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C.P. CAVAFY FORUM
"The Travels of a Literary Topos: C. P. Cavafy’s 'Waiting for the Barbarians' and its Visual Restagings" by Maria Boletsi
South African artist Kendell Geers’s labyrinthic installation “Waiting for the Barbarians” (2001) and Argentinian artist Graciela Sacco’s billboard-type installation “Esperando a los Barbaros” (1995) do not just visually illustrate Cavafy’s poem, but complicate, revise, and even criticize it. While the poem adds different layers to the artworks’ reception, the latter enrich or challenge existing readings of the poem too. Download PDF to read more...
"The Typography of Desire": Karen van Dyck's Seminar at Columbia
Six papers from a course on Cavafy taught in Spring 2008 by Karen van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature, and offered under the auspices of the Program in Hellenic Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. Introductory Notes by Karen Van Dyck, Karen Emmerich, and James Nikopoulos; Syllabus by Karen Van Dyck
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"Denying Julian: Cavafy’s Julian Poems" by Curt Hopkins
Cavafy adored, quite literally as well as literarily, the artifacts of time. One of the yardsticks, or chronographs, with which he measured time and its manifold challenges was the figure of the Roman emperor Julian, known as the Apostate. The American poet discusses the group of the 12 Julian poems that the Alexandrian wrote between 1896 and 1933. Download PDF to read more...
"Dropping Anchor at Ithaca" by George Economou
The American scholar and poet has just published a second book of Cavafy translations and talks about the writer's enduring appeal. Download PDF to read more...
"Parallel Texts" by Richard O'Connell
The American poet reflects on the contrapuntal relationship between his poem "Waiting for the Terrorists" and Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians" Download PDF to read more...
Poiein - Political Infinitive by Stathis Gourgouris
Currently, there is much discussion about the demise of poetics in literary studies with the charge that the invasion of interdisciplinarity is pushing the field away from its object. Download PDF to read more...
Cavafy's Anomaly by Gregory Jusdanis
The real scandal in Cavafy is not his homoeroticism but his wholesale revision of poetry, language, identity, and tradition. Download PDF to read more...
"A Mutual Hellenism," excerpt from new book on Cavafy by Peter Jeffreys
"A Mutual Hellenism" is an excerpt from the first chapter of a new book on C. P. Cavafy and E. M. Forster. It discusses their shared Western Hellenism and outlines the sources from which they drew their early literary inspiration. Download PDF to read more...
"Cavafy Through the Looking-Glass" by Manuel Savidis
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is one of the major poets of modern Greece. The appeal of his poetry has only strengthened over time, both in Greece and abroad: he is certainly the modern Greek poet translated more often and in the most languages. Download PDF to read more...
Modern Greek First Online Roundtable: Cavafy
MODERN GREEK'S FIRST ONLINE ROUNDTABLE: Cavafy
Manuel Savidis' position paper on the state of Cavafy research, "Cavafy Through the Looking-Glass," which we solicited and posted on our website last year, inspired a variety of responses and provoked discussion.
Encouraged by its broad appeal, we invited five academics from the new generation of English-speaking scholars in Modern Greek Studies to write responses and offer their scholarly agenda on Cavafy. The five authors teach in Australian, British, and American universities. They have all published and presented at conferences extensive work on the Alexandrian writer. Their responses have methodological ramifications for Modern Greek cultural studies in general and may in turn generate further discussion.
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"Some notes on the Cavafy Forum"
Click here for Manuel Savidis' Response
On Reading Cavafy: The Man or the Poetry
by Anthony Dracopoulos, University of Sidney
Cavafian Catoptromancy
by Peter Jeffreys, Suffolk University
The Transcultural and the Individual in Cavafy
by Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sidney
From The Darkrooms of Philology
by Dimitris Papanikolaou, University of Oxford
The History of Tennis
by George Syrimis, Yale University
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