Introduction to Modern Greek Literature: The Literature of Return

Harvard FAS

This semester, our advanced Greek language and literature seminar explores the theme of return (broadly defined) in Modern Greek literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining poetry, prose, as well as comparable examples in art and film, we trace how homecoming—literal, imagined, ritual, and symbolic—structure some of the most enduring literary explorations of identity, transformation, and belonging. Through close reading of texts that rework the Odyssean paradigm alongside…