Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy

by Panagiotis Roilos (Editor), Eve Sedgwick (Contribution by), Helen Vendler (Contribution by), Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Contribution by), Richard Dellamora (Contribution by)

Overview

This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Written by leading international scholars in a number of disciplines (critical theory, gender studies, comparative literature, English studies, Greek studies, anthropology, classics), 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 (from Greek antiquity to modernity) 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, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, and Panagiotis Roilos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674053397
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/30/2010
Series:	Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings , #1
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Panagiotis Roilos is George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Eve Sedgwick was Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York.

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is a former Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a recipient of the Berlin Prize.

John Chioles is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at New York University.

Albert Henrichs is Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University.

Kathleen M. Coleman is James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.

Peter Jeffreys is Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University

Panagiotis Roilos is George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Editorial Reviews

The cross-disciplinary nature of the collection is its most enticing quality; it presents concerns from sociocultural, historical, anthropological, prosodic, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives.

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The cross-disciplinary nature of the collection is its most enticing quality; it presents concerns from sociocultural, historical, anthropological, prosodic, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives.
— M. F. McClure

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