Dream nation : enlightenment, colonization, and the institution of modern Greece
Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the laat decade of the 20th century, this book challenges standard analyses of nation formation by elaborating on the nation's dream-like hold over the modern social imagination.
Print Book, English, 1996
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1996
History
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804726382, 9780804727259, 0804726388, 0804727252
33983165
A note to readers
Prologue
The nation's dream-work
The formal imagination, I: The back roads of development from enlightenment to bureaucracy
The formal imagination, II: Natural history and the national pedagogy
the case of Korais
The punishment of philhellenism
The phatasms of writing, I: Makriyiannis and the miracles of national memory
The phatasms of writing, II: Nostalgia for Utopia
the idolatries of Seferis
Homologia Apologia: the writing of national history
Works cited
Index