Brill's companion to the reception of classics in international modernism and the avant-garde /

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two wor...

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Other Authors: Goldwyn, Adam J., Nikopoulos, James.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 9.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online III, ISBN: 9789004249301.

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Call Number: PN56.C6 B75 2016

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Modernist Studies at the Crossroads of Classical Reception, Seferis Reads Eliot and Cavafy /
  • Adam J. Goldwyn and James Nikopoulos
  • The Female Colossus in the New World: Innovations on a Classical Motif in José Martí's Modernismo /
  • Tyler Fisher and Jenni Lehtinen
  • Educating the "Perfect Imagist": Greek Literature and Classical Scholarship in the Poetry of H. D. /
  • Bryan Brinkman and Bartholomew Brinkman
  • Creating the Modern Rhapsode: The Classics as World Literature in Ezra Pound's Cantos /
  • Adam J. Goldwyn
  • From Ithaca to Magna Graecia, Icaria and Hyperborea - Some Aspects of the Classical Tradition in the Serbian Avant-Garde /
  • Bojan Jović
  • Gods, Heroes, and Myths: The Use of Classical Imagery in Spanish Avant-Garde Prose /
  • Juan Herrero-Senés
  • The Classical Ideal in Fernando Pessoa /
  • Kenneth David Jackson
  • "Ulysses' Island": Nóstos as Exile in Salvatore Quasimodo's Poetry /
  • Ernesto Livorni
  • Jean Cocteau, Orphée, and the Shock of the Old /
  • David Hammerbeck
  • The Classical Past and 'The History of Ourselves': Laura Riding's Trojan Woman /
  • Anett Jessop
  • Platonic Eros and "Soul-Leading" in C. S. Lewis /
  • Samuel Baker
  • The Heideggerian Origins of a Post-Platonist Plato /
  • William H. F. Altman
  • Albert Camus' Hellenic Heart, between Saint Augustine and Hegel /
  • Matthew Sharpe
  • A Modernist Poet Alludes to an Ancient Historian: George Seferis and Thucydides /
  • Polina Tambakaki
  • The Wisdom of Myth: Eliot's "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" /
  • James Nikopoulos
  • Index.