Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-923185-0
Verlag: OUP UK
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 landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction: Realizing the Ideal
- 1: The Form of Greek Landscape
- 2: `I love it all around, this land of Greece. It has the colour of my heart': The Greek Landscape of the German Soul before 1821
- 3: Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence
- 4: The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the Greek State
- 5: Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, As Seen from the Ionian Islands
- Epilogue
