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In Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata what sentiments does the woman’s confession provoke/inspire to you and how these compare to the ones felt by the young man who remains silent throughout her long monologue.

Yannis Ritsos' "Moonlight Sonata" is a poignant and emotionally charged poem that presents a deeply intimate monologue of a woman speaking to a silent young man. The setting is night, with the moonlight casting a dreamlike atmosphere over the scene. The woman's confession, filled with personal revelations, memories, and emotions, evokes a variety of sentiments in the reader and provokes a complex response.

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In Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata what sentiments does the woman’s confession provoke/inspire to you and how these compare to the ones felt by the young man who remains silent throughout her long monologue.

How does Seferis’ mythical method interact with Greece’s lasting socio-political issues?

Seferis uses the mythical method in his poetry to allude to and comment upon social and political issues in Greece in his lifetime. Before discussing his poetry, it is important to define what is meant by Seferis’ mythical method. This method can be described as allusive, as although Seferis does make direct references to myth he does so in inventive ways, for example by using narrative space, symbols and characters to evoke Greek myths.

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How does Seferis’ mythical method interact with Greece’s lasting socio-political issues?

Poetics and Histories: To What Extent Did C. P. Cavafy Alter Historical Narratives, and for What Artistic Purposes?

stuident Name: Joseph Watson Module Lecturer: Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps Date of Submission: 11/01/2016

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Poetics and Histories: To What Extent Did C. P. Cavafy Alter Historical Narratives, and for What Artistic Purposes?

Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

My Mother's Sin and Other Stories A series of lectures on Modern Greek literature taught by Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps This is a first class essay of one of my students, Jenny Wight, who took my course this year writing beautifully on the effects of loss in Cavafy's poetry.

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Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

Theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood, flashbacks are some of Cavafy’s recurring ‘tropes’. Discuss.

Within the vast poetry collection of Constantine Cavafy, arguably, a pattern of recurring tropes emerges, offering the readers an in depth understanding of what defines his artistry. The poems that I have chosen for this essay being Young Men of Sidon, Alexandrian Kings and Kaisarion, from his book The Collected poems. One might say that they serve as an example of Cavafy’s gravitation towards an array of literary devices such as theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood and flashbacks, one might say that they create a narrative that extends beyond the individual poems, inviting us to explore the timeless themes captured by Cavafy.

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Theatricality, didacticism, prosaic verse, use of persons as symbols, contemplative mood, flashbacks are some of Cavafy’s recurring ‘tropes’. Discuss.

The form of Dramatic Monologue as perfected by Ritsos’ poetry.

Yannis Ritsos is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in contemporary Greek poetry. He managed to revolutionise the idea of a dramatic monologue and create not just beautiful poetry, but also a multifaceted art form that has depth on psychological, social, and philosophical levels throughout all of his publications. The dramatic monologue form was popularised by Victorian poets such as Robert Browning, but Ritsos revitalised it and many poets to this day still use his style as inspiration. His ability to construct identities and characters that the reader can genuinely sense and almost experience is skilful.

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The form of Dramatic Monologue as perfected by Ritsos’ poetry.

Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

My Mother's Sin and Other Stories A series of lectures on Modern Greek literature taught by Dr Dimitra Tzanidaki-Kreps This is a first class essay of one of my students, Jenny Wight, who took my course this year writing beautifully on the effects of loss in Cavafy's poetry.

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Discuss the portrayal and effects of loss in the poetry of Cavafy

«Examine how homoerotic love is expressed in Cavafy’s erotic poetry» By Yousuf Danawi, Reading University

This essay aims to examine the manner in which homoerotic love is expressed in Constantine Peter Cavafy’s erotic poetry.Initially, it will provide a brief introduction entailing contextual information. Subsequently, this essay will bestow an intricate analysis of his erotic poems, with a particular focus on elucidating recurrent themes pertaining tohomoerotic love. The analysis will explore both the formal and thematic constituents of Cavafy’s erotic poetry, accompanied by a pervading extraction of deeper meaning.This examination will be enhanced utilising relevant secondary literature. The primary source that consists of the poems to be discussed in this essay derives from a digital anthology that comprises Cavafy’s ‘Recognised’, ‘Denounced’, and ‘Hidden’ poems

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«Examine how homoerotic love is expressed in Cavafy’s erotic poetry» By Yousuf Danawi, Reading University

ἐξ ἐρίων δὴ καὶ κλωστήρων καὶ ἀτράκτων

This essay examines that metaphor in the context of the political and war situation at the time Lysistrata was first performed. It considers traditional gender roles in the fifth-century Greek polis and Lysistrata’s inversion of those roles in her weaving analogy. Aristophanes’ comedic purpose in the weaving speech, in Lysistrata as a whole, and more generally across his corpus is examined. In addition, some observations are made about the sound pattern of Lysistrata’s speech and, in a personal argument, a speculative suggestion is advanced that the audience might have associated her cadences with the familiar rhythms of a domestic weaving loom.

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ἐξ ἐρίων δὴ καὶ κλωστήρων καὶ ἀτράκτων

Hyperion or the hermit in Greece

Concept, dramaturgy and performance by Dimitra Kreps

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Hyperion or the hermit in Greece
Υποβλήθηκε από joanna την Σάβ, 2011-06-11 09:22.

Πανεπιστήμιο Georgetown - Δημήτριος Αλάτης, ένας ακούραστος υποστηρικτής της Νέας Ελληνικής συνταξιοδοτείται

Δημήτριος Αλάτης, ένας ακούραστος υποστηρικτής της Νέας Ελληνικής συνταξιοδοτείται

Της Δρ Θεοδώρας Καμαρούδη 

Ένα από τα μακροβιότερα πανεπιστημιακά προγράμματα Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, του πανεπιστημίου Georgetown στις ΗΠΑ, ετοιμάζεται να αλλάξει διεύθυνση κρατώντας σταθερό στόχο.

Ο Δρ Δημήτριος Αλάτης είναι ο καθηγητής που εγκαινίασε τη διδασκαλία ελληνικής γλώσσας στο πανεπιστήμιο Georgetown το 1966.  Το πανεπιστήμιο αυτό βρίσκεται στην πρωτεύουσα των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών, την Ουάσινγκτον, και φημίζεται παγκοσμίως για τις σπουδές που προσφέρει ιδιαίτερα στον κλάδο των Πολιτικών Επιστημών, των Διεθνών Σχέσεων και της Γλωσσολογίας.  Ο Δρ Αλάτης, καθηγητής Γλωσσολογίας και Νέων Ελληνικών, υπήρξε Κοσμήτορας της Σχολής Ξένων Γλωσσών και Γλωσσολογίας στο Georgetown για 27 ολόκληρα χρόνια και από τη θέση αυτή προώθησε τις σπουδές των Νέων Ελληνικών με μεράκι, αγάπη και πολλή δουλειά.

Ο Δρ Αλάτης ήταν ένας από τους πρωτεργάτες στην ίδρυση του διεθνούς εκπαιδευτικού οργανισμού TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) και ο πρώτος διευθυντής του οργανισμού αυτού (1966-1987) καθώς επίσης και σύμβουλος της αμερικανικής κυβέρνησης σε θέματα διδασκαλίας και εξετάσεων επάρκειας των ξένων γλωσσών.  Όμως, πάνω απ’ όλα, ήταν γνωστό στους συνεργάτες και τους μαθητές του ότι ο Δρ Αλάτης, λάτρευε τη Νέα Ελληνική Γλώσσα, τη δημοτική.  Η συμβολή του στην έρευνα, διδασκαλία και στήριξη της ελληνικής γλώσσας είναι τεράστια.  Το 2008  τιμήθηκε από το Αμερικανικό Κογκρέσο για την προσφορά του στην ελληνική γλώσσα και πολιτισμό.  Με τη συνταξιοδότησή του φέτος, η σκυτάλη περνά στους νεότερους συνεργάτες του, την καινούργια διευθύντρια του προγράμματος κυρία Ισμήνη Αμπαδογιάννη-Λαμπ, τον Δρ Έκτορα Κάμπος και την γράφουσα Θεοδώρα Καμαρούδη, αποσπασμένη φιλόλογο από το Υπουργείο Παιδείας.

Το πρόγραμμα των Νέων Ελληνικών υπάγεται στο τμήμα των Κλασσικών σπουδών και φιλοδοξεί να συνεχίσει τα γλωσσικά και διατμηματικά μαθήματα, να εμπλουτίσει το εύρος των προσφερομένων μαθημάτων, να προωθήσει το πιστοποιητικό της ελληνομάθειας του Κέντρου Ελληνικής Γλώσσας και να προσφέρει για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία του πανεπιστημίου και πτυχίο (major) στα Νέα Ελληνικά!

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