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Modes of Expression and Representation in Modern Greek Women’s Prose from 1938-1987

Hohlfelder, Cynthia Anne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1219786950

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1997, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Greek and Latin.
This thesis examines four different works of modern Greek women’sprose from 1938-1987, and explores how four different authors approach issues of expression and representation. It also considers the implications of these narrative practices within the scope of feminist theory while maintaining the specificity of the Greek case. The first chapter focuses on Margarita Lymberaki’s Τα ΨάΘινα Καπελλα [Straw Hats] (1946), and analyzes the novel within the context of both the Bildungsroman and the egalitarian feminism of Greece in the 1940’s. The second and third chapters correspond to the works Δύσκολες Νύχτες [Difficult Nights] (1938) and Η Κασσάνδρα και Ο Λύκος [Kassandra and the Wolf] (1977) by Melpo Axioti and Margarita Karapanou, respectively. Both of these texts question the definitions and boundaries of narrative: Axioti through radical poetic experimentation and Karapanou through grotesque subject matter. Finally, the thesis concludes with an analysis of Alki Zei’s Η Αρραβωνιαστικιά τον Αχιλλέα [Achilles’ Fiancee] (1987) as a novel which incorporates both experimental and traditional narrative techniques in order to articulate women’s experience through an artistic medium. Although these works are not always representative of general trends or movements in Greek literature, they are paradigmatic of different approaches to women’s writing and provide a useful format for exploring different techniques that women have adopted when entering a predominantly male literary canon in Greece.
Gregory Jusdanis (Advisor)
95 p.

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  • Hohlfelder, C. A. (1997). Modes of Expression and Representation in Modern Greek Women’s Prose from 1938-1987 [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1219786950

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hohlfelder, Cynthia. Modes of Expression and Representation in Modern Greek Women’s Prose from 1938-1987. 1997. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1219786950.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hohlfelder, Cynthia. "Modes of Expression and Representation in Modern Greek Women’s Prose from 1938-1987." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1219786950

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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