Reading Games in the Greek Novel

ISBN-13: 9781906540838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str.

Eleni Papargyriou

Opis

How is play constituent in the formation of the Greek modernist novel? Reflecting competition with European and North American models as well as internal antagonism with more established literary genres in Greece, the novel after the 1930s employed playfulness as a means to demonstrate or even perform its novelty. Innovations unexpectedly came from the Greek periphery rather than Athens, and the Greek novel swiftly exchanged a passively understood realism for communicative patterns that actively involve the reader and educate him into bringing scraps of plot into a meaningful synthesis.

Featuring key Greek authors such as Yannis Skarimbas, Stratis Tsirkas and Nikos Kachtitsis, this is a comprehensive and innovative study of Greek modernist prose fiction and the first of its kind to appear in English.
Eleni Papargyriou is Lecturer in Modern Greek Literature at Kings College London.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Beyond Textual Aesthetics: Modalities of Play in Fiction 2. No Importance in Being Earnest? Playfulness and Greek Modernism in the 1930s 3. Intertextuality as Reading Performance: Playful Citation in Yannis Skarimbas's Mariambas 4. The Archaeologies of Reading: From Drosinis's Classical Canon to Pentzikis's Intertextual Games 5. Games and Symbolic Order in Aris Alexandrou's the Mission Box 6. Replaying the Text in Stratis Tsirkas's Drifting Cities 7. The Heart of Lightness: Trivial Colonialism in Nikos Kachtitsis's the Balcony

O autorze

Eleni Papargyriou