Format:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350101920
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9781350101913
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9781350191686
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1350101915
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9781350101906
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1350101907
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9781350101890
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Content:
Introduction : the slow fire -- Mythical rewritings -- Modernist rites -- Classical hermeticism -- The self and object -- Body vs. soul -- Postmodern Sappho and Catullus -- Epilogue.
Content:
"Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This book shows that across time and cultures translations and rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus' modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne Carson, and cover a wide range of unpublished archival material. Texts are analysed and compared through reception and translation theories and inserted within the current debate on the Classics as World Literature, demonstrating how sustained transnational poetic discourse employs the ancient pair to expand notions of literary origins and redefine poetry's relationship to human existence"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350101890
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Piantanida, Cecilia, 1985- Sappho and Catullus in twentieth-century Italian and North American poetry London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350101920
