Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature by : Roderick Beaton
Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature written by Roderick Beaton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with another and with its historical context. It moves from the varying responses to European Romanticism which defined Greek literature in the nineteenth century, culminating in the work of Palamas and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the Modernist influenced work of the years from the 1920s to 1945.