Filmic writing in greek postwar fiction (1949-2009): an essay in comparative poetics
Abstract
This thesis explores the impact of cinema on postwar Greek fiction. As an essay in comparative literature it poses questions regarding the nature and function of filmic writing. The method of analysis is mainly based on comparative poetics, with an emphasis on intertextuality, interarts studies, and intermediality. Genette’s narratological poetics, and especially the definition of the narrative mode of showing, were valuable in defining the poetics of filmic writing. The interrelations and convergences between postwar Greek prose and cinema are described as different themes and modes of representation. Thus each chapter analyses a dominant narrative (i.e. literary and cinematic) trope for each period. The socially concerned realism of Greek postwar fiction (1949-1967) is compared to the themes and tropes of Italian neorealist cinema. The disruption of the prose narrative in the following decades (1967-1981) is explored with help of the experimentations of the French New Wave, as well a ...
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