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The book captures key moments in the critical and creative dialogue of literary scholars, poets and artists with poet, author, documentary film-maker and literary scholar Stephanos Stephanides. Employing a polyphonic and cross-disciplinary perspective, the twenty-three essays and creative pieces flow together in cycles of continuities and discontinuities, emulating Stephanides’s fluid and transgressive universe. Drawing on the broad topic of borders and crossings, Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders offers critical material on themes such as space and place, dislocation and migration, journeys and bridges, movement and fluidity, the aesthetics and the politics of the sea, time, nostalgia and (trans)cultural memory, identity and poetics, translation and translatability, home and homecoming. An invaluable reference for anyone interested in the crosscurrents between the poetic, the cultural and the political.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Cross/Cultures
Publication Date:
01 August 2024
ISBN: 9789004693302
Format: Hardcover
"This is a kaleidoscopic scholarly and poetic treatment of the work of one of the most eloquent and versatile figures of contemporary culture. Stephanos Stephanides’s oeuvre has overrun geographical, linguistic, poetic and genre borders, leaving a legacy for posterity that will also outrun time in the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries. The voices in this volume that invoke and celebrate, in polyphony, the achievement of one of the most multifaceted cultural figures of our time comprise a collective of distinguished writers in their own right. A felicitous convergence in one volume of insightful celebrants and their laudable object of celebration."
- Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University and Founding President, International American Studies Association (IASA)
"A reconstellation of Stephanos Stephanides’s poetic thought, Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders engages Stephanides’s world, a world unevenly shared to be reimagined in the present. Each chapter is a thoughtful address to Stephanides’s call for a democratic poetics from below."
- Mina Karavanta, Associate Professor of Theory and Global Anglophone Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
"This bold and moving collection is a fitting tribute to the personal, intellectual, and creative generosity of Stephanos Stephanides, whose life and work have touched the lives and work of so many. The essays, poems, critical pieces included in this volume, by writers working in a range of languages and locales, engage with the politics and poetics of identity, memory, translation, and belonging in ways that traverse borders and boundaries of all kinds."
-Karen Emmerich, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University and 2024-25 President, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
- Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University and Founding President, International American Studies Association (IASA)
"A reconstellation of Stephanos Stephanides’s poetic thought, Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders engages Stephanides’s world, a world unevenly shared to be reimagined in the present. Each chapter is a thoughtful address to Stephanides’s call for a democratic poetics from below."
- Mina Karavanta, Associate Professor of Theory and Global Anglophone Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
"This bold and moving collection is a fitting tribute to the personal, intellectual, and creative generosity of Stephanos Stephanides, whose life and work have touched the lives and work of so many. The essays, poems, critical pieces included in this volume, by writers working in a range of languages and locales, engage with the politics and poetics of identity, memory, translation, and belonging in ways that traverse borders and boundaries of all kinds."
-Karen Emmerich, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University and 2024-25 President, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Angelos Evangelou (PhD, 2013, University of Kent) is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Literary Theory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His recent publications include Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida (2017) and various articles on borders, border crossing and mental illness in Anglophone literature.