Dova, Stamatia, ed. Historical Poetics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Greece: Essays in Honor of Lily Macrakis. Raleigh, NC: Lulu Publishing Services, 2014. xx, 320 p.

ISBN 9781483411675

Contains: Monteagle Stearns, Foreword (pp. vii-viii); Stamatia Dova, Introduction (pp. ix-xvi); Marguerite Bouvard, “Voices from an Island” (pp. xvii-xx). Robin Fleming, “The Making of Lily Macrakis” (pp. 1-30).

‘Venizelos, Eleftherios. Crete, and the Making of National Legends’: 

Michael Herzfeld, “The Poetics of Apotheosis: The Iconography of Venizelos in Crete” (pp. 33-47); Peter Bien, “A Personal View of Eleftherios Venizelos from 1902 until 1933 as Recorded in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Selected Letters” (pp. 49-57); Alexander Kitroeff, “The Greek State and the Diaspora: Venizelism Abroad, 1910-1932” (pp. 59-74); Diana Haas, “Cavafy, Venizelos and the National Schism: Revisiting a Debate” (pp. 75-109); Panayotis League, “Rewriting Unwritten History: Folklore, Nationalism, and the Ban of the Cretan Violin” (pp. 111-127). 

‘Historical Poetics and Modern Greece: A View from the Texts’:

Stamatia Dova, “History, Identity, and the Hero in Terzakis’s Princess Ysabeau” (pp. 131-165); Eleni Mahaira-Odoni, “Historical Poetics in Modern Greece: Reflections on Three Writers” [Thanassis Valtinos, Rea Galanaki, C.P. Cavafy] (pp. 167-185); Jennifer R. Kellogg, “‘We’re paying off the variant of a fairy tale’: Seferis’ Historical Poetics” (pp. 187-229); Kerstin Jentsch-Mancor, “The Dialectics of Truth in the Poetry of Manolis Anagnostakis” (pp. 231-252).

‘Cultural Politics in Modern Greece’:

Roderick Beaton, “Literature and Nation: The 'Imagined Community' and the Role of Literature in the Making of Modern Greece” (pp. 255-262); Nicolas Prevelakis, “Theologies as Alternative National Histories: Chrestos Yannaras and John Romanides” (pp. 273-291); Paschalis M. Kitromilides, “The Anonymity of a Prominent Woman in Eighteenth Century Cyprus” (pp. 293-300); Thanos Veremis, “Nationalism and Identity in the Balkans” (pp. 301-310); 

‘Epilogue’: 

Odysseas Elytis, “Drinking the Sun of Corinth”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (p. 313). 

List of Contributors (pp. 315-320).

Also published online: Classics@: An Online Journal, Issue 10: 'Historical Poetics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Greece: Essays in Honor of Lily Macrakis'.

https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/volume/classics10-historical-poetics-in-nineteenth-and-twentieth-century-greece-essays-in-honor-of-lily-macrakis/