Author of Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis, in his study.Photo reproduced by permission of the Historical Museum of Crete

COLLABORATORS ON THE CENSUS CURRENTLY INCLUDE:

Dia M. L. Philippides Research Professor and Professor Emerita

Dept. of Classical Studies Boston College

Wim F. BakkerProfessor Emeritus of Byzantine and

Modern Greek Language and Literature University of Amsterdam

Colleagues in the Boston College Libraries

Peter Klapes (BC ’19) Undergraduate Research Assistant

UPDATES ON THE CENSUS PROJECT CAN BE FOUND AT:

http://censusmoderngreekliterature.weebly.com/

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DATA:Towards Open Access publication of the CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature (in English)

CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: BIG DATA WORKFLOW

Design by MTS Graphics at Boston College

The forthcoming CENSUS includes references to all the translations and all the studies in English that relate to Modern Greek literature (from AD 1200 to the present), published anywhere in the world (1813-present). Indexing aims to render the bibliographic collection (now in MS Word files) into a machine-readable format that is searchable, extensible, and accessible online as an open-access project (pdf and database).

An important new feature of the CENSUS is that it fully indexes the contents of large collective volumes such as anthologies, thus facilitating detailed searches (both simple and complex). Special attention is given to identifying all personal names (by authority form and variant spellings) and to tagging them by function (e.g., creative author, translator, editor, etc.).

AudienceThis bibliographic collection hopes to function as a standard work of reference: for students, faculty, translators, publishers, libraries, scholars and general readers everywhere in the English speaking world who might be interested in the contemporary literature of Greece.

The CENSUS and BIG DATAThis project in the Digital Humanities encompasses the querying, visualization, and even the predictive analytics aspects of ‘Big Data’, in that its full electronic indexing will enable users to track and visualize for the first time (overall and in detail) the trends and patterns of the spread of Modern Greek literature throughout the English-speaking world: by geographic locations, time, contributing person names and functions, literary genres, etc. The resulting new observations are likely to influence the future translation and scholarly studies of Modern Greek literature in English.

An example of an anthology, with its contents.2.89 A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000. Selected and Edited by: Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck. Introduction by Peter Bien. A Note on Translation by Karen Van Dyck. Kimon Friar’s translations edited by Matthew Jen-nett. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co., 2004. Bilingual edition. xxviii, 993 p. ISBN 1932455000; 9781932455007

‘Poems’ include:

C.P. CAVAFY (1863-1933): “Waiting for the Barbarians” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 2-5);

“The City” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 4-5);

“The God Abandons Antony” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 6-7);

“Ionic” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sher-rard] (pp. 6-7);

“Ithaka” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sher-rard] (pp. 8-11);

“Alexandrian Kings” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 10-13);

“In the Evening” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 12-13);

“For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 14-15);

…NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS (1883-1957):from The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel: “The Prologue” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 40-45);

“El Greco” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 44-53);…ODYSSEUS ELYTIS (1911-1996): “Ode to Santorini” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 358-361);

“Aegean Melancholy” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 360-363);

“The Mad Pomegranate Tree” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 364-367);…

THE CENSUS PROJECTThe CENSUS project currently aims at publishing a second, expanded edition of the

original monograph published in 1990: Dia M. L. Philippides, Check-list of ENglish-

Language Sources Useful in the Study of Modern Greek Literature (1824-1987). New Haven,

CT: Modern Greek Studies Association, 1990. 248 p. Second printing 1992.

Two Greek poets, George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis, pictured above (r-l), have won the Nobel prize for literature (1963, 1979)