Placing modern Greece : the dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840 /

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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 fascina...

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1. Verfasser:
Güthenke, Constanze
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Zusammenfassung:
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 landscapeimagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether
Umfang:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index.
ISBN:
1-281-15039-8
9786611150396
0-19-152830-7
Schlagworte:
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Greek poetry, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Germany > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Germany > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Greece > History > 19th century.
Idealism in literature.
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