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Название: British council and anglo-greek literary interactions, 1945-1955
ISBN: 9781472470348
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Классификация:

Лингвистика, или языкознание

Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

ISBN-10: 1472470346
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 274
Вес: 0.67 кг.
Дата издания: 31.05.2018
Серия: British school at athens - modern greek and byzantine studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 1 line drawings, black and white; 1 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 173 x 241 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General,HISTORY / Europe / Greece,HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and with British political influence over Greece soon to be ceded to the United States, there was a considerabledegree of cultural interaction between Greek and British literati. Sponsored or assisted by the British Council, this interaction was notable for its diversity and quality alike. Indeed, the British Council in Greece made a more significant contribution to local culture in that period than at any other time, and perhaps in any other country. Many of the participants – among them Patrick Leigh Fermor, Steven Runciman, and Louis MacNeice – are well known, while others deserve to be better known than they are today. But what has been less fully discussed, and what the volume sets out to do, is to explore the two-way relations between Greek and British literary production in which the British Council played a particularly important role until the outbreak of armed conflict in Cyprus in 1955, which rendered further contacts of this kind difficult. Close attention is paid to the variety of ways– marked by personal affinities and allegiances, but also by political tensions– in which the British Council functioned as an agent of interaction in a climate where a complex blend of traditional Anglophilia or Philhellenism found itself encountering a new post-war and Cold War environment. What is distinctive about the volume, beyond the inclusion of much recent archival research, is its attention to the British Council as part of the story of Greek letters, and not just as a place in which various British men and women of letters worked. The British Council found itself, sometimes more through improvisation and personal affinities than through careful planning, at the heart of some key developments, notably in terms of important periodical publications which had a lasting influence on Greek letters. Though in the cultural forum that influence was arguably to be less pervasive than that of France, with its more ambitious cultural outreach, or than that of the USA in later decades, the role of the British Council in Greece in this crucial period of Greek (and indeed European) post-war history continues to make a rich case study in cultural politics. This volume thus fills a gap in the rich bibliography on Anglo-Greek relations and contributes to a wider scholarly and public discussion about cultural politics.

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