List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: No Time like the Present

Neohellenism and Metrohellenism

Critical Institutions

Cultural Poetics

1 Ab-sense

Rhigas's Architectural Plan (l7s7)

Winckelmann's Supplements

Romantic Travelers: Reading Greece like an Open Book

Locating the Gaze

Anacharsis the Scythian, Rhigas the Vlach, and Alexander the Great

Ab-sense and Self-colonization

2 Centralization: Land, Citizenship, and Poetry in a Nation-state

Land

Citizenship

Poetry

3 Derivation

Representation without Representation

De Man, the Woman, and her Story: Moutzan-Martinengou's Autobiography (1831)

From Nafphon to Athens in P. Soutsos's Leandros (1834): A Capital Ideal(1)

4 Rupture and Crisis

Hard Marxism and the Fragmentation of the Body Politic (1907)

Karyotakis's Suicidal Postscript to the Greek Lyric Self (1928)

5 The Cultural Geographies of (Un)Greekness

Theotokas's Eurocentric Great Idea

Elytis's 'Eastern' Home from Home

George Seferis's Cyprus

6 Poetry and Politics in the Post-war

Resistance Poetry

'It is not enough that we politicize our verses': Elytis's Axion Esti - Religion and Metaphysics over Aesthetics and Politics

Post-Nationalism and Post-Monologism

7 Love and Sex: The Influence of Anxiety among Friends (Henry Miller, Patricia Storace, and Lawrence Durrell do Greece...and Cyprus)

Modern Philhellenism

Persephone's Dinner with the Colossal Male Ego: Henry Miller and Patricia Storace do Greece (and the Greeks Return the Favor)

Lawrence Durrell, the Bitterest Lemon? Cyps and Brits Loving each other to Death in Cyprus

8 Global Readings: Will the Turk Remain a Turk and the Greek a Greek to the Last?

"Greek" and "Turk" in the Global Market: Galanaki's Pashu and Pamuk's White Castle

Epilogue: No Time for the Past: A 200-Drachma Note, or 10 Euro Cents, Worth of a Conclusion

References

Index