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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480142303321

Titolo

"His words were nourishment and his counsel food" : a festschrift for David W. Holton / / edited by Efrosini Camatsos, Tassos A. Kaplanis and Jocelyn Pye ; Semele Assinder [and thirteen others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5996-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

880.9

Soggetti

Greek literature, Modern - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKSOF DAVID W. HOLTON; INTRODUCTION; PART I; GAZES IN LOVE SCENES AND GLANCESAT THEIR DEPICTION; PERSIAN CHRONICLES, GREEK ROMANCES; NARRATIVE AS INSTRUCTIONAND THE ROLE OF THE NARRATORIN KALLIMACHOS AND CHRYSSORROI; PART II; "THAT NIGHTINGALETHAT SWEETLY MOURNS"; THE SCHOLAR IN HIS STUDY; "KASTRO SAYS..."; "AND LIKE LAMBSTHEY SLAUGHTERED THEM"; PART III; A CANON IN THE MAKING; "READING THE GRAY SKY...IN A SUN-DRENCHED TRANSLATION"; PART IV; HOLY CONFUSION; SHAKESPEARE/CAVAFY; SIR STEVEN RUNCIMANAND "THE NICEST GREEK" HE KNEW; PART V

HYPNOSIS AND EMPOWERMENTIN NIKOS KATIFORIS'S EXPRESSIONISTNOVEL, THE DICTATORSHIP OF SATANTHE OTHER WITHIN; IDENTITY IN THE WORKSOF GAZMEND KAPLLANI; CONTRIBUTORS; NAME AND TITLE INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""His Words were Nourishment and his Counsel Food"": A Festschrift for David W. Holton brings together essays on Greek literature from medieval romances to postmodern fiction. It provides an illuminating first insight into the variety of Modern Greek literature for the general



reader, while also catering to more specialised students and scholars with new research findings and close studies of individual texts. The editors and authors, all former doctoral students of Professor Holton at Cambridg...