Maria Athanasopoulou
Maria Athanasopoulou ( Greek Μαρία Αθανασοπούλου , * in Athens ) is a Greek neo- Graecist .
Athanassopoulou completed her studies in Modern Greek Philology at the University of Crete in 1989 and then studied Comparative Literature and Neo- Greek Studies at the Universities of London and Cambridge . She received her PhD in Cambridge in 1999 with a dissertation on the Greek sonnet . After teaching at the universities of Thessaly , Crete, Cyprus and Patras , she has been a lecturer in modern Greek literature and literary theory at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2009 .
Research focuses on Greek prose and poetry over the past two centuries, the relationship between literature and national identity, and the theory of literary forms.
Fonts (selection)
- The Greek Sonnet (1895-1936). A Study in Poetics. Otto Harrassowitz 2011 (Mediterranean Language and Culture Monograph)
- (Transl.): Jeremy Hawthorn, Ξεκλειδώνοντας το Κείμενο: Μια εισαγωγή στη θεωρία της λογοτεχνίας. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης, Heraklion 2002.
- Reconsidering Modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos , in: Kambos. Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek 17 (2009), table of contents online
- Η Ταυτότητα της Ανάγνωσης: Διακειμενικές σχέσεις στη Λέσχη του Τσίρκα in: Δ πανευρωπαϊκό συνέδριο νεοελληνικών σπουδών στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Γρανάδας από τις 9 τις ως 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010 . Summary and PDF version online
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| SURNAME | Athanasopoulou, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Athanassopoulou, Maria; Αθανασοπούλου, Μαρία (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek neo-Greekist and comparativeist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |