Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Translations and Transliteration xi
6. Introduction: Mapping the Territory 1
7. Part I. Relocating the Ancient Site
8. 1. The Topological Approach 17
9. 2. Heterotopia: Visitors to the Culture of Ruins 40
10. 3. Topos: From Revenant Nation to Transcendental Territory 67
11. Part II. Reterritorializing High Modernism
12. 4. Entopia: Modernist Transpositions of the Native 103
13. 5. Nostos: Hellenism’s Suspended Homecoming 132
14. 6. Cosmos: Modernist Poetics in a National Universe 172
15. Afterword: Changing Topographies 218
16. Works Cited 227
17. Index 249