Course : Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΑΓΓΛΟΦΩΝΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ (Χ 2024-25)Ζ ΕΞ Greece in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Paraphilias: Agalmatophilia and the Statuesque:

(Three Scenes from a Novel, a Short Story, and a Travel Narrative)

Scene 1: (Excerpts from) Murdoch, Iris. A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) London: Vintage, 2001, 90, 217-221, and 475-481.

Scene 2: Forster, E. M. “The Classical Annex” (Written in 1930-31, Published Posthumously) The Life to Come and Other Short Stories, edited by Oliver Stallybrass, New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1987, 146-150.

Scene 3: (Excerpts from) Durrell, Lawrence. Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes (1953) London: Faber and Faber, 2000, 16-17, 37-38, and 178-184.

Secondary Readings:

Dimakis, Athanasios. "Making Love to Apollo: The Agalmatophilia of Iris Murdoch’s Athenian Lovers in A Fairly Honourable Defeat," Studies in the Literary Imagination 51:2, 2018, 95-114. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sli.2018.0015.

Critical Focus (part on Lawrence Durrell):  Scobie, A., & Taylor, A. J. W. “Perversions Ancient and Modern: I. Agalmatophilia, The Statue Syndrome.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 11:1, 1975, 49-54. doi:10.1002/1520-6696(197501)11:1

Video 1: “Aphrodite Aidoumene in the Rhodes Museum, 1954, Robert McCabe” Exhibition Poster: “Greece: An Enchanted Land-Photo Exhibition of Robert McCabe at the Consulate General of Greece in NY”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7anlt_9PI

Video 2: Part on Aphrodite Aidoumene, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes (Marine Venus) “Spirit of Place: Lawrence Durrell's Greece” (BBC Arts Documentary, dir. Peter Adam, 1975): https://patrickleighfermor.org/2019/03/23/spirit-of-place-lawrence-durrells-greece/