Modernism and Homer - The Odysseys of H.d., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Leah Culligan Flack, Leah Culligan (Marquette University Flack, Flack Leah Culligan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107108035
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10803-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Classics After Antiquity; Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism