The medieval presence in the modernist aesthetic : unattended moments / edited by Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, Simone Celine, editor.

Cusack, Carole M., 1962- editor.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts ; Volume 11.

Studies in Religion and the Arts, 1877-3192 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Literature, Modern--Medieval influences.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments , editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been “unattended”, that is, neglected or ignored. A historical span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban’s speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.

Contents:

Introduction / Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack

Wagner’s Parsifal: Christianity, Celibacy, and Medieval Brotherhood as Ideal in Modernity / Carole M. Cusack

Fergus Mac Róich: Yeats’ Damaged Mystic / Joseph A. Mendes

Ezra Pound’s Medieval Classicism: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology / Jonathan Ullyot

Marcel Proust on Erotic Dreams and Oneiric Knowledge / Gro Bjørnerud Mo

The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound / Mark Byron

Between the “Machinery of Transcendence” and the “Machinery of War”: The Unattended Moments of Eugene Ionesco / Octavian Saiu

“Melancholy Matters”: Robert Burton and Samuel Beckett / Rina Kim

Whoroscope: Samuel Beckett’s Medieval Machine / Holly Phillips

Lancelot and Guinevere in the Inter-War Period: The Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound’s Canto vi / Anna Czarnowus

Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker: The Eusa Story and Other Blipful Figgers / Chris Ackerley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35702-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004357020 DOI