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Prose in the long 1960s
Authors: Natsina, Anastasia
Kastrinaki, Angela
Dimitrakakis, Ioannis
Daskala, Evangelia
Reviewer: Stavropoulou, Erasmia Louiza
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > MODERN GREEK PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > PROSE
Keywords:
Fiction
Modern
Existentialism
Modernism
Expressionism
Irrational
Liberalization
Dictatorship
1960s
Allegory
Censorship
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Abstract:
The book aims to present the main themes, stylistic explorations, and intellectual trends reflected in the prose of the so-called "long" decade of the 1960s. After the social and literary numbness of the early post-Civil War years, a trend toward social and political liberalization began to emerge in the late 1950s, accompanied by a flourishing of literary production. This is also documented by the publication of important magazines such as Kritiki, Pali, and Epoches, and continues, inventively, with publications such as Dekaochto Kietima (Eighteen Texts) and Nea Keimena 1 and 2 (New Texts 1 and 2) during the years of the dictatorship. The period 1958-1974, although conventional, define a demand for freedom and renewal that began with the rise of the left (EDA) to the position of official opposition in 1958 and culminated in its triumph with the fall of the junta in 1974 (see K. Tsoukalas, "Short or long?", ToVima 7/4/14). In this book, we map out the period both in terms of the themes that dominate prose (man versus history, a new priority of the individual over the collective, the emergence of new identities, an emphasis on the everyday and the marginal, criticism of institutions, mechanical civilization, consumerism, and petty bourgeoisie), as well as in terms of stylistic trends and genres (modernism, expressionism, absurdism, allegory, new realism). Dividing the study into two parts, we observe how these trends develop in democratic conditions, but also how they are modified under dictatorial regimes, focusing on selected works. Authors to be discussed include: Alexandrou, Valtinos, Vasilikos, Gritsi-Milliex, Gonatas, Ioannou, Kachtitsis, Kotzias, Koumantareas, Bakolas, Plaskovitis, Renos, Samarakis, Tachtsis, Tsirkas, Fragkias, Chakkas, Hatzis, and Cheimonas.
Linguistic Editors: Apostoli, Persia
Technical Editors: Kokolakis, Antonios
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
ISBN 978-960-603-236-3
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-794
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2197
Bibliographic Reference: Natsina, A., Kastrinaki, A., Dimitrakakis, I., & Daskala, E. (2015). Prose in the long 1960s [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-794
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. An introduction to the 'long' sixties.
2. Man and History
3. Greek fiction 'looking back in anger'
4. Οι χαμηλές φωνές
5. Taking a distance from realism
6. Prose writing under the Dictatorship (1967-1974)
Number of pages 240
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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