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

• Autore: Güthenke Constanze
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.9/145
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Greece In literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Placing modern Greece
• ISBN: 1-281-15039-8; 9786611150396; 0-19-152830-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204971003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.