Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound

ISBN-13: 9781107518469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Leah Culligan Flack

Opis

A comparative study exploring the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing.

Spis treści

Introduction: making Homer new; Part I. High Modernism and Homer: 1. 'To have gathered from the air a live tradition': Pound, Homer, modernism; 2. 'The reading of Homer was transformed into a fabulous event': Mandelstam's modernist Odyssey; 3. 'Damn Homer, Ulysses, Bloom, and all the rest': 'Cyclops', disorder, and Joyce's monster audiences; Part II. Late Modernism and Homer: 4. 'ACTUALITY gets in front of Olympus': Pound's late visions and revisions of Homer; 5. 'What song is left to sing? All song is sung': H. D., Homer, modernism; Conclusion; Appendix: Russian text of Mandelstam's poems.