num_pages: 440
description: This is a fully revised edition of Beaton's acclaimed 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greece since national independence since 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period seen as a whole and including developments up to the present day. No knowledge of Greek is assumed and all quotations are given both in Greek and in English.
language: English
title: An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
titlecomplete: An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Greece
ratings_count: 53
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Runciman Book Prize
publisher: Clarendon Press