Art, truth and reality, Cavafy, and cultural studies: A personal perspective. Issue 2 (1st October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eleftheriotis, Dimitris
• Is Part Of: Journal of Greek media and culture. Volume 3:Issue 2(2017:Oct.)
• Page Start: 273
• Page End: 278
• Publication Date: 2017-10-01
• Subjects: Mass media and culture -- Greece -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Greece -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Greece -- Periodicals; Greece -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 302.230949505
• DOI: 10.1386/jgmc.3.2.273_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-3971

Abstract

This essay represents a personal and polemical perspective that considers recent cultural and political events in order to reaffirm some of the key principles of cultural studies as a discipline. Particular attention is given to the so-called Cavafy controversy in Greece, and the essay outlines a cultural studies position in relation to it.