Contents

Foreword

Presentation of the work of Professor Erasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou

Duel (1962-1963): an almost forgotten novel by Tatiana Stavrou

Beyond the “sterile sob”. Minos Zotos on the other side of the elegy

The dead wait

Amidst the flames: deviations and convergences of a rewriting

History and Modern Greek Philology at the Philosophical School of Athens: A difficult weaning (1925-1981)

“Lonely journeys in ‘unmapped’ waters”: Eva Vlamis, Skeleton Rock – Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

Daily press and literature in the first half of the 20th century

The reintroduction of strictly metrical forms in contemporary Greek poetry (1980s onwards): Poetry and poetics

The fallacy of “modernism” in Greek interwar prose

Paul Verlaine in the works of Kosmas Politis

From utopia to atopos: America as “real-and-fantastical” space in Greek travel writing of the 20th and early 21st century

Love in the post-war leftist literature

Zyranna Zateli: The adventures of life as a rite of initiation

Timariotis of the sea or Aegean geography? An intertextual meeting of George Theotokas and Pericles Yannopoulos with Odysseas Elytis

Growing up in Athens in the 1960s

Ideological voices in the Pantheons (1945-1960) of Tasos Athanasiadis

Urban perspectives of nature in interwar prose

Mythologies of the Aegean. From Amorgos by Pericles Yannopoulos to Amorgos by Nikos Gatsos

Comments on the study "Santa Maria" by Dimitris Hatzis

The three burials of Pavlos Melas. Archive, nostalgia, and cultural memory in Nikos Bakolas' "Kefali"

Aspects of the grotesque and the inanimate in the representations of dead bodies in "Christ Recrucified" by N. Kazantzakis

From Honor and Money (K. Theotokis) to The Price of Love (T. Marketakis): The adventure of writing and cinematic representation

Literary awards (1996-2015): from criticism to the history of literature

The poet as dramaturg: the theatre of George Chronas

“I am... a horse... I...”. The background of madness and animality in "Towards Eleusis" by Pavlos Matezi

A first approach of Glaros Publications during the Occupation years: The translation choices

The unorthodox symbolism of G. Th. Vafopoulos

The concept of the network in the study of literature. A working hypothesis

Palamas and Constantinopolitan scholars

Letters and telephone as dramaturgical means in modern Greek theatre: Artificial communication as an informational trick in promoting the dramatic plot

Anti-humanistic utopianism and avant-garde: The theoretical manifesto "Intelligence" by Theodoros Dorrus

“The spirit of the times” in the Papadiamandis short story “The Dance of Mr. Periandros”

Antonis Sourounis and George Katos: Parallel paths in life and literature

Biographies and mythologizations of D. Solomos

Learning a foreign alphabet: Exercises and practices of Aris Alexandrou in French

The landscape, nature, and light in the work of Angelos Sikelianos and Konstantinos Parthenis

Ninila Papagianni: An unnoticed presence

Narration as actualization of the absent self: Alki Zei, The fiancée of Achilles – Rea Galanaki, Helen or Nobody

The “demonic intuition” of a dramatic coexistence: tragic and Ibsenian elements in "The Great Chimera" by M. Karagatsis

The image of Germany in the works of Alexandros Papadiamantis

Reference to Nikos

Avant-garde and the “superheroic” revision of antiquity: Presocratic thought in the work of Nikola Kalla

Biographical and bibliographic details of Eris Stavropoulou

List of contributors

Index of names