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CAVAFY'S ALEXANDRIA
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| By: |
Edmund Keeley |
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Paperback |
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£45.00 |
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£36.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691044988 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691044989 |
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| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 1995 |
| Edition: |
Expanded edition with a New preface |
| Series: |
Princeton Modern Greek Studies |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
C P Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. This work on Cavafy in English describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. |
| Synopsis: |
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. |
| Illustrations: |
1 map |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of PEN American Center's Ralph Manheim Medal forTranslation 2000 |
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Returnable |
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