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In June of 1878, the British Empire acquired the small
Mediterranean island of Cyprus, after a secret agreement with the
Ottoman Empire. The occupation of Cyprus was officially announced
by the British government about a month later and what followed was
an unprecedented mania with the island, which manifested itself
through the publication of dozens of books and articles, the
composition of poems, novels, and music pieces, the staging of
operas and ballets, the appearance of dozens of advertisements in
newspapers, the dispatch of special correspondents to the island,
the announcement of forthcoming tours, etc. This book examines the
"Cyprus Frenzy" of 1878 and the way it was expressed in both major
and provincial newspapers in Victorian Britain. It follows the six
main special correspondents who were commissioned to cover the
occupation and who traveled to the island for that purpose:
Archibald Forbes (The Daily News), St. Leger Algernon Herbert (The
Times), John Augustus O'Shea (The London Evening Standard), Edward
Henry Vizetelly (The Glasgow Herald), Samuel Pasfield Oliver (The
Illustrated London News), and Hepworth Dixon (for several
provincial newspapers). What is pertinent in the investigation of
Victorian journalistic practices is the relationship between these
correspondents and the military establishment, which was tasked
with the duty of forming the first British government on the
island. In this context, General Garnet Wolseley, who served as the
island's first High Commissioner, and his famous clique of
associates are central characters in the story of Cyprus'
colonization. The book further considers the role of advertisements
in propagating colonial discourse and it examines "Letters to the
Editor," published in major newspapers of the time, as a tool in
the investigation of the Victorian readers' reception and response
to the occupation. By concentrating on the history of a very
particular event-the British occupation of Cyprus in 1878-this book
aspires to scrutinize colonial practices through a close
examination of the mechanisms that they put in motion, the networks
they utilize, and the fantasies they stir.
Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis
within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris
places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and
surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts
forward a redefinition of European Modernism that makes the
Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact
zone and incorporates neglected elements such as national identity
and geography. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism,
Pourgouris's study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus;
analyzes the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and
Sigmund Freud on Elytis's theory of analogies; traces the symbol of
the sun in Elytis's poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus
and Plotinus; examines the influence of Le Corbusier on Elytis's
theory of architectural poetics; and takes up the subject of
Elytis's application of his theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic
form in the context of works by Freud, C. G. Jung, and Michel
Foucault. Informed by extensive research in the United States and
Europe, Pourgouris's study makes a compelling contribution to the
comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the
work of Odysseus Elytis.
Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis
within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris
places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and
surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts
forward a redefinition of European Modernism that makes the
Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact
zone and incorporates neglected elements such as national identity
and geography. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism,
Pourgouris's study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus;
analyzes the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and
Sigmund Freud on Elytis's theory of analogies; traces the symbol of
the sun in Elytis's poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus
and Plotinus; examines the influence of Le Corbusier on Elytis's
theory of architectural poetics; and takes up the subject of
Elytis's application of his theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic
form in the context of works by Freud, C. G. Jung, and Michel
Foucault. Informed by extensive research in the United States and
Europe, Pourgouris's study makes a compelling contribution to the
comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the
work of Odysseus Elytis.
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