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MODERNISM AND HOMER
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 cri-
tiques, 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 trad-
ition 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 postwar culture that would include them as
artists working on the margins of the Western literary tradition.
leah culligan flack
is Assistant Professor of English at Mar-
quette University.
classics after antiquity
Editors:
Alistair Blanshard
University of Queensland
Shane Butler
Johns Hopkins University
Emily Greenwood
Yale University
Classics after Antiquity
presents innovative contributions in the
field
of Classical
Reception Studies. Each volume explores the methods and motives of those who,
coming after and going after antiquity, have entered into a contest with and for
the legacies of the ancient world. The series aims to unsettle, provoke debate, and
to stimulate a re-evaluation of assumptions about the relationship between Greek
and Roman classical pasts and modern histories.
Other titles in the series:
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
edmund richardson
MODERNISM AND HOMER
The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam,
and Ezra Pound
LEAH CULLIGAN FLACK
Marquette University

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