(H/B) THE OTHER SELF - SELFHOOD AND SOCIETY IN MODERN GREEK

Παρουσίαση

The Other Self is the first English-language, book-length literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A must read for anyone interested in Greek literature and culture, it offers both a solid introduction to modern Greek literature and close reading of individual texts. Author Dimitris Tziovas focuses on the issues of identity, autobiography, and social determinism raised in these texts, providing a fresh perspective and suggesting new ways of exploring forms of engagement between self and society. Greek narratives of self, Tziovas suggests, are not naked and transparent presentations of existence, but articulations of the relationship between the individual and the social world; they are negotiations of the past through the otherness of the present. A compelling demonstration of the richness and complexity of modern Greek fiction, The Other Self provides exciting and challenging interpretations of Greek literature and Greek society. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 National Imaginary, Collective Identity, and Individualism in Greek Fiction
Chapter 3 Palaiologos's O Polypathis: Picaresque (Auto)biography as a National Romance
Chapter 4 Selfhood, Natural Law, and Social Resistance in The Murderess
Chapter 5 A Hero Without a Cause: Self-Identity in Vasilis Arvanitis
Chapter 6 The Poetics of Manhood: Genre and Self-Identity in Freedom and Death
Chapter 7 Tyrants and Prisoners: Narrative Fusion and the Hybrid Self in The Third Wedding
Chapter 8 Defying the Social Context: Narratives of Exile and the Lonely Self
Chapter 9 Fool's Gold and Achilles' Fiancee: Politics and Self-Representation
Chapter 10 Moscov Selim and The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Narratives of Identity and the Semiotic Chora
Chapter 11 Afterword