Civic ethos, nature and environmental protection in the journalistic articles of Kostas Varnalis (1939-1958)
Abstract
Kostas Varnalis dedicated during his long career as a journal columnist (1939-1958) a large number of texts to Athens and Attika. The essay focuses on the poet’s views and ideas about the everyday life, the practices and the civic culture of the Athenians, the aesthetic and kinaesthetic enjoyment of nature, the protection of the historic and natural landscape, and the postwar expansion and development of the city. The civil ethic and the modernist ideology, the romantic naturalism, and the militant ecological sensibility of the poet are described and analysed within the larger historic and ideological setting and especially in the context of the conservation movement in Europe and Greece.
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Economou, L. (2019). Civic ethos, nature and environmental protection in the journalistic articles of Kostas Varnalis (1939-1958). The Greek Review of Social Research, 151, 3–41. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.19662
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