scholarly journals The Transformations of Greek Working-Class Fiction from the Interwar Period to the Present

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Petsa ◽  
Sofia Zisimopoulou ◽  
Anastasia Natsina ◽  
Ioannis Dimitrakakis
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Large Corpus

Surveying a large corpus of Modern Greek fiction from the interwar years to the decade of the financial crisis (2010-2020) we set out to delineate the national inflection of ‘working-class fiction’ along the axes of theme and style as well as answerability, i.e. the engagement with working-class interests in distinct periods (interwar years, WWII and postwar, Metapolitefsi and beyond). Characterized by quantitative and aesthetic variability, the Greek version of the genre is shown to engage actively with topical contextual issues as well as with changing imperatives of authorial commitment and the shifting composition of the working class.

Conclusions

2020 ◽  
pp. 248-258
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hopkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Market Model ◽  
System Support ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
Market Liberalism

This concluding chapter addresses the implications of anti-system politics for the future of capitalism and democracy in the advanced countries. It argues that the current wave of anti-system support reflects the ultimate failure of the project of “market liberalism,” in that the limitations of the market logic have been laid bare by the financial crisis and the inability of the free market model to deliver prosperity and security. The answer to this crisis is likely to involve a reassertion of political authority over the market: either a revival of social democracy, the guiding ideology of the inclusive capitalism of the second half of the twentieth century, or a return to the nationalism and mercantilism of the interwar period.

Resonances of Henri Bergson's ‘music’ in the interwar aesthetic discourse of the journal Μακεδονικές Ημέρες: the idea of the nouveau romantisme

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Olga Bezantakou
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Aesthetic

This essay examines the metaphorical use of musical terms in Greek aesthetic discourse during the interwar period by illuminating a crucial yet neglected moment in the reception of anti-rationalistic philosophical and aesthetic tendencies that had greatly influenced European modernist literature since the late nineteenth century. In particular, it points out the ways the reception of Bergsonian theories in Greece co-determined the formation of a new concept of Modern Greek narrative fiction, clearing the ground for the first modernist attempts to ‘musicalize’ fiction. The essay thus proposes a broader perception of the term ‘musicalization’ than the mere imitation of musical techniques in narrative texts, since the aesthetic discourse features not only actual music but also ‘music’ as an aesthetic category synonymous with transcendence, ambiguity and fluidity.

scholarly journals The state and class discipline: European labour market policy after the financial crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Umney ◽  
Ian Greer ◽  
Özlem Onaran ◽  
Graham Symon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Market Policy ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Before And After

This article looks at two related labour market policies that have persisted and even proliferated across Europe both before and after the financial crisis: wage restraint and punitive workfare programmes. It asks why these policies, despite their weak empirical records, have been so durable. Moving beyond comparative-institutionalist explanations which emphasise institutional stickiness, it draws on Marxist and Kaleckian ideas around the concept of ‘class discipline’. It argues that under financialisation, the need for states to implement policies that discipline the working class is intensified, even if these policies do little to enable (and may even counteract) future stability. Wage restraint and punitive active labour market policies are two examples of such measures. Moreover, this disciplinary impetus has subverted and marginalised regulatory labour market institutions, rather than being embedded within them.

scholarly journals The controversy over Ancient Greek as a school subject: education, ideology, and politics in times of crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Efstathios Kessareas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
New Democracy

This article examines the controversy over Ancient Greek [AG] as a school subject, a controversy that re-emerged in 2016, when SYRIZA was in power. The issue is ideologically charged: classical antiquity has played a fundamental role in shaping modern Greek ethnic identity. The arguments for and against teaching AG as a school subject are analysed and explained in relation to the ideological preferences, strategies and interests of the involved agents. The polarization of the arguments is interpreted within the broader context of the financial crisis, as an attempt by the agents involved to reinforce the left/right divide, which was significantly blurred after the adoption of austerity policies by both the self-proclaimed leftist SYRIZA and the conservative New Democracy parties.

scholarly journals Το νεοελληνικό διήγημα την περίοδο του μεσοπολέμου (1918-1940)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αθηνά Κορούλη
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Impact

The shift of the short story from the center to the periphery of the Modern Greek literary canon is part of the complex literary and cultural revisions that occurred in Greece during the Interwar years. The thesis, based on the theoretical, historical and critical approach of the study material (literary works, critical essays, articles and literary reviews), explores the following issues: the context of the “short story - novel” juxtaposition, the problems and the intentions that were related to the hierarchical downgrading of the short story, the critical opinions on short story poetics, the impact that the broader intellectual and literary pursuits of the period had on the Greek short story, those features that the literary criticism of the period perceived and commented on as a manifestation of change in the field of the Greek short story; furthermore, literary works that follow the directions recognized as signs of the renewal of the genre poetics are examined. With regard to the last issue, it should be noted that in parallel with the recurrent severe criticism of the short story and the turn towards the novel, there were signs that the Modern Greek short story of the Interwar period had also made a turn whose direction can be detected through a new critical commentary that was being frequently repeated, describing features of an interesting thematic and formal renewal that was recognized as the “new impetus” of the genre.

scholarly journals «Authoritarian Transition of Peripheral Countries of Interwar Europe: Politological Analysis»

2009 ◽  
pp. 188-199
Author(s):  
E. G. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Interwar Europe ◽  
The Baltic

The author ponders on the causes of the crisis of democraticmodels in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and the Baltic states. Having analysed a complex of factors, she comes to the conclusion that the authoritarian transition of European peripheral countries in the interwar period (1918—1939) was appropriate. While all authoritarian regimes of the period in the region under study were characterized by three foundations of authoritarianism– Fuhrerprinzip, ideas of constructing nationstate and nationalism, specific traits allow to distinguish between three clusters of authoritarian regimes in the interwar Europe: military-bureaucratic, corporate (guild) and pre-totalitarian (fascist mobilization) ones. However, the main conclusion is: the complex economic, political and socio-cultural situation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and the Baltic states aggravated by the consequences of globalization and world financial crisis is able to provoke recurrences of authoritarian transition.

scholarly journals Modern Greek Drama and Theatre in the Crisis Period: Mnemonic Flashback of the past as a Defense Mechanism in the Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Theodore Grammatas
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time

:At the beginning of the 21st Century, Modern Greek Dramaturgy had already entered the Postmodernism phase, closely adhering to the trends of international theatre. The economic and cultural crisis that set in after the first decade brought an end to almost every innovative attempt. Obsolete types and forms, subjects and stories/plots, are recycled and updated. The Past reappears in exactly the same way it used to be depicted in 20th or even 19th century literary texts and successful comedies of the Greek cinema of the 50’s-60’s are almost completely prevailing. It is not, however, the first time this phenomenon is observed in the Modern Greek Theatre. A similar one appears in the Interwar period (1922-1940), when, for political, social and economic reasons reality becomes very negative for Greek playwrights. The recent and distant Past appears to have a redemptive effect, thus offering an alibi and a way-out deprived by the Present.This is the subject of our announcement, based on the notions and the function of theatrical memory and the multiple roles by which History is joining Theatre.

Transnational Anarchist Culture in the Interwar Period

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Javier Navarro Navarro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Strong Link ◽  
Transnational Network

This essay analyzes the unique features of Estudios: Revista Ecléctica (Valencia, 1928-1937), a Spanish libertarian cultural magazine that had a significant international presence and strong link with the American continent. Estudios was particularly important because of its diffusion and prestige among the libertarian working class, and the freethinking milieu on both sides of the Atlantic. Through its coverage of a broad range of modern topics (birth control, eugenics, sexual reform, naturism, and so forth), Estudios was part of a transnational network that connected militants, writers, scientists, doctors, and anarchist propagandists, and those who held revolutionary and progressive sensibilities. It had a stable and solid readership in the United States, with regular points of sales and distribution, and connections with propagandists, centers, and publications close to its main topics of interest.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Grotesque

This introduction makes the case for ‘modern baroque’, arguing that ‘modernism’ is, in effect, a modern version of classicism, analytic and theory-led. It argues that despite the modernists’ attempts to control and define ‘culture’, the overall context of the interwar period is one in which black, female, working-class and/or homosexual people acquired the ability to generate their own strands within the culture, due to the proliferation of media able to cater for plural audiences (books, but also film, radio, and live performance). Modernism thus existed in dialectic with a modern baroque, but less theoretical, which is why it has not been recognized as such, and more inclusive, more eclectic, much more in dialogue with the past, unafraid of the grotesque or surreal. Insofar as modern baroque has a theoretical basis, it is provided by surrealism.

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