Leah Culligan Flack (Wisconsin Marquette University)

Modernism and Homer

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the surprising versatility of Homer's epics of wandering and homecoming for the radical formal experiments and changing sociopolitical agendas of modernist writers responding to war, tyranny, censorship, and empire. Of interest to students and researchers interested in classical receptions, modernism, twentieth-century literature, and comparative literature.

Produktdetails

• Classics after Antiquity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781107518469
• ISBN-10: 1107518466
• Artikelnr.: 58502321

Autorenporträt

Leah Culligan Flack in an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, Wisconsin.

Inhaltsangabe

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.