{"title":"Kazantzakis's Odyssey: A (Post)modernist Sequel","authors":"Helena González-Vaquerizo","doi":"10.1353/mgs.2021.0027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent studies acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in Nikos Kazantzakis's novels and thought, and Kazantzakis's Odyssey (1938), conventionally regarded as an old-fashioned nineteenth-century poem, can instead be viewed as a (post)modernist work. Aspects of Kazantzakis's Odyssey have parallels in the works of modernist writers such as Joyce, Pound, Mann, and Seferis, and the Nietzschean influences on the poem may be seen as the source of the author's later postmodernism. Thus, it may be appropriate to redefine the place of the Odyssey within Kazantzakis's oeuvre. Doing so raises broader questions, such as that of the definitions of literary modernism and postmodernism beyond the scope of modern Greek literary studies.","PeriodicalId":43810,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","volume":"39 1","pages":"349 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2021.0027","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Recent studies acknowledge modernist and even postmodernist elements in Nikos Kazantzakis's novels and thought, and Kazantzakis's Odyssey (1938), conventionally regarded as an old-fashioned nineteenth-century poem, can instead be viewed as a (post)modernist work. Aspects of Kazantzakis's Odyssey have parallels in the works of modernist writers such as Joyce, Pound, Mann, and Seferis, and the Nietzschean influences on the poem may be seen as the source of the author's later postmodernism. Thus, it may be appropriate to redefine the place of the Odyssey within Kazantzakis's oeuvre. Doing so raises broader questions, such as that of the definitions of literary modernism and postmodernism beyond the scope of modern Greek literary studies.
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Praised as "a magnificent scholarly journal" by Choice magazine, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies is the only scholarly periodical to focus exclusively on modern Greece. The Journal publishes critical analyses of Greek social, cultural, and political affairs, covering the period from the late Byzantine Empire to the present. Contributors include internationally recognized scholars in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, political science, Byzantine studies, and modern Greece.