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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Leah Culligan Flack, Leah Culligan (Marquette University Flack, Flack Leah Culligan
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781107518469
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51846-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: 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