The versification of Cavafy's poetry

Abstract

The objectives of this doctoral thesis are the study of the metrical organization of all the poems of C. P. Cavafy (of those recognized by the poet himself, i.e. the corpus of official Cavafian poetry, but also of other categories of poems, i.e. repudiated, unpublished or hidden and unfinished poems) and the examination of the evolution of his versification in the course of time. The research method followed includes the detailed description of the qualitative characteristics of the various forms and the metric-rhythmic means –based on their typological classification in broader and more specific categories– and the extraction of numerical results based on statistical measurements. The thesis is structured in three parts. In the first part, a historical review of the reception of the form of Cavafy’s poems is attempted from the appearance of the poet until today, reference is made to positions that Cavafy himself has formulated in his texts regarding issues of versification and, given ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/53856
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/53856
ND
53856
Alternative title
Η μετρική της ποίησης του Καβάφη
Author
Razaki, Dimitra (Father's name: Stavros)
Date
2022
Degree Grantor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Committee members
Γαραντούδης Ευριπίδης
Ντουνιά Χριστίνα
Ρώτα Μαρία
Αγγελάτος Δημήτριος
Κακλαμάνης Στέφανος
Ιωακειμίδου Λητώ
Καγιαλής Παναγιώτης
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsLanguages and Literature ➨ Greek literature
Keywords
Cavafy's, C.; Versification; Liberatted verse; Poetic form
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
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