Katerina Stergiopoulou

Modernist Hellenism

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Produktbeschreibung

"The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist period (1910s-1950s). Provides new readings of canonical and lesser-known works and presents unpublished archival materials. A resource for scholars of modern poetry, especially in its relation to translation and the classics"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 873g
• ISBN-13: 9781009371483
• ISBN-10: 1009371487
• Artikelnr.: 69719512

Autorenporträt

KATERINA STERGIOPOULOU is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Her work on the afterlives of Greek antiquity in twentieth-century writing has appeared in journals including Comparative Literature and October. She is co-editor of Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sappho (forthcoming 2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Modernist Hellenism; Part I. Hellenists and
Modernists: From Image to Drama: 1. 'The some more vital equation': writing
the image between Hellenism and Modernism; 2. 'The glory that was this and
the grandeur that was the othe': Pound, Eliot, and Greek drama; Part II. 'I
Don't Want to Write It': Measuring Greece between the Wars: 3. 'What is
Greece if you draw back?': Translating Hellenism into Modernism; 4. 'Who
fished the murex up': The Distillation of Ion; Part III. Tragedy and
Translation in Late Modernism: 5. From Agamemnon to Herakles: Eliot's plays
and the Four Quartets; 6. 'Now time to go back to an effort of 1912':
Elektrifying English at St. Elizabeths; 7. 'From the dawn blaze to sunset':
the languages of the image; Part IV. The Long Imagist Poem: 8. Pallinodes
and Eidola: 'catching up to the past' in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt.