https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/reinventing-paradise-the-greek-crisis-and-contemporary-british-travel-narratives/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:38 +0000 http://arc.local/items/reinventing-paradise-the-greek-crisis-and-contemporary-british-travel-narratives/ Continued]]> In the second half of the twentieth century Greece became a subject for travel writers in search of a European ‘Paradise’. But ‘Hell was also to be found in Greece, often in the form of frustrations over allegedly ‘non-European’ standards of living, facilities, and attitudes. A sample of travel narratives published between 2006 and 2014 suggests the extent to which, in the light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, twenty-first-century writers are abandoning these formerly conventional themes. There is now the potential for the realignment of narratives, with Greece becoming the Hell, rather than the Heaven, of Europe.

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