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This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE POETICS OF CAVAFY This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THEPOETICS OFC avafy TEXTUALITY, EROTICISM, HISTORY Gregory Jusdanis PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEWJERSEY This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 1987 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Guildford, Surrey , All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data will be found on the last printed page of this book ISBN 0-691-06720-1 Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Paul Mellon Fund of Princeton University Press This book has been composed in Linotron Janson Clothbound editions of Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Paperbacks, although satisfactory for personal collections, are not usually suitable for library rebinding Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms for V. the dialectic of enlightenment This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:17:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments, ix Introduction, χ ι. POET The Poet and the Nonpoet, 5 Inspiration, 8 Imagination, 15 The Poet as Creator of His World, 19 Alienation, 21 The Poet and Society, 24 The Poet as Expert, 31 The Poet as Aesthete and Decadent, 3 3 2. AUDIENCE Does the Audience Exist? 39 Dismissal of the Audience, 42 Can the Audience Be Dismissed? 44 The Audience as Receiver and Interpreter of Texts, 48 Cavafy's Method of Distributing His Poetry, 58 3. POETRY The Early Poems, 64 Symbolism, 69 Formalism, 73 Art and the Absolute, 80 Art as Redemption, 86 Memory, 89 Art Preserves Essence, 92 Eroticism, 95 Cavafy and Ruskin, 101 Modernism, 104 Toward a Postmodernism? 110 4. LANGUAGE AND WRITING Language as Object, 116 Literature and the Library, 119 Literature as Written Language, 120 5. TRADITION Tradition as a Source of Knowledge, 137 Tradition as Source of Anxiety, 141 The Struggle in Tradition, 149 6. WORLD Mimesis, 157 Art and Guilt, 163 Afterword, 176 References, 181 Index,191 VIl This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:18:01 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:18:01 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments The present work is based on my doctoral dissertation, com pleted in 1984 at the University of Birmingham. I had the good fortune to be supervised by Margaret Alexiou, a scholar with a rare command of the entire Greek tradition, who followed each stage of the thesis with dedication and rushed in a time of need to its defense. In the early stages the work was read by Dimitris Di- miroulis, Dimitris Tziovas, Marianna Spanaki, Maria Kakavoulia, Peter Baird, and Elsie Mathiopoulos. Each in his or her own way provided much comradely advice. I will always profit from the conversations I had with these friends. Donald Preziosi and Mi chael Herzfeld read the manuscript and emboldened me to seek publication. Alexander Nehamas helped in the final stages with his mastery of Cavafy and literary theory. The energetic Robert Brown of Princeton University Press was encouraging and admi rably efficient from the initial submission of the manuscript to its publication. Vassilis Lambropoulos put Cavafy in perspective for me. I thank my parents for their moral and financial support and their understanding. My wife, Julian Anderson, went over each word of this book with tender care, often at the expense of her own work. I am extremely grateful to the Social Sciences and Humani ties Research Council of Canada for a generous three-year doctoral scholarship that enabled the research for this book. I would like to thank the Office of Research and Graduate Development of Indi ana University for its financial assistance in offsetting copyright fees. I am indebted to Princeton University Press and Chatto and Windus for permission to reprint translations of Cavafy from C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis; and to Harcourt Brace Jova- novich and the Hogarth Press for permission to quote verses from Cavafy's "rejected" and posthumous poems in The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven. IX This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:18:21 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms