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Dünya Güzeli: Cavafy’s folkloric Odalisque

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Peter Jeffreys
Peter Jeffreys*
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Abstract

Cavafy’s overlooked poem ‘Dünya Güzeli’ reflects the seminal influence of folklore on the early writings of the poet, an influence which significantly shaped the contours of the Cavafy canon. The poem is a sophisticated attempt to synthesize the flourishing discourse of λαογραφία with the fashionable literary and painterly trends of Orientalism. It thus warrants a fuller appreciation as a complex text that documents Cavafy’s emerging craft and anticipates his poetic hybridisation of East and West which finds its fullest expression in Cavafy’s Orientalising Hellenism.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 26 , 2002 , pp. 218 - 246
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2002

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