Theodora Tsimpouki
Biographic Data
| ID | 2582858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodora Tsimpouki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodora |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsimpouki |
| SIGNATURE | TSIMPOUKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0112-8252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Robert Beuka. American Icon
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Anne Boyd Rioux, Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Anne Boyd Rioux, Portrait of a Lady Novelist: Constance Fenimore Woolson. Portrait of a Lady Novelist New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN-13: 978-0393245097. Theodora Tsimpouki National and Kapodistrian University of Athens In 1879, at the age of thirty-nine, James Fenimore Cooper’s grandniece Constance Fenimore Woolson set foot in Europe, where she remained until her death in 1894. Although she had acquired a taste for travellin…
Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters
Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Harvard Press, 2016. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-674-96788-5. Hardcover Theodora Tsimpouki Since the 1990s, irony has been and continues to be a salient feature in contemporary cultural, critical, and political debate. The simultaneously opposing positions—living in the age of irony and having reached its end—suggest that the debate surrounding irony is far from settled. Moreover, irony’s prev…
(Un)homely Dwellings
In this paper, I analyze E. L. Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to some of the tales by Edgar Allan Poe, there has been no critical reading that draws the connection between this novel and Poe’s famous tale. Doctorow deftly manipulates Poe’s favorite gothic connecti…
Introduction
What is a City?” So begins the collection of essays in the recently published Cambridge companion to The City in Literature (2015). “Why Cities” is the opening line of another recent publication edited by Robert Inman, and entitled Making Cities Work (2009). While the first question concerns the origins of social and political life, the second views cities as the main source of global economic growth and productivity. To these overriding question…
Mick Gidley, Photography and the USA
Mick Gidley’s Photography and the USA is premised on the conviction that there is “a symbiotic connection” between the medium of photography and the American nation, especially in the aftermath of the Second World War. Given that Photography and the USA belongs to a series of books under the general title Exposures designed to explore photography from thematic perspectives or in relation to significant nationalities (i.e. “photography and literat…
Fictional contamination of hegemonical texts
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Fictional contamination of hegemonical texts
Mick Gidley, Photography and the USA
Mick Gidley’s Photography and the USA is premised on the conviction that there is “a symbiotic connection” between the medium of photography and the American nation, especially in the aftermath of the Second World War. Given that Photography and the USA belongs to a series of books under the general title Exposures designed to explore photography from thematic perspectives or in relation to significant nationalities (i.e. “photography and literat…
Introduction
What is a City?” So begins the collection of essays in the recently published Cambridge companion to The City in Literature (2015). “Why Cities” is the opening line of another recent publication edited by Robert Inman, and entitled Making Cities Work (2009). While the first question concerns the origins of social and political life, the second views cities as the main source of global economic growth and productivity. To these overriding question…
(Un)homely Dwellings
In this paper, I analyze E. L. Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to some of the tales by Edgar Allan Poe, there has been no critical reading that draws the connection between this novel and Poe’s famous tale. Doctorow deftly manipulates Poe’s favorite gothic connecti…
Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters
Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Harvard Press, 2016. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-674-96788-5. Hardcover Theodora Tsimpouki Since the 1990s, irony has been and continues to be a salient feature in contemporary cultural, critical, and political debate. The simultaneously opposing positions—living in the age of irony and having reached its end—suggest that the debate surrounding irony is far from settled. Moreover, irony’s prev…
Robert Beuka. American Icon
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Anne Boyd Rioux, Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Anne Boyd Rioux, Portrait of a Lady Novelist: Constance Fenimore Woolson. Portrait of a Lady Novelist New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN-13: 978-0393245097. Theodora Tsimpouki National and Kapodistrian University of Athens In 1879, at the age of thirty-nine, James Fenimore Cooper’s grandniece Constance Fenimore Woolson set foot in Europe, where she remained until her death in 1894. Although she had acquired a taste for travellin…
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