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(Опит за) компаративистичен увод в новогръцката поезия от периода 1880–1930
(An Attempt at) a Comparative Introduction to Modern Greek Poetry from the 1880–1930 Period

Author(s): Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Greek poetry; Greek poetic modernism; casestudying identity; casestudying modernity

Summary/Abstract: The hunger for history of the entire 20th c. has unnoticedly become also a hunger for identities. In this sense, the role of Greek poetry, created at the turn and during the first decades of the 20th c., grows when except through the prism of a spiritual landmark we view it as a carrier of historical memory (because according to Seferis “a part of the past is always alive”) and also as a coordinate system for defining the notion of identity. Through our literary research we are trying to clarify the essence of the various processes that dictate literary production in the last decades of the 19th c. and in the first decades of the 20th c., that is from the moment when Greek poetry became ready to accept the first modernization wave through the work of the poets from the 1880s poetic generation up to point of the attainment of a relative maturity in mastering the ideas of modernism during the 1920s, which subsequently traced the path for the rise of Greek literature to the zenith of international fame through the creations of the authors from the 1930s literary generation.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 140-153
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bulgarian