Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840 (Classical Presences)

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. ISBN-13: 9780199231850 Contents 10 Note on Translations and Transliterations 11 Introduction: Realizing the Ideal 12 1. The Form of Greek Landscape 31 2. ‘I love this land of Greece above all else. It has the colour of my heart’: The Greek Landscape of the German Soul 55 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence 104 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the New Greek State 151 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, as seen from the Ionian Islands 202 Epilogue 252 Bibliography 258 Index 282 A 282 B 282 C 282 D 282 E 282 F 283 G 283 H 283 I 283 J 284 K 284 L 284 M 284 N 284 O 285 P 285 Q 285 R 285 S 286 T 286 U 286 V 286 W 286 Y 287 Z 287 Oxford University Press,USA Contents......Page 10 Note on Translations and Transliterations......Page 11 Introduction: Realizing the Ideal......Page 12 1. The Form of Greek Landscape......Page 31 2. ‘I love this land of Greece above all else. It has the colour of my heart’: The Greek Landscape of the German Soul......Page 55 3. Nature in Arms: German Philhellenism, its Literature, and the Greek War of Independence......Page 104 4. The Ambivalence of Nature: Poetry for the New Greek State......Page 151 5. Between Idyll and Abyss: The Greek Land, as seen from the Ionian Islands......Page 202 Epilogue......Page 252 Bibliography......Page 258 E......Page 282 I......Page 283 N......Page 284 R......Page 285 W......Page 286 Z......Page 287 An investigation of 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 explores the imaginative construction of the Greek nation in light of the literary strategies and constraints of Romantic aesthetics