What the books leave behind
The noble novel
Elisavet Arseniou
A philological and codicological study of the manuscript of Nikos Engonopoulos’ poem The Noble Novel, examining its composition, revisions, and textual variants. Through a compara...
Nikos Engonopoulos À Revoir Theophilos In Search of a Psychic
By Elisavet Arseniou
This article examines the figure of Theophilos as an artistic medium and its significance for the poetics of Nikos Engonopoulos. Drawing on Plato’s concept of divine madness and Schiller’s distinction between naïve and s...
Nikos Engonopoulos, À Revoir: Theophilos — Theophilos as Poetic and Visual Memory
By Elisavet Arseniou
This study explores the relationship between Nikos Engonopoulos’ poem À Revoir: Theophilos more
The Noble Novel: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Fantasy of the Middle Ages
By Elisavet Arseniou
This essay explores the Pre-Raphaelites’ fascination with medieval ideals of courtly and forbidden love through their engagement with Dante, the Divine Comedy, and Arthurian romance. It also examines how Pre-Ra...
The Νoble Νovel: A Pale Statue and a Poem: The Age of Silence (1939)
By Elisavet Arseniou
This essay explores the relationship between The Noble Novel and Nikos Engonopoulos’ paintings of 1939, with particular emphasis on Pallid Plastered Statue. Through an interdisciplinary reading...
The Νoble Νovel: About Piraeus in the interwar period
by Elisavet Arseniou
This essay explores interwar Piraeus as a space of transition between old and modern Greece. Through the history of its port, refugee settlements, neoclassical mansions, and emerging communication technologies, it revea...
The Νoble Νovel: The Shifts of the Heroic Form
by Elisavet Arseniou
This essay explores the shifting representations of heroism in Nikos Engonopoulos’ The Noble Novel, linking its protagonist to historical, revolutionary, and artistic figures of the nineteenth century. From Nap...
