Introduction: The Cantos and the Matter of Troy Chapter One: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology Chapter Two: Odysseus Among the Dead: Primitive Homer Chapter Three: Protean Homer Chapter Four: The Lotophagoi: Confusion and Renewal Chapter Five: Erotic Circe Chapter Six: Pisan Wreck Chapter Seven: How to Read Pound’s Leucothea Conclusion: Eternal Disorder
Using The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods, this book looks at how Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos and, more broadly, recalibrates the reader’s sense of Pound’s deployment of classical sources in them.
Jonathan Ullyot is a Professor at Seneca College and an Instructor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, Canada.
Elegantly written and meticulously researched ... deserves praise
for making the philological discussions in this study accessible to
an interdisciplinary readership
*Translation and Literature*
The chapters devoted to the Pisan and post-Pisan Cantos, where
Ullyot’s close readings are at their best, offer a new and relevant
contribution to Poundian scholarship.
*English Studies*
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