Constanze Guthenke

Placing Modern Greece

The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an investigation of literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when Greece became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke explores the imaginative construction of the Greek nation in light of the literary strategies and constraints of Romantic aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199231850
• ISBN-10: 0199231850
• Artikelnr.: 23594390

Autorenporträt

Constanze Guthenke is Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Realizing the Ideal
* 1: The Form of Greek Landscape
* 2: `I love it all around, this land of Greece. It has the colour of
my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul before 1821
* 3: Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the
Greek War of Independence
* 4: The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the Greek State
* 5: Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, As Seen from the Ionian
Islands
* Epilogue