| Title: | Greek Culture in Graham Swift’s Novel Out of This World and Short Story Learning to Swim |
| Author: | Irina-Ana Drobot |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 15, p. 135 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | In Swift’s writings, Greek culture is not perceived as something different from his characters’ culture. The Greek seaside is seen as similar to the seaside in Cornwall in Learning to Swim and Greece is not a cultural barrier in Out of This World. Harry, in Out of This World, while flying in his plane, notices that from up there one cannot see boundaries between nations. The paper will explore reasons for this perception of Greek culture. One of the reasons has to do with the fact that the influences of ancient Greek culture are still visible today on literature, culture, architecture, etc. and that today’s world would not be the same without its influences. Virginia Woolf, in her essay On Not Knowing Greek, believed that we return to ancient Greek culture in order to avoid the confusion of the present day epoch. We can extend this analysis to the way the ancient Greeks tried to impose order on the world by scientific discoveries and to the way Swift’s characters try to do the same by introspection. Swift’s characters use in their introspection moments of revelation to impose order on their experiences. |
| Key words: | Postmodernism, seaside, moments of revelation |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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