Mediterranean Literature: Between Tradition and Modernity
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Chairing the session "Mediterranean Literature: Between Tradition and Modernity", presented under the motto: “Whether it is celebrated or rejected, attended to or ignored, the past is omnipresent.” David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, p. xv. The session discussed the dynamic relationship between tradition and modernity in the literatures of the Mediterranean. This relationship can take many forms; from the desire to respect and preserve the tradition, which often leads to imitation, to the efforts aimed at reinterpreting, reshaping and innovating it, to those that try to break away from it completely. The panel explores how the literatures of the Mediterranean negotiate their own relationship to tradition, and reflecting the trends in different periods of the literary development in the Mediterranean societies. |
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