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OverviewThis comparative study crosses multiple cultures, traditions, genres, and languages in order to explore the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing. It shows how and why the Homeric epics served both modernist formal experimentation, including Pound's poetics of the fragment and Joyce's sprawling epic novel, and sociopolitical critiques, including H.D.'s analyses of the cultural origins of twentieth-century wars and Mandelstam's poetic defiance of the totalitarian Stalinist regime. The book counters a long critical tradition that has recruited Homer to consolidate, champion and, more recently, chastise an elitist, masculine modernist canon. Departing from the tradition of reading these texts in isolation as mythic engagements with the Homeric epics, Leah Flack argues that ongoing dialogues with Homer helped these writers to mount their distinct visions of a cosmopolitan post-war culture that would include them as artists working on the margins of the Western literary tradition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leah Culligan Flack (Marquette University, Wisconsin)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781107108035ISBN 10: 1107108039 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 16 September 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationLeah Culligan Flack in an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, Wisconsin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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