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"It might seem an overstatement to say that Kiki Dimoula has no precedent in a poetic past as rich as the Greek one. However, this is not an exaggeration". So says Eurydice Trichon-Milsani, but she also says: "Dimoula remains a totally unique case in Greek letters and this, curiously, without marking a break". This is how she is seen because of her style, her transgression of language in which she pushes the expressiveness of words to the limit, even if she has to go beyond syntactical and morphological rules. This is precisely what makes her inimitable. Nevertheless, Dimoula does indeed draw from that poetic past and is heiress to that extensive lyrical tradition, in the hands of women since antiquity. And, although in her own time she seems isolated, she has been preceded and followed by many other poets: Myrtiótissa, Zoi Karelli, Maria Polyduri, Melpo Axioti, Rita Burni-Papá, Melissanthi, Eleni Bakaló, Oiga Botsi, Mando Arabandinú, Lydia Stefanu, María Kendru-Agathopulu, Naná Isaía, Katerina Anguelaki-Rooke, María Kyrtzaki, María Lainá, Athiná Papadaki, Rea Galanaki, Yenny Mastoraki, Dimitra Christodulu… and many other names of brilliant women poets spanning all times and places in Greece.

Nevertheless, Dimoula was part of the Second Post-war Generation, which was more distanced, although not completely detached from the political events that marked the preceding generation. The poets who appeared from the mid-1950s and throughout the 1960s showed new aesthetic interests. They are characterised by a writing liberated from the heroic exaltations of the past, and their marked existential anguish prepares the ground for a break with the consolidated forms of expression. This reaches its peak with Kiki, whose poetic discourse followed its own evolutionary path, reflecting the influence of the poetry of Constantine Cavafis and having as its basic elements clarity of expression, pictorial language and word invention: Dimoula plays with the Greek language, merges its levels of diction, challenges its grammar and syntax, and bends its words, twisting their own form and meaning. His reflection, clearly oriented towards the themes of Western philosophy on existence, expresses the careful search for the meaning of perishable human life.

Indicaciones

-Classical culture: Block Persistence of classical languages. Language and lexicon, in a possible comparative study between classical and modern Greek; Block Continuity of cultural heritage. Literature, art and science, understanding any literature as the heritage of humanity.

-Universal Literature: 1st Baccalaureate. Bock Themes and forms of world literature. Lyric poetry. Interpretation of fragments of Greek literature of different genres, periods and themes.

-Spanish Language and Literature ESO. Block of literary education.

- Greek at Baccalaureate level: Block of literary education.

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