ISBN10: 1350177466, ISBN13: 9781350177468, [publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC] Softcover
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ISBN10: 1350177466, ISBN13: 9781350177468, [publisher: Bloomsbury Academic] Softcover
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ISBN10: 1350177466, ISBN13: 9781350177468, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Softcover Paperback. This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight translation, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studies would term adaptation, refiguration and intervention.As the volumes essays reveal, modernist translations of Classical texts crucially informed the innovations of many modernists and often themselves constituted modernist literary projects. Thus the volume responds to gaps in both Classical reception and Modernist studies: essays treat a comparatively understudied area in Classical reception by reviving work in a subfield of Modernist studies relatively inactive in recent decades but enjoying renewed attention through the recent work of contributors to this volume.The volumes essays address work significantly informed by Classical materials, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, Ovid, and Propertius, and approach a range of modernist writers: Pound and H.D., among the modernists best known for work engaging the Classics, as well as Cummings, Eliot, Joyce, Laura Riding, and Yeats. Shipping may be from ...

ISBN10: 1350177466, ISBN13: 9781350177468, [publisher: Bloomsbury Academic] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
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New York Bloomsbury Academic 2020 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception.

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Bloomsbury USA Academic, Date: 2020. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. 2020. Bloomsbury USA Academic ISBN 1350177466 9781350177468 [GB]