Examining major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, this collection spans from romantic to post-modern authors, poets and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in 19th and 20th century Greece. Major authors discussed include Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis and Seferis.

Introduction Ancient Models and Novel Mixtures: The Concept of Genre in Byzantine Funerary Literature from Photios to Eustathios of Thessalonike, Panagiotis A. Agapitos The Conflict Bewtween Scholarios and Plethon: Religion and Naitonal Identity in Early Modern Greece, Christopher Livanos De Man, The Woman and Her Writing: Transcendence and/or Defacement in Elisavet Moutzan-Martinegou's Autobiography, Patricia Felisa and Vangelis Calotychos The Poetics of Mimicry: Pitzipios and the Beginnings of the Modern Greek Novel, Panagiotic Roilos There was only one thing paradoxical about the man: An Oblique Perspective on Madness in Four Stories, George Vizyenos and Yota Batsaki Promiscuous Texts and Abandoned Readings in the Poetry of P.V. Cavafy, George Syrimis Literature as Historiography: The Boxful of Guilt, Emmanuela Kantzia Leaving, Loosing, Letting Go: Some Steps in Bilingual Transformations from the Work of Theodor Kallifatides, Monika Kallan Return from Greece: Journey and Homecoming in two Contemporary Greek Novels, Anna Stavrakpoulou Palimpsests of Sappho in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Greece: An Overview, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis