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Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies)

James D. Faubion

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This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy , one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Written by leading international scholars in a number of disciplines , the essays of this volume situate Cavafy's poetry within the broader contexts of modernism and aestheticism and investigate its complex and innovative responses to European literary traditions as well as its multifaceted impact on major figures of world literature--from North America to South Africa.

Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard Dellamora, Mark Doty, James Faubion, Diana Haas, John Chioles, Edmund Keeley, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Gregory Nagy, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, Diskin Clay, and Panagiotis Roilos.

Language: English

Pages: 250

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: January 01, 2011

ISBN: 0674053397

ISBN 13: 9780674053397

Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies)

James D. Faubion

4.6/5 ( ratings)

This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy , one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Written by leading international scholars in a number of disciplines , the essays of this volume situate Cavafy's poetry within the broader contexts of modernism and aestheticism and investigate its complex and innovative responses to European literary traditions as well as its multifaceted impact on major figures of world literature--from North America to South Africa.

Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard Dellamora, Mark Doty, James Faubion, Diana Haas, John Chioles, Edmund Keeley, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Gregory Nagy, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, Diskin Clay, and Panagiotis Roilos.

Language: English

Pages: 250

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: January 01, 2011

ISBN: 0674053397

ISBN 13: 9780674053397

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