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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2015
      16 September 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316257654
      9781107108035
      9781107518469
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316257654
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
      Series:
      Classics after Antiquity
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
    Series:
    Classics after Antiquity
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    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.

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