Roderick Beaton
Selected publications:
AUTHORED BOOKS
- Folk poetry of modern Greece. Cambridge University Press, 1980, 229 pp., paperback reissue, 2004
- The medieval Greek romance. Cambridge University Press, 1989, 261 pp.; 2nd ed., revised and expanded: London: Routledge, 1996, 301 pp. Greek translation: Αθήνα: Καρδαμίτσας, 1996; Italian translation: Rubbettino, 1997
- An introduction to modern Greek literature. Oxford University Press, 1994, 426 pp. Greek translation, revised and slightly expanded: Αθήνα: Νεφέλη, 1996; paperback edition, revised and updated: Oxford UP, 1999, 420 pp.
- George Seferis: Waiting for the angel. A biography. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003 (512 pp.); Greek translation: Αθήνα: Ωκεανίδα, 2003
- From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval literature and its modern reception, Aldershot: Variorum (Reprints series), 2008
- Ο Καζαντζάκης μοντερνιστής και μεταμοντέρνος [Kazantzakis as a modernist and postmodernist]. Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης, 2009, 203 pp.
EDITED BOOKS
- "The Greek novel, A.D. 1 - 1985". Croom Helm, London 1988, 229 pp.
- (with Charlotte Roueché) "The making of Byzantine history: Studies dedicated to Donald M. Nicol". Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies (KCL), no. 1. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1993, xxviii + 200 pp.
- (with David Ricks) "Digenes Akrites: New approaches to Byzantine heroic poetry". Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies (KCL), no. 2. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1993, xi + 196 pp.
- (with David Ricks) "The making of Modern Greece: Romanticism, nationalism and the uses of the past". Farnham: Ashgate (2009)
RECENT ARTICLES
- "Nikos Kazantzakis, creator of Zorba and The Last Temptation of Christ, fifty years on." TLS no. 5438 (22 June, 2007) 11-13
- «Ο Ερωτόκριτος στο έργο και στη ζωή του Γιώργου Σεφέρη» ["Erotokritos in the life and work of G. Seferis"], Παλίμψηστο (Βικελαία Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη, Ηράκλειο) 20/21 (2006-7 [published April 2008], 51-66
- "Obermann of Troy", in Arion 16/1 (2008), 111-16
- "Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek." Kampos: Cambridge Studies in Modern Greek 16 (2008), 1-23
- "Modernism and the quest for national identity: the case of Ritsos’ Romiosini", in Διεθνές Συνέδριο: Ο ποιητής και ο πολίτης Γιάννη Ρίτσος [International Symposium: The poet and the citizen Yannis Ritsos]. Αθήνα: Μουσείο Μπενάκη/Εκδόσεις Κέδρος, 2009, pp. 109-124
- "Korais and the Second Sophistic: The Hellenistic novel as paradigm for a modern literary language," in A. Georgakopoulou and M. Silk (eds), Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 341-53
- "Historical poetics: chronotopes in Leucippe and Clitophon and Tom Jones," in Nele Bemong, Pieter Borghart, et al. (eds), Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope. Reflections, Applications, Perspectives. Ghent: Academia 2010, pp. 59-76
FICTION
- "Ariadne’s Children". Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London 1995), 372 pp. (Phoenix paperback, London 1996; St Martin’s Press, New York 1997; Sammleren, Copenhagen 1997 [Danish]; Καστανιώτης, Αθήνα 1999 [Greek])TRANSLATIONS
- Maro Douka, "Fool’s Gold" [«Η αρχαία σκουριά», 1979]. Κέδρος, Αθήνα 1991, 312 pp.
- Dionysios Solomos, "'The Cretan’ and ‘Carmen Saeculare’" in P. Mackridge (ed.), D. Solomos: The Free Besieged and Other Poems (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2000), pp. 1-9; 91-3
- George Seferis, "‘Love’s Discourse’" [introduction and translation]. Modern Poetry in Translation 21 (2003) 149-53
- George Seferis: "A Levant Journal", ed. and trans., with introduction and notes. Jerusalem: Ibis, 2007, 169 pp.