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Greece from Junta to Crisis

Modernization, Transition and Diversity

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Greece from Junta to Crisis

Modernization, Transition and Diversity

By: Dimitris Tziovas

Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends in the years between the fall of the junta and the economic crisis, highlighting the growing diversity and cultural ambivalence of Greek society. With its focus on issues such as identity, antiquity, religion, language, literature, media, cinema, youth, gender and sexuality, this study is one of the first to examine cultural trends in Greece over the last fifty years. Aiming for a more nuanced understanding of recent history, the study offers a fresh perspective on current problems.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755617460

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9780755617463

Greece and the Balkans

Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters Since the Enlightenment

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Greece and the Balkans

Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters Since the Enlightenment

By: Dimitris Tziovas

Greece and the Balkans explores the cultural relationships between Greece and other Balkan countries in the domains of language, literature, thought, translation, and music, and examines issues of identity and perception among the Balkan peoples themselves. The essays bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines: historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists with specialists on literature, translation, the history of ideas and religion. By raising issues of cultural hybridity, and nationalist or pre-nationalist interpretations of culture and history it lays claim to a place in the context of studies on nationalism and post-colonialism. Greece and the Balkans also contributes to a recognition of the Balkans as a site, like some postcolonial ones, where identities have become fused, orientalism and eurocentrism blurred and where religion and modernity clashed and co-existed. By approaching cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans from a fresh and informed perspective, it makes a substantial contribution to the study of a rather neglected aspect in the history of a region which has suffered in the past from narrow-minded, nationalistic arguments.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351932187

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Greek Modernism and Beyond

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Greek Modernism and Beyond

By: Dimitris Tziovas

Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary and cultural phenomenon. A wide variety of competing, often clashing discourses and approaches characterize the study of Greek modernism. In this landmark volume, scholars from three continents provide a framework in which developments in prose, poetry, and drama can be studied together. The contributors seek to redefine the contours of Greek modernism, to reassess its impact on Greek culture, to explore the fringes of the movement. Special attention is paid to the role of the avant-garde in Greece and the emergence of postmodern trends in Greek culture. Greek Modernism and Beyond is valuable reading for students and scholars of Greek and European literature.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461637104

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9781461637103

The Doppelgänger

Literature's Philosophy

By: Dimitris Vardoulakis

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The Doppelgänger

Literature's Philosophy

By: Dimitris Vardoulakis

This book presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelgänger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: the term doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelgänger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This book examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823232980

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9780823232987

Byzantium after the Nation

The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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Byzantium after the Nation

The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s, Byzantium after Byzantium, that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. The idea of the continuity of empires became a kind of touchstone for national historiographies. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a "war of interpretation" as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon. Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial model: whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period (and, by extension, their own antiquity); and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.

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Central European University Press

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9633863082

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9789633863084

Singing Poets

Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)

By: Dimitris Papanikolaou

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Singing Poets

Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)

By: Dimitris Papanikolaou

Between 1945 and 1975, in both France and Greece, literature provided the aesthetic criteria, cultural prestige and institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song and the authentic representative of a national popular music. Published poems were set to popular music, while critical discourse celebrated some songwriters not only for being 'as good as poets' but for being 'singing poets' in their own right. This challenging and stimulating study is the first to chart the parallel cultural processes in the two countries from a comparative perspective. Bringing together cultural studies with literary criticism, it offers new angles on the work of Georges Brassens, Leo Ferre, Jacques Brel, Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis and Dionysis Savvopoulos.

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Routledge

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1351196170

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece

By: Dimitris Keridis

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece

By: Dimitris Keridis

Greece is a ancient land, blessed with a stunning natural beauty and an inspiring cultural heritage but burdened with history and conflict, it shares many traits and comparable trajectories with its neighbors and countries of a similar background. Modern Greece is a successor nation-state of the Ottoman Empire, created in the early 19th century through the interplay of an evolving Greek national idea, the crisis of the Ottoman state, and the intervention of great powers. Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Greece.

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1442264713

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Greece from Junta to Crisis

Modernization, Transition and Diversity

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Modernization, Transition and Diversity

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755617452

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Greek Modernism and Beyond

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Greece and the Balkans

Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment

By: Dimitris Tziovas

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Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment

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1351932179

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Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

Society, Politics and Culture

By: Professor Dimitris Tziovas

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Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

Society, Politics and Culture

By: Professor Dimitris Tziovas

The Greek diaspora is one of the paradigmatic historical diasporas. Though some trace its origins to ancient Greek colonies, it is really a more modern phenomenon. Diaspora, exile and immigration represent three successive phases in Modern Greek history and they are useful vantage points from which to analyse changes in Greek society, politics and culture over the last three centuries. Embracing a wide range of case studies, this volume charts the role of territorial displacements as social and cultural agents from the eighteenth century to the present day and examines their impact on communities, politics, institutional attitudes and culture. By studying migratory trends the aim is to map out the transformation of Greece from a largely homogenous society with a high proportion of emigrants to a more diverse society inundated by immigrants after the end of the Cold War. The originality of this book lies in the bringing together of diaspora, exile and immigration and its focus on developments both inside and outside Greece.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409480321

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Book's by Dimitris Tziovas

Greece from Junta to Crisis

Greece from Junta to Crisis

Greece and the Balkans

Greece and the Balkans

Greek Modernism and Beyond

Greek Modernism and Beyond

The Doppelgänger

The Doppelgänger

Byzantium after the Nation

Byzantium after the Nation

Singing Poets

Singing Poets

Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece

Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece

Greece from Junta to Crisis

Greece from Junta to Crisis

Greek Modernism and Beyond

Greek Modernism and Beyond

Greece and the Balkans

Greece and the Balkans

Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

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