| Dr. Maria Filippakopoulou |
Aug 2008 - Jan 2009 |
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Dr. Filippakopoulou is working on 'Transatlantic Poe'. The aim of her work is to produce a book proposal based on her finished thesis on the repositioning of Poe’s work in early Anglo-American modernism thanks to the influential translation by Charles Baudelaire. 'Transatlantic Poe' wishes to show how Poe was constituted in literary modernism largely as a result of critical negotiation between Baudelaire’s translation and commentaries on the one hand and a series of writings by T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Aldous Huxley on the other. A number of key essays by those writers record the opposing way in which the French and the Anglo-American literary cultures perceived Poe’s work, and seeks to turn the seeming puzzle of whether he was a great poet or a hack writer on its head. This early transatlantic dialogue sheds important light on the subsequent fascination with Poe of European theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Drawing from critical linguistics, translation studies, and transatlanticism, the reading of the core texts will expose the ethnocentric premises and tensions of modernism and the extent of its dependence on linguistic propriety and nativity. By bringing the two literary regimes together, the project is pushing the monocultural stance to the forefront, explores its role in the making and remaking of the national canon, and thus affords new insights into the rhetoric of nationalistic exceptionalism.
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