Lambropoulos, Vassilis. Literature as National Institution. Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. ix, 260 p.

ISBN 0691067317; 9780691067315

Contains: "Introduction" (pp. 3-22).

"Towards a Genealogy of 'Literature': The Institutionalization of Tradition in C.Th. Dimaras's A History of Modern Greek Literature" (pp. 23-43); "Who Has Been Reading Masterpieces on Our Behalf? George Seferis, Makriyannis, and the Literary Canon" (pp. 44-65); "The Fictions of Criticism: The 'Prolegomena' of Iakovos Polylas as Künstlerroman" (pp. 66-84); "Incompleteness as Damnation: The Poetics of the Romantic Fragment in Dionysios Solomos's The Free Besieged" (pp. 85-99); "The Hermeneutics of Openness in the Novel: The Unsettling Modernism of Yannis Beratis's Whirlwind" (pp. 100-126); "Writing Greek as the Only Language: The Impossible Postmodernism of Renos Apostolidis's 'The John of my Life'" (pp. 127-156); "What Makes Good Literature Good and Literature: The Politics of Evaluation Surrounding the Work of Yannis Ritsos" (pp. 157-181); "The Violent Power of Knowledge: The Struggle of Critical Discourses for Domination over Constantine P. Cavafy's 'Young Men of Sidon, A.D. 400'" (pp. 182-208); "Encountering the Poststructuralist Challenge, or Beyond Humanism: The Paradigms of Contemporary Greek Criticism and the Languages of Theory" (pp. 209-235).

"Postscript: Peri Hermeneias" (pp. 236-250).