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

Posted By: roxul
Date: 26 May 2023 06:31:07
Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy

Jonathan Ullyot, "Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy "
English | ISBN: 135026024X | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB

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

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