The Enlightenment as Social Criticism

Paschalis M Kitromilides

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies
• In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural chan... Lees meer

Kazantzakis, Volume 1

Peter Bien

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 22
• "No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis a... Lees meer

Notes from the Balkans

Sarah F Green

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 20
• Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between oth... Lees meer

A Shared World

Molly Greene

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies
• Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim" divide that has colored many historical interpretations of the early modern Med... Lees meer

Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece

Jane K Cowan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 4
• Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over positio... Lees meer

After the War Was Over

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 18
• This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new ... Lees meer

Firewalking and Religious Healing

Loring M Danforth

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 2
• "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anasten... Lees meer

The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 25
• The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ --was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowh... Lees meer

Cavafy's Alexandria

Edmund Keeley

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 13
• C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a cen... Lees meer

Venom in Verse

Gonda A H Van Steen

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 16
• Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis... Lees meer

Demons and the Devil

Charles Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 8
• In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medie... Lees meer

Contested Identities

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 5
• In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unm... Lees meer

The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 25
• The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ --was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowh... Lees meer

Kazantzakis, Volume 2

Peter Bien

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 21
• Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century ... Lees meer

In a Different Place

Jill Dubisch

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 11
• In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited ... Lees meer

The Films of Theo Angelopoulos

Andrew Horton

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies | nr. 43
• Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still large... Lees meer

George Seferis

George Seferis

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Modern Greek Studies
• In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact,... Lees meer