The British Council and Anglo-Greek literary interactions, 1945-1955 / edited by Peter Mackridge and David Ricks.

"This volume sets out to explore the two-way relations between Greek and British literary production in which the British Council played a particularly important role until the outbreak of armed conflict in Cyprus in 1955. What is distinctive about the volume, beyond the inclusion of much recen...

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Other Authors: Mackridge, Peter (Editor), Ricks, David (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine studies ; v. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • The end of an affair : Anglo-Greek relations, 1939-55 / Robert Holland
  • "To cast our net very much wider" : the re-opening of the British Council in Athens and its cultural activities in Greece / Gioula Koutsopanagou
  • Steven Runciman at the British Council : letters from Athens, 1945-1947 / Michael Llewellyn-Smith
  • Making a new myth of Greece : G.K Katsimbalis as Anglo-Greek maecenas / Avi Sharon
  • Between propaganda and modernism : the Anglo-Greek Review and the rediscovery of Greece / Dimitris Tziovas
  • The Anglo-Greek review : some residual puzzles / Dimitris Daskalopoulos
  • The magazine Prosperos and the British Council Corfu branch / Theodosis Pylarinos
  • The British Council magazine The Record (Thessaloniki, 1947-1955) / Dinos Christianopoulos
  • Making friends for Britain? : Francis King and Roger Hinks at the British Council in Athens / David Roessel
  • Cultural relations and the "non-political" problem : some personal reflections, with a glance at two novels from the period 1945-1955 / Jim Potts
  • MacNeice in Greece / David Ricks
  • Kazantzakis in Cambridge / David Holton
  • The Institut français d'Athènes 1945-1955 : cultural exchanges and Franco-Greek relations / Lucile Arnoux-Farnoux.