Title: A history of modern Greek literature
Description: Note on transcription -- Introduction. The beginning : Periods, The Modern Greek Language,  The Language Question, Pronunciation and Spelling, Modern Greek Prosody -- Literature before the Fall of Constantinople (Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries). The Epic of Digenis Akritas, The Comnenian Court, The Frankish Occupation: Romances, Allegories -- After the Fall of Constantinople (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries). Literature in the Frankish-occupied Regions, Renaissance Poetry in Crete, Petrarchism in Cyprus, Intellectual Life in the Diaspora and in Turkish-occupied Greece: Demotic Prose, The Seventeenth Century -- The Great Age of Cretan Literature (I570 - I669). The Theatre, Pastoral Poetry, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Erotokritos -- The Eighteenth Century: Modern Greek Enlightenment. First Period (1669 - 1770), Second Period (1770 - 1820) -- The Demotic Song. The Technique, The Collections -- The Decades Preceding the War of Independence. Rigas – Christopoulos - Valaoritis -- Solomòs -- Kalvos, the Heptanesian School, and Valaoritis. Kalvos, The Heptanesian School, A. Valaoritis -- The New Greek State. The Phanariots and the Athenian School; Greek Romanticism. Greek Romanticism, Prose and the Theatre -- The Generation of 1880. The New Athenian School; Kostis Palamàs. The Decade 1870 - 1880, The Generation of 1880: Parnassianism, Kostis Palamàs -- Prose after 1880: the ‘Genre’ Story, the Language Question and Psycharis. The ‘Genre’ Story, The Language Question and Psycharis, Younger Prose Writers: Gr. Xenopoulos, The Theatre -- Poetry of Palamàs’s Time and After -- Kavafis; Sikelianòs; Poetry up to 1930. Kavafis, Sikelianòs, Poetry up to 1930 -- The First Decades of this Century; Prose after Psycharis; N. Kazantzakis. Prose, 1900 - 1920, Theatre and Criticism, N. Kazantzakis -- The Generation of 1930, Poetry. Seferis, Surrealism and the Younger Poets -- The Generation of 1930, Prose. Theatre and Criticism -- Excursus. Post-war Poetry and Prose -- Appendix: Texts of Poems Quoted -- Chronological Tables -- Selected Bibliography.
Subjects: History and criticism, Modern Greek literature