H. D. and Hellenism - Classic Lines

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. Modern Classicism and the Theatre of War; 2. The Survival of the Classics; 3. Pagan Mysteries: Walter Pater and Romantic Hellenism; 4. Anthropology and the Return of the Gods: Jane Ellen Harrison; Part II. Classical Intertextuality: 5. H. D. and the Classical Lyric; 6. Euripides: Dream Time and Dream Work; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Summary

H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the context of classical fictions operative at the turn of the century.

Product details

• Authors: Eileen Gregory
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521430258
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43025-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies