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'Mediterranean Modernisms is the first comparative study of Odysseus Elytis, the important Greek poet and Nobel Laureate. Marinos Pourgouris analyzes individual poems and draws connections between Elytis's work and wider literary movements. Along the way, he challenges our understanding of national modernism and world literature while also charting his own theory of Mediterranean poetics. Undaunted in his pursuit of a Greek and a European Elytis, Pourgouris provides a kaleidoscopic look at the place of poetry in the Mediterranean imaginary.' Gregory Jusdanis, Distinguished Humanities Professor and Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program at The Ohio State University, USA 'A continually developed poetics, the various ideas of which are substantiated almost exclusively through language and form, needs powerful tools in theory and method, which Pourgouris does not at all lack. His systematization of Elytis's poetic thought in a wider postcolonial context, a project only marginally and empirically actualized by previous scholarship and criticism, is well organized and advanced, providing a good example of applying theory in the investigation of an entire oeuvre.' Journal of Modern Greek Studies

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Marinos Pourgouris is Assistant Professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

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