TY - BOOK AU - Georganta,Konstantina TI - Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 T2 - Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature SN - 9789401208383 AV - PR1228 U1 - 821.9208 PY - 2012/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Editions Rodopi KW - Comparative literature KW - English and Greek KW - Greek poetry KW - Poésie grecque KW - POETRY KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Mr Eugenides in the City -- Waiting for Barbarians -- A Philhellene in Athens -- Cultural Politics of Old Bards -- A Greek Orlando in London -- Dreams of Mediterranean Re-birth -- An Island Temperament -- Conclusion N2 - Conversing Identities: Encounters Between British, Irish and Greek Poetry, 1922-1952 presents a panorama of cultures brought in dialogue through travel, immigration and translation set against the insularity imposed by war and the hegemony of the national centre in the period 1922-1952. Each chapter tells a story within a specific time and space that connected the challenges and fissures experienced in two cultures with the goal to explore how the post-1922 accentuated mobility across frontiers found an appropriate expression in the work of the poets under consideration. Either influenced by t UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=495491 ER -