Throughout the story both the narrator and the character himself often describes himself as "shre... more Throughout the story both the narrator and the character himself often describes himself as "shrewd". Why?
As Hellenic culture has been one of the central figures in the process of cultural development of... more As Hellenic culture has been one of the central figures in the process of cultural development of Europe, it had relations with various societies and individuals and involved in their lives in one way or another. With this combined with the political history of Asia minor and Europe, Hellenic topoi are charged with different affects and evoke heterogenous emotions both in social memory and that of the individuals. Therefore, I am of the opinion that it would be rather ambitious to claim that my essay will thoroughly grasp the nature and impacts of these places on different societies and people. However, I will try to uncover the affective relation some certain group or individuals have with the Hellenic topoi by close reading of the poem “Mythistorema” by George Seferis, the essay “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects” by Yael Navaro-Yashin, and Sigmund Freud’s “A Disturbance of Memory in the Acropolis” respectively to comprehend the specific cases of a Greek intellectual that contributes to the sculpting of a new nation state and the new Greek identity, post-war Turkish-Cypriot society and a cultivated European who has no physical roots in the Hellenic topoi but intellectual. The reasons that led me to choose these three works as my focus were different for each text; I found “Mythistorema” as one of the most accomplished poems of Seferis to demonstrate his views regarding the Antiquity and the relation between the past and present, Navaro’s text is, on the other hand, a great anthropological work that discovers the effects of the geography and the objects looted from the missing one on the “triumphant” following a war; Greek-Cypriots as a topos –or topoi- over the Turkish-Cypriots, and Renan’s text is helpful in illustrating the connection of the European intellectuals create with Hellenic topoi, from where they take their civilization to be rooted. Taking these three different works into account will hopefully lead into a recognition of the diversity in the affects caused by the Hellenic topoi for different social groups and individuals.
Throughout the story both the narrator and the character himself often describes himself as "shre... more Throughout the story both the narrator and the character himself often describes himself as "shrewd". Why?
As Hellenic culture has been one of the central figures in the process of cultural development of... more As Hellenic culture has been one of the central figures in the process of cultural development of Europe, it had relations with various societies and individuals and involved in their lives in one way or another. With this combined with the political history of Asia minor and Europe, Hellenic topoi are charged with different affects and evoke heterogenous emotions both in social memory and that of the individuals. Therefore, I am of the opinion that it would be rather ambitious to claim that my essay will thoroughly grasp the nature and impacts of these places on different societies and people. However, I will try to uncover the affective relation some certain group or individuals have with the Hellenic topoi by close reading of the poem “Mythistorema” by George Seferis, the essay “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects” by Yael Navaro-Yashin, and Sigmund Freud’s “A Disturbance of Memory in the Acropolis” respectively to comprehend the specific cases of a Greek intellectual that contributes to the sculpting of a new nation state and the new Greek identity, post-war Turkish-Cypriot society and a cultivated European who has no physical roots in the Hellenic topoi but intellectual. The reasons that led me to choose these three works as my focus were different for each text; I found “Mythistorema” as one of the most accomplished poems of Seferis to demonstrate his views regarding the Antiquity and the relation between the past and present, Navaro’s text is, on the other hand, a great anthropological work that discovers the effects of the geography and the objects looted from the missing one on the “triumphant” following a war; Greek-Cypriots as a topos –or topoi- over the Turkish-Cypriots, and Renan’s text is helpful in illustrating the connection of the European intellectuals create with Hellenic topoi, from where they take their civilization to be rooted. Taking these three different works into account will hopefully lead into a recognition of the diversity in the affects caused by the Hellenic topoi for different social groups and individuals.
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