Sappho And Catullus In Twentieth Century Italian And North American Poetry

Author : Cecilia Piantanida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350101906

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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry by Cecilia Piantanida Pdf

Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This book shows that across time and cultures translations and rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus' modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne Carson, and cover a wide range of unpublished archival material. Texts are analysed and compared through reception and translation theories and inserted within the current debate on the Classics as World Literature, demonstrating how sustained transnational poetic discourse employs the ancient pair to expand notions of literary origins and redefine poetry's relationship to human existence.

Author : Cecilia Piantanida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350101913

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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry by Cecilia Piantanida Pdf

Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This book shows that across time and cultures translations and rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus' modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne Carson, and cover a wide range of unpublished archival material. Texts are analysed and compared through reception and translation theories and inserted within the current debate on the Classics as World Literature, demonstrating how sustained transnational poetic discourse employs the ancient pair to expand notions of literary origins and redefine poetry's relationship to human existence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004529274

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Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry by Anonim Pdf

The volume combines for the first time the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature in a pioneering collection of essays by world-leading scholars on modern poetry from various cultural and linguistics backgrounds (Arabic, Chinese, creole, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish).

Author : Elizabeth Marie Young
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226279916

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Translation as Muse by Elizabeth Marie Young Pdf

Poetry is often understood as a form that resists translation. Translation as Muse questions this truism, arguing for translation as a defining condition of Catullus's poetry and for this aggressively marginal poet's centrality to comprehending cultural transformation in first-century Rome. Young approaches translation from several different angles including the translation of texts, the translation of genres, and translatio in the form of the pan-Mediterranean transport of people, goods, and poems. Throughout, she contextualizes Catullus's corpus within the cultural foment of Rome's first-century imperial expansion, viewing his work as emerging from the massive geopolitical shifts that marked the era. Young proposes that reading Catullus through a translation framework offers a number of significant rewards: it illuminates major trends in late Republican culture, it reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and it calls into question some basic assumptions about lyric poetry, the genre most closely associated with Catullus's eclectic oeuvre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015061738772

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The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catullus
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781513274010

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The Poems of Catullus by Catullus Pdf

The Poems of Catullus describes the lifestyle of the Latin poet Catullus, his friends, and his lover, Lesbia. Catullus writes about each of his subjects in tones unique to them. With wild stories of the trouble and comradery shared by his friends, Catullus provides insight on more scandalous aspects of high society Roman culture. However, Catullus’ most shocking and compelling subject is his lover, Lesbia, the wife of an aristocrat. The two share a secret and sensual love, taboo not just because of the infidelity, but because Lesbia is many years older than Catullus. Throughout his poems, Catullus depicts their complicated relationship, first in a tender, lustful way, detailing their affairs, then gradually becomes more heated with angst and confusion. In his exploration of their relationship, Catullus embodies the possibility of simultaneously loving and hating someone. With vivid emotion and imagery, The Poems of Catullus provide a clear picture of the poet, his friends, and his lover and invoke a strong impression on its audience. Because of the deep emotions infused with each word and the visceral depictions of ancient Roman life, this collection of poetry is relatable to a modern-day audience, and is an essential educational source. Catullus paved the way and inspired change in the art of poetry, influencing countless poets and poetry styles. The Poems of Catullus also helped create the idea of poetry as a profession. The Poems of Catullus serves a valuable and educational source, enlightening audiences on the culture of the upper-class of the late Roman Republic. However, because Catullus also explores the complex human emotions regarding friendship, sex, and love, The Poems of Catullus have proven to be a timeless testament to the duality of humankind, embracing emotions that lie between the extremes in the spectrum of feeling. Catering to a contemporary audience, this edition of The Poems of Catullus features a new, eye-catching cover design and is reprinted in a modern font to accompany the timeless exploration of human emotion and the humorous, exciting life events of the influential poet Catullus.

Author : Margaret Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112057158

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The Recovery of Ezra Pound's Third Opera Collis O Heliconii by Margaret Fisher Pdf

Background and Analysis of An Opera Composed By The American Poet Ezra Pound, With Music Scores And Facsimile Pages of Archival Music Documents.

Author : S. J. Herrtage,John A. Williams,Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN : UVA:X030732058

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The American Encyclopædic Dictionary by S. J. Herrtage,John A. Williams,Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : Greene
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405149302

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Sappho by Greene Pdf

Sappho is perhaps the most widely read poet of Greek and Roman antiquity. As poet, as legendary literary figure, Sappho has fascinated readers ever since she composed her poems on the island of Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C.E. Sappho's intense, burning verses of feminine desire have presided over the Western lyric much the way Homer's epics have occupied their authoritative position in Western literature. Indeed, Sappho's poetry and her persona have captivated the Western imagination for centuries. While she remains an iconic and influential figure throughout much of the lyric tradition in the West, her poetry has clearly provoked a good deal of curiosity and criticism as well. The origins of the modern meaning of "lesbian" most likely can be traced to Sappho, the woman poet from Lesbos. Many of Sappho's poems evoke a community of women whose relationship to one another is arguably homoerotic. In some of her poems, Sappho herself expresses passionate, erotic feelings toward another woman. Even in poems that do not deal explicitly with love, Sappho often depicts herself as part of a world in which the emotional and/or erotic bonds between women take center stage. Since ancient Greek society was largely male-dominated, Sappho's ostensible focus on a "woman-centered" world in her poetry has, at least in part, made her a fascinating yet vexing subject of speculation and fantasy. Although only forty fragments of her work are long enough to be intelligible, her influence on the Western poetic tradition is undeniable. For many male writers, from Catullus and Ovid in ancient Rome to Swinburne, Tennyson, and Baudelaire in the modern era, Sappho represents the paradigmatic poetic voice of feminine desire and sexuality. For many women poets through the ages, Sappho has represented the literary foremother who gave them a poetic tradition of their own. There are few poets of the ancient world -- apart from Homer and Virgil -- whose legacy has cast such a wide net. Sappho's work covers a broad range of themes and concerns: romantic love, fellowship and community, myth and ritual, politics, and philosophical reflections on nobility and goodness. This book will present a broad overview of these themes and situate Sappho's poetry within the performative and cultural context of ancient Lesbos, discuss the major literary conventions, themes, and poetic devices employed by Sappho, and examine Sappho's presentations of eros and feminine sexuality. It will discuss Sappho's reception in Roman antiquity and in modern eras from the Renaissance through the twentieth century. This book will help illuminate Sappho's importance in Western poetic tradition and, more significantly, make Sappho's poetic world come alive for the contemporary non-specialist reader.

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058

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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OSU:32435020599692

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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Teresa Franco,Cecilia Piantanida
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527524552

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Echoing Voices in Italian Literature by Teresa Franco,Cecilia Piantanida Pdf

This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.

Author : Horace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101017408749

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Odes by Horace Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PSU:000019692463

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and high school students.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780345807014

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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Pdf

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice