Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources by Jonathan Ullyot
This book uses Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes, and “ritualizes” the Odyssey. Partly inspired by Joyce’s use of different literary styles or “technics” in Ulysses, and partly inspired by medieval classicism and 19th century philology, Pound uses a plethora of methods to translate Homer and other classical texts. This book argues that The Cantos is a modernist vision of the Matter of Troy, a term used by medieval authors to designate the cycle of texts based on the Trojan war and its aftereffects, including the nostoi (returns) of the Greek heroes.
This is the first study to explore how medieval classicism and translation informs Pound’s mythical method and to systematically outline the variety and evolution of Pound’s Odyssey translations in The Cantos.
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Samuel Beckett's 'More Pricks Than Kicks'
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Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism
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Intergenerational Modernism
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Adrienne Rich’s Later Poetry
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The Irish Proust
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Samuel Beckett in Confinement
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Modernist Lives
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Samuel Beckett and the Second World War
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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism
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Reframing Yeats
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Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos
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The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy
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Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics
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James Joyce and Cultural Genetics
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Samuel Beckett and The Bible
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Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine
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Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism
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Ezra Pound's Eriugena
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Broadcasting in the Modernist Era
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Modern Manuscripts
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The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence
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Modernist Wastes
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James Joyce and Absolute Music
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James Joyce and Catholicism
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The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound
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Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism
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Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx
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Literary Impressionism
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Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism
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Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India
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Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology
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Historical Modernisms
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Historicizing Modernists
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Samuel Beckett and Cinema
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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light
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The Politics of 1930s British Literature
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James Joyce and Photography
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Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer'
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John Kasper and Ezra Pound
The chapters devoted to the Pisan and post-Pisan Cantos, where Ullyot’s close readings are at their best, offer a new and relevant contribution to Poundian scholarship. * English Studies *
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| ISBN 13 | 9781350260207 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350260207 |
| Title | Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources |
| Author | Jonathan Ullyot |
| Series | Historicizing Modernism |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2024-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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