Eleni Kefala
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleni Kefala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleni |
| FAMILY NAME | Kefala |
| SIGNATURE | KEFALA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4532-6253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Open Veins of Modernity
The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian America as passive or primitive, respectively. For the Moderns, the Byzantines were the 'librarians of humanity,' an inert repository of Greco-Roman knowledge, unable to produce their own. Byzantium'…
Poetry (III)
Poetry (III) Eleni Kefala (bio) Translated by Peter Constantine (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Poetry is not solace, it is not a song of joy and of sadness, it is not a haven in the mouth of a blind man, it is not a museum. Poetry is not an almanac of meanings on the shelf with the classics, nor is it beauty that looms in a room with mirrors and half-burned logs. Poetry is not a sea, nor a shipwreck, nor terra firma, nor a map, …
The Coastal Path
POETRY The Coastal Path by Eleni Kefala for Colin McEwan I heard the news a few days ago we hadn’t spoken in nearly two years it was a Tuesday in June you wrote me you’d arrived you checked the weather “Maybe we could do the walk,” you said, “before the storm comes.” Within two hours you were here in your hiking clothes we ascended the hill the slope full of grass down below the deep blue sea the low tide had uncovered the black of the depths. Yo…
Nausis
WORLDLIT.ORG 27 Compass Mathias Énard Trans. Charlotte Mandell New Directions A t the very time one should be looking ahead to the excellent works in translation the new year will bring, I’ve found myself lingering over a title released in mid-2017, Charlotte Mandell’s English translation of Mathias Énard’s Compass. Upon reading it for the second time (no small feat considering it clocks in at just under five hundred pages), I had the unshakable …
Nausis
Horacio Coppola
Although a milestone in the history of Latin American photography, the work of Horacio Coppola is little known outside Argentina. His unorthodox angles and tilting frames, his attention to industrial and urban themes, and his experimentation with different lenses in the period between 1927 and 1931 were in absolute synchrony with the precepts of European New Vision and New Objectivity photography, and with American straight photography. That Copp…
Xul Solar, the Reluctant Utopian
Xul Solar—a painter, sculptor, writer, mystic and inventor of imaginary languages—is one of Argentina's and Latin America's most fascinating and intriguing artists whose work has been relatively neglected in the English-speaking world. His case is compelling, among other reasons, on account of his peculiar urban landscapes. The article focuses on his notion of the spiritual city by analysing textual and visual material from the interwar period, a…
Borges and nationalism
This article explores Jorge Luis Borges's reconceptualization of the periphery of Buenos Aires in the 1920s by focusing on his poetry collection Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) and a number of his critical essays of the same period. It becomes clear that Borges opts for the liminal landscape of the orillas – the borders between Buenos Aires and the Pampa – in order to create an essentialist myth for the city and, metonymically, for the entire natio…
The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier
The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier Eleni Kefala The word translation derives from the past participle of the verb transfero (translatum), which means "to transfer," "to bring over." Translation constitutes a key term in understanding the aesthetics of Borges who, throughout his life, was engaged with it in three ways: as a translator, critic, and writer. First, as a translator, Borges made his debut as early as at the…
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual.." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 29(1), pp. 97–98
Xul Solar, the Reluctant Utopian
Xul Solar—a painter, sculptor, writer, mystic and inventor of imaginary languages—is one of Argentina's and Latin America's most fascinating and intriguing artists whose work has been relatively neglected in the English-speaking world. His case is compelling, among other reasons, on account of his peculiar urban landscapes. The article focuses on his notion of the spiritual city by analysing textual and visual material from the interwar period, a…
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual.." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 29(1), pp. 97–98
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe
Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual.." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 29(1), pp. 97–98
The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier
The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier Eleni Kefala The word translation derives from the past participle of the verb transfero (translatum), which means "to transfer," "to bring over." Translation constitutes a key term in understanding the aesthetics of Borges who, throughout his life, was engaged with it in three ways: as a translator, critic, and writer. First, as a translator, Borges made his debut as early as at the…
Borges and nationalism
This article explores Jorge Luis Borges's reconceptualization of the periphery of Buenos Aires in the 1920s by focusing on his poetry collection Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) and a number of his critical essays of the same period. It becomes clear that Borges opts for the liminal landscape of the orillas – the borders between Buenos Aires and the Pampa – in order to create an essentialist myth for the city and, metonymically, for the entire natio…
Xul Solar, the Reluctant Utopian
Xul Solar—a painter, sculptor, writer, mystic and inventor of imaginary languages—is one of Argentina's and Latin America's most fascinating and intriguing artists whose work has been relatively neglected in the English-speaking world. His case is compelling, among other reasons, on account of his peculiar urban landscapes. The article focuses on his notion of the spiritual city by analysing textual and visual material from the interwar period, a…
Horacio Coppola
Although a milestone in the history of Latin American photography, the work of Horacio Coppola is little known outside Argentina. His unorthodox angles and tilting frames, his attention to industrial and urban themes, and his experimentation with different lenses in the period between 1927 and 1931 were in absolute synchrony with the precepts of European New Vision and New Objectivity photography, and with American straight photography. That Copp…
Nausis
WORLDLIT.ORG 27 Compass Mathias Énard Trans. Charlotte Mandell New Directions A t the very time one should be looking ahead to the excellent works in translation the new year will bring, I’ve found myself lingering over a title released in mid-2017, Charlotte Mandell’s English translation of Mathias Énard’s Compass. Upon reading it for the second time (no small feat considering it clocks in at just under five hundred pages), I had the unshakable …
Nausis
The Coastal Path
POETRY The Coastal Path by Eleni Kefala for Colin McEwan I heard the news a few days ago we hadn’t spoken in nearly two years it was a Tuesday in June you wrote me you’d arrived you checked the weather “Maybe we could do the walk,” you said, “before the storm comes.” Within two hours you were here in your hiking clothes we ascended the hill the slope full of grass down below the deep blue sea the low tide had uncovered the black of the depths. Yo…
Poetry (III)
Poetry (III) Eleni Kefala (bio) Translated by Peter Constantine (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Poetry is not solace, it is not a song of joy and of sadness, it is not a haven in the mouth of a blind man, it is not a museum. Poetry is not an almanac of meanings on the shelf with the classics, nor is it beauty that looms in a room with mirrors and half-burned logs. Poetry is not a sea, nor a shipwreck, nor terra firma, nor a map, …
The Open Veins of Modernity
The ecological crisis is the result of modernity's coloniality. The Moderns considered the Earth as 'natural resources' at their disposal. Their colonial vision of nature was complemented by that of nonmodern cultures like Byzantium and pre-Columbian America as passive or primitive, respectively. For the Moderns, the Byzantines were the 'librarians of humanity,' an inert repository of Greco-Roman knowledge, unable to produce their own. Byzantium'…
Art (10 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (2 works) · Classics (2 works)