{"product_id":"eva-palmer-sikelianos-9780691171722","title":"Eva Palmer Sikelianos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eEva Palmer Sikelianos\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edazzled as biography and scholarship. . . . Few page-turners are so thoroughly indexed and annotated. Leontis rescues her subject from stiff hagiography ('the most influential philhellene after Lord Byron'), and stirs her to life like a breeze through drapery.\"\u003cb\u003e---A. E. Stallings, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a powerful reclamation of a life it has suited others to place in the shadows, and a well-deserved appreciation of Eva’s own legacy.\"\u003cb\u003e---Liz Gloyn, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fascinating account. . . . All of Eva's varied, determined life is crafted together by Leontis. . . . [T]his Life has something of the quality of Eva’s own determined artistry.\"\u003cb\u003e---Oliver Taplin, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-researched and well-written look at the life of the woman who brought ancient Greek culture from an idea into practice in the modern era.\"\u003cb\u003e---Eleni Sakellis, \u003ci\u003eNational Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An enlightening, important biography of a woman who could be both brashly anachronistic and remarkably current.\"\u003cb\u003e---Brigit Katz, \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating.\"\u003cb\u003e---Mary Norris, \u003ci\u003eCommaQueen.net\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Artemis] Leontis’s biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, on whom she must be regarded as the supreme authority, is a passionate and yet objective analysis of a complex figure whose triumphs were also her tragedy and whose life, so acutely mapped here, was a chronicle of vision, confusion, passion and disillusion, compellingly illuminating episodes in modern Greek cultural history. . . . Read this book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Richard Pine, \u003ci\u003eC.20 – An International Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Artemis Leontis's beautiful new book, Eva Palmer Sikelianos will find her rightful seat at the center of numerous critical debates across scholarly fields.\"\u003cb\u003e---Samuel N. Dorf, \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leontis has written an important book that ideally illustrates the extremely complex personality of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the American heiress and wife of Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos, and as a result has readjusted the focus on several areas of the cultural landscape of Greece in the early decades of the 20th century, proving Palmer Sikelianos' intimate association to and pivotal influence over them. At the same time, Leontis' cultural biography of Palmer Sikelianos pointedly underlines the necessity of applying multidisciplinary approaches to the proper understanding of complex cultural concepts, such as the effort to comprehend and define Hellenism in the 20th century.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sophia Papaioannou, \u003ci\u003eClassical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] gripping, deeply researched biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos . . . Leontis has created not just the scope of a life, but a compelling study of the role of Eva Palmer Sikelianos in transforming the cultural landscape of Greece—and, to an extent, the West’s perception of it—a century ago.\"\u003cb\u003e---Robert L. Pounder, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Greek Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEva Palmer Sikelianos\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in telling a different story, a story about a brilliant, self-driven, singular woman, no one’s appendage, who was instrumental in reintroducing ancient Greek arts in modern Greece and America…Leontis’s compelling portrait of Palmer as a formidable, courageous, and determined lesbian woman, who charted life through Greek “ruins,” will certainly prompt others to study, discuss, and build on Leontis’s groundbreaking retrieval.\"\u003cb\u003e---Linda Ben-Zvi, \u003ci\u003eErgon: Greek\/American Arts and Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book. . . .  Leontis’ cultural biography of Palmer Sikelianos pointedly underlines the necessity of applying multidisciplinary approaches to the proper understanding of complex cultural concepts, such as the effort to comprehend and define Hellenism in the 20th century.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sophia Papaioannou, \u003ci\u003eClassical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403830075735,"sku":"9780691171722","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691171722.jpg?v=1730484668","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eva-palmer-sikelianos-9780691171722","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}