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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

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.

The Emotional Resonance of the Woman’s Confession in Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata: A Comparative Analysis of Sentiments by Adrijana Tomusic

Title photo: Dimitra Kreps performing Moonlight Sonata for Master’s in Physical theatre, photo credit: Yannis Katsaris

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The Emotional Resonance of the Woman’s Confession in Ritsos’ Moonlight Sonata: A Comparative Analysis of Sentiments by Adrijana Tomusic

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

Hyperion or the hermit in Greece

Concept, dramaturgy and performance by Dimitra Kreps

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Hyperion or the hermit in Greece

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.

Sin, Suffering, and the Search for Belonging: George Vizyenos's Literary World by Yena Kwak

Introduction George Vizyenos (1849–1896) stands as a seminal figure in modern Greek literature, adeptly weaving personal experience with historical and cultural reflections in his fiction. His narratives delve into the intricate landscapes of memory, loss, and belonging, echoing broader themes of Greek identity and diaspora.

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Sin, Suffering, and the Search for Belonging: George Vizyenos's Literary World by Yena Kwak

«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

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?
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Iphigenia in memoriam by Jean-Rene Lemoine concept, devising and performance by Dimitra Kreps

Iphigenia in memoriam ή 'στα φαγιούμ το βλέμμα είναι σώμα'

http://dimitrakreps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/iphigenia.html

text: Iphigenie and In Memoriam by Jean-Rene Lemoine
concept, devising and performance by Dimitra Kreps


King Agamemnon boasts after killing Artemis’ deer. To appease the goddess’ wrath he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. Only then the Greek ships will be allowed to sail to Troy to revenge Paris’ seduction of Helen. Iphigenia’s myth long after Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides has moved Goethe, Racine, Ritsos to name but a few. Comédie-Française and multiple-award winning actor, director, playwright Jean-René Lemoine revisits this archetypal myth to create his own harrowing nocturnal tale of love and loss, innocence and war, eros and thanatos. Fascinated by Fayoums, the funerary portraits whose gaze physicalises the dignity of sadness and the aristocracy of soul, Dimitra Kreps’ site-specific performance conceives Iphigenia as a Fayoum who for the first time breaks the silence of her gaze to tell a powerful story with volcanic subversion that transgresses time and place, life and death.
 

The performance blooded principally by Maria Callas’ music is an English premiere. Photography and lighting design by London-based artist Yannis Katsaris. 

Conceived as a site-specific exploration, it will set off in London (in a gem of a space - a Mayfair gallery) next Spring; it will then voyage through Greece and France. (venues and dates tbc). Unlike Odysseus who reached his Ithaca, Iphigenia's voyage goes on and peripatetic always sympotic (like a Diotima?) she will be sharing her sacrificial beauty of a story and touch in some amazing (archeological or relic or...) sites beyond her dreams, well beyond..."η ζωή είναι ένα όνειρο που βλέπει ο θάνατος" (life is a dream seen by death, Dimitris Dimitriadis)

I am deeply grateful to Jean-Rene for entrusting/endowing me with his beautiful writing. About the author: http://www.mc93.com/fr/biographie/jean-rene-lemoine
http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/03/14/jean-rene-lemoine-se-gl...

"Perhaps, the two of us, having found that there's no comfort in the
world,
perhaps, for that very reason, the two of us (though each in isolation)
may once more succeed in giving, and maybe getting, comfort." Ritsos' The return of Iphigenia

 

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