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THE POETICS OF CAVAFY
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THEPOETICS
OFC avafy
TEXTUALITY,
EROTICISM, HISTORY
Gregory Jusdanis
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEWJERSEY
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Copyright © 1987 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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for V.
the dialectic of enlightenment
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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
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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
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