Dimitris Tziovas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5651070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Tziovas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Tziovas |
| SIGNATURE | TZIOVAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greece from Junta to Crisis
The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends in the years between …
Greece in Crisis
Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times, both at home and abroad, the Greek arts scene has been discussed mainly in terms of the crisis. While there is no shortage of accounts of Greece's eco…
From junta to crisis
The Greek economic crisis has triggered a self-reflexive process and prompted a re-examination of political and cultural trends in Greece since 1974 in an attempt to rethink earlier cultural approaches and practices. This article argues that a cultural perspective on the crisis can be productive insofar as it revisits key concepts and dominant models of analysis and charts cultural change in Greece from the fall of the military junta in 1974 to t…
Between tradition and appropriation
Venerating the past in the form of tradition and adapting or appropriating it for modern purposes could be seen as two modes of engagement with antiquity, involving a certain hierarchy, either privileging the authority of the past or assigning priority to the present in radically recasting the ancient material. This paper will explore whether in the interstices between tradition and appropriation it is possible to position/locate a third approach…
The study of modern Greece in a changing world
Periodically reviewing developments in a subject area and reflecting on the past and future directions of a discipline can be useful and instructive. In the case of Modern Greek Studies, this has rarely been done, and most of the reviews of the field come from USA. 1 So I take this opportunity to offer some thoughts on what has propelled changes in the field over the last forty years, on the fruitful (and occasionally trenchant) dialogue between …
Re-imagining the Past
Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece’s modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece to Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. This book aspires to offer new insights into the modern Greek reception of antiquity and includes a number of chapters with a comparative perspective. It also aims to …
From being to becoming
In this article, Kazantzakis’ popularity over the years is briefly reviewed and it is argued that the two dominant approaches to his work, which could be described as ethnographic and philosophical-theological, respectively, correspond to the antithesis between being and becoming. The question addressed here is whether we can read his fiction in a new way, and pass from the ontology of being to the contingency of becoming, following the example o…
Reconfiguring the past
The reception of Solomos
Through the reception of Solomos, this paper explores the tension between the lyric and the narrative, and the extent to which the roles of national and lyric poet are compatible. The critical reception of Solomos demonstrates that his recognition as a lyric poet was not on an equal footing with his presentation as a national one. It shows that his joint treatment as the national poet of Greece and its greatest lyric poet is problematic and not c…
Greek Modernism and Beyond
Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary and cultural phenomenon. A wide variety of competing, often clashing discourses and approaches characterize the study of Greek modernism. In this landmark volume, scholars from three continents provide a framework in which developments in prose, poetry, and drama can be studied together. The contri…
Dialogism and interpretation
The twentieth century has been the century of interpretation, representing at the same time its celebration and its devaluation. It opens with Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and Nietzsche’s statement that there are no facts but only interpretations and ends up in the early 1960s with Susan Sontag’s attack on interpretation and her dramatic appeal for an ‘erotics of art’ in place of a hermeneutics. However polemical Sontag’s attitude migh…
George Thomson and the Dialectics of Hellenism
When I think of G. Thomson one question which immediately springs to mind is: why was he, and why is he still, so popular in Greece, a country he visited only four or five times? Was it his scholarly work, his Marxist beliefs or his emphasis on the continuity of Greek culture that bestowed on him respect and acclaim among Greeks? It seems to me that it was a combination of all these three factors which resulted in the fact that Thomson is one of …
Cavafy’s Barbarians and their Western Genealogy
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ is probably the most discussed of Cavafy’s poems after ‘The God abandons Antony’. Its sources, its date of composition and its diachronic symbolism, along with Cavafy’s unfathomable intentions, have generated a large number of interpretations and debates. Reading the poem today one cannot escape from these layers of interpretation, a kind of metadiscourse which regulates the new approaches either compliant or defiant …
Re-imagining the Past
Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece’s modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece to Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. This book aspires to offer new insights into the modern Greek reception of antiquity and includes a number of chapters with a comparative perspective. It also aims to …
Cavafy’s Barbarians and their Western Genealogy
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ is probably the most discussed of Cavafy’s poems after ‘The God abandons Antony’. Its sources, its date of composition and its diachronic symbolism, along with Cavafy’s unfathomable intentions, have generated a large number of interpretations and debates. Reading the poem today one cannot escape from these layers of interpretation, a kind of metadiscourse which regulates the new approaches either compliant or defiant …
Cavafy’s Barbarians and their Western Genealogy
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ is probably the most discussed of Cavafy’s poems after ‘The God abandons Antony’. Its sources, its date of composition and its diachronic symbolism, along with Cavafy’s unfathomable intentions, have generated a large number of interpretations and debates. Reading the poem today one cannot escape from these layers of interpretation, a kind of metadiscourse which regulates the new approaches either compliant or defiant …
George Thomson and the Dialectics of Hellenism
When I think of G. Thomson one question which immediately springs to mind is: why was he, and why is he still, so popular in Greece, a country he visited only four or five times? Was it his scholarly work, his Marxist beliefs or his emphasis on the continuity of Greek culture that bestowed on him respect and acclaim among Greeks? It seems to me that it was a combination of all these three factors which resulted in the fact that Thomson is one of …
Dialogism and interpretation
The twentieth century has been the century of interpretation, representing at the same time its celebration and its devaluation. It opens with Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and Nietzsche’s statement that there are no facts but only interpretations and ends up in the early 1960s with Susan Sontag’s attack on interpretation and her dramatic appeal for an ‘erotics of art’ in place of a hermeneutics. However polemical Sontag’s attitude migh…
Greek Modernism and Beyond
Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary and cultural phenomenon. A wide variety of competing, often clashing discourses and approaches characterize the study of Greek modernism. In this landmark volume, scholars from three continents provide a framework in which developments in prose, poetry, and drama can be studied together. The contri…
The reception of Solomos
Through the reception of Solomos, this paper explores the tension between the lyric and the narrative, and the extent to which the roles of national and lyric poet are compatible. The critical reception of Solomos demonstrates that his recognition as a lyric poet was not on an equal footing with his presentation as a national one. It shows that his joint treatment as the national poet of Greece and its greatest lyric poet is problematic and not c…
Reconfiguring the past
From being to becoming
In this article, Kazantzakis’ popularity over the years is briefly reviewed and it is argued that the two dominant approaches to his work, which could be described as ethnographic and philosophical-theological, respectively, correspond to the antithesis between being and becoming. The question addressed here is whether we can read his fiction in a new way, and pass from the ontology of being to the contingency of becoming, following the example o…
Re-imagining the Past
Antiquity has often been perceived as the source of Greece’s modern achievements, as well as its frustrations, with the continuity between ancient and modern Greek culture and the legacy of classical Greece to Europe dominating and shaping current perceptions of the classical past. This book aspires to offer new insights into the modern Greek reception of antiquity and includes a number of chapters with a comparative perspective. It also aims to …
Between tradition and appropriation
Venerating the past in the form of tradition and adapting or appropriating it for modern purposes could be seen as two modes of engagement with antiquity, involving a certain hierarchy, either privileging the authority of the past or assigning priority to the present in radically recasting the ancient material. This paper will explore whether in the interstices between tradition and appropriation it is possible to position/locate a third approach…
The study of modern Greece in a changing world
Periodically reviewing developments in a subject area and reflecting on the past and future directions of a discipline can be useful and instructive. In the case of Modern Greek Studies, this has rarely been done, and most of the reviews of the field come from USA. 1 So I take this opportunity to offer some thoughts on what has propelled changes in the field over the last forty years, on the fruitful (and occasionally trenchant) dialogue between …
Greece in Crisis
Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times, both at home and abroad, the Greek arts scene has been discussed mainly in terms of the crisis. While there is no shortage of accounts of Greece's eco…
From junta to crisis
The Greek economic crisis has triggered a self-reflexive process and prompted a re-examination of political and cultural trends in Greece since 1974 in an attempt to rethink earlier cultural approaches and practices. This article argues that a cultural perspective on the crisis can be productive insofar as it revisits key concepts and dominant models of analysis and charts cultural change in Greece from the fall of the military junta in 1974 to t…
Greece from Junta to Crisis
The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends in the years between …
History (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)