Download or read book Orthokost written by Thanassis Valtinos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and the early stages of the nation’s Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos’s home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued. As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. Now, through this masterful translation of Orthokostá, English-language readers have full access to the tremendous vitality of Valtinos’s work and to the divisive Civil War experiences that continue to echo in Greek politics and events today.

Download or read book A New Handbook of Literary Terms written by David Mikics and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of literary terms and their definitions.

Download or read book Protocols of Reading written by Robert Scholes and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that 'all the world's a text, ' Scholes considers numerous texts from life and literature, including photographs, paintings, and television commercials as well as biographies and novels.

Download or read book Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry written by Michelle Mi-Hsi Yeh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong translated into modern English.

Download or read book Deep Blue Almost Black written by Thanasēs Valtinos and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories set in Greece. The title story is on the burden of memory, August '48 is on the Greek civil war that followed World War II, and Peppers and Flowerpots is a police interview during the 1960s military dictatorship.