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852807
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Culture and society in Crete : : from Kornaros to Kazantzakis /\ edited by Liana Giannakopoulou and E. Kostas Skordyles.
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK :: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
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1527512118
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: 9781527512115
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1527502872
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9781527502871
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Renaissance Literature; Petrarchism and Anti-Petrarchism; Dangerous Dreams and Dubious Visions in Kornaros' Erotokritos; The Evolution of Authorial Self-Consciousness in Cretan and Heptanesian Literature; Part II: Nikos Kazantzakis -- Wanderlust?; England in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis; Kazantzakis' Odyssey as a Cretan and Modernist Masterpiece; Part III: Crete as a Topos and a Lieu de Memoire; Blurring Boundaries? Negotiating Identity in Maro Douka's The Innocent and the Guilty
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Exploring the Locality of Crete in Two Novels by Rea GalanakiPart IV: Social and Linguistic Aspects in Historical Perspective; Graphematic Evidence for Cretan Phonology from the 16th to the 20th Century; Illegitimate Children and Inheritance; The Crete of R.M. Dawkins; The Cretan Society Facing Total War and Occupation (1941-45); Part V: Crete and ... Beyond; Crete in Venice; To Solomos through Browning; Intermedial Translation; " --!" Some Cretan Inflections of the Literary Denigration of Letters and Literati, and the Exaltation of Orality, from Kornaros to Kazantzakis
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Crete has always attracted the interest of scholars in modern times not only because of the archaeological discoveries of Sir Arthur Evans, but also because of its rich history and the particular cultural traits and traditions resulting from the fact that the island has been at the centre of geographical, cultural and religious crossroads. The fifteen papers included in this volume explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, give original insights into already established fields and underline from the vantage point of their own particular discipline its distinctiv.
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Historical comparative linguistics.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- General.
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Literature: history criticism.
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Society culture: general.
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Crete (Greece), History.
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Greece, Crete.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.5/9
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DF901.C82C85 2017eb
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| Added Entry
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Giannakopoulou, Liana
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Kostas Skordyles, E.
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