Michael Tsianikas Michael Tsianikas i(A86130 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Antigone Kefala : ‘Clinical’ View Over a Shadowy Conscience/Consciousness Michael Tsianikas , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : New Australian Modernities 2021; (p. 139)
1 y separately published work icon Greek Research in Australia : Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University, June 2005 Elizabeth Close (editor), Michael Tsianikas (editor), George Couvalis (editor), Adelaide : Dept. of Languages - Modern Greek, Flinders University , 2007 Z1654734 2007 anthology criticism
1 Landscapes/ Language-scapes: Greek and Greek-Australian Literature Michael Tsianikas , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Culture and Memory 2006; (p. 291-308)
1 Giorgos Kanarakis : o Protoporos Michael Tsianikas , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , no. 52 2006; (p. 38-42)
1 Dimitris Tsaloumas : The Man as an Old Speaker Michael Tsianikas , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 217-228)
The author explores the fusing of Greek tradition and an Australian context in the poetry of the Greek Australian poet Dimitras Tsoulis.
1 y separately published work icon The Fingers on the Skin (Essays on Modern Greek and Greek-Australian Literature) Michael Tsianikas , Athens : Kanakis , 2003 Z1517372 2003 selected work criticism
1 Alexia : Antigone Kefala's Overdue Fairytale Michael Tsianikas , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: FULGOR , March vol. 1 no. 1 2002; Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 171-187)

The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which Antigone Kefala constructs her story to become an author. She narrates her experience in her book Alexia (Antigone Kefala"s persona) in a fairytale manner. In the book we learn that Alexia spent some of the most important years of her young life in New Zealand, as a migrant. The most important part of this experience is based on her difficulty to come to terms with, and learn, a new language (English). What begins by being a traumatic experience for Alexia, later evolves into a creative force that guides her decision to become an author. In that way the English language becomes the most powerful, the most creative and the most productive tool in her life.

In order to challenge Alexia's process of becoming an author, her experience is compared to that of two famous French authors, Aragon and Sartre, who also decided to become authors in their childhood years. There was an obvious parallel between the French authors' experiences through their first language, which corresponded in an astonishing way to Alexia's. Therefore, no matter whether one wishes to express oneself in one's mother tongue or a foreign language, the process of becoming an author is always to consider a language as an unknown field of strange sounds, musicality and scattered grains of meanings. -- Author's Abstract

1 y separately published work icon Parakeimenos logos : apo ena pedio sto allo kritika keimena gia te lgotechnia Parakeimenos Logos. Critical Text for Modern Greek and Greek-Australian Literature Michael Tsianikas , Bundoora : The Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research (EKEME), La Trobe University , 2001 Z1517383 2001 selected work criticism
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