Giannakopoulou, Liana and E. Kostas Skordyles, eds. Culture and Society in Crete. From Kornaros to Kazantzakis. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. xii, 311 p.

ISBN 1527502872; 9781527502871

Includes: Liana Giannakopoulou and E. Kostas Skordyles, Introduction.

PART I: 'Renaissance Literature: Authorship and Poetics': Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa, "Petrarchism and Anti-Petrarchism: The Manneristic Response of the Cypriot Canzoniere and Chortatsis's Panoria" (pp. 13-31); Nikolas Kakkoufa, "Dangerous Dreams and Dubious Visions in Kornaros' Erotokritos" (pp. 33-66); Michael Paschalis, "The Evolution of Authorial Self-Consciousmess in Cretan and Heptanesian Literature" (pp. 67-73).

PART II: 'Nikos Kazantzakis – Wanderlust?': Afroditi Athanasopoulou, "England in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis" (pp. 77-102); Helena González-Vaquerizo, "Kazantzakis' Odyssey as a Cretan and Modernist Masterpiece" (pp. 103-119).

PART III: 'Crete as a Topos and a Lieu de Mémoire': Kristina Gedgaudaite, "Blurring Boundaries? Negotiating Identity in Maro Douka's The Innocent and the Guilty" (pp. 123-136); Georgia Pateridou, "Exploring the Locality of Crete in Two Recent Novels of Rea Galanaki" (pp. 137-148).

PART V: 'Crete and … Beyond': Caterina Carpinato, "Crete in Venice: The Presence of the Great Island in Venetian Architecture, Visual Arts, Music and Literature" (pp. 217-240); David Ricks, "To Solomos through Browning: A New Look at The Cretan" (pp. 241-257); Lilia Diamantopoulou, "Intermedial Translation: Erofili, Erotokritos and The Sacrifice of Abraham in the Greek Classics Illustrated" (pp. 259-283; Stathis Gauntlett, "«Βάρδα από γράμματα!» Some Cretan Inflections of the Literary Denigration of Letters and Literati, and the Exaltation of Orality, from Kornaros to Kazantzakis" (pp. 285-297).