens, Demetrios Capetanakis journey to the British metropolis, John Lehmanns antithetical journey eastward, as well as Louis MacNeices complex loyalties to a national identity and sense of belonging as an Irish classicist, translator and traveller.

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Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the insularity imposed by war and the hegemony of the national centre in the period 1922-1952. Each chapter tells a story within a specific time and space that connected the challenges and fissures experienced in two cultures with the goal to explore how the post-1922 accentuated mobility across frontiers found an appropriate expression in the work of the poets under consideration. Either influenced by their actual travel to Britain or Greece or divided in their various allegiances and reactions to national or imperial sovereignty, the poets examined explored the possibilities of a metaphorical diasporic sense of belonging within the multicultural metropolis and created personae to indicate the tension at the contact of the old and the new, the hypocritical parody of mixed breeds and the need for modern heroes to avoid national or gendered stereotypes. The main coordinates were the national voices of W.B. Yeats and Kostes Palamas, T.S. Eliots multilingual outlook as an Anglo-American métoikos, C.P. Cavafys view as a Greek of the diaspora, displaced William Plomers portrayal of 1930s Athens, Demetrios Capetanakis journey to the British metropolis, John Lehmanns antithetical journey eastward, as well as Louis MacNeices complex loyalties to a national identity and sense of belonging as an Irish classicist, translator and traveller.

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Éditeur
Rodopi
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042035633
ISBN 13 
9789042035638
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
237
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