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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the practices of criticism establish a particular domain of knowledge, the truth of literature. As a discussion of the ideology and politics of literary knowledge, it concentrates on constitutive elements of its production: the intertextuality of writing, the mediatedness of understanding, the formative role of reading expect
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Toward a Genealogy of "Literature": The Institutionalization of Tradition in C. Th. Dimaras's A History of Modern Greek Literature, pg. 23*2. Who has been Reading Masterpieces on Our Behalf? George Seferis, Makriyannis, and the Literary Canon, pg. 44*3. The Fictions of Criticism: The "Prolegomena" of Iakovos Polylas as Kunstlerroman, pg. 66*4. Incompleteness as Damnation: The Poetics of the Romantic Fragment in Dionysios Solomos's The Free Besieged, pg. 85*5. The Hermeneutics of Openness in the Novel: The Unsettling Modernism of Yannis Beratis's Whirlwind, pg. 100*6. Writing Greek as the Only Language: The Impossible Postmodernism of Renos Apostolidis's "The John of my Life", pg. 127*7. What Makes Good Literature Good and Literature: The Politics of Evaluation Surrounding the Work of Yannis Ritsos, pg. 157*8. The Violent Power of Knowledge: The Struggle of Critical Discourses for Domination over Constantine P. Cavafy's "Young Men of Sidon, A.D. 400", pg. 182*9. Encountering the Poststructuralist Challenge, or Beyond Humanism: The Paradigms of Contemporary Greek Criticism and the Languages of Theory, pg. 209*Postscript: Peri Hermeneias, pg. 236*Bibliography, pg. 251*Index, pg. 257
