Self-Fashioning in C. P. Cavafy‟s “Going back Home from Greece” and “Philhellene”

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Self-Fashioning in C. P. Cavafy‟s “Going back Home from Greece” and “Philhellene” (EN)

Sifaki, Evgenia

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2013-05-01


C. P. Cavafy‟s dramatic monologues “Going Back Home from Greece” and “Philhellene” are approached by way of their form: the genre of the dramatic monologue that the Greek poet adopted and adapted from Victorian sources, which delimits and historicises the poetic utterance by staging it in a dramatic frame. Drawing on a theory of Michel Foucault, the two texts‟ discursive context of Hellenism is construed as part of their speakers‟ binding situation, the social and historical environment (i.e. the literary representation of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods) that is shown to both condition and enable their respective utterances. Furthermore, it will be argued that the speakers‟ attempts to assert and/or construct their identities involves a complex, tense process of subjection and simultaneous resistance to restraining definitions inherent to the discourse of Hellenism that have persisted throughout the latter‟s long history, such as its self- constitutive, inexorable, division between Greek and barbarian. (EN)


monologue (EN)
identity (EN)
Victorian (EN)
Greek (EN)
Cavafy (EN)
Foucault (EN)
hellenism (EN)

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Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 5 (2013): Hellenism Unbound; 29-48 (EN)

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