ISSN: 13565109
Kambos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek is an
annual publication of the Modern Greek Section of the Faculty
of Modern and Medieval Languages of the University of
Cambridge. It publishes, each October, the edited texts of some
of the lectures given by invited speakers at Cambridge during
the previous academic year. The disciplines covered include
literary studies, linguistics, history, anthropology and music.
Several articles which first appeared in Kambos
are now frequently cited in bibliographies and reading-lists.
It is an essential item for all major research libraries and
for libraries specialising in Modern Greek studies.
No. 1 (1993):
- Jane K. Cowan, Politics, identity and popular music in
contemporary Greece
- Sarah Ekdawi, The erotic poems of C.P. Cavafy
- Geoffrey Horrocks, Clause structure in Greek: Evidence
from subject-object asymmetries
- Ian Martin, The "Cyprus Troubles" 1955-1960
- David Ricks, Cavafy Translated
No. 2 (1994):
- Panagiotis A. Agapitos, Byzantium in the poetry of
Kostis Palamas and C.P. Cavafy
- Margaret E. Kenna, Making a world: political exiles in
1930s Greece
- Peter Mackridge, The return of the Muses: some aspects
of revivalism in Greek literature, 1760-1840
- Christopher Robinson, The presentation of place and
space in the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos, 1934-1947
- Dimitris Tziovas, Heteroglossia and the defeat of
regionalism in Greece
- Eleni Yannakaki, History as fiction in Rea
Galanaki's The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha
No. 3 (1995):
- Nadia Charalambidou, The mist around Lala: a return to
Seferis's Six nights on the Acropolis
- Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Everyday spoken discourse in
Modern Greek culture: indexing through performance
- Aglaia Kasdagli, Exploring the papers of the Scottish
Philhellene Thomas Gordon (1788-1841)
- Anastasia Markomihelaki, The sixteenth-century Cretan
playwright Georgios Chortatsis as a parodist
- Robert Shannan Peckham, Memory and homelands:
Vizyinos, Papadiamantis and geographical imagination
No. 4 (1996):
- Philip Carabott, "Pawns that never became queens": the
Dodecanese Islands, 1912-1924
- Ruth Macrides, The fabrication of the Middle Ages:
Roides's Pope Joan
- Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Reflections on Kazantzakis
and the Greek language
- Guy Protheroe, Greek music in the twentieth century: a
European dimension
- David Ricks, The poet as witness: Titos Patrikios and
the legacy of the Greek Civil War
- Thanasis D. Sfikas, Greek attitudes to the Spanish
Civil War
No. 5 (1997):
- Roderick Beaton, Writing, identity and truth in
Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation
- Sophia Denissi, The image of Britain in the literary
magazine Pandora (1850-1872)
- Michael Jeffreys, The Australian dimension of the
Macedonian Question
- Christopher Robinson, Gender, sexuality and narration
in Kostas Tachtsis: a reading of Ta resta
- Victoria Solomonidis, The Ionian University of Smyrna,
1919-1922: "Light from the East"
No. 6 (1998):
- David Connolly, Greek surrealist poets in English
translation: problems, parameters and possibilities
- Georgia Farinou-Malamatari, Kazantzakis and
biography
- Peter Mackridge, Variations on a theme: Cavafy
rewrites his own poems
- Walter Puchner, Modernism in Modern Greek theatre
(1895-1922)
- Paul Sant Cassia, "Berlin", Cyprus: photography,
simulation and the directed gaze in a divided city
- Dimitris Tziovas, Dimitrios Vikelas in the Diaspora:
memory, character formation and language
No. 7 (1999):
- Ulrich Moennig, The late-Byzantine romance: problems
of defining a genre
- Birgit Olsen, Women and gender roles in Modern Greek
folktales
- Pavlos Tzermias, Greek Cypriot cultural identity: a
question of the "elite" or of the whole people?
- Malcolm Wagstaff, Independent Greece: the search for a
frontier, 1822-35
No. 8 (2000):
- Bruce Clark, Greek Orthodoxy: an exclusive slogan or a
universal mystery?
- Jonathan Harris, Being a Byzantine after Byzantium:
Hellenic identity in Renaissance Italy
- Anthony Hirst, C.P.Cavafy: Byzantine
historian?
- David Ricks, Cavafy in America
No. 9 (2001):
- Roderick Beaton, Reading Seferis's politics and
the politics of reading Seferis
- Bo-Lennart Eklund, Greek sporting terms of foreign
origin
- Katerina Kostiou, Irony and satire in George
Seferis's poetry
- Christopher Robinson, Yorgos Ioannou: fragmentation in
life and art
No. 10 (2002):
- Benjamin Arbel, The treasure of Ayios Symeon: a micro-historical
analysis of colonial relations in Venetian-ruled Cyprus
- David Connolly, Odysseus Elytis on poetic expression: Carte blanche
- Liana Giannakopoulou, Sculpture and stones in the poetry of Seferis and Ritsos
- Michael Jeffreys, National bibliography before the nation: constructing Greekness out of
early Greek printing
- Peter Loizos, Greek Cypriot refugees after twenty-five years: the case of Argaki
- Maria A. Stassinopoulou, "It happened in Athens": the relaunch of
Greek film production during World War II
No. 11 (2003):
- Steven Bowman, Evvia portage: the Jews, ELAS and the Allies in Evvia 1943-1944
- Richard Clogg, Writing the history of Greece: forty years on
- Anthony Hirst, Cavafy and Cantacuzenus: allies or enemies?
- Roger Just, Love in a changing climate: the rise of romance in a Greek village, 1977-80
- Mika Provata, Seferis's Lost Centre
- David Ricks, How it strikes a contemporary: Cavafy as a reviser of Browning
- Eleni Yannakakis, The Greek domestic novel in the 1990s and after
No. 12 (2004):
- Roderick Beaton, Erotokritos and the history of the novel
- Kevin Featherstone, Still a "weak state"? Europeanization and structural reform in Greece
- Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Reflections on language-centred approaches to Greek "society" and "culture"
- Peter Mackridge, "Sie sprechen wie ein Buch": G. N. Hatzidakis (1848-1941) and the defence of Greek diglossia
No. 13 (2005):
- Peter Bien, Kazantzakis's abortive foray into politics in liberated Athens, 1944-46
- Philip Carabott, Aspects of the Hellenization of Greek Macedonia, ca. 1912-ca. 1959
- Peter Cochran, Byron, Greece, and guilt
- Stathis Gauntlett, The sub-canonical meets the non-canonical: rebetika and inter-war Greek literature
- Io Manolessou, The Greek dialects of Southern Italy: an overview
- Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greece as a postmodern example: Boundary 2 and its special issue on Greece
- Mary Roussou-Sinclair, Agnes Smith: a Victorian traveller through Greece and Cyprus
No. 14 (2006):
- Maria Kakavoulia, When art criticism meets poetry: the case of Eleni Vakalo (1921-2001)
- Ulrich Moennig, Authors and readers: the making of the Modern Greek Physiologos
- Birgit Olsen, Richard M. Dawkins: a pioneer in the field of Modern Greek folktales
- Dimitiris Tziovas, Transcending poltics: symbolism, allegory and censorship in Greek fiction
- David Wills, Ancient sites, modern eyesores? The transformation of the city of Athens in English-language accounts (1945-2005)
No. 15 (2007):
- Richard Clogg, Defining the Diaspora: the case of the Greeks
- Liana Giannakopoulou, The Parthenon in poetry
- Michael Jeffreys, Modern Greek in the 11th century - or what else should we call it?
- Tassos A. Kaplanis, Recording the history of the "Cretan War" (1645-1669): an overview
- Marc Lauxtermann, Two surveys of Modern Greek literature: Stephanos Kanelos (1822) and Iakovakis Rizos Neroulos (1826)
- David Ricks, "A faint sweetness in the never-ending afternoon"? Reflections on Cavafy and the Greek epigram
No. 16 (2008):
- Roderick Beaton, Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek
- Natalia Deliyannaki, Erotokritos into music
- Athina Vogiatzoglou, Militant intellectuals against the literary establishment: parallels between Giorgos Kotzioulas and Giannis Skarimbas (1930-1951)
No. 17 (2009):
- Maria Athanassopoulou, Reconsidering Modernism: the exile poems of Giannis Ritsos
- Giorgia Farinou-Malamatari, Aspects of modern and postmodern Greek fictional biography in the 20th century
- Lydia Papadimitriou, Greek film studies today: in search of identity
- Michalis Pieris, Πάθη/Passions: a latent poetic collection by Cavafy
No. 18 (2011):
- Philip Carabott, State, society and the religious "other" in nineteenth-century Greece
- Spyros Economides, Does Greece have a foreign policy?
- Amalia Moser, The hidden logic of Greek tense and aspect
- Eleni Papargyriou, Cavafy, photography and fetish
No. 19 (2012):
- Roderick Beaton, Lord Byron and the politics of the Greek Revolution (1823-1824)
- Robert Holland, The End of an Affair: Anglo-Greek relations 1939-55
- Alexander Kazamias, Pseudo-Hegelian contrivances: the uses of German Idealism in the discourse
of the post-Civil War Greek state
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