Belated modernity and aesthetic culture : inventing national literature / Gregory Jusdanis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jusdanis, Gregory, 1955-

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 81.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Canon (Literature).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces literature's function in the formation of the nation-state through the "belated" emergence of a national aesthetic culture in Greece.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Criticism as National Culture; 2. From Empire to Nation-State: Greek Expectations; 3. The Making of a Canon: A Literature of Their Own; 4. The Emergence of Art and the Failures of Modernization; 5. Spaces of a Public Culture; Afterword: The End of the Stories?; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8397-2

OCLC:

476093009