Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy Ullyot Jonathan
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy Ullyot Jonathan This book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize…
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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy Ullyot Jonathan
This book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes, and "ritualizes" the Odyssey. Homer's Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos.
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. 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.