Maria Koundoura
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Koundoura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Koundoura |
| SIGNATURE | KOUNDOURA M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Uncanny Encounters
Reviewed by: Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity by John Zilcosky Maria Koundoura (bio) Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity. John Zilcosky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. 264 pp. In the opening pages of Uncanny Encounters, John Zilcosky's study of the preconditions that led to the birth of the uncanny, the elements that shaped it, and its current life, the…
Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity
Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produces uniformity. Here, Maria Koundoura strikes a singular path between these divergent views and maps the full terrain of our contemporary culture landscape. Reading world literature and engaging with contemporary critical methodologies, she explores what she calls transnational visions of language and culture, and analyses the pol…
The Greek Idea
How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? "The Greek Idea" offers a new critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, Maria Koundoura addresses and analyses the cultural material that produced Greece's representation as both Europe's origin and 'other'. The long association of Greece and English Literature began with English travellers' 'discovery' of Greece i…
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The Greek Idea
How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? "The Greek Idea" offers a new critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, Maria Koundoura addresses and analyses the cultural material that produced Greece's representation as both Europe's origin and 'other'. The long association of Greece and English Literature began with English travellers' 'discovery' of Greece i…
Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity
Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produces uniformity. Here, Maria Koundoura strikes a singular path between these divergent views and maps the full terrain of our contemporary culture landscape. Reading world literature and engaging with contemporary critical methodologies, she explores what she calls transnational visions of language and culture, and analyses the pol…
Uncanny Encounters
Reviewed by: Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity by John Zilcosky Maria Koundoura (bio) Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity. John Zilcosky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. 264 pp. In the opening pages of Uncanny Encounters, John Zilcosky's study of the preconditions that led to the birth of the uncanny, the elements that shaped it, and its current life, the…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Political science (2 works)