Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClure, Laura.

Series:

Classical Presences Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This book explores the engagement of women writers and intellectuals at the beginning of the twentieth century with Greek tragedy--especially its central and enigmatic feature, the chorus--and the ways it shaped their experimental scholarship, fiction, and verse.

Contents:

Cover

Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Chorus in Ancient Greece

Classical Reception and Modern Hellenism

Modernist Women and Hellenism

Outline of Chapters

1: Maidens and Maenads

The Greek Chorus Defined

Alcman, Partheneion Fr. 1

Maenadic Choruses

Male Choral Culture in Classical Athens

Female Chorality in Greek Tragedy

Choral Temporalities and Topographies

Euripides and the Dithyrambic Turn

Choral Migrations

Conclusion

2: Post-Classical Choralities

The Reinvention of Greece

The Rebirth of the Chorus

Nietzsche and the Ritual Chorus of Satyrs

Victorian Hellenism

Antiquities at the British Museum

Decadent Hellenism

"The Feminine of Homer"

Greek Plays at Universities

3: Jane Harrison and the Maenadic Chorus

The Spell of Greek

Studies in Greek Art and Archaeology

A Disciple of Nietzsche

A Minoan Epiphany

A Vase in Verse

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Daughters of the Earth

"Possessed, Magical, and Dangerous to Handle"

Themis: The Social Fact of the Mother

The Maenads as Mothers

The Chorus in Ancient Art and Ritual

4: Choral Modalities in Virginia Woolf's Writings

Choral Appropriations

Greek Lessons

The Nymph and the Noun

Reading and Rereading Greek Plays

"On Not Knowing Greek"

Choral Voices in Mrs. Dalloway

The Waves as Choral Novel

A Song in Four Voices: The Years

The Matriarchal Chorus

Reading Antigone

The Strange Beauty of Modernity

5: H.D.'s Choros Sequence: Experiments in Poetic Form

Choros and the Greek Sequence

Ezra Pound: "The Scorpionic Sting"

Reading Greek in the British Museum

Euripides: "The White Rose"

Greek Meters and Free Verse.

Experimenting with Choral Cadences

The Third Stasimon of Euripides' Helen

Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and Hippolytus

Ion : A Play after Euripides

Helen in Egypt : A Choros Sequence

Postscript

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-199186-4

0-19-888372-2

OCLC:

1583719955