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Record Nr.

UNISA996204971003316

Autore

Güthenke Constanze

Titolo

Placing modern Greece [[electronic resource] ] : the dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840 / / Constanze Güthenke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-15039-8

9786611150396

0-19-152830-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Disciplina

830.9/145

Soggetti

German literature - 18th century - History and criticism

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Greek poetry, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism

Romanticism - Germany - History - 18th century

Romanticism - Germany - History - 19th century

Romanticism - Greece - History - 19th century

Idealism in literature

Greece In literature

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 (p. [247]-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Translations and Transliterations; Introduction: Realizing the Ideal; 1. The Form of Greek Landscape; 2. 'I love this land of Greece above all else. It has the colour of my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul; 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence; 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the New Greek State; 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, as seen from the Ionian Islands; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly



conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscapeimagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether