Tziovas, Dimitris, ed. Greek Modernism and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Peter Bien. Lanham; New York; Boulder; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997. xi, 278 p.

ISBN 0847685764 cloth; 9780847685769 cloth; 0847685772 pbk; 9780847685776 pbk

A selection of papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Birmingham in July 1995. Includes:

Dimitris Tziovas, "Introduction" (pp. 1-8).

Part I: Modernity and Hellenism: Definition and Context: 1. Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou, "Modern and Hellenism: Aspects of a Melancholy Sensibility" (pp. 11-23); 2. Dimitris Tziovas, "Mapping out Greek Literary Modernism" (pp. 25-39).

Part II: Questions of Tradition: Nationalizing Modernism?: 3. Nasos Vayenas, "Hellenocentrism and the Literary Generation of the Thirties" (pp. 43-48); 4. Stathis Gauntlett, "The Monocotyledons of Greek Modernism: Popular Tradition in Twentieth-Century Greek Literature" (pp. 49-58).

Part III: The Precursors of Greek Modernism: 5. Michalis Chryssanthopoulos, "Anticipating Modernism: Constructing a Genre, a Past, and a Place" (pp. 61-76); 6. Elizabeth Sakellaridou, "On the Verges of Modernism: The Dramas of Kazantzakis and Sikelianos" (pp. 77-92).

Part IV: Surrealist Poetry and Modernist Landscapes: 7. Takis Kayalis, "Modernism and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of 'Greek Surrealism'" (pp. 95-110); 8. Peter Mackridge, "Textual Orientations: Writing the Landscape in Elytis's The Axion Esti" (pp. 111-120); 9. David Connolly, "Odysseus Elytis: Metalingual Poetry and Obscure Verbs" (pp. 121-132).

Part V: Greek Fiction and Modernist Practice: 10. Maria Kakavoulia, "Interior Monologue: Recontextualizing a Modernist Practice in Greece" (pp. 135-149); 11. Eleni Yannakakis, "Fragmentation of Consciousness in Pentzikis's Pragmatognosia" (pp. 151-162); 12. Nadia Charalambidou, "Seferis's Six Nights on the Acropolis: A Modernist Tale?" (pp. 163-176).

Part VI: Comparative Approaches: Versions and Subversions: 13. David Ricks, "George Seferis and Theodore Roethke: Two Versions of Modernism" (pp. 179-191); 14. Anastasia Anastasiadou, "Subverting Eliot's Modernism: The First Postwar Generation of Greek Poets" (pp. 193-203); 15. Christopher Robinson, "Social, Sexual and Textual Transgression: Kostas Tahtsis and Michel Tremblay, a Comparison" (pp. 205-214).

Part VII: In the Wake of Greek Modernism: 16. Elizabeth Arseniou, "The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Garde: The Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism" (pp. 217-227); 17. Sophia Voulgari, "Playing with Genre(s): The 'Prose Poems' of Nanos Valaoritis" (pp. 229-242); 18. Vangelis Calotychos, "Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanaki's Pasha and Pamuk's White Castle in the Global Market" (pp. 243-260); Peter Bien, "Afterword" (pp. 261-266).