Modernism and Homer ：The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound ( Classics after Antiquity )

Publication subTitle ：The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound

Publication series ：Classics after Antiquity

Author： Leah Culligan Flack

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781316455623

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107108035

Subject： I109.9 文学流派及其研究

Keyword：作品评论和研究

Language： ENG

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Modernism and Homer

Description

This 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.

Chapter

Series editors’ preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations of frequently cited texts

Introduction: Making Homer new

Homer and the politics of reading modernism

Reading Homer in the twentieth century

Modernism’s Odysseys

Part I High modernism and Homer

Chapter 1 ‘‘To have gathered from the air a live tradition’’: Pound, Homer, modernism

Pound’s early epic ambition (1898-1916)

‘‘What’s left for me to do?’’: modern techne, Homeric ghosts

‘‘The age demanded’’: Homer, history, war (1919-1925)

‘‘Now what the DEFFIL can that mean!’’: the ‘‘idiot Odysseus’’ and modernist difficulty

Chapter 2 ‘‘The reading of Homer was transformed into a fabulous event’’: Mandelstam’s modernist Odyssey

Mandelstam’s ‘‘incomprehensible’’ Russian Homer

Insomnia: poetic flights to Hella and to Homer

Women’s weaving: remaking the epic voyage

‘‘Everything is provided for life, nothing is forgotten’’: shipwreck and silence in Soviet Russia

‘‘You cannot still my moving lips’’: defiance and delirium in the 1930s

Chapter 3 ‘‘Damn Homer, Ulysses, Bloom, and all the rest’’: ‘‘Cyclops,’’ disorder, and Joyce’s monster audiences

‘‘Bloody in all senses of the word’’: Joyce’s noman

‘‘To wipe away a tear for martyrs’’: reclaiming the revivalist ODYSSEY

Joyce’s monster audiences

‘‘Outis-Zeus’’: Joyce’s ‘‘unUlyssean’’ Ulysses

Part II Late modernism and Homer

Chapter 4 ‘‘ACTUALITY gets in front of Olympus’’: Pound’s late visions and revisions of Homer

‘‘The news in the Odyssey is still news’’: Pound, Rouse, and an American Odyssey

‘‘A chap with a mind like THAT the fellow is one of US’’: Odysseus as a proto-fascist ruler

‘‘A man on whom the sun has gone down’’: Pound, shipwreck, endings

Rewriting Pound, rewriting Homer in the Pound era and beyond

Chapter 5 ‘‘What song is left to sing? All song is sung’’: H.D., Homer, modernism

H.D.’s Greek modernism: tradition, translation, transformation

H.D.’s classical women and silence

Modernism’s afterlives: Helen in Egypt

‘‘Winter love’’: rewriting modernism

Conclusion

Appendix: Russian text of Osip Mandelstam’s poems

Bibliography

Index

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