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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources Jonathan Ullyot

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources By Jonathan Ullyot

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources by Jonathan Ullyot


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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy 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.

Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources Reviews

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 *

About Jonathan Ullyot

Jonathan Ullyot is a Professor at Seneca College and an Instructor at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Cantos and the Matter of Troy Chapter One: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology Chapter Two: Odysseus Among the Dead: Primitive Homer Chapter Three: Protean Homer Chapter Four: The Lotophagoi: Confusion and Renewal Chapter Five: Erotic Circe Chapter Six: Pisan Wreck Chapter Seven: How to Read Pound's Leucothea Conclusion: Eternal Disorder

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NPB9781350260245
9781350260245
135026024X
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy by Jonathan Ullyot
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-09-22
312
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