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Telling the Transcultural

Aspects de l’hellénisme dans l’œuvre poétique de Constantin Cavafy

Hellenism in Constantin Cavafy poetical works
Sophie Coavoux
p. 194-209

Abstracts

Considered as one of the greatest poets of modern Greece, Constantin Cavafy’s oeuvre seems to be founded on a paradox: though exclusively impregnated by Greek culture and history, it offers a wider more universal vision. Born in Alexandria, in Egypt, where he lived in a seminal cosmopolitan atmosphere, this Greek of the Diaspora saw Hellenism in a light that was radically different from the confined notion common to the majority of his sedentary contemporaries, since they were confined within the boundaries of the newly established Greek state. Thus, reinventing Hellenism, viewed in its continuity, he establishes it as an ideal and at the same time denounces all prejudices and dogmatism with a view to rehabilitate all the excluded, all the “others”,. In short, his vision of Hellenism is humanistic.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Sophie Coavoux, “Aspects de l’hellénisme dans l’œuvre poétique de Constantin Cavafy”Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化, 1 | 2006, 194-209.

Electronic reference

Sophie Coavoux, “Aspects de l’hellénisme dans l’œuvre poétique de Constantin Cavafy”Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 [Online], 1 | 2006, Online since 13 September 2009, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/transtexts.202

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Sophie Coavoux

Sophie Coavoux teaches modern Greek and is completing a doctorate on the poet Constantin Cavafy at the University of Montpellier 3, France.

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