{"product_id":"approaches-to-teaching-the-works-of-c-p-cavafy-9781603296519","title":"Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, Egypt. He was inspired by the possibilities offered by peripheries, whether sexual, geographic, or historical. Volumes of his poems, widely translated into English, give anglophone readers access to his distinctive mixture of irony and tenderness, directness and subtlety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume will help instructors introduce students to Cavafy's works and explore them from many angles with the help of the extensive archives now available. Essays address teaching Cavafy both as a poetic historian of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine worlds and through the lens of postcoloniality. They also explore how he interpreted classical Greek works and how his work has been interpreted by composers, poets, and readers within and beyond Greece and the Greek diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains discussion of the following texts: Charles Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e; Anne Carson's \u003ci\u003eIf Not, Winter\u003c\/i\u003e; C. P. Cavafy's essay \"Give Back the Elgin Marbles\"; Cavafy's poems \"Caesarion,\" \"For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610 A.D.,\" \"The God Abandons Anthony,\" \"The Horses of Achilles,\" \"In the Year 200 B.C.,\" \"Ithaca,\" \"Julian Noticing Negligence,\" \"King Claudius,\" \"27 June 1906, 2 p.m.,\" \"Waiting for the Barbarians,\" and \"Walls\"; Mark Doty's \u003ci\u003eMy Alexandria\u003c\/i\u003e; Lawrence Durrell's \u003ci\u003eAlexandria Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e; E. M. Forster's \u003ci\u003ePharos and Pharillon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/i\u003e; Edward Gibbon's \u003ci\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e; Mahmud Tahir Haqqi's \u003ci\u003eThe Maiden of Dinshway\u003c\/i\u003e; Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e; Edwar al-Kharrat's \u003ci\u003eGirls of Alexandria\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCity of Saffron\u003c\/i\u003e; Robert Liddell's \u003ci\u003eUnreal City\u003c\/i\u003e; Ibrahim Abdel Meguld's \u003ci\u003eNo One Sleeps in Alexandria\u003c\/i\u003e; Plutarch's \u003ci\u003eLife of Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e; and Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e. The volume also contains discussion of the following musical compositions: Constantine Koukias's \u003ci\u003eThe Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e, Ron McFarland's String Quartet No. 2 (\u003ci\u003eWindows\u003c\/i\u003e), and Dimitris Papadimitriou's \u003ci\u003eC. P. Cavafy: An Alexandrian Writing on an Alexandrian\u003c\/i\u003e. The volume discusses these artworks: Gustave Moreau's \u003ci\u003eThe Apparition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJacob and the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's \u003ci\u003eThe Blessed Damozel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Sea-Spell\u003c\/i\u003e, and James McNeill Whistler's \u003ci\u003eNocturne in Blue and Silver\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254122840338,"sku":"9781603296519","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_230e2221-d91f-447b-9cde-e98121ee3f12.jpg?v=1746309208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/approaches-to-teaching-the-works-of-c-p-cavafy-9781603296519","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}