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  • Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire

    Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities by Kayalis, Takis;

    History, Archaeology, Empire

    Series: The New Antiquity;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 13 December 2024
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031349041
    • Binding Paperback
    • See also 9783031349010
    • No. of pages282 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XIII, 282 p. 15 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.

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    Table of Contents:

    1 Introduction.- Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin.- 2 A golden coin?.- 3 How to read a coin portrait in the early 1900s.- 4 What is a ‘poet-historian’?.- Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions.- 5 ‘Caesarion’ as palimpsest.- 6 ‘In the month of Athyr’: Leucius and his friends.- Part III: Looking at Antiquity from Inside the Empire.- 7 Imperial desires.- 8 A Hellenistic Empire.- 9 How to read Cavafy inside the British Empire.

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