{"product_id":"ezra-pound-and-his-classical-sources-1","title":"Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book uses Ezra Pound’s \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e plays a unique methodological and structural role in \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes, and “ritualizes” the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e. Partly inspired by Joyce’s use of different literary styles or “technics” in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first study to explore how medieval classicism and translation informs Pound’s mythical method and to systematically outline the variety and evolution of Pound’s \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e translations in \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223930163544,"sku":"9781350260207","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350260207.jpg?v=1771566335","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ezra-pound-and-his-classical-sources-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}