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Also available in hardback, 9781859737118 GBP55.00 (January, 2004)

About the Author

Vangelis Calotychos is Acting Director, Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, Columbia University.

Reviews

'This is probably the best exploration of the culture of modern Greece I have encountered In twenty years. Calotychos works with verve and skill in several fields. Although he professes to be a literary historian and critic, he clearly also has the analytic skills of an anthropologist working within a powerfully iinterdisciplinary cultural studies tradition. His theory is eclectic but unpretentious, his range deep and wide, and his writing style attractively uncluttered.' Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University 'Modern Greece is really a significant work of scholarship and one which is at the same time, a major intervention in modern Greek and eastern Mediterranean cultural debates on the one hand and contemporary critical debates on the other. Rare is the book of which so much can be said.' Timothy J. Reiss, New York University 'A tour de force encompassing not only modern Greek history and literature, but also European philosophy, politics and aesthetics from the eighteenth century to the present (...) It is consumate scholarship and represents the best that is coing out of cultural studies.' Roger Just, University of Kent, review in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 11 issue 2, June 2005 'Vangelis Calotycho's perceptions are sensitive, and his comparisons imaginative and original.' Christopher Robinson, TLS 'I find many of his interpretations intriguing and illuminating.' Journal of Modern Greek Studies