David Jones and Rome : reimagining the decline of Western civilisation / Jasmine Hunter Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Jasmine Hunter, author.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Roman influences.

English literature.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Civilization, Western.

Jones, David, 1895-1974--Criticism and interpretation.

Jones, David.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume examines the reception of ancient Rome in the work of David Jones (1895-1974). Hunter Evans demonstrates how Jones's vision of Roman culture emerged from a concern with the decline of Western civilisation and a desire to use Rome to resist it.

Contents:

Introduction: 'at the turn of time'

Part I. David Jones and empire

Introduction to Part I: The political formation of the Roman analogy

Shaping Rome through 'contactual' experience: war and post-war disillusionment

British imperial rhetoric: subverting the Roman analogy of empire

Expanding the Roman imperial analogy: fascism, communism, and the co-agency of empires

Part II. David Jones and cyclical history Introduction to Part II: The Roman precedent for the decline of western civilisation

Cyclical history and Roman decline: a theoretical foundation for the Roman fragments

The forms of the late civilisational phase: charting the decline of the West from Roman precedents

The antithesis of culture and civilisation: examining Spenglerian principles in Roman poetry

Part III. David Jones and culture

Introduction to Part III: Recovering Rome in the pursuit of Western unity and continuity

Investigating cultural decline: the Classical and Christian traditions

Reconnecting with Rome: the fight for the unity and continuity of Western culture

Jones's cultural theory: re-establishing the bridge in response to the break

Part IV. David Jones and Wales

Introduction to Part IV: The Roman foundation of the Welsh nation

Reimagining cultural decline: the fight for Wales as Britain's last link to Rome

Rewriting Welsh history: establishing Wales as a Roman nation

Cultural dynamics: the place of Rome in the bridge

Conclusion: 'down the history maze'

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 31, 2022).

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hunter Evans, Jasmine David Jones and Rome

ISBN:

0-19-190470-8

0-19-263858-0

0-19-263859-9

OCLC:

1293256499