Synopsis
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, Edmund Keeley, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Gregory Nagy, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, Diskin Clay, and Panagiotis Roilos.
About the Author
Panagiotis Roilos is Professor of Modern Greek Studies and 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 Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Humanities Center, and Department of AnthropologyThe Johns Hopkins University. Albert Henrichs is Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University. Kathleen M. Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. Gregory Nagy is Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. Peter Jeffreys is Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University Diskin Clay is R.J.R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies at .
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