Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967

Author/Contributor(s):	Van Dyck, Karen
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/23/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of censorship--in cartoons, the dictator's speeches...