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Marinos Pourgouris has extensively researched and written about 20th century Modern Greek Literature in a comparative context. He has completed a book-length study on the poetic metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis in relation to European Modernism. His research is informed by psychoanalytic criticism and philosophy. His current project examines literature between Mediterranean contact zones.
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Marinos Pourgouris received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University where he taught, as a lecturer, for seven years. His specialization is 20th century Greek literature and his research interests include European Modernism (with an emphasis on the Modernist lyric), psychoanalytic criticism, the classical subtext, and film. He has published articles on a variety of topics including the metaphysical theories of Odysseus Elytis, the Homeric subtext in the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos, the politics of history in Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Lukács, and the influence of Nietzsche on Nikos Kazantzakis. He has participated in a number of conferences as a panel organizer/co-organizer and presenter and he has presented lectures on a variety of topics. In 2002 his poetry collection "Of Myth and Brine" was published by Dodoni Publications in Greece.
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 MARINOS POURGOURIS http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Marinos_Pourgouris On The Web: "Nietzsche contra Lukács: Politics of History and Epic Conceptions" "Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero" Odysseus Elytis and the Theory of Analogies (in Greek) "Of Myth and Brine" (Poetry Collection) Comparative Literature at Brown Modern Greek Studies at Brown The Avant-Garde and the Margin: New Territories of Modernism The Addiction of our Time: Orhan Pamuk and the Nobel Prize Are you Marinos Pourgouris? Click here to edit your research profile. |
