The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic

Unattended Moments
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35610-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Celine Marshall, Simone

Cusack, Carole M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Notes on Contributors

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Celine Marshall, PhD (2005), University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in English and Linguistics at the University of Otago. She recently published ‘Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the Medieval Mystical Tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius,’ Literature & Aesthetics 27.1 (2017), 153-170.

Carole M. Cusack, PhD (1996), University of Sydney, is Professor of Religious Studies at that university. She has published monographs including Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (2010) and The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (2011).