Modernist Hellenism
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- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 21 November 2024
- 28 November 2024
- ISBN:
- 9781009371469
- 9781009371483
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- (229 x 152 mm)
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- 0.86kg, 504 Pages
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Modernist Hellenism argues that engagement with Greek was central to the evolution of modernist poetics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that Eliot, Pound, and H.D. all turn to Greek literature, and increasingly Greek tragedy, as they attempt to grapple not only with their own evolving poetics but also with changing sociocultural circumstances at large. Revisiting major modernist works from the perspective of each poet's translations and adaptations from Greek, and drawing on archival materials, the book distinguishes Pound and H.D.'s work from Eliot's and argues for the existence of a specifically modernist hellenism (rather than, say, classicizing or idealizing, decadent or heretical), which is personal, politicized, and unconstrained by institutional standards, but also profoundly textual, language-based, and engaged with classical scholarship. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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‘Modernist Hellenism is a work of impressive industry. The contention that Greek was a central influence on all three poets is supported by a constant stream of data across 460-plus pages of dense argumentation. Most of those pages are devoted to painstaking synchronic and diachronic description, analysis, and interpretation of each poet’s ‘work with Greek’, in long, discursive, detail-heavy chapters replete with texts and intertexts. Herein lies one of the strengths of the book: fleshing out the grand narrative with close reading.’
Simon Perris Source: Translation and Literature
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Modernist Hellenism
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Modernist Hellenism - Title page
pp iii-iii - Pound, Eliot, H.D., and the Translation of Greece
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Copyright page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
pp 1-30 - Towards a Modernist Hellenism
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Part I - Hellenists and Modernists
pp 31-132 - From Image to Drama
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Chapter 1 - “The some more vital equation”
pp 33-80 - Writing the Image between Hellenism and Modernism
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Part II - “I don’t want to write it”
pp 133-244 - Measuring Greece between the Wars
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Chapter 3 - “What is Greece if you draw back?”
pp 135-195 - Translating Hellenism into Modernism
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Chapter 4 - “Who fished the murex up?”
pp 196-244 - The Distillation of Ion
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Part III - Tragedy and Translation in Late Modernism
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Chapter 5 - From Agamemnon to Herakles
pp 247-284 - Eliot’s Plays and the Four Quartets
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Chapter 6 - “Now time to go back to an effort of 1912”
pp 285-326 - Elektrifying English at St. Elizabeths
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Chapter 7 - “From the dawn blaze to sunset”
pp 327-390 - The Languages of the Image
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Part IV - The Long Imagist Poem
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Chapter 8 - Pallinodes and Eidola
pp 393-463 - “Catching up to the past” in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt
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Bibliography
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Index
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